Measurement of intracellular pH (pH_i) in a single cell using fluorescent probe and fiber optic nanoprobe

摘要

An optical system for measurement of the intracellular pH (pH_i) in a single living cell by using the fluorescent probe, 5(6)-carboxyfluorescein diacetate (CFDA) and fiber optic nanoprobe was demonstrated in this work. The CFDA probe is used to determine pH_i in the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae 97 while fiber optic nanoprobe is used to guide excitation light and receive emission light within a single cell. Experimental results showed that our system had higher detection sensitivity than other standard spectrometer, which is important to single-cell analysis, especially for the microanalysis in a single-cell.