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Multi-Photon Fluorescence Spectroum of Common Nucleic Acid Probes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

P. C. Cheng ,
B. L. Lin ,
F. J. Kao ,
C. K. Sun  and
I. Johnson
P. C. Cheng
Affiliation:
AMIL, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY14260USA
B. L. Lin
Affiliation:
Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 11529Republic of China
F. J. Kao
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 80424Republic of China
C. K. Sun
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 10609Rep. of China
I. Johnson
Affiliation:
Molecular Probes Inc., Eugene, OR , 97402. USA
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Fluorescent probes are commonly used in biological fluorescence microscopy for tracking specific structures and sub-cellular compartments, and for indicating cellular ionic conditions. Recent development in multi-photon fluorescence microscopy has greatly expanded the usage of fluorescent probes in biomedical research. Considering its non-linear nature, two-photon excitation may generate very different fluorescence spectral response in the sample when compared with single photon excitation. It is thus necessary to measure the two-photon spectra of various fluorescent probes, so that two-photon fluorescence microscopy may be operated effectively and the images properly interpreted. This report represents the first installment of a continued effort in characterizing the multi-photon fluorescence spectra of commonly used bio-probes.

Two-photon fluorescence spectra excited with near infrared at 780nm were obtained with a SpectraPro-500 spectrophotometer (Acton Research) equipped with a TE-cooled PMT and coupled to a Spectra-Physics Tsunami Ti-sapphire laser pumped by a Coherent Verdi solid-state laser operated at 85MHz, l00fs pulse.

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Confocal Microscopy
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 6 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis 2000, Microscopy Society of America 58th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 34th Annual Meeting, Microscopical Society of Canada/Societe de Microscopie de Canada 27th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August 13-17, 2000 , August 2000 , pp. 820 - 821
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This project was support by Academia Sinica (BLL), the National Science Council, Rep. of China [NSC-88-2811-B-001-0023 (PCC), NSC-89-2311-B-001-032 (BLL), NSC89-2112-M-l 10-016, NSC89-2216-E-110-003 (FJK)] and Mr. and Mrs. Jin-Mu Huang of Aurum Belle Investment Co. (on behalf of the Ge-An Charity, ) Fluorescence stains used in this study were provided by Molecular Probes, Inc. Eugene, OR, USA.Google Scholar