PUBLICATION
In Vivo nonlinear optical imaging of immune responses: tissue injury and infection
- Authors
- Zeng, Y., Yan, B., Xu, J., Sun, Q., He, S., Jiang, J., Wen, Z., Qu, J.Y.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-141125-4
- Date
- 2014
- Source
- Biophysical journal 107: 2436-43 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Wen, Zilong
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/cytology
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/immunology
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/microbiology
- Energy Metabolism/immunology
- Escherichia coli/isolation & purification
- Escherichia coli/physiology
- Immunity, Innate*
- Microscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton/methods*
- Muscle, Skeletal/cytology
- Muscle, Skeletal/immunology
- Myosins/metabolism
- NAD/metabolism
- Neutrophils/immunology
- Neutrophils/metabolism
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- Zebrafish/immunology
- Zebrafish/microbiology
- PubMed
- 25418312 Full text @ Biophys. J.
Citation
Zeng, Y., Yan, B., Xu, J., Sun, Q., He, S., Jiang, J., Wen, Z., Qu, J.Y. (2014) In Vivo nonlinear optical imaging of immune responses: tissue injury and infection. Biophysical journal. 107:2436-43.
Abstract
In this study, we demonstrate a noninvasive imaging approach based on multimodal nonlinear optical microscopy to in vivo image the responses of immune cells (neutrophils) to the tissue injury and bacterial infection in a zebrafish model. Specifically, the second harmonic generation from myosin thick filaments in sarcomere enabled a clear visualization of the muscle injury and infection. Two-photon excited fluorescence was used to track the behavior of the neutrophils that were transgenically labeled by red fluorescent protein. The corresponding reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) two-photon excited fluorescence images revealed a detailed morphological transformation process of individual neutrophils during muscle tissue injury and bacterial infection. The analysis of time-resolved NADH signals from the neutrophils provided important biological insights of the cellular energy metabolism during the immune responses. We found a significant increase of free/protein-bound NADH ratios in activated neutrophils in bacterial-infected tissue. In this study, we also discovered that, under 720 nm excitation, two wild-type strains (DH5? and BL21) of bacteria Escherichia coli emitted distinct endogenous fluorescence of double-peak at ?450 and ?520 nm, respectively. We demonstrated that the double-peak fluorescence signal could be used to differentiate the E. coli from surrounding tissues of dominant NADH signals, and to achieve label-free tracking of E. coli bacteria in vivo.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
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Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping