Two-color STED microscopy in living cells

doi:10.1364/BOE.2.002364

Two-color STED microscopy in living cells

Patrina A. Pellett, Xiaoli Sun, Travis J. Gould, James E. Rothman, Ming-Qun Xu, Ivan R. Corrêa, and Joerg Bewersdorf »View Author Affiliations

Biomedical Optics Express, Vol. 2, Issue 8, pp. 2364-2371 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/BOE.2.002364

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Abstract

Diffraction-unlimited resolution provided by Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscopy allows for imaging cellular processes in living cells that are not visible by conventional microscopy. However, it has so far not been possible to study dynamic nanoscale interactions because multicolor live cell STED microscopy has yet to be demonstrated and suitable labeling technologies and protocols are lacking. Here we report the first realization of two-color STED imaging in living cells. Using improved SNAP_f and CLIP_f technologies to label epidermal growth factor (EGF) and EGF receptor (EGFR), we report resolutions of 78 nm and 82 nm for 22 sequential two-color scans in living cells.

1. Introduction

Fluorescence microscopy allows for real-time imaging in living cells and has greatly expanded our knowledge of protein function and cellular processes. However, conventional fluorescence microscopy methods are limited by the diffraction barrier and are unable to resolve structures smaller than ~200 nm. Only recently have super-resolution microscopy methods overcome this limitation and are gaining widespread use in cell biology [1

D. Toomre and J. Bewersdorf, “A new wave of cellular imaging,” Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 26(1), 285–314 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

]. Of these methods, STED microscopy [2

S. W. Hell and J. Wichmann, “Breaking the diffraction resolution limit by stimulated emission: stimulated-emission-depletion fluorescence microscopy,” Opt. Lett. 19(11), 780–782 (1994). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

] has been one of the most successful methods regarding live cell applications [3

V. Westphal, S. O. Rizzoli, M. A. Lauterbach, D. Kamin, R. Jahn, and S. W. Hell, “Video-rate far-field optical nanoscopy dissects synaptic vesicle movement,” Science 320(5873), 246–249 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

B. Hein, K. I. Willig, C. A. Wurm, V. Westphal, S. Jakobs, and S. W. Hell, “Stimulated emission depletion nanoscopy of living cells using SNAP-tag fusion proteins,” Biophys. J. 98(1), 158–163 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Compared to techniques relying on single molecule localization which require relatively long image acquisition times and post imaging data processing [5

S. T. Hess, T. P. K. Girirajan, and M. D. Mason, “Ultra-high resolution imaging by fluorescence photoactivation localization microscopy,” Biophys. J. 91(11), 4258–4272 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

–7

M. J. Rust, M. Bates, and X. Zhuang, “Sub-diffraction-limit imaging by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM),” Nat. Methods 3(10), 793–796 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

], the purely physical resolution improvement provided by STED is advantageous for live cell applications. In STED microscopy, excited fluorophores at the periphery of the focal volume are quenched by overlaying the excitation beam with a doughnut-shaped depletion beam. The intensity of this depletion beam which is red-shifted relative to the peak of the fluorophore emission spectrum is chosen high enough to saturate the stimulated emission transition. This targeted switching typically results in a 3 to 10-fold resolution improvement and is fundamentally diffraction-unlimited [1

D. Toomre and J. Bewersdorf, “A new wave of cellular imaging,” Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 26(1), 285–314 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

S. W. Hell, “Microscopy and its focal switch,” Nat. Methods 6(1), 24–32 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Single color STED has been used to image a variety of biological structures in fixed cells. However, to better understand how proteins function in cellular processes, the relative spatial distributions of two or more proteins are required at sub-diffraction resolution. Towards this goal, two-color STED microscopy has been demonstrated in fixed cells [9

L. Meyer, D. Wildanger, R. Medda, A. Punge, S. O. Rizzoli, G. Donnert, and S. W. Hell, “Dual-color STED microscopy at 30-nm focal-plane resolution,” Small 4(8), 1095–1100 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

,10

R. Schmidt, C. A. Wurm, S. Jakobs, J. Engelhardt, A. Egner, and S. W. Hell, “Spherical nanosized focal spot unravels the interior of cells,” Nat. Methods 5(6), 539–544 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

]. While multicolor imaging in fixed cells provides useful biological information, it does not allow for studying protein dynamics. Cellular processes are inherently dynamic and observing protein movement in living cells as they happen is vital to fully understanding biological functions. Although live cell STED microscopy has been successfully applied to the imaging of gap junctions [4

], vimentin [4

], actin [11

J. A. J. Fitzpatrick, Q. Yan, J. J. Sieber, M. Dyba, U. Schwarz, C. Szent-Gyorgyi, C. A. Woolford, P. B. Berget, A. S. Waggoner, and M. P. Bruchez, “STED nanoscopy in living cells using Fluorogen Activating Proteins,” Bioconjug. Chem. 20(10), 1843–1847 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

], and synaptic vesicles [3

], these experiments were restricted to a single color only.

Therefore, the major breakthrough, live-cell multicolor STED imaging, has yet to be achieved. To accomplish this goal, several hurdles must be overcome. Firstly, fluorophores suitable for live cell two-color STED must be identified. While fluorescent proteins provide the advantage of being genetically encodable, they suffer from poor photostability and fitting STED pairs have not been identified yet. Organic dyes provide an appealing alternative but often lack live-cell compatible targeting methods. Thus, a convenient live cell labeling strategy poses a second hurdle. Finally, an optimal imaging scheme must be realized for two-color live cell STED imaging since previous approaches of two-color STED have utilized sequential imaging of two channels [9

,10

To overcome these obstacles, we first used a new SNAP-tag based labeling technology that has faster binding kinetics than commercially available versions. This methodology is both genetically encodable and compatible with organic fluorophores and therefore optimal for live-cell imaging applications. We then screened for optimal dye pairs compatible with our STED setup. Combining these approaches with an imaging scheme that alternates line by line between different excitation beams to acquire two STED images quasi-simultaneously, we report the first example of two-color STED microscopy in living cells.

