Mapping molecular orientational distributions for biological sample in 3D
(Conference Presentation)

Wei HE; Patrick Ferrand; Benjamin Richter; Martin Bastmeyer; Sophie Brasselet

doi:10.1117/12.2211078

27 April 2016 Mapping molecular orientational distributions for biological sample in 3D (Conference Presentation)

Wei HE, Patrick Ferrand, Benjamin Richter, Martin Bastmeyer, Sophie Brasselet

Proceedings Volume 9711, Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Biomolecules, Cells, and Tissues IX; 97111M (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211078
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Measuring molecular orientation properties is very appealing for scientists in molecular and cell biology, as well as biomedical research. Orientational organization at the molecular scale is indeed an important brick to cells and tissues morphology, mechanics, functions and pathologies. Recent work has shown that polarized fluorescence imaging, based on excitation polarization tuning in the sample plane, is able to probe molecular orientational order in biological samples; however this applies only to information in 2D, projected in the sample plane. To surpass this limitation, we extended this approach to excitation polarization tuning in 3D. The principle is based on the decomposition of any arbitrary 3D linear excitation in a polarization along the longitudinal z-axis, and a polarization in the transverse xy–sample plane. We designed an interferometer with one arm generating radial polarization light (thus producing longitudinal polarization under high numerical aperture focusing), the other arm controlling a linear polarization in the transverse plane. The amplitude ratio between the two arms can vary so as to get any linear polarized excitation in 3D at the focus of a high NA objective. This technique has been characterized by polarimetry imaging at the back focal plane of the focusing objective, and modeled theoretically. 3D polarized fluorescence microscopy is demonstrated on actin stress fibers in non-flat cells suspended on synthetic polymer structures forming supporting pillars, for which heterogeneous actin orientational order could be identified. This technique shows a great potential in structural investigations in 3D biological systems, such as cell spheroids and tissues.

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Wei HE, Patrick Ferrand, Benjamin Richter, Martin Bastmeyer, and Sophie Brasselet "Mapping molecular orientational distributions for biological sample in 3D (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 9711, Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Biomolecules, Cells, and Tissues IX, 97111M (27 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211078

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Polarization

Tissues

3D modeling

Luminescence

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