Superlocalization Spectral Imaging Microscopy of a Multicolor Quantum Dot Complex

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• 作者：Xingbo Shi ; Zhongqiu Xie ; Yuehong Song ; Yongjun Tan ; Edward S. Yeung ; Hongwei Gai
• 刊名：Analytical Chemistry
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：February 7, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：84
• 期：3
• 页码：1504-1509
• 全文大小：343K
• 年卷期：v.84,no.3(February 7, 2012)
• ISSN：1520-6882

文摘

The key factor of realizing super-resolution optical microscopy at the single-molecule level is to separately position two adjacent molecules. An opportunity to independently localize target molecules is provided by the intermittency (blinking) in fluorescence of a quantum dot (QD) under the condition that the blinking of each emitter can be recorded and identified. Herein we develop a spectral imaging based color nanoscopy which is capable of determining which QD is blinking in the multicolor QD complex through tracking the first-order spectrum, and thus, the distance at tens of nanometers between two QDs is measured. Three complementary oligonucleotides with lengths of 15, 30, and 45 bp are constructed as calibration rulers. QD585 and QD655 are each linked at one end. The measured average distances are in good agreement with the calculated lengths with a precision of 6 nm, and the intracellular dual-color QDs within a diffraction-limited spot are distinguished.