269
Views
3
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Scanning Hard X-ray Microscopy Imaging Modalities for Geobiological Samples

, , , , , , , & show all
Pages 380-383 | Received 01 Dec 2013, Accepted 01 Mar 2014, Published online: 03 Apr 2015

References

  • Abbey B.. 2013. From grain boundaries to single defects: A review of coherent methods for materials imaging in the X-ray sciences. JOM-J Min Met Mat S 65:11831201.
  • Als-Nielsen J, McMorrow D. 2011. Elements of Modern X-ray Physics, 2nd ed. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley & Sons, Ltd. p1–421.
  • Beckers M., Senkbeil T., Gorniak T., Reese M., Giewekemeyer K., Gleber S-C, Salditt T., Rosenhahn A.. 2011. Chemical contrast in soft X-ray ptychography. Phys Rev Lett 107:208101.
  • Benzerara K., Menguy N., Obst M., Stolarski J., Mazur M., Tylisczak T., G E., Meibom A. 2011. Study of the crystallographic architecture of corals at the nanoscale by scanning transmission X-ray microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. Ultramicroscopy 111:1268–1275.
  • Bilderback DH, Elleaume P., Weckert E. 2005. Review of third and next generation synchrotron light sources. J Phys B: Atom Mol Opt Phys 38:S773–S797.
  • Chapman HN, Nugent KA. 2010. Coherent lensless X-ray imaging. Nat Photonics 4:833–839.
  • Cosmidis J., Benzerara K. 2014. Soft X-ray scanning transmission spectromicroscopy. In: DiMasi E., Gower LB., editors. Biomineralization Sourcebook: Characterization of Biominerals and Biomimetic Materials, 1st ed. New York: CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, p115–134.
  • Dahl C., Prange A. 2006. Bacterial sulfur globules: occurrence, structure and metabolism. In: Shively JM, editor. Inclusions in Prokaryotes: Microbial Monographs. Berlin: Springer, p21–51.
  • Dierolf M., Menzel A., Thibault P., Schneider P., Kewish CM, Wepf R., Bunk O., Pfeiffer F. 2010. Ptychographic X-ray computed tomography at the nanoscale. Nature 467:436–439.
  • Fallon SJ, McCulloch MT, Guilderson TP. 2005. Interpreting environmental signals from the coralline sponge Astrosclera willeyana. In: Schöne BR, Surge D, editors. Looking back over Skeletal Diaries - High-resolution Environmental Reconstructions from Accretionary Hard Parts of Aquatic Organisms. Palaeogeogr Palaeocl 228:58–69.
  • Färber G., Keller W., Kratky C., Jaun B., Pfaltz A., Spinner C., Kobelt A., Eschenmoser A. 1991. Coenzyme F430 from methanogenic bacteria: Complete assignment of configuration based on an X-ray analysis of 12,13-diepi-F430-pentamethyl ester and on NMR-spectroscopy. Helv Chim Acta 74:697–716.
  • Giewekemeyer K., Beckers M., Gorniak T., Grunze M., Salditt T., Rosenhahn A. 2011. Ptychographic coherent X-ray diffractive imaging in the water window. Opt Express 19:1037–1050.
  • Giewekemeyer K., Thibault P., Kalbfleisch S., Beerlink A., Kewish CM, Dierolf M., Pfeiffer F., Salditt T. 2010. Quantitative biological imaging by ptychographic X-ray diffraction microscopy. P Natl Acad Sci USA 107:529–534.
  • Hallam SJ, Girguis PR, Preston CM, Richardson PM, DeLong EF. 2003. Identification of methyl coenzyme M reductase A (mcrA) Genes associated with methane-oxidizing archaea. Appl Environ Microb 69:5483–5491.
  • Hallam SJ, Putnam N., Preston CM, Detter JC, Rokhsar D., Richardson PM, DeLong EF. 2004. Reverse methanogenesis: Testing the hypothesis with environmental genomics. Science 305:1457–1462.
