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Journal of Microscopy (311)
Abstract

SummaryA direct technique based on electron energy‐loss spectroscopy (EELS) in the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) has been developed to map subcellular distributions of water in frozen‐hydrated biological cryosections. Previously, methods for water determination have been indirect in that they have required the cryosections to be dehydrated first. The new approach makes use of spectrum‐imaging, where EELS data are collected in parallel at each pixel. Several operations are required to process the spectra including: subtraction of the detector dark current, deconvolution by the detector point‐spread function, removal of plural inelastic scattering and correction for the support film. The resulting single scattering distributions are fitted to standard reference spectra at each pixel, and water content can be determined from the fitting coefficients. Although the darkfield or brightfield image from a hydrated cryosection shows minimal structure, the processed EELS image reveals strong contrast due to variations in water content. Reference spectra have been recorded from the major biomolecules (protein, lipid, carbohydrate, nucleic acid) as well as from vitrified water and crystalline ice. It has been found that quantitative results can be obtained for the majority of subcellular compartments by fitting only water and protein reference spectra, and the accuracy of the method for these compartments has been estimated as ± 3·5%. With the present instrumentation the maximum allowed dose of 2 × 103 e/nm2 limits the useful spatial resolution to around 80 nm for ± 5% precision at a single pixel. By averaging pixel intensities a value of 56·8% with a precision of ± 2·0% has been determined for the water content of liver mitochondria. The water mapping technique may prove useful for applications to cell physiology and pathophysiology.

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SUN, S. Q., SHI, S., HUNT, J. A., & LEAPMAN, R. D. (1995). Quantitative water mapping of cryosectioned cells by electron energy‐loss spectroscopy. Journal of Microscopy, 177(1), 18–30. Portico.

Authors 4
  1. S. Q. SUN (first)
  2. S‐L. SHI (additional)
  3. J. A. HUNT (additional)
  4. R. D. LEAPMAN (additional)
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@article{SUN_1995, title={Quantitative water mapping of cryosectioned cells by electron energy‐loss spectroscopy}, volume={177}, ISSN={1365-2818}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.1995.tb03530.x}, DOI={10.1111/j.1365-2818.1995.tb03530.x}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Microscopy}, publisher={Wiley}, author={SUN, S. Q. and SHI, S‐L. and HUNT, J. A. and LEAPMAN, R. D.}, year={1995}, month=jan, pages={18–30} }