2. Materials and Methods

2.1 Expression Constructs

pSNAP_f-tag(T7) and pCLIP_f-tag(T7) were constructed by replacing the SNAP-26m coding region of pSNAP-tag(T7)-2 (New England Biolabs) using the unique EcoRI and SbfI sites with the coding regions of SNAP_f and CLIP_f, respectively. The mouse EGF coding sequence was fused in-frame to the 5′ end of CLIP_f, and a 6-histidine tag fused to the 3′ end of CLIP_f in pCLIP_f-tag(T7). The resulting plasmid, pEGF-CLIP_f-6xHis, was used for expression of EGF-CLIP_f fusion protein in E. coli and subsequent affinity purification by Ni-NTA agarose (Qiagen). A linker encoding the signal sequence of EGFR was inserted into 5′ MCS of pSNAP_f vector (New England Biolabs) using the unique NheI and EcoRI sites. Subsequently, the coding sequence of mature EGFR (GeneCopoeia) was amplified by PCR and subcloned into the plasmid pSNAP_f using the unique SbfI and NotI sites creating pSNAP_f-EGFR.

2.2 Chemical Synthesis of SNAP and CLIP-Tag STED Probes

SNAP-tag and CLIP-tag fluorescent probes were synthesized from BG-NH₂ [12

A. Keppler, S. Gendreizig, T. Gronemeyer, H. Pick, H. Vogel, and K. Johnsson, “A general method for the covalent labeling of fusion proteins with small molecules in vivo,” Nat. Biotechnol. 21(1), 86–89 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

,13

A. Keppler, H. Pick, C. Arrivoli, H. Vogel, and K. Johnsson, “Labeling of fusion proteins with synthetic fluorophores in live cells,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101(27), 9955–9959 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

] or BC-NH₂ [14

A. Gautier, A. Juillerat, C. Heinis, I. R. Corrêa Jr, M. Kindermann, F. Beaufils, and K. Johnsson, “An engineered protein tag for multiprotein labeling in living cells,” Chem. Biol. 15(2), 128–136 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

] (New England Biolabs, Inc.) and commercially available N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) activated fluorescent dyes using standard procedures [15

K. Stöhr, D. Siegberg, T. Ehrhard, K. Lymperopoulos, S. Öz, S. Schulmeister, A. C. Pfeifer, J. Bachmann, U. Klingmüller, V. Sourjik, and D. P. Herten, “Quenched substrates for live-cell labeling of SNAP-tagged fusion proteins with improved fluorescent background,” Anal. Chem. 82(19), 8186–8193 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

]. DY-480XL NHS and DY-521XL NHS were purchased from Dyomics GmbH (Jena, Germany). Chromeo494 NHS was purchased from Active Motif Chromeon GmbH (Tegernheim, Germany). ATTO620 NHS, ATTO633 NHS, ATTORho14 NHS, ATTO647N, and ATTO655 NHS were purchased from ATTO-TEC GmbH (Siegen, Germany). KK114 NHS [16

K. Kolmakov, V. N. Belov, J. Bierwagen, C. Ringemann, V. Müller, C. Eggeling, and S. W. Hell, “Red-emitting rhodamine dyes for fluorescence microscopy and nanoscopy,” Chemistry 16(1), 158–166 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

,17

K. Kolmakov, V. N. Belov, C. A. Wurm, B. Harke, M. Leutenegger, C. Eggeling, and S. W. Hell, “A versatile route to red-emitting carbopyronine dyes for optical microscopy and nanoscopy,” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2010(19), 3593–3610 (2010). [CrossRef]

] was provided by Prof. Dr. Stefan W. Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Göttingen, Germany).

2.3 Mammalian Cell Culture

Human embryonic kidney (HEK 293) cells stably expressing pSNAP_f-EGFR were selected with 400 µg/ml G418 in phenol red free DMEM medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS), 2 mM L-glutamine, 100 units/ml penicillin, and 100 µg/ml streptomycin at 37°C, 5% CO₂, and maintained in growth medium with 200 µg/ml G418.

2.4 EGF-CLIP_f Isolation and Labeling

Expression of recombinant EGF-CLIP_f-6xHis was performed in SHuffle® T7 E. coli (New England Biolabs). EGF-CLIP_f-6xHis was purified from E. coli cell lysate using Ni-NTA Agarose (Qiagen). Analysis of protein expression and purification was done with Coomassie Blue stained SDS-PAGE. Labeling of EGF-CLIP_f-6xHis was carried out with 5 µM EGF-CLIP_f-6xHis, 10 µM BC-ATTO647N (or BC-Chromeo494), 1 mM DTT and 1x PBS on ice for 5 hours. 15% Glycerol was added at the end of the reaction.

2.5 Live Cell Labeling

Human embryonic kidney (HEK 293) cells stably expressing pSNAP_f-EGFR were plated on #1.5 cover glass dishes and allowed to adhere overnight in phenol red free DMEM with 0.1% FBS. Prior to imaging, cells were incubated with freshly prepared solutions of 10μM BG-Chromeo494 in phenol red free DMEM with 0.1% FBS for 10 min at 37°C. Cells were washed 3 times with fresh media and placed on the microscope stage for STED imaging. After focusing, 100 ng/mL of EGF-CLIP-ATTO647N was added directly to the imaging media and cells were imaged by two-color STED microscopy.

