Huffington Center on Aging, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2011 Oct;21(5):585-90. doi: 10.1016/j.gde.2011.09.003. Epub 2011 Sep 22.
The recently developed Coherent Anti-stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) microscopy and Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) microscopy have provided new methods to visualize the localization and regulation of biological molecules without the use of invasive and potentially perturbative labels. They allow rapid imaging of specific molecules with high resolution and sensitivity. These tools have been effectively applied to the study of lipid metabolism using Caenorhabditis elegans as a genetic model, unraveling new lipid storage phenotypes and their regulatory mechanisms. Here we review the underlying principle of CARS and SRS microscopy, as well as their recent applications in lipid biology research in C. elegans.
最近发展起来的相干反斯托克斯拉曼散射(CARS)显微镜和受激拉曼散射(SRS)显微镜为可视化生物分子的定位和调控提供了新的方法,无需使用侵入性和潜在的干扰性标记物。它们可以快速高分辨率和高灵敏度地成像特定分子。这些工具已成功应用于使用秀丽隐杆线虫作为遗传模型的脂质代谢研究,揭示了新的脂质储存表型及其调控机制。在这里,我们回顾了 CARS 和 SRS 显微镜的基本原理,以及它们在秀丽隐杆线虫脂质生物学研究中的最新应用。