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Lasing in Live Mitotic and Non-Phagocytic Cells by Efficient Delivery of Microresonators.


ABSTRACT: Reliable methods to individually track large numbers of cells in real time are urgently needed to advance our understanding of important biological processes like cancer metastasis, neuronal network development and wound healing. It has recently been suggested to introduce microscopic whispering gallery mode lasers into the cytoplasm of cells and to use their characteristic, size-dependent emission spectrum as optical barcode but so far there is no evidence that this approach is generally applicable. Here, we describe a method that drastically improves intracellular delivery of resonators for several cell types, including mitotic and non-phagocytic cells. In addition, we characterize the influence of resonator size on the spectral characteristics of the emitted laser light and identify an optimum size range that facilitates tagging and tracking of thousands of cells simultaneously. Finally, we observe that the microresonators remain internalized by cells during cell division, which enables tagging several generations of cells.

SUBMITTER: Schubert M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5244359 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Lasing in Live Mitotic and Non-Phagocytic Cells by Efficient Delivery of Microresonators.

Schubert Marcel M   Volckaert Klara K   Karl Markus M   Morton Andrew A   Liehm Philipp P   Miles Gareth B GB   Powis Simon J SJ   Gather Malte C MC  

Scientific reports 20170119


Reliable methods to individually track large numbers of cells in real time are urgently needed to advance our understanding of important biological processes like cancer metastasis, neuronal network development and wound healing. It has recently been suggested to introduce microscopic whispering gallery mode lasers into the cytoplasm of cells and to use their characteristic, size-dependent emission spectrum as optical barcode but so far there is no evidence that this approach is generally applic  ...[more]

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