2.6 STED Microscopy

Two-color STED images were obtained using a commercial Leica TCS STED microscope. This setup features pulsed diode lasers (PDL 800-B, PicoQuant) emitting at 640 nm (~8-65 µW) and 532 nm (~150 µW) for excitation and a tunable, modelocked Ti:Sapphire laser (Mai Tai, Spectra Physics) for depletion (~130 mW). Laser powers were measured at the objective back aperture and corrected for objective transmission efficiency to represent the power at the sample. A 100x/1.4 NA oil immersion objective lens (HCX PL APO STED, Leica Microsystems) was used for imaging. Fluorescence signal was collected by the objective lens, passed through a 0.5 Airy unit pinhole, split by a dichroic mirror (650 nm long-pass), bandpass filtered (FF01-685/40 for 640 nm excitation or FF01-582/75 for 532 nm excitation, both from Semrock), and detected by avalanche photodiodes. For resolution comparison, confocal and STED images were taken sequentially line by line with a scan speed of 1000 lines per second, a pixel size of 25.3 nm (1024 x 1024 pixels), and 32 line averages. Two-color STED time series were also obtained sequentially line by line by alternating the excitation lasers and the STED laser tuned to 760 nm for both ATTO647N and Chromeo494. Crosstalk between channels was below the noise limit (<5%) as determined by imaging singly labeled samples. Frames (1024 x 1024 pixels) were acquired at a scan speed of 1400 lines per second with a pixel size of 30.3 nm. Each frame consisted of 16 line averages and required ~11.9 seconds recording time. Images were smoothed with a 2.5 pixel full width half-maximum Gaussian filter using Imspector (written by Dr. Andreas Schönle, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany, available via Max-Planck-Innovation GmbH, Munich, Germany) and the color map rescaled.

3. Results and Discussion

Two-color STED imaging can be realized by using either different STED wavelengths for the two fluorophores or the same wavelength for both. In the first case, fluorophores are distinguished by imaging different color channels [9

]. However, the blue-shifted STED laser beam can usually excite the red-shifted fluorophore so efficiently that the probe will rapidly bleach [18

G. Donnert, J. Keller, C. A. Wurm, S. O. Rizzoli, V. Westphal, A. Schönle, R. Jahn, S. Jakobs, C. Eggeling, and S. W. Hell, “Two-color far-field fluorescence nanoscopy,” Biophys. J. 92(8), L67–L69 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

]. While acceptable for fixed samples where the red-shifted label can be imaged first, it poses an insurmountable problem for acquiring two-color time-series required in live cell applications. We therefore chose to follow the scheme using only one STED laser which is red-shifted relative to both fluorophores. To separate the two labels in imaging, one fluorophore features a large Stokes-shift so that probes can be excited by different laser lines and distinguished this way [10

]. By alternating the excitation laser line by line, the two channels can be recorded quasi-simultaneously, minimizing temporal shift between the images.As a biological application, we fused EGFR with the SNAP-tag and its ligand, EGF, with the CLIP-tag (both New England Biolabs, Ipswitch, MA). SNAP and CLIP-tags are human DNA repair enzymes that have been engineered to specifically recognize benzylguanine (BG) and benzylcytosine (BC) derivatives, respectively [14

]. BG and BC substrates can be conjugated to any fluorophore, and form a covalent bond upon reacting with the SNAP or CLIP-tags (dashed box in Fig. 1(A) ). In this study, a new pair of fast labeling SNAP and CLIP-tag variants, termed SNAP_f and CLIP_f, were utilized as fusion partners. SNAP_f and CLIP_f are described in detail in [19

X. Sun, A. Zhang, B. Baker, L. Sun, A. Howard, J. Buswell, D. Maurel, A. Masharina, K. Johnsson, C. J. Noren, M.-Q. Xu, and I. R. Corrêa Jr., “Development of SNAP-tag fluorogenic probes for wash-free fluoescence imaging,” ChemBioChem . in press. [PubMed]

]. These variants have increased labeling rates compared to the commercially available versions and are advantageous for monitoring fast molecular events in living cells. These technologies are highly specific for their substrates and provide a convenient way to functionalize different proteins with organic fluorophores. This approach provides a significant advantage over fluorescent proteins for 2-color live cell STED imaging applications because it allows for facile introduction of STED compatible probes that have increased photostability and brightness.

Fig. 1 Schematic of experimental labeling procedure using SNAP_f or CLIP_f reactions to specifically label EGFR and EGF. (A) In living cells, SNAP_f recognizes its substrate, BG, and undergoes a Sn2 type reaction that displaces BG, resulting in a permanent covalent bond between the EGFR and Chromeo494 (green star). (B) EGF-CLIP_f is recombinantly expressed and purified, labeled with BC-ATTO647N (BC-647N) producing exogenous EGF-CLIP_f-ATTO647N. (C) Live cells expressing EGFR-SNAP_f are labeled with Chromeo494, followed by incubation with EGF-CLIP_f-ATTO647N. This results in the double labeling of the EGFR-EGR complex for two-color STED imaging. EGFR is known to form a homodimer upon ligand binding, but is shown as a single receptor in this schematic for clarity. Cyto = cytoplasm, PM = plasma membrane and ECM = extracellular matrix.

Imaging was performed on a commercially available STED microscope (TCS STED, Leica Microsystems) featuring a tunable mode locked Ti:Sapphire laser for depletion and two synchronized pulsed lasers at 532 nm and 640 nm for fluorophore excitation. To determine the best combinations of fluorophores for two-color live cell experiments, we systematically tested dyes compatible with our STED microscope and evaluated their usability for live cell imaging by assessing the amount of non-specific staining in cells expressing EGFR-SNAP_f (Table 1 ). The fluorophores were conjugated to BG and all were efficiently recognized by SNAP_f. Of the three long Stokes-shift dyes tested, Chromeo494 was the brightest and showed minimal non-specific staining. For the red-shifted dyes, ATTO647N, ATTO655 and KK114 were the brightest, while ATTO620 and ATTO633 bleached relatively quickly. ATTO633, ATTO647N and ATTORho14 showed non-specific staining of mitochondria. To reduce non-specific binding of ATTO647N, purified recombinant EGF-CLIP_f was labeled with BC-ATTO647N (Fig. 1(B)) and then used to label EGFR. Non-specific staining was reduced in comparison to the direct labeling of EGFR-SNAP_f with BG- ATTO647N. Therefore we chose to label EGFR-SNAP_f with Chromeo494 and EGF-CLIP_f with ATTO647N (Fig. 1(C)).

Table 1 Fluorophores Evaluated for Two-Color Live Cell STED Microscopy Experiments by Excitation Maximum (λ_ex), Depletion Wavelength (λ_STED) and Binding Characteristics

Fluorophore	λ_ex (nm)	λ_STED (nm)	Non-specific binding
DY-480XL	500	730	-
DY-521XL	523	750	-
Chromeo494	494	760	-
ATTO620	619	760	-
ATTO633	629	760	mitochondria
ATTORho14	625	770	mitochondria
ATTO647N	644	760	mitochondria
ATTO655	663	780	-
KK114	650	760	-

Next, we compared the achievable resolution in living cells using STED microscopy with Chromeo494 and ATTO647N (Fig. 2 ). Following a protocol that labeled the plasma membrane of clustered HEK293 cells with either dye as outlined in section 2.5, we could determine the resolution by measuring the profile through membranes that were primarily oriented perpendicular to the focal plane. The STED resolution obtained for Chromeo494 and ATTO647N was 82 and 78 nm, respectively. These values are close to the performance limit of our microscope in fixed bead samples (data not shown), and represent a 3 to 4-fold increase in resolution over confocal microscopy.

Fig. 2 Resolution measurements for ATTO647N and Chromeo494 in living HEK293 cells. HEK293 cells were treated with 100 ng/mL EGF-CLIP_f-ATTO647N and imaged with (A) STED and (B) confocal microscopy. The area depicted by the white box (A) is shown in (C) STED and (D) confocal. The boxes in (C) and (D) were used to generate the line profiles for ATTO647N in (E) and (F). HEK293 cells stably expressing EGFR-SNAP_f were treated with 10 μM BG-Chromeo494 for 10 min at 37°C and imaged by (G) STED and (H) confocal microscopy. The area depicted by the white box (G) for Chromeo494 is shown in (I) STED and (J) confocal. The boxes in (I) and (J) were used to generate the line profiles for Chromeo494 in (K) STED and (L) confocal. Solid red lines indicate the Lorentzian (STED) and Gaussian (confocal) least squares fits used to determine the full width at half-maximum (FWHM) values.

To investigate the dynamics of EGFR and EGF in living cells, we took a two-color STED time series of EGFR-SNAP_f labeled with BG-Chromeo494 and EGF-CLIP_f-ATTO647N at 11.9 sec/frame. While bleaching certainly is observable, we were able to image 22 and more sequential two-color STED images at acceptable signal levels (Fig. 3 ). The time series shows that internalization of EGFR occurs rapidly after EGF stimulation and that EGFR-SNAP_f-Chromeo494 and EGF-CLIP_f-ATTO647N co-localize in endosome-like structures (arrowhead, Fig. 3).

Fig. 3 Live cell two-color STED time series of HEK293 cells labeled with EGF-CLIP_f-ATTO647N (magenta) and EGFR-SNAP_f-Chromeo494 (green). Data has been normalized to correct for bleaching. The shown images have been cropped from the original raw data. Scale bar = 1 μm.

Shortly after EGF stimulation an endosome-like structure that is EGF-CLIP_f-ATTO647N positive, but EGFR-SNAP_f-Chromeo494 negative, began to form (arrows, Fig. 3). The post internalization trafficking of the EGFR-EGF complex is not completely understood. It is hypothesized that the complex remains intact before being degraded in lysosomal compartments [20

R. E. Carter and A. Sorkin, “Endocytosis of functional epidermal growth factor receptor-green fluorescent protein chimera,” J. Biol. Chem. 273(52), 35000–35007 (1998). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

] followed by subsequent down regulation of the receptor [21

A. Sorkin and G. Carpenter, “Dimerization of internalized epidermal growth factor receptors,” J. Biol. Chem. 266(34), 23453–23460 (1991). [PubMed]

]. Our results showing co-localization of labeled EGFR and EGF are in agreement with the hypothesis that EGFR-EGF complexes remain intact early in the endosomal pathway. The formation of an only EGF-CLIP_f-ATTO647N positive structure is indicative of internalization of a pool of EGFR that was newly synthesized or in the process of being recycled to the plasma membrane. Labeling of internal pools of EGFR in combination with two-color STED microscopy will allow for an in depth analysis of the recycling and trafficking of EGFR. This new approach enables further live cell co-localization and pulse-chase studies to help fully deduce EGFR-EGF trafficking.

