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Investigation of organelle-specific intracellular water structures with Raman microspectroscopy
(2013-02-01)
Tiwari, Shraeddha
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Ando, Masahiro
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Hamaguchi, Hiro-o
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應用化學系
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應用化學系分子科學碩博班
The study of intracellular water in living cells is a challenge of fundamental importance. While the critical roles of water in maintaining and propagating life have been widely recognized and accepted, our understanding of water/biomolecule interactions is surprisingly limited. Using Raman microspectroscopic imaging of a living yeast cell followed by a multivariate analysis in form of the nonnegative matrix factorization method, we successfully resolve organelle-specific water structures. The intensities and the band profiles of the segregated water OH stretch spectra yield important and otherwise unobtainable information on the extensive effect of the water/biomolecule interactions in a given organelle on the hydrogen-bonding network of water molecules. Copyright (C) 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.