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Biophysical Journal 89:1317-1327 (2005)
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Measuring Fast Dynamics in Solutions and Cells with a Laser Scanning Microscope

Michelle A. Digman *, Claire M. Brown {dagger}, Parijat Sengupta *, Paul W. Wiseman {ddagger}, Alan R. Horwitz {dagger} and Enrico Gratton *

* Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; {dagger} Department of Cell Biology, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; and {ddagger} Departments of Chemistry and Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Correspondence: Address reprint requests to M. A. Digman, E-mail: mdigman{at}uiuc.edu; or E. Gratton, E-mail: enrico{at}scs.uiuc.edu.

Single-point fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) allows measurements of fast diffusion and dynamic processes in the microsecond-to-millisecond time range. For measurements on living cells, image correlation spectroscopy (ICS) and temporal ICS extend the FCS approach to diffusion times as long as seconds to minutes and simultaneously provide spatially resolved dynamic information. However, ICS is limited to very slow dynamics due to the frame acquisition rate. Here we develop novel extensions to ICS that probe spatial correlations in previously inaccessible temporal windows. We show that using standard laser confocal imaging techniques (raster-scan mode) not only can we reach the temporal scales of single-point FCS, but also have the advantages of ICS in providing spatial information. This novel method, called raster image correlation spectroscopy (RICS), rapidly measures during the scan many focal points within the cell providing the same concentration and dynamic information of FCS as well as information on the spatial correlation between points along the scanning path. Longer time dynamics are recovered from the information in successive lines and frames. We exploit the hidden time structure of the scan method in which adjacent pixels are a few microseconds apart thereby accurately measuring dynamic processes such as molecular diffusion in the microseconds-to-seconds timescale. In conjunction with simulated data, we show that a wide range of diffusion coefficients and concentrations can be measured by RICS. We used RICS to determine for the first time spatially resolved diffusions of paxillin-EGFP stably expressed in CHOK1 cells. This new type of data analysis has a broad application in biology and it provides a powerful tool for measuring fast as well as slower dynamic processes in cellular systems using any standard laser confocal microscope.




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