Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Circularly polarised luminescence laser scanning confocal microscopy to study live cell chiral molecular interactions

  • Patrycja Stachelek,
  • Lewis MacKenzie,
  • David Parker,
  • Robert Pal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28220-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Here, the authors introduce a live-cell imaging system using chiroptical contrast, enabling the study of chiral interactions. They demonstrate simultaneous imaging of enantiomeric pairs of molecular probes emitting circularly polarised light, using both single and two-photon excitation.