Three-Dimensional Image of Cleavage Bodies in Nuclei Is Configured with Gas Cluster Ion Beam Time-o

• 作 者: Mitsutoshi Setou
• 机 构: CellBiologyandAnatomy,HamamatsuUniversitySchoolofMedicine,Hamamatsu,Japan
• 出 处: The 9th Asian Biophysics Association Symposium (ABA2015)(第九届
• 发表日期: 2015年5期

Structural variations of DNA in nuclei are deeply related with development, aging, and diseases through transcriptional regulation.In order to bare cross sections of samples maintaining sub-micron structures, an Ar2500+-gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) sputter was recently engineered.By introducing GCIB sputter to time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS), we analyzed the 3D configuration and chemical composition of subnuclear structures of pyramidal cells in the CA2 region in mouse brain hippocampus.Depth profiles of chemicals were analyzed as 3D distributions by combining topographic analyses.Signals corresponding to anions such as CN-and PO3-were distributed characteristically in the shape of cell organelles.CN-signals overlapped DAPI fluorescence signals corresponding to nuclei.The clusters shown by PO3-and those of adenine ions were colocalized inside nuclei revealed by the 3Dreconstruction.Taking into account their size and their number in each nucleus, those clusters could be in the cleavage bodies, which are a kind of intranuclear structure.Several other recent findings with imaging mass spectrometry will be presented and discussed.