期刊
JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY
卷 218, 期 -, 页码 185-192出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2005.01472.x
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algal cell; glutaraldehyde fixation; X-ray microscopy
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X-ray microscopy (XRM) is the only microscopy technique that can provide high-resolution (30 nm) imaging of biological specimens without the need to fix, stain or section them. We aim to determine the effect, if any, of glutaraldehyde fixation on algae cells from the XRM perspective and thus provide beneficial information for both X-ray and electron microscopists on artefacts induced by glutaraldehyde fixation. Three species of microalgae, Microcystis aeruginosa, Anabaena spiroides and Chlorella vulgaris, were used in this study. XRM images were obtained from unfixed and glutaraldehyde-fixed cells and cell diameter and percentage X-ray absorbency were measured. The mean diameter of cells from fixed preparations was smaller than from unfixed preparations; the mean diameter of M. aeruginosa cells was significantly reduced from 3.92 mu m in unfixed cells to 3.43 mu m in fixed cells (P < 0.05); in C. vulgaris the diameter of cells was also significantly reduced from 3.50 mu m in unfixed to 2.98 mu m in fixed samples (P < 0.05); whereas there was no significant reduction in the diameter of A. spiroides cells (4.04-3.90 mu m). The protein crosslinking mechanism of glutaraldehyde probably generated free water molecules, which play an important role in radiation damage induced by X-rays. This was seen as mass loss and cell shrinkage, which in the present study occurred more frequently in fixed cells than in unfixed cells. In addition, we demonstrated that the uptake of glutaraldehyde by cells makes all protein constituents in the cell organize into a closely packed configuration, thus causing a rise in the percentage of X-ray absorbency. In fixed cells, this rise was approximately by a factor of two compared with unfixed samples in which protein constituents inside the cell are arranged in their native form.
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