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JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY
Volume 121, Issue -, Pages 27-31Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2013.02.006
Keywords
Optical trapping; Photodamage; Microalgae; PAM fluorescence microspectroscopy
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- European Commission
- Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic
- Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic [CZ.1.05/2.1.00/01.0017, FR-TI1/433]
- Czech-Globe - Centre for Global Climate Change Impacts Studies [CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0073]
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Living microalgal cells differ from other cells that are used as objects for optical micromanipulation, in that they have strong light absorption in the visible range, and by the fact that their reaction centers are susceptible to photodamage. We trapped cells of the microalga Trachydiscus minutus using optical tweezers with laser wavelengths in the range from 735 nm to 1064 nm. The exposure to high photon flux density caused photodamage that was strongly wavelength dependent. The photochemical activity before and after exposure was assessed using a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) technique. The photochemical activity was significantly and irreversibly suppressed by a 30 s exposure to incident radiation at 735, 785, and 835 nm at a power of 25 mW. Irradiance at 885,935 and 1064 nm had negligible effect at the same power. At a wavelength 1064 nm, a trapping power up to 218 mW caused no observable photodamage. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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