Resolution improvement in STED super-resolution microscopy at low power using a phasor plot approach

Nanoscale ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (34) ◽  
pp. 16252-16260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luwei Wang ◽  
Bingling Chen ◽  
Wei Yan ◽  
Zhigang Yang ◽  
Xiao Peng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
Super Resolution ◽  
Stimulated Emission ◽  
Resolution Limit ◽  
Sted Microscopy ◽  
Microscopy Technique ◽  
Resolution Improvement ◽  
Phasor Plot ◽  
Stimulated Emission Depletion ◽  
Super Resolution Microscopy

Stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy is a powerful super-resolution microscopy technique that has achieved significant results in breaking the resolution limit and relevant applications.

scholarly journals Expansion stimulated emission depletion microscopy (ExSTED)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengfei Gao ◽  
Riccardo Maraspini ◽  
Oliver Beutel ◽  
Amin Zehtabian ◽  
Britta Eickholt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Excited State ◽  
Optical Resolution ◽  
Super Resolution ◽  
Stimulated Emission ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
Sted Microscopy ◽  
Structural Details ◽  
Stimulated Emission Depletion ◽  
Conventional Microscopy ◽  
Super Resolution Microscopy

AbstractStimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy is routinely used to resolve the ultra-structure of cells with a ∼10-fold higher resolution compared to diffraction limited imaging. While STED microscopy is based on preparing the excited state of fluorescent probes with light, the recently developed expansion microscopy (ExM) provides sub-diffraction resolution by physically enlarging the sample before microscopy. Expansion of fixed cells by crosslinking and swelling of hydrogels easily enlarges the sample ∼4-fold and hence increases the effective optical resolution by this factor. To overcome the current limits of these complimentary approaches, we here combined ExM with STED (ExSTED) and demonstrate an increase in resolution of up to 30-fold compared to conventional microscopy (<10 nm lateral and ∼50 nm isotropic). While the increase in resolution is straight forward, we found that high fidelity labelling via multi-epitopes is required to obtain emitter densities that allow to resolve ultra-structural details with ExSTED. Our work provides a robust template for super resolution microscopy of entire cells in the ten nanometer range.

scholarly journals Low-Power Two-Color Stimulated Emission Depletion Microscopy for Live Cell Imaging

Biosensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 330
Author(s):  
Jia Zhang ◽  
Xinwei Gao ◽  
Luwei Wang ◽  
Yong Guo ◽  
Yinru Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
Live Cell Imaging ◽  
Cell Imaging ◽  
Super Resolution ◽  
Live Cell ◽  
Stimulated Emission ◽  
Live Cells ◽  
Sted Microscopy ◽  
Resolution Imaging ◽  
Stimulated Emission Depletion

Stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy is a typical laser-scanning super-resolution imaging technology, the emergence of which has opened a new research window for studying the dynamic processes of live biological samples on a nanometer scale. According to the characteristics of STED, a high depletion power is required to obtain a high resolution. However, a high laser power can induce severe phototoxicity and photobleaching, which limits the applications for live cell imaging, especially in two-color STED super-resolution imaging. Therefore, we developed a low-power two-color STED super-resolution microscope with a single supercontinuum white-light laser. Using this system, we achieved low-power two-color super-resolution imaging based on digital enhancement technology. Lateral resolutions of 109 and 78 nm were obtained for mitochondria and microtubules in live cells, respectively, with 0.8 mW depletion power. These results highlight the great potential of the novel digitally enhanced two-color STED microscopy for long-term dynamic imaging of live cells.

scholarly journals Translation Microscopy (TRAM) for super-resolution imaging

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Qiu ◽  
Rhodri S Wilson ◽  
Yuewei Liu ◽  
Alison R Dun ◽  
Rebecca S Saleeb ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Biology ◽  
Super Resolution ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Image Plane ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Stimulated Emission ◽  
Multiple Diffraction ◽  
Microscopy Technique ◽  
Resolution Imaging ◽  
Super Resolution Microscopy

