Title | A High-Throughput Image Correlation Method for Rapid Analysis of Fluorophore Photoblinking and Photobleaching Rates. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Authors | Sehayek, Simon, Yasser Gidi, Viktorija Glembockyte, Hugo B. Brandão, Paul François, Gonzalo Cosa, and Paul W. Wiseman |
Journal | ACS Nano |
Date Published | 2019 Sep 16 |
ISSN | 1936-086X |
Abstract | Super-resolution fluorescence imaging based on localization microscopy requires tuning the photoblinking properties of fluorescent dyes employed. Missing is a rapid way to analyze the blinking rates of the fluorophore probes. Herein we present an ensemble autocorrelation technique for rapidly and simultaneously measuring photoblinking and bleaching rate constants from a microscopy image time series of fluorescent probes that is significantly faster than individual single-molecule trajectory analysis approaches. Our method is accurate for probe densities typically encountered in single-molecule studies as well as for higher density systems which cannot be analyzed by standard single-molecule techniques. We also show that we can resolve characteristic blinking times that are faster than camera detector exposure times, which cannot be accessed by threshold-based single-molecule approaches due to aliasing. We confirm this through computer simulation and single-molecule imaging data of DNA-Cy5 complexes. Finally, we demonstrate that with sufficient sampling our technique can accurately recover rates from stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy super-resolution data. |
DOI | 10.1021/acsnano.9b06033 |
Alternate Journal | ACS Nano |
PubMed ID | 31513377 |