  • Heim C, Quéric N-V, Ionescu D, Simon K, Thiel V. 2014. Chemolithotrophic microbial mats in an open pond in the continental subsurface – implications for microbial biosignatures. In: Wiese F., Reich M., Arp G., editors. “Göttingen Contributions to Geosciences”, vol. 70, “Spongy, slimy, cosy & more”. Göttingen, Germany: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, p99–112.
  • Heller C., Hoppert M., Reitner J. 2008. Immunological localization of coenzyme M reductase in anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea of ANME 1 and ANME 2 type. Geomicrobiol J 25:149–156.
  • Henke BL, Gullikson EM, Davis JC. 1993. X-ray Interactions: Photoabsorption, Scattering, Transmission, and Reflection at E = 50-30,000 eV, Z = 1-92. Atom Data Nucl Data Tables 54:181342.
  • Hentunen TA, Harkonen PL, Vaananen HK. 2000. Carbonic anhydrases in calcified tissues. In: Chegwidden WR, Carter ND, Edwards YH, editors. The Carbonic Anhydrases: New Horizons, vol. Basel, Switzerland: 90. Basel, Switzerland, p491–497.
  • Hitchcock A., Tyliszczak T., Obst M., Swerhone G., Lawrence J. 2010. Improving sensitivity in soft X-ray STXM Using low energy X-ray fluorescence. Microsc Microanal 16:924–925.
  • Hoffmann F., Janussen D., Dröse W., Arp G., Reitner J. 2003. Histological investigation of organisms with hard skeletons: a case study of siliceous sponges. Biotech Histochem 78:191–199.
  • Hoppe W. 1969a. Beugung im inhomogenen Primärstrahlwellenfeld. I. Prinzip einer Phasenmessung von Elektronenbeungungsinterferenzen. Acta Crystallogr A 25:495–501.
  • Hoppe W. 1969b. Beugung im inhomogenen Primärstrahlwellenfeld. III. Amplituden- und Phasenbestimmung bei unperiodischen Objekten. Acta Crystallogr A 25:508–514.
  • Hoppe W., Strube G. 1969. Beugung in inhomogenen Primärstrahlenwellenfeld. II. Lichtoptische Analogieversuche zur Phasenmessung von Gitterinterferenzen. Acta Crystallogr A 25:502–507.
  • Hoppe R., Reinhardt J., Hofmann G., Patommel J., Grunwaldt J-D, Damsgaard CD, Wellenreuther G., Falkenberg G., Schroer CG. 2013. High-resolution chemical imaging of gold nanoparticles using hard X-ray ptychography. Appl Phys Lett 102:203104.
  • Jackson DJ, Macis L., Reitner J., Degnan BM, Wörheide G. 2007. Sponge paleogenomics reveals an ancient role for carbonic anhydrase in skeletogenesis. Science 316:1893–1895.
  • Kirz J., Jacobsen C., Howells M. 1995. Soft X-ray microscopes and their biological applications. Q Rev Biophys 28:33–130.
  • Kneip S., McGuffey C., Martins JL, Martins SF, Bellei C., Chvykov V., Dollar F., Fonseca R., Huntington C., Kalintchenko G., Maksimchuk A., Mangles SPD, Matsuoka T., Nagel SR, Palmer CAJ, Schreiber J., Phuoc KT, Thomas AGR, Yanovsky V., Silva LO, Krushelnick K., Najmudin Z. 2010. Bright spatially coherent synchrotron X-rays from a table-top source. Nat Phys 6:980–983.
  • Kraft P., Bergamaschi A., Broennimann C., Dinapoli R., Eikenberry EF, Henrich B., Johnson I., Mozzanica A., Schleputz CM, Willmott PR, Schmitt B. 2009. Performance of single-photon-counting PILATUS detector modules. J Synchrotron Radiat 16:368–375.
  • Krüger M., Meyerdierks A., Glöckner FO, Amann R., Widdel F., Kube M., Reinhardt R., Kahnt J., Böcher R., Thauer RK, Shima S. 2003. A conspicuous nickel protein in microbial mats that oxidize methane anaerobically. Nature 426:878–881.
  • Larabell CA, Nugent KA. 2010. