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Diese Arbeit widmet sich der Analyse von Pollenkörnern und einzelnen Pollenkomponenten mit Hilfe der Raman-Spektroskopie, ergänzt wurden diese Untersuchungen durch den Einsatz der Massenspektrometrie, ESEM-Technik, Hochleistungs-Dünnschicht- Chromatographie, IR- und NMR-Spektroskopie. Die Klassifizierung der Pollenspezies erfolgte durch eine Clusteranalyse der Raman- Spektren. Diese Methode kann die Grundlage für eine automatische On-line-Detektion zur Erstellung von Pollenflugwarnungen für Allergiker bilden. Es gelang die Pollenarten zu unterscheiden, darüber hinaus spiegeln die resultierenden Dendrogramme den phylogenetischen Ursprung der Pollenspezies wider. Eine Ursache für falsche Zuordnungen der Pollen stellten hohe Gehalte an Carotinoiden dar. Durch das Bestrahlen der Proben mit 633 nm wurden die Carotinoide abgebaut und der Einfluss der Carotinoide auf die Clusteranalyse reduziert. Die Aufnahmen von resonanten Raman-Spektren der mittels HPTLC aufgetrennten Carotinoide belegten Unterschiede in der Zusammensetzung der Carotinoide in Abhängigkeit von der Pollenspezies. Die Konzentrationen der Carotinoide in den Pollen konnten mit Hilfe der UV-Vis Absorptions- Spektroskopie bestimmt werden. Des Weiteren konnte belegt werden, dass die in-situ Spektren ganzer Pollenkörner die typischen Carotinoidsignaturen einer Pollenspezies widergeben. Die in-situ Spektren sind von Vorteil, weil sie ohne Präparation aufgenommen wurden. Außerdem wurde der Einfluss der biologischen Matrix berücksichtigt. Weitere Bestandteile der Pollenkörner wurden isoliert und mit Hilfe der Raman-, IR- und NMR-Spek- troskopie untersucht. So konnten Veränderungen der chemischen Struktur durch die Aufreinigungsprozeduren nachgewiesen werden. Von besonderem Interesse ist die Analyse des Biomakromoleküls Sporopollen in, welches für die Langlebigkeit und chemischen Stabilität der Pollenkörner verantwortlich ist. Es wurden Aminosäuren, Phosphorlipide, Cellulose und Coumarinsäure in den Pollenkörnern gefunden. Die Verteilung dieser Substanzen in den Pollenkörnern konnte via 2D Raman-Experimente dargestellt werden. Die Signale der Coumarinsäure konnten ebenfalls in den Raman-Spektren keimender Pollenkörner entdeckt werden. Die Pollenschläuche bestehen überwiegend aus Cellulose. Neben diesen Gemeinsamkeiten wurden speziesspezifische Unterschiede der chemischen Zusammensetzung festgestellt.
Entwicklung neuer Sonden für bioanalytische Anwendungen der oberflächenverstärkten Raman-Streuung
(2011)
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has been established as a versatile tool for probing and labeling in analytical applications, based on the vibrational spectra of samples as well as label molecules in the proximity of noble metal nanostructures. The aim of this work was the construction of novel SERS hybrid probes. The hybrid probes consisted of Au and Ag nanoparticles and reporter molecules, as well as a targeting unit. The concept for the SERS hybrid probe design was followed by experiments comprising characterization techniques such as UV/Vis- spectroscopy (UV/Vis), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS), respectively. SERS experiments were per- formed for studying and optimizing the plasmonic properties of nanoparticles with respect to their enhancement capabilities. The SERS-probes had to meet following requirements: biocompatibility, stability in physiological media, and enhancement of Raman-signals from Raman reporter molecules enabling the identification of different probes even in a complex biological environment. Au and Ag nanoaggregates were found to be the most appropriate SERS substrates for the hybrid probe design. The utilization of Raman reporters enabled the identification of different SERS probes in multiplexing experiments. In particular, the multiplexing capability of ten various reporter molecules para-aminobenzenethiol, 2-naphthalenethiol, crystal violet, rhodamine (B) isothiocyanate, fiuorescein isothiocyanate, 5,5'dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid), para- mercaptobenzoic acid, acridine orange, safranine O und nile blue was studied using NIR-SERS excitation. As demonstrated by the results the reporters could be identified through their specific Raman signature even in the case of high structural similarity. Chemical separation analysis of the reporter signatures was performed in a trivariate approach, enabling the discrimination through an automated calculation of specific band ratios. The trivariate identification could be a promising method for SERS-multiplexing in analytical applications. Multivariate methods such as Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA) were as well applied for discrimination and imaging of the reporter signatures. With the help of multivariate imaging methods based on cluster analysis, it could be for the first time demonstrated that such methods provided a fast identification of various SERS hybrid probes inside the biological matrix, this was demonstrated using living 3T3 cells. Further, in a duplex imaging approach, the probes fulfill the requirements for the sensitive detection of both the specific reporter signatures and intrinsic information coming from eukaryotic cells. The results of cluster methods and principal components approaches for discrimination indicate that fast, multivariate evaluation of whole sets of multiple probes is feasible, beyond the visual inspection of individual spectra that has been practiced so far. This suggests multiplexing applications with SERS hybrid nanoprobes and SERS tags in very high density sensing and biological imaging applications, where fast read-out is required. The pH-sensitivity of SERS-Tags that consisted of different reporter molecules attached to aggregated Au and Ag nanoparticles in the range between pH∼3-10 was studied. It could be demonstrated that the reporter molecules provided pH-dependent SERS signatures and could therefore be suitable for the sensitive pH-detection, e.g., inside cellular compartments. The construction of targeted SERS probes was based on the integration of a goat-anti- mouse antibody as targeting element Antibodies were coupled to Au and Ag nanoprobes surrounded by a Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) coating which served as a carrier for the covalent linkage of a Raman reporter molecule and the targeting units at the same time In experiments with BSA and a conjugated reporter the spectra of the BSA-coupled re- porters provided an indication of the secondary structure of BSA which is related to the BSA-reporter coupling procedure In in v i t ro -experiments with BSA-coupled nanoprobes inside 3T3 cells reporter signatures and intrinsic information from the cellular matrix could be delivered BSA enabled the coupling of reporter molecules as well as the targeting of antibodies and served as stabilizer of the gold nanoaggregates The functionality of the coupled antibodies after their integration into the SERS probe was retained This was verified by the results of a direct Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) Conjugates with implemented reporter molecules could be characterized using SERS The application of the complete probes suggested a use of these novel biocompatible stable and targeted SERS probes that can be excited out-of- resonance also for other bioanalytical applications. On the basis of the constructed SERS hybrid probes comprising a large number of BSA- coupled reporters could e g be implemented for automated high-througput immuno- assays where they are arranged on a microstructured device for the simultaneous and multilevel SERS-readout in one step .
Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) has been applied for the analysis of biomolecules due to its high sensitivity, wide linear dynamic range, and multielement capabilities. However, outside the elemental MS community the potential of this technique, e.g. for life sciences applications, is not yet fully exploited. Thus, the development of ICP-MS-based (immuno) assays for a wide range of medical (cancer diagnostics, cisplatin toxicity studies), biochemical (DNA microarray, single cell analysis), and environmental (analysis of comestible goods) applications was accomplished by utilization of chemical labels. Laser ablation (LA)-ICP-MS was employed for the direct analysis of solid samples like microarrays and thin tissue sections. An immunoassay was developed for ochratoxin A (OTA) determination in wine, and ICP-MS detection was compared to conventional photometry by gold nanoparticle tagging and horseradish peroxidase, respectively. Detection limits of the assay were optimized to 0.003 μg L-1, and the quantification range was 0.01–1 μg L-1 for both methods. For LA-ICP-MS-based DNA microarray detection, gold nanoparticle tags were specifically introduced via a streptavidin-biotin linkage. In immunohistochemistry (IHC), up to 20 tumor markers are routinely evaluated for one patient and thus, a common analysis results in a series of time consuming staining procedures. Hence, LA-ICP- MS was elaborated as a detection tool for a novel, multiplexed IHC analysis of tissue sections. Different lanthanides were employed for the simultaneous detection of up to three tumor markers (Her 2, CK 7, and MUC 1) in a breast cancer tissue. Additionally, iodine was employed as a labeling reagent, and a new LA-ICP-MS method for single cell and cell nucleus imaging was developed at 4 μm laser spot size. Iodine was also applied as a new internal standard for tissue samples. Moreover, Pt-protein complexes separated by an optimized 1D and 2D gel electrophoresis were analyzed by LA-ICP-MS. The high spatial resolution of this technique was further demonstrated in a current study of cisplatin toxicity and renal protective strategies in rat kidney tissue by detecting platinated proteins.
Black fungi are recently described microorganisms and amongst the most stress-tolerant eukaryotes currently known. They are a taxonomically diverse, but morphologically similar group of filamentous fungi that share two distinct signature characteristics, i.e. melanisation of the cell wall and compact colony morphology, which confer them passive, constituent extremotolerance. Albeit morphologically undifferentiated, black fungi show extensive phylogenetic and ecological diversity. Due to their persistence in unfavourable niches, they are ubiquitous on deserts and in glaciers and are permanent settlers of rock and other atmosphere-exposed material surfaces as well as man-made environments like salterns, humidifiers and dishwashers, and thus widespread in temperate regions worldwide. Some members are devastating opportunistic pathogens of invertebrates or vertebrates, including humans; others show symbiotic potentials with co-occurring microorganisms in extreme ecosystems. Beside their interest for fundamental biology, black fungi are important for several applied applications, e.g. in biotechnology, astrobiology, bioremediation and material preservation. Despite recent advances in the study of these fungi, many biological questions remain to be clarified regarding the molecular mechanisms underlying persistence, their physiology and nutritional modes, and their specific interactions with putative symbiotic partners. Models for pathogenic and halotolerant black fungi are established; however, no model was yet available for rock- and material-inhabiting ones. This thesis introduces the strain Knufia petricola A95 as a suitable model to study rockinhabiting lifestyle. For this purpose, the strain was characterised at the physiological and molecular levels by phenotype microarrays, growth experiments and genome analyses as well as further methods. Cell- wall mutants of K. petricola A95 isolated during the course of this study were described and included in the comparative analysis to investigate effect of melanisation on physiology and stress tolerance. Direct comparisons were also performed between the model strain and the phylogenetically distant but ecologically, biogeographically and morphologically highly similar rock inhabitant Coniosporium apollinis. Preliminary observations of a model biofilm of K. petricola A95 and the photosynthetic cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133 are introduced to study symbiotic interactions of rock-inhabiting microorganisms. Data presented here are a contribution to the understanding of ecophysiology and extremotolerance of rock-inhabiting black fungi.