4. Conclusions

Our presented approach overcomes the limitations of specifically targeting STED fluorophores to the proteins of interest and provides a convenient imaging scheme that allows for 2-color live cell STED imaging for the first time. We believe this method is a powerful new way to address biological questions in living cells. SNAP_f and CLIP_f technology can readily be applied to other proteins and the versatile labeling methodology allows for unique combinations of localization, pulse-chase and pull-down type experiments. These technologies can also be combined with far-red fluorescent proteins compatible with STED, such as TagRFP657 [22

K. S. Morozova, K. D. Piatkevich, T. J. Gould, J. Zhang, J. Bewersdorf, and V. V. Verkhusha, “Far-red fluorescent protein excitable with red lasers for flow cytometry and superresolution STED nanoscopy,” Biophys. J. 99(2), L13–L15 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

] and E2-Crimson [23

R. L. Strack, B. Hein, D. Bhattacharyya, S. W. Hell, R. J. Keenan, and B. S. Glick, “A rapidly maturing far-red derivative of DsRed-Express2 for whole-cell labeling,” Biochemistry 48(35), 8279–8281 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

The diffraction limit associated with conventional confocal microscopy impairs accurate evaluation of protein distributions, and the sub-diffraction resolution provided by STED microscopy can help to obtain more meaningful co-localization data. We expect that utilizing novel approaches such as distinguishing labels by their lifetime [24

J. Bückers, D. Wildanger, G. Vicidomini, L. Kastrup, and S. W. Hell, “Simultaneous multi-lifetime multi-color STED imaging for colocalization analyses,” Opt. Express 19(4), 3130–3143 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

] and improving axial resolution using two opposing objectives [25

R. Schmidt, C. A. Wurm, A. Punge, A. Egner, S. Jakobs, and S. W. Hell, “Mitochondrial cristae revealed with focused light,” Nano Lett. 9(6), 2508–2510 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

] or total internal reflection [26

T. J. Gould, J. R. Myers, and J. Bewersdorf, “Total internal reflection STED microscopy,” Opt. Express 19(14), 13351–13357 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

] will expand live cell STED microscopy to three or more colors, 3D imaging and improved optical sectioning.

Acknowledgments

We thank Aihua Zhang for providing a mouse EGF clone, Brenda Baker and John Buswell for their contributions in chemical synthesis, Christopher J. Noren, Luo Sun, and Kai Johnsson for helpful discussions, and Don Comb and Jim Ellard for financial support and encouragement. KK114 was kindly provided by V. Belov and S.W. Hell. This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grant RC1 GM091791, a NSF GRFP fellowship to PAP and a James Hudson Brown-Alexander Brown Coxe fellowship to TJG. JB discloses significant financial interest in Vutara, Inc.

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15.	K. Stöhr, D. Siegberg, T. Ehrhard, K. Lymperopoulos, S. Öz, S. Schulmeister, A. C. Pfeifer, J. Bachmann, U. Klingmüller, V. Sourjik, and D. P. Herten, “Quenched substrates for live-cell labeling of SNAP-tagged fusion proteins with improved fluorescent background,” Anal. Chem. 82(19), 8186–8193 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
16.	K. Kolmakov, V. N. Belov, J. Bierwagen, C. Ringemann, V. Müller, C. Eggeling, and S. W. Hell, “Red-emitting rhodamine dyes for fluorescence microscopy and nanoscopy,” Chemistry 16(1), 158–166 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
17.	K. Kolmakov, V. N. Belov, C. A. Wurm, B. Harke, M. Leutenegger, C. Eggeling, and S. W. Hell, “A versatile route to red-emitting carbopyronine dyes for optical microscopy and nanoscopy,” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2010(19), 3593–3610 (2010). [CrossRef]
18.	G. Donnert, J. Keller, C. A. Wurm, S. O. Rizzoli, V. Westphal, A. Schönle, R. Jahn, S. Jakobs, C. Eggeling, and S. W. Hell, “Two-color far-field fluorescence nanoscopy,” Biophys. J. 92(8), L67–L69 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
19.	X. Sun, A. Zhang, B. Baker, L. Sun, A. Howard, J. Buswell, D. Maurel, A. Masharina, K. Johnsson, C. J. Noren, M.-Q. Xu, and I. R. Corrêa Jr., “Development of SNAP-tag fluorogenic probes for wash-free fluoescence imaging,” ChemBioChem . in press. [PubMed]
20.	R. E. Carter and A. Sorkin, “Endocytosis of functional epidermal growth factor receptor-green fluorescent protein chimera,” J. Biol. Chem. 273(52), 35000–35007 (1998). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
21.	A. Sorkin and G. Carpenter, “Dimerization of internalized epidermal growth factor receptors,” J. Biol. Chem. 266(34), 23453–23460 (1991). [PubMed]
22.	K. S. Morozova, K. D. Piatkevich, T. J. Gould, J. Zhang, J. Bewersdorf, and V. V. Verkhusha, “Far-red fluorescent protein excitable with red lasers for flow cytometry and superresolution STED nanoscopy,” Biophys. J. 99(2), L13–L15 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
23.	R. L. Strack, B. Hein, D. Bhattacharyya, S. W. Hell, R. J. Keenan, and B. S. Glick, “A rapidly maturing far-red derivative of DsRed-Express2 for whole-cell labeling,” Biochemistry 48(35), 8279–8281 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
24.	J. Bückers, D. Wildanger, G. Vicidomini, L. Kastrup, and S. W. Hell, “Simultaneous multi-lifetime multi-color STED imaging for colocalization analyses,” Opt. Express 19(4), 3130–3143 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
25.	R. Schmidt, C. A. Wurm, A. Punge, A. Egner, S. Jakobs, and S. W. Hell, “Mitochondrial cristae revealed with focused light,” Nano Lett. 9(6), 2508–2510 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
26.	T. J. Gould, J. R. Myers, and J. Bewersdorf, “Total internal reflection STED microscopy,” Opt. Express 19(14), 13351–13357 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

