Mechanisms and advancement of antifading agents for fluorescence microscopy and single-molecule spectroscopy

Cordes, Thorben; Maiser, Andreas; Steinhauer, Christian; Schermelleh, Lothar und Tinnefeld, Philip (2011): Mechanisms and advancement of antifading agents for fluorescence microscopy and single-molecule spectroscopy. In: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., Bd. 13: S. 6699-6709

Abstract

Modern fluorescence microscopy applications go along with increasing demands for the employed fluorescent dyes. In this work, we compared antifading formulae utilizing a recently developed reducing and oxidizing system (ROXS) with commercial antifading agents. To systematically test fluorophore performance in fluorescence imaging of biological samples, we carried out photobleaching experiments using fixed cells labeled with various commonly used organic dyes, such as Alexa 488, Alexa 594, Alexa 647, Cy3B, ATTO 550, and ATTO 647N. Quantitative evaluation of (i) photostability, (ii) brightness, and (iii) storage stability of fluorophores in samples mounted in different antifades (AFs) reveal optimal combinations of dyes and AFs. Based on these results we provide guidance on which AF should preferably be used with a specific dye. Finally, we studied the antifading mechanisms of the commercial AFs using single-molecule spectroscopy and reveal that these empirically selected AFs exhibit similar properties to ROXS AFs.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• EU Funded Grant Agreement Number: 255075
• EU-Projekte: 7. Forschungsrahmenprogramm (FP7)
• Fakultät: Physik ; Chemie und Pharmazie
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik ; 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 540 Chemie
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• Sprache: Englisch