Fluorescence detection of camptothecin anticancer drugs by two-photon excitation

Author(s):  
Thomas G. Burke ◽  
Magda Malak ◽  
David Bom ◽  
Dennis P. Curran ◽  
Henryk M. Malak ◽  
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2005 ◽  
Vol 390 (3) ◽  
pp. 787-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley W. Botchway ◽  
Ignasi Barba ◽  
Randolf Jordan ◽  
Rebecca Harmston ◽  
Peter M. Haggie ◽  
...  

A novel method for the fluorescence detection of proteins in cells is described in the present study. Proteins are labelled by the selective biosynthetic incorporation of 5-hydroxytryptophan and the label is detected via selective two-photon excitation of the hydroxyindole and detection of its fluorescence emission at 340 nm. The method is demonstrated in this paper with images of a labelled protein in yeast cells.


2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 024014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sijia Lu ◽  
Ji-Yao Chen ◽  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Jiong Ma ◽  
Pei-Nan Wang ◽  
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1996 ◽  
Vol 242 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Burke ◽  
Henryk Malak ◽  
Ignacy Gryczynski ◽  
Zihou Mi ◽  
Joseph R. Lakowicz

Author(s):  
David W. Piston ◽  
Brian D. Bennett ◽  
Robert G. Summers

Two-photon excitation microscopy (TPEM) provides attractive advantages over confocal microscopy for three-dimensionally resolved fluorescence imaging and photochemistry. Two-photon excitation arises from the simultaneous absorption of two photons in a single quantitized event whose probability is proportional to the square of the instantaneous intensity. For example, two red photons can cause the transition to an excited electronic state normally reached by absorption in the ultraviolet. In practice, two-photon excitation is made possible by the very high local instantaneous intensity provided by a combination of diffraction-limited focusing of a single laser beam in the microscope and the temporal concentration of 100 femtosecond pulses generated by a mode-locked laser. Resultant peak excitation intensities are 106 times greater than the CW intensities used in confocal microscopy, but the pulse duty cycle of 10-5 maintains the average input power on the order of 10 mW, only slightly greater than the power normally used in confocal microscopy.


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