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Raman microscopy of cryofixed biological specimens for high-resolution and high-sensitivity chemical imaging

Mizushima, K.; Kumamoto, Y.; Tamura, S.; Yamanaka, M.; Mochizuki, K.; Li, M.; Egoshi, S.; Dodo, K.; Harada, Y.; Smith, N. I.; Sodeoka, M.; Tanaka, H.; Fujita, K.

2023-11-16 biophysics Community evaluation
10.1101/2023.11.15.567077 bioRxiv
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Raman microscopy is an emerging molecular imaging technology, yet its signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) in measurements of biological specimens is severely limited due to the small cross-section of Raman scattering. Here, we present Raman imaging techniques of cryofixed specimens to overcome SNR limitations by enabling long exposure of specimens under highly stabilized low-temperature conditions. The observation of frozen specimens in a cryostat at a constant low temperature immediately after rapid freezing enabled the improvement of SNR and significantly enhanced spatial and spectral resolution. We also confirmed that the cryofixation can preserve physicochemical states of specimens by observing alkyne-labeled coenzyme Q in cytosol and hemeproteins in acute ischemic myocardium, which cannot be done by fixation using chemical reagents. Finally, we applied the technique for multiplex Raman imaging of label-free endogenous molecules and alkyne-tagged molecules in cryofixed HeLa cells, demonstrating its capability of high-content imaging of complex biological phenomena while maintaining physiological conditions.

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