Background-Free Imaging of a Viral Capsid Proteins Coated Anisotropic Nanoparticle on a Living Cell Membrane with Dark-Field Optical Microscopy

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第一作者： Ye, Zhongju

作者： Ye, Zhongju;Zeng, Xuyao;Chen, Langxing;Xiao, Lehui;Wei, Lin;Xiao, Lehui;Weng, Rui;Shi, Xingbo;Wang, Naidong

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期刊名称：ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY （ 影响因子：6.986； 五年影响因子：6.755 ）

ISSN： 0003-2700

年卷期： 2018 年 90 卷 2 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Exploring the diffusion dyriainics of a viral capsid proteins (VCP)-functionalized nanocarrier on a living cell membrane could provide much kinetic inforMation for the better understanding of their biological functionality. Gold nanoparticles are an excellent core material of nanocarriers because of the good biocompatibility as well as versatile surface chemistry. However, due to the strong scattering background from subcellular organelles, it is a grand challenge to selectively image an individual nanocarrier on a living cell membrane. In this work, we demonstrated a convenient strategy to effectively screen the scattering background from living cells for single-particle imaging with a polarization resolved dual-channel imaging module. By taking advantage of the polarization of anisotropic gold nanoparticles (gold nanorods, GNRs), the signals from cell components could be counteracted after subtracting the sequential images one by one, while those transiently rotating GNRs on the cell membrane still exist in the processed image. In contrast to the previously reported methods, this method does not require a complicated optical setup alignment and sophisticated digital image analysis process. According to the single-particle imaging results, the majority of VCP GNRs were anchoring on the cell membrane with confined diffusion. Interestingly, on further inspection of the diffusion trajectories, the particles displayed anomalous confined diffusion, with randomly distributed large walking steps during the whole'track. Non-Gaussian step distribution was noted, indicating heterogeneous binding and desorption processes on the cell membrane. As a consequence of the robust background screening capability, this approach would find broad applications for single-particle imaging under a noisy environment, e.g., living cells.

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