Single Molecule Cryo-Fluorescence Microscopy

Li, Weixing

dc.contributor.advisor	Enderlein, Jörg Prof. Dr.
dc.contributor.author	Li, Weixing
dc.date.accessioned	2016-11-07T10:30:19Z
dc.date.available	2016-11-07T10:30:19Z
dc.date.issued	2016-11-07
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-002B-7C92-A
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-5968
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject.ddc	571.4	de
dc.title	Single Molecule Cryo-Fluorescence Microscopy	de
dc.type	doctoralThesis	de
dc.contributor.referee	Stark, Holger Prof. Dr.
dc.date.examination	2016-10-26
dc.description.abstracteng	This work presents a newly developed cryo-fluorescence microscopy system and several of its applications. The thesis is divided into three parts. Part I introduces the design of the cryo-fluorescence microscope, and demonstrates its superior cooling efficiency, mechanical stability, and imaging quality. The high performance of this system allows for continuous single molecule imaging for up to six hours with minor post-correctable drift at 89 K. This system also provides the possibility to transfer vitrified samples at cryogenic temperatures, which enables correlative measurements with cryo-electron microscopy. Part II explores the properties of commonly used organic dyes at 89 K. The photostability is drastically enhanced at liquid nitrogen temperatures, resulting in an average photon yield (detected) of several millions per molecule. The blinking of Alexa647, Atto647N, and Cy5 dyes is slowed down by a factor of ten at 89 K. Atto488 and Alexa488 dyes enter prolonged dark states in the cryostat due to the lack of oxygen (sample located in vacuum in the cryostat), which makes single molecule localization microscopy directly applicable at 89 K. Part III demonstrates single molecule localization with exceptional sub-nanometer precision exploiting the large photon yield at 89 K, and suggests approaches to colocalize two fluorescent molecules with a similar precision.	de
dc.contributor.coReferee	Tittmann, Kai Prof. Dr.
dc.subject.eng	Microscopy+Super-resolution+Cryo-microscopy+Cryostat	de
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-11858/00-1735-0000-002B-7C92-A-9
dc.affiliation.institute	Göttinger Graduiertenschule für Neurowissenschaften, Biophysik und molekulare Biowissenschaften (GGNB)	de
dc.subject.gokfull	Biologie (PPN619462639)	de
dc.identifier.ppn	871977680