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Paper Abstract
Two-photon fluorescence imaging of proteins labelled with GFP or its analogues provides information on the localization of
the molecules in cells and tissues, and their redistribution on timescales as short as milliseconds. Fluorescence correlation
spectroscopy (FCS) analyzes fluctuations of the fluorescence signal in order to yield information about the motion of the
molecules on timescales considerably shorter than those accessible with imaging, allowing the determination of diffusion
coefficients, estimation of aggregate size, molecular concentrations, etc., i. e., parameters that can be difficult to determine
with imaging alone. Scanning FCS (sFCS) is a modification of FCS that provides information about molecular dynamics
and type of motion, which is too slow for standard FCS, and not resolvable with imaging.
We have applied two-photon imaging, FCS and sFCS to study the localization and redistribution of GFP-labelled proteins
involved in the asymmetric first division of C. elegans embryos. While the distribution of the investigated proteins
in the cytoplasm is homogeneous on the scale limited by the optical resolution and their fast motion can be well characterized
with conventional FCS, the proteins localized in the cortex exhibit patterns evolving on the ms-s temporal scale.
We use sFCS and explore the applicability of spatial correlation analysis (image correlation, STICS) to the qualitative and
quantitative description of the dynamics of the cortex-localized proteins.
Paper Details
Date Published: 15 February 2008
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 6860, Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences VIII, 68601L (15 February 2008); doi: 10.1117/12.761722
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6860:
Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences VIII
Ammasi Periasamy; Peter T. C. So, Editor(s)
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 6860, Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences VIII, 68601L (15 February 2008); doi: 10.1117/12.761722
Show Author Affiliations
Zdeněk Petrášek, Technische Univ. Dresden (Germany)
Carsten Hoege, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Germany)
Carsten Hoege, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Germany)
Anthony A. Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Germany)
Petra Schwille, Technische Univ. Dresden (Germany)
Petra Schwille, Technische Univ. Dresden (Germany)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6860:
Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences VIII
Ammasi Periasamy; Peter T. C. So, Editor(s)
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