LSPR-mediated high axial-resolution fluorescence imaging on a silver nanoparticle sheet

PLoS One. 2017 Dec 15;12(12):e0189708. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189708. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

This paper reports our original technique for visualizing cell-attached nanointerfaces with extremely high axial resolution using homogeneously excited localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) on self-assembled silver nanoparticle sheets. The LSPR sheet can confine and enhance the fluorescence at the nanointerface, which provides high signal-to-noise ratio images of focal adhesion at the cell-attached interface. The advantage of this LSPR-assisted technique is its usability, which provides comparable or higher-quality nanointerfacial images than TIRF microscopy, even under epifluorescence microscopy. We also report the cytotoxicity of silver nanoparticles, as determined via morphological analysis of adherent cells on the sheet.

MeSH terms

  • Biosensing Techniques / methods*
  • Metal Nanoparticles / chemistry*
  • Optical Imaging / methods*
  • Silver / chemistry*
  • Surface Plasmon Resonance / methods

Substances

  • colloidal silver
  • Silver

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the NEXT Program and by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI grant number 26246005 in Japan (URL: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-26246005/) (Principal Investigator is Kaoru Tamada); and Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Network Joint Research Center for Materials and Devices) to Yuhki Yanase. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.