Raman imaging of lipid bilayer membrane by surface enhanced Raman scattering

Motoaki Mori; Shunsuke Abe; Takahiro Kondo; Yuika Saito

doi:10.1117/12.2286839

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9 April 2018 Raman imaging of lipid bilayer membrane by surface enhanced Raman scattering

Motoaki Mori, Shunsuke Abe, Takahiro Kondo, Yuika Saito

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Proceedings Volume 10490, Biomedical Vibrational Spectroscopy 2018: Advances in Research and Industry; 104900Z (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2286839
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We investigated two-dimensional lipid bilayers by spectroscopic imaging with surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). A DSPC lipid bilayer incubated on a glass substrate was coated with a thin layer of silver. Due to the strong electromagnetic enhancement of the silver film and the affinity to lipid molecules, the Raman spectrum of a single bilayer was obtained in a 1 s exposure time with 0.1 mW of incident laser power. In the C-H vibrational region of the spectra, which is sensitive to bilayer configurations, a randomly stacked area was dominated by the CH3 asymmetric-stretch mode, whereas flat areas including double bilayers showed typical SERS spectra. The spectral features of the randomly stacked area are explained by the existence of many free lipid molecules, which is supported by DFT calculations of paired DSPC molecules. Our method can be applied to reveal the local crystallinity of single lipid bilayers, which is difficult to assess by conventional Raman imaging.

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Motoaki Mori, Shunsuke Abe, Takahiro Kondo, and Yuika Saito "Raman imaging of lipid bilayer membrane by surface enhanced Raman scattering", Proc. SPIE 10490, Biomedical Vibrational Spectroscopy 2018: Advances in Research and Industry, 104900Z (9 April 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2286839

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