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In radiation tumor therapy, irradiation, on one hand, should cause cell death to the tumor. On the other hand, the surrounding non-tumor tissue should be maintained unaffected. Therefore, methods of local dose enhancements are highly interesting. Gold nanoparticles, which are preferentially uptaken by very-fast-proliferating tumor cells, may enhance damaging. However, the results in the literature obtained from cell culture and animal tissue experiments are very contradictory, i.e., only some experiments reveal increased cell killing but others do not. Thus, a better understanding of cellular mechanisms is required. Using the breast cancer cell model SkBr3, the effects of gold nanoparticles in combination with ionizing radiation on chromatin network organization were investigated by Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy (SMLM) and applications of mathematical topology calculations (e.g., Persistent Homology, Principal Component Analysis, etc.). The data reveal a dose and nanoparticle dependent re-organization of chromatin, although colony forming assays do not show a significant reduction of cell survival after the application of gold nanoparticles to the cells. In addition, the spatial organization of γH2AX clusters was elucidated, and characteristic changes were obtained depending on dose and gold nanoparticle application. The results indicate a complex response of ALU-related chromatin and heterochromatin organization correlating to ionizing radiation and gold nanoparticle incorporation. Such complex whole chromatin re-organization is usually associated with changes in genome function and supports the hypothesis that, with the application of gold nanoparticles, not only is DNA damage increasing but also the efficiency of DNA repair may be increased. The understanding of complex chromatin responses might help to improve the gold nanoparticle efficiency in radiation treatment.
For an improved understanding of cellular processes, it is highly desirable to develop light optical methods for the analysis of biological nanostructures and their dynamics in the interior of three-dimensionally (3D) conserved cells. Here, important structural parameters to be considered are the topology, i.e. the mutual positions and distances, as well as the sizes of the constituting subunits. This has become possible by the development of a novel method of far-field light fluorescence microscopy, spatially modulated illumination (SMI) microscopy. Using this approach, axial distances between fluorescence-labeled targets can be measured with an accuracy close to 1 nm; their sizes can be determined down to a few tens of nanometers. This approach can be extended to the determination of 3D positions and mutual 3D distances and sizes of any number of small objects/subunits that can be discriminated due to their spectral signatures. Consequently, the new approach allows an ‘in situ nanostructure elucidation, until now regarded to be beyond the possibilities of far-field light microscopy. Application examples discussed are: colocalization/nanosizing and topological analysis of large protein-protein complexes, of nucleic acid-protein complexes (such as transcription factories), or of the highly complex DNA-protein nanostructures of which active/ inactive gene regions in the eukaryotic cell nucleus are constituted.
