Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Gold-nanofève surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy visualizes hypotaurine as a robust anti-oxidant consumed in cancer survival

  • Megumi Shiota,
  • Masayuki Naya,
  • Takehiro Yamamoto,
  • Takako Hishiki,
  • Takeharu Tani,
  • Hiroyuki Takahashi,
  • Akiko Kubo,
  • Daisuke Koike,
  • Mai Itoh,
  • Mitsuyo Ohmura,
  • Yasuaki Kabe,
  • Yuki Sugiura,
  • Nobuyoshi Hiraoka,
  • Takayuki Morikawa,
  • Keiyo Takubo,
  • Kentaro Suina,
  • Hideaki Nagashima,
  • Oltea Sampetrean,
  • Osamu Nagano,
  • Hideyuki Saya,
  • Shogo Yamazoe,
  • Hiroyuki Watanabe,
  • Makoto Suematsu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03899-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) visualizes fingerprints of intermolecular vibrations of many metabolites. Here the authors report a SERS imaging technique that enables the visualization of metabolites distribution and automated extraction of tumour boundaries in frozen tissues.