Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, Volume. 32, Issue 3, 800(2012)

Nonlinear Spectral Imaging of DNA Specimens Derived from Tumor Cells Based on Second Harmonic Generation

LUO Dong-mei1、*, DENG Xiao-yuan1, ZHUO Shuang-mu2, TAN Shu-wen1, ZHUANG Zheng-fei1, and JIN Ying1
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    Second harmonic generation (SHG) is a second-order nonlinear optical process that has symmetry constraints confining signal to regions lacking a center of symmetry. Using SHG microscopy, a variety of tissue structures have noninvasively been imaged by virtue of intrinsic signal generated by structured proteins such as collagen fibrils in connective tissues or the actomyosin lattice of muscle cells. In biochemistry and structure biology, the high-level structures of DNA and protein macro-molecules are similar in constructing mechanism, although DNAs consist of deoxynucleotides and proteins of amino acid residues. The principal purpose of present work is to detect the SHG signal from different DNA samples by spectral imaging technology based on two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF) and SHG. These DNA samples include the solution of genomic DNA and extracted nuclei, and cultured living cells. Results show that we can obtain the SHG signal from solution of genomic DNA and extracted nuclei in routine condition, but nothing from cultured cell nuclei. After adding a little of absolute ethanol (less than 5% by volume) in culture medium, the SHG signal is detectable in the interested region of nuclei. The findings suggest that the interaction between ethanol and DNA in living cell gives rise to the shift of molecular conformation, and this shift changes some nonlinear optical properties of DNA molecules.

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    LUO Dong-mei, DENG Xiao-yuan, ZHUO Shuang-mu, TAN Shu-wen, ZHUANG Zheng-fei, JIN Ying. Nonlinear Spectral Imaging of DNA Specimens Derived from Tumor Cells Based on Second Harmonic Generation[J]. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 2012, 32(3): 800

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    Paper Information

    Received: Jul. 11, 2011

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Apr. 16, 2012

    The Author Email: Dong-mei LUO (luodongmei1128@sina.com)

    DOI:10.3964/j.issn.1000-0593(2012)03-0800-05

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