Abstract Super-resolution microscopy is transforming our understanding of biology but accessibility is limited by its technical complexity, high costs and the requirement for bespoke sample preparation. We present a novel, simple and multi-color super-resolution microscopy technique, called translation microscopy (TRAM), in which a super-resolution image is restored from multiple diffraction-limited resolution observations using a conventional microscope whilst translating the sample in the image plane. TRAM can be implemented using any microscope, delivering up to 7-fold resolution improvement. We compare TRAM with other super-resolution imaging modalities, including gated stimulated emission deletion (gSTED) microscopy and atomic force microscopy (AFM). We further developed novel ‘ground-truth’ DNA origami nano-structures to characterize TRAM, as well as applying it to a multi-color dye-stained cellular sample to demonstrate its fidelity, ease of use and utility for cell biology.

scholarly journals Resolution Improvement in CIDS Super-Resolution Microscopy using a Phasor Plot Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 (3) ◽  
pp. 179a
Author(s):  
Ali Mohebi ◽  
Aymeric Le Gratiet ◽  
Riccardo Marongiu ◽  
Fabio Callegari ◽  
Paolo Bianchini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Super Resolution ◽  
Resolution Improvement ◽  
Phasor Plot ◽  
Super Resolution Microscopy

STED microscopy—super-resolution bio-imaging utilizing a stimulated emission depletion

Microscopy ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 227-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kohei Otomo ◽  
Terumasa Hibi ◽  
Yuichi Kozawa ◽  
Tomomi Nemoto
Keyword(s):  
Super Resolution ◽  
Stimulated Emission ◽  
Sted Microscopy ◽  
Bio Imaging ◽  
Stimulated Emission Depletion

scholarly journals A synergistic strategy to develop photostable and bright dyes with long Stokes shift for super-resolution microscopy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
gangwei jiang ◽  
Tian-Bing Ren ◽  
Elisa D’Este ◽  
mengyi xiong ◽  
Bin Xiong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fluorescent Probes ◽  
Stokes Shift ◽  
Super Resolution ◽  
Stimulated Emission ◽  
Live Cells ◽  
Sted Microscopy ◽  
New Class ◽  
Two Photon ◽  
Cellular Environment ◽  
Super Resolution Microscopy

Abstract The quality and application of super-resolution fluorescence imaging greatly lie in the properties of fluorescent probes. However, conventional fluorophores in a cellular environment often suffer from low brightness, poor photostability, and short Stokes shift (< 30 nm). Here we report a synergistic strategy to simultaneously improve such properties of regular fluorophores. Introduction of quinoxaline motif with fine-tuned electron density to conventional rhodamines generates new dyes with vibronic structure and inhibited twisted-intramolecular-charge-transfer (TICT) formation synchronously, thus increasing the brightness and photostability as well as Stokes shift. The new fluorophore BDQF-6 exhibits around twofold greater brightness (ε × Φ = 6.6 × 104 L·mol− 1·cm− 1) and Stokes shift (56 nm) than its parental fluorophore, Rhodamine B. Importantly, in Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscopy, BDQF-6 derived probe possesses a superior photostability and thus renders threefold more frames than carbopyronine- and JF608-based probes, known as photostable fluorophores for STED imaging. More BDQF-6 derivatives were developed next, allowing us to perform wash-free organelles (mitochondria and lysosome) staining and protein labeling with ultrahigh signal-to-noise ratios (up to 106 folds) in confocal and STED microscopy of live cells, or two-photon and 3D STED microscopy of fixed cells. Furthermore, the strategy was well generalized to different types of dyes (pyronin, rhodol, coumarin, and Boranil), offering a new class of bright and photostable fluorescent probes with long Stokes shift (up to 136 nm) for bioimaging and biosensing.

scholarly journals New advances in the research of stimulated emission depletion super-resolution microscopy