OCIS Codes
(170.3880) Medical optics and biotechnology : Medical and biological imaging
(180.2520) Microscopy : Fluorescence microscopy
(350.5730) Other areas of optics : Resolution

ToC Category:
Microscopy

History
Original Manuscript: June 15, 2011
Revised Manuscript: July 21, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: July 21, 2011
Published: July 22, 2011

Citation
Patrina A. Pellett, Xiaoli Sun, Travis J. Gould, James E. Rothman, Ming-Qun Xu, Ivan R. Corrêa, and Joerg Bewersdorf, "Two-color STED microscopy in living cells," Biomed. Opt. Express 2, 2364-2371 (2011)
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D. Toomre and J. Bewersdorf, “A new wave of cellular imaging,” Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 26(1), 285–314 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
S. W. Hell and J. Wichmann, “Breaking the diffraction resolution limit by stimulated emission: stimulated-emission-depletion fluorescence microscopy,” Opt. Lett. 19(11), 780–782 (1994). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
V. Westphal, S. O. Rizzoli, M. A. Lauterbach, D. Kamin, R. Jahn, and S. W. Hell, “Video-rate far-field optical nanoscopy dissects synaptic vesicle movement,” Science 320(5873), 246–249 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
B. Hein, K. I. Willig, C. A. Wurm, V. Westphal, S. Jakobs, and S. W. Hell, “Stimulated emission depletion nanoscopy of living cells using SNAP-tag fusion proteins,” Biophys. J. 98(1), 158–163 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
S. T. Hess, T. P. K. Girirajan, and M. D. Mason, “Ultra-high resolution imaging by fluorescence photoactivation localization microscopy,” Biophys. J. 91(11), 4258–4272 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
E. Betzig, G. H. Patterson, R. Sougrat, O. W. Lindwasser, S. Olenych, J. S. Bonifacino, M. W. Davidson, J. Lippincott-Schwartz, and H. F. Hess, “Imaging intracellular fluorescent proteins at nanometer resolution,” Science 313(5793), 1642–1645 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
M. J. Rust, M. Bates, and X. Zhuang, “Sub-diffraction-limit imaging by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM),” Nat. Methods 3(10), 793–796 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
S. W. Hell, “Microscopy and its focal switch,” Nat. Methods 6(1), 24–32 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
L. Meyer, D. Wildanger, R. Medda, A. Punge, S. O. Rizzoli, G. Donnert, and S. W. Hell, “Dual-color STED microscopy at 30-nm focal-plane resolution,” Small 4(8), 1095–1100 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
R. Schmidt, C. A. Wurm, S. Jakobs, J. Engelhardt, A. Egner, and S. W. Hell, “Spherical nanosized focal spot unravels the interior of cells,” Nat. Methods 5(6), 539–544 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
J. A. J. Fitzpatrick, Q. Yan, J. J. Sieber, M. Dyba, U. Schwarz, C. Szent-Gyorgyi, C. A. Woolford, P. B. Berget, A. S. Waggoner, and M. P. Bruchez, “STED nanoscopy in living cells using Fluorogen Activating Proteins,” Bioconjug. Chem. 20(10), 1843–1847 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. Keppler, S. Gendreizig, T. Gronemeyer, H. Pick, H. Vogel, and K. Johnsson, “A general method for the covalent labeling of fusion proteins with small molecules in vivo,” Nat. Biotechnol. 21(1), 86–89 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. Keppler, H. Pick, C. Arrivoli, H. Vogel, and K. Johnsson, “Labeling of fusion proteins with synthetic fluorophores in live cells,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101(27), 9955–9959 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. Gautier, A. Juillerat, C. Heinis, I. R. Corrêa, M. Kindermann, F. Beaufils, and K. Johnsson, “An engineered protein tag for multiprotein labeling in living cells,” Chem. Biol. 15(2), 128–136 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
K. Stöhr, D. Siegberg, T. Ehrhard, K. Lymperopoulos, S. Öz, S. Schulmeister, A. C. Pfeifer, J. Bachmann, U. Klingmüller, V. Sourjik, and D. P. Herten, “Quenched substrates for live-cell labeling of SNAP-tagged fusion proteins with improved fluorescent background,” Anal. Chem. 82(19), 8186–8193 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
