Light-sheet Raman tweezers for whole-cell biochemical analysis of functional red blood cells.
Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc
; 310: 123951, 2024 Apr 05.
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Micro-Raman spectroscopy has emerged as one of the foremost techniques for analyzing biological cells in recent years due to its non-destructive nature and high spatial resolution. The development of optical tweezers has eased the research on biological cells as they confine living cells and organisms in the optical trap without causing much damage. Combining optical tweezers with Raman spectroscopy has opened a wide range of applications in the biomedical field as it facilitates biochemical analysis of biological samples by maintaining in-vivo conditions. Herein, we developed a light sheet-based optical tweezer that traps red blood cells (RBCs) at a very low power density spread across the whole cell, otherwise impossible with conventional optical tweezers. Furthermore, it is combined with micro-Raman spectroscopy to perform whole-cell biochemical analysis for the first time. Raman spectra of individual RBCs recorded under the line focal spot excitation are of superior quality and lack spectral signatures of photo-oxidation and heme aggregation, which is common in point focal spot excitations.
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Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc
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BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR
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