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (10) ◽  
pp. 108702
Author(s):  
Jia-Lin Wang ◽  
Wei Yan ◽  
Jia Zhang ◽  
Lu-Wei Wang ◽  
Zhi-Gang Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Super Resolution ◽  
Stimulated Emission ◽  
Stimulated Emission Depletion ◽  
Super Resolution Microscopy

scholarly journals Reticulon and CLIMP-63 control nanodomain organization of peripheral ER tubules

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang Gao ◽  
Chengjia Zhu ◽  
Emma Liu ◽  
Ivan R. Nabi
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Confocal Microscopy ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Super Resolution ◽  
Live Cell ◽  
Stimulated Emission ◽  
Preferential Segregation ◽  
Stimulated Emission Depletion ◽  
Super Resolution Microscopy ◽  
Local Accumulation

AbstractThe endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an expansive, membrane-enclosed organelle composed of smooth peripheral tubules and rough, ribosome-studded central ER sheets whose morphology is determined, in part, by the ER-shaping proteins, reticulon and CLIMP-63, respectively. Here, STimulated Emission Depletion (STED) super-resolution microscopy shows that reticulon and CLIMP-63 also control the organization and dynamics of peripheral ER tubule nanodomains. STED imaging shows that lumenal ERmoxGFP, membrane Sec61βGFP, knock-in calreticulin-GFP and antibody-labeled ER resident proteins calnexin and derlin-1 are all localized to periodic puncta along the length of peripheral ER tubules that are not readily observable by diffraction limited confocal microscopy. Reticulon segregates away from and restricts lumenal blob length while CLIMP-63 associates with and increases lumenal blob length. Reticulon and CLIMP-63 also regulate the nanodomain distribution of ER resident proteins, being required for the preferential segregation of calnexin and derlin-1 puncta away from lumenal ERmoxGFP blobs. High-speed (40 ms/frame) live cell STED imaging shows that reticulon and CLIMP-63 control nanoscale compartmentalization of lumenal flow in peripheral ER tubules. Reticulon enhances and CLIMP-63 disrupts the local accumulation of lumenal ERmoxGFP at spatially defined sites along ER tubules. The ER shaping proteins reticulon and CLIMP-63 therefore control lumenal ER nanodomain dynamics, heterogeneity and interaction with ER resident proteins in peripheral ER tubules.

scholarly journals Super-resolution Microscopy Reveals Compartmentalization of Peroxisomal Membrane Proteins

2016 ◽  
Vol 291 (33) ◽  
pp. 16948-16962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Galiani ◽  
Dominic Waithe ◽  
Katharina Reglinski ◽  
Luis Daniel Cruz-Zaragoza ◽  
Esther Garcia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Protein Import ◽  
Super Resolution ◽  
Stimulated Emission ◽  
Peroxisomal Membrane ◽  
Heterogeneous Distribution ◽  
Biological Studies ◽  
Stimulated Emission Depletion ◽  
Sterol Carrier Protein 2 ◽  
Super Resolution Microscopy

Membrane-associated events during peroxisomal protein import processes play an essential role in peroxisome functionality. Many details of these processes are not known due to missing spatial resolution of technologies capable of investigating peroxisomes directly in the cell. Here, we present the use of super-resolution optical stimulated emission depletion microscopy to investigate with sub-60-nm resolution the heterogeneous spatial organization of the peroxisomal proteins PEX5, PEX14, and PEX11 around actively importing peroxisomes, showing distinct differences between these peroxins. Moreover, imported protein sterol carrier protein 2 (SCP2) occupies only a subregion of larger peroxisomes, highlighting the heterogeneous distribution of proteins even within the peroxisome. Finally, our data reveal subpopulations of peroxisomes showing only weak colocalization between PEX14 and PEX5 or PEX11 but at the same time a clear compartmentalized organization. This compartmentalization, which was less evident in cases of strong colocalization, indicates dynamic protein reorganization linked to changes occurring in the peroxisomes. Through the use of multicolor stimulated emission depletion microscopy, we have been able to characterize peroxisomes and their constituents to a yet unseen level of detail while maintaining a highly statistical approach, paving the way for equally complex biological studies in the future.

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