K. Kolmakov, V. N. Belov, J. Bierwagen, C. Ringemann, V. Müller, C. Eggeling, and S. W. Hell, “Red-emitting rhodamine dyes for fluorescence microscopy and nanoscopy,” Chemistry 16(1), 158–166 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
K. Kolmakov, V. N. Belov, C. A. Wurm, B. Harke, M. Leutenegger, C. Eggeling, and S. W. Hell, “A versatile route to red-emitting carbopyronine dyes for optical microscopy and nanoscopy,” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2010(19), 3593–3610 (2010). [CrossRef]
G. Donnert, J. Keller, C. A. Wurm, S. O. Rizzoli, V. Westphal, A. Schönle, R. Jahn, S. Jakobs, C. Eggeling, and S. W. Hell, “Two-color far-field fluorescence nanoscopy,” Biophys. J. 92(8), L67–L69 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
X. Sun, A. Zhang, B. Baker, L. Sun, A. Howard, J. Buswell, D. Maurel, A. Masharina, K. Johnsson, C. J. Noren, M.-Q. Xu, and I. R. Corrêa., “Development of SNAP-tag fluorogenic probes for wash-free fluoescence imaging,” ChemBioChem . in press. [PubMed]
R. E. Carter and A. Sorkin, “Endocytosis of functional epidermal growth factor receptor-green fluorescent protein chimera,” J. Biol. Chem. 273(52), 35000–35007 (1998). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. Sorkin and G. Carpenter, “Dimerization of internalized epidermal growth factor receptors,” J. Biol. Chem. 266(34), 23453–23460 (1991). [PubMed]
K. S. Morozova, K. D. Piatkevich, T. J. Gould, J. Zhang, J. Bewersdorf, and V. V. Verkhusha, “Far-red fluorescent protein excitable with red lasers for flow cytometry and superresolution STED nanoscopy,” Biophys. J. 99(2), L13–L15 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
R. L. Strack, B. Hein, D. Bhattacharyya, S. W. Hell, R. J. Keenan, and B. S. Glick, “A rapidly maturing far-red derivative of DsRed-Express2 for whole-cell labeling,” Biochemistry 48(35), 8279–8281 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
J. Bückers, D. Wildanger, G. Vicidomini, L. Kastrup, and S. W. Hell, “Simultaneous multi-lifetime multi-color STED imaging for colocalization analyses,” Opt. Express 19(4), 3130–3143 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
R. Schmidt, C. A. Wurm, A. Punge, A. Egner, S. Jakobs, and S. W. Hell, “Mitochondrial cristae revealed with focused light,” Nano Lett. 9(6), 2508–2510 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
T. J. Gould, J. R. Myers, and J. Bewersdorf, “Total internal reflection STED microscopy,” Opt. Express 19(14), 13351–13357 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Arrivoli, C.
Bachmann, J.
Baker, B.
Bates, M.
Beaufils, F.
Belov, V. N.
Berget, P. B.
Betzig, E.
Bewersdorf, J.
Bhattacharyya, D.
Bierwagen, J.
Bonifacino, J. S.
Bruchez, M. P.
Bückers, J.
Buswell, J.
Carpenter, G.
Carter, R. E.
Corrêa, I. R.
Davidson, M. W.
Donnert, G.
Dyba, M.
Eggeling, C.
Egner, A.
Ehrhard, T.
Engelhardt, J.
Fitzpatrick, J. A. J.
Gautier, A.
Gendreizig, S.
Girirajan, T. P. K.
Glick, B. S.
Gould, T. J.
Gronemeyer, T.
Harke, B.
Hein, B.
Heinis, C.
Hell, S. W.
Herten, D. P.
Hess, H. F.
Hess, S. T.
Howard, A.
Jahn, R.
Jakobs, S.
Johnsson, K.
Juillerat, A.
Kamin, D.
Kastrup, L.
Keenan, R. J.
Keller, J.
Keppler, A.
Kindermann, M.
Klingmüller, U.
Kolmakov, K.
Lauterbach, M. A.
Leutenegger, M.
Lindwasser, O. W.
Lippincott-Schwartz, J.
Lymperopoulos, K.
Masharina, A.
Mason, M. D.
Maurel, D.
Medda, R.
Meyer, L.
Morozova, K. S.
Müller, V.
Myers, J. R.
Noren, C. J.
Olenych, S.
Öz, S.
Patterson, G. H.
Pfeifer, A. C.
Piatkevich, K. D.
Pick, H.
Punge, A.
Ringemann, C.
Rizzoli, S. O.
Rust, M. J.
Schmidt, R.
Schönle, A.
Schulmeister, S.
Schwarz, U.
Sieber, J. J.
Siegberg, D.
Sorkin, A.
Sougrat, R.
Sourjik, V.
Stöhr, K.
Strack, R. L.
Sun, L.
Sun, X.
Szent-Gyorgyi, C.
Toomre, D.
Verkhusha, V. V.
Vicidomini, G.
Vogel, H.
Waggoner, A. S.
Westphal, V.
Wichmann, J.
Wildanger, D.
Willig, K. I.
Woolford, C. A.
Wurm, C. A.
Xu, M.-Q.
Yan, Q.
Zhang, A.
Zhang, J.
Zhuang, X.

