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Single-Cell Biochemical Multiplexing by Multidimensional Phasor Demixing and Spectral Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy

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Authors

Haas, Kalina T. 
Fries, Maximilian W. 
Venkitaraman, Ashok R. 
Esposito, Alessandro 

Abstract

Revealing mechanisms underpinning cell function requires understanding the relationship between different biochemical reactions in living cells. However, our capabilities to monitor more than two biochemical reactions in living cells are limited. Therefore, the development of methods for real-time biochemical multiplexing is of fundamental importance. Here, we show that data acquired with multicolor (mcFLIM) or spectrally resolved (sFLIM) fluorescence lifetime imaging can be conveniently described with multidimensional phasor transforms. We demonstrate a computational framework capable of demixing three Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) probes and quantifying multiplexed biochemical activities in single living cells. We provide a comparison between mcFLIM and sFLIM suggesting that sFLIM might be advantageous for the future development of heavily multiplexed assays. However, mcFLIM—more readily available with commercial systems—can be applied for the concomitant monitoring of three enzymes in living cells without significant losses.

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Keywords

Physics, sFLIM, FRET biosensors, TCSPC, spectral demixing, biochemical multiplexing

Journal Title

Frontiers in Physics

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Journal ISSN

2296-424X

Volume Title

9

Publisher

Frontiers Media S.A.