Spectroscopic DNA-PAINT for simultaneous multiplexed super-resolution microscopy
and fixed-cell imaging, we show that sDNA-PAINT conditions significantly improve spectral precision and photon budgets compared to conventional glass and antibody-conjugated conditions in sSMLM imaging. Across representative dyes from three fluorophore families (Rhodamine, Cyanine and Oxazine), narrow spectral centroid distributions are observed to enable reliable statistical discrimination at the single-molecule level, even for dyes with heavily overlapping ensemble spectra. In dual-target cellular imaging, sDNA-PAINT achieves accurate spatial reconstruction and high classification accuracy, demonstrating high-fidelity simultaneous multiplexing within a single acquisition. sDNA-PAINT provides a pathway toward high-throughput simultaneous multiplexed super-resolution interaction imaging.
Authors
- Md Abul Shahid (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6344-2952)
- Yang Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1011-3001)
- David A. Miller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0033-6298)
- Kripa Patel
Institutions
- North Carolina State University (US)
- Duke University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
- Published
- 2026-04-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.14.718276
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00