Anal. Chem.

K. Stöhr, D. Siegberg, T. Ehrhard, K. Lymperopoulos, S. Öz, S. Schulmeister, A. C. Pfeifer, J. Bachmann, U. Klingmüller, V. Sourjik, and D. P. Herten, “Quenched substrates for live-cell labeling of SNAP-tagged fusion proteins with improved fluorescent background,” Anal. Chem. 82(19), 8186–8193 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol.

D. Toomre and J. Bewersdorf, “A new wave of cellular imaging,” Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 26(1), 285–314 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Biochemistry

R. L. Strack, B. Hein, D. Bhattacharyya, S. W. Hell, R. J. Keenan, and B. S. Glick, “A rapidly maturing far-red derivative of DsRed-Express2 for whole-cell labeling,” Biochemistry 48(35), 8279–8281 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Bioconjug. Chem.

J. A. J. Fitzpatrick, Q. Yan, J. J. Sieber, M. Dyba, U. Schwarz, C. Szent-Gyorgyi, C. A. Woolford, P. B. Berget, A. S. Waggoner, and M. P. Bruchez, “STED nanoscopy in living cells using Fluorogen Activating Proteins,” Bioconjug. Chem. 20(10), 1843–1847 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Biophys. J.

B. Hein, K. I. Willig, C. A. Wurm, V. Westphal, S. Jakobs, and S. W. Hell, “Stimulated emission depletion nanoscopy of living cells using SNAP-tag fusion proteins,” Biophys. J. 98(1), 158–163 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
S. T. Hess, T. P. K. Girirajan, and M. D. Mason, “Ultra-high resolution imaging by fluorescence photoactivation localization microscopy,” Biophys. J. 91(11), 4258–4272 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
G. Donnert, J. Keller, C. A. Wurm, S. O. Rizzoli, V. Westphal, A. Schönle, R. Jahn, S. Jakobs, C. Eggeling, and S. W. Hell, “Two-color far-field fluorescence nanoscopy,” Biophys. J. 92(8), L67–L69 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
K. S. Morozova, K. D. Piatkevich, T. J. Gould, J. Zhang, J. Bewersdorf, and V. V. Verkhusha, “Far-red fluorescent protein excitable with red lasers for flow cytometry and superresolution STED nanoscopy,” Biophys. J. 99(2), L13–L15 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Chem. Biol.

A. Gautier, A. Juillerat, C. Heinis, I. R. Corrêa, M. Kindermann, F. Beaufils, and K. Johnsson, “An engineered protein tag for multiprotein labeling in living cells,” Chem. Biol. 15(2), 128–136 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

ChemBioChem

X. Sun, A. Zhang, B. Baker, L. Sun, A. Howard, J. Buswell, D. Maurel, A. Masharina, K. Johnsson, C. J. Noren, M.-Q. Xu, and I. R. Corrêa., “Development of SNAP-tag fluorogenic probes for wash-free fluoescence imaging,” ChemBioChem . in press. [PubMed]

Chemistry

K. Kolmakov, V. N. Belov, J. Bierwagen, C. Ringemann, V. Müller, C. Eggeling, and S. W. Hell, “Red-emitting rhodamine dyes for fluorescence microscopy and nanoscopy,” Chemistry 16(1), 158–166 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Eur. J. Org. Chem.

K. Kolmakov, V. N. Belov, C. A. Wurm, B. Harke, M. Leutenegger, C. Eggeling, and S. W. Hell, “A versatile route to red-emitting carbopyronine dyes for optical microscopy and nanoscopy,” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2010(19), 3593–3610 (2010). [CrossRef]

J. Biol. Chem.

R. E. Carter and A. Sorkin, “Endocytosis of functional epidermal growth factor receptor-green fluorescent protein chimera,” J. Biol. Chem. 273(52), 35000–35007 (1998). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. Sorkin and G. Carpenter, “Dimerization of internalized epidermal growth factor receptors,” J. Biol. Chem. 266(34), 23453–23460 (1991). [PubMed]

Nano Lett.

R. Schmidt, C. A. Wurm, A. Punge, A. Egner, S. Jakobs, and S. W. Hell, “Mitochondrial cristae revealed with focused light,” Nano Lett. 9(6), 2508–2510 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Nat. Biotechnol.

A. Keppler, S. Gendreizig, T. Gronemeyer, H. Pick, H. Vogel, and K. Johnsson, “A general method for the covalent labeling of fusion proteins with small molecules in vivo,” Nat. Biotechnol. 21(1), 86–89 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Nat. Methods

M. J. Rust, M. Bates, and X. Zhuang, “Sub-diffraction-limit imaging by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM),” Nat. Methods 3(10), 793–796 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
S. W. Hell, “Microscopy and its focal switch,” Nat. Methods 6(1), 24–32 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
R. Schmidt, C. A. Wurm, S. Jakobs, J. Engelhardt, A. Egner, and S. W. Hell, “Spherical nanosized focal spot unravels the interior of cells,” Nat. Methods 5(6), 539–544 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Express

Opt. Lett.

S. W. Hell and J. Wichmann, “Breaking the diffraction resolution limit by stimulated emission: stimulated-emission-depletion fluorescence microscopy,” Opt. Lett. 19(11), 780–782 (1994). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

A. Keppler, H. Pick, C. Arrivoli, H. Vogel, and K. Johnsson, “Labeling of fusion proteins with synthetic fluorophores in live cells,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101(27), 9955–9959 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Science

V. Westphal, S. O. Rizzoli, M. A. Lauterbach, D. Kamin, R. Jahn, and S. W. Hell, “Video-rate far-field optical nanoscopy dissects synaptic vesicle movement,” Science 320(5873), 246–249 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
E. Betzig, G. H. Patterson, R. Sougrat, O. W. Lindwasser, S. Olenych, J. S. Bonifacino, M. W. Davidson, J. Lippincott-Schwartz, and H. F. Hess, “Imaging intracellular fluorescent proteins at nanometer resolution,” Science 313(5793), 1642–1645 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Small

L. Meyer, D. Wildanger, R. Medda, A. Punge, S. O. Rizzoli, G. Donnert, and S. W. Hell, “Dual-color STED microscopy at 30-nm focal-plane resolution,” Small 4(8), 1095–1100 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

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Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Materials and Methods

2.1 Expression Constructs

2.2 Chemical Synthesis of SNAP and CLIP-Tag STED Probes

2.3 Mammalian Cell Culture

2.4 EGF-CLIPf Isolation and Labeling

2.5 Live Cell Labeling

2.6 STED Microscopy

3. Results and Discussion

4. Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References and links

References

Anal. Chem.

Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol.

Biochemistry

Bioconjug. Chem.

Biophys. J.

Chem. Biol.

ChemBioChem

Chemistry

Eur. J. Org. Chem.

J. Biol. Chem.

Nano Lett.

Nat. Biotechnol.

Nat. Methods

Opt. Express

Opt. Lett.

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

Science

Small

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2.4 EGF-CLIP_f Isolation and Labeling