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Optical sizing of immunolabel clusters through multispectral plasmon coupling microscopy.

ABSTRACT: The wavelength dependent scattering cross sections of self-assembled silver nanoparticle clusters of known size (n) were measured on five different wavelength channels between 427 and 510 nm through correlation of multispectral imaging and scanning electron microscopy. A multivariate statistical analysis of the spectral response of this training set provided a correlation between spectral response and cluster size and enabled a classification of new measurements into four distinct nanoparticle association levels (I1-I4) whose compositions were dominated by monomers (I1), dimers (I2), trimers and tetramers (I3), and larger clusters (I4), respectively. One potential application of the optical sizing approach is to map association levels of silver immunolabels on cellular surfaces. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach using silver immunolabels targeted at the epidermal growth factor receptor on A431 cells in a proof of principle experiment. The ability to measure immunolabel association levels on subcellular length scales in an optical microscope provides new opportunities for experimentally assessing receptor density distributions on living cells in solution.

SUBMITTER: Wang H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3061089 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Optical sizing of immunolabel clusters through multispectral plasmon coupling microscopy.

Wang Hongyun H Rong Guoxin G Yan Bo B Yang Linglu L Reinhard Björn M BM

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The wavelength dependent scattering cross sections of self-assembled silver nanoparticle clusters of known size (n) were measured on five different wavelength channels between 427 and 510 nm through correlation of multispectral imaging and scanning electron microscopy. A multivariate statistical analysis of the spectral response of this training set provided a correlation between spectral response and cluster size and enabled a classification of new measurements into four distinct nanoparticle a ...[more]

PMID: 21247191

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