High Resolution Live Cell Raman Imaging Using Subcellular Organelle-Targeting SERS-Sensitive Gold Nanoparticles with Highly Narrow Intra-Nanogap

We report a method to achieve high speed and high resolution live cell Raman images using small spherical gold nanoparticles with highly narrow intra-nanogap structures responding to NIR excitation (785 nm) and high-speed confocal Raman microscopy. The three different Raman-active molecules placed i...

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Main Authors: Kang, Jeon Woong (Contributor), So, Peter T. C. (Contributor), Dasari, Ramachandra Rao (Contributor), Lim, Dong Kwon (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Spectroscopy Laboratory (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Chemical Society (ACS), 2019-02-12T14:48:37Z.
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100 1 0 |a Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering  |e contributor 
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100 1 0 |a Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT  |e contributor 
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100 1 0 |a So, Peter T. C.  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Dasari, Ramachandra Rao  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Lim, Dong Kwon  |e contributor 
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520 |a We report a method to achieve high speed and high resolution live cell Raman images using small spherical gold nanoparticles with highly narrow intra-nanogap structures responding to NIR excitation (785 nm) and high-speed confocal Raman microscopy. The three different Raman-active molecules placed in the narrow intra-nanogap showed a strong and uniform Raman intensity in solution even under transient exposure time (10 ms) and low input power of incident laser (200 μW), which lead to obtain high-resolution single cell image within 30 s without inducing significant cell damage. The high resolution Raman image showed the distributions of gold nanoparticles for their targeted sites such as cytoplasm, mitochondria, or nucleus. The high speed Raman-based live cell imaging allowed us to monitor rapidly changing cell morphologies during cell death induced by the addition of highly toxic KCN solution to cells. These results strongly suggest that the use of SERS-active nanoparticle can greatly improve the current temporal resolution and image quality of Raman-based cell images enough to obtain the detailed cell dynamics and/or the responses of cells to potential drug molecules. 
520 |a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2013R1A1A1061387) 
520 |a Jeon-Dae Memorial Fund 
520 |a National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (9P41EB015871-27) 
520 |a MIT Skoltech Initiative 
520 |a National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (5R01EY017656-02) 
520 |a National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (5R01NS051320) 
520 |a National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (4R44EB012415-02) 
520 |a National Science Foundation (U.S.). Chemical, Bioengineering, Enviromental, and Transport Systems (CBET-0939511) 
520 |a Singapore-MIT Alliance 
520 |a Hamamatsu Corporation 
520 |a Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. Bridge Project Initiative 
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773 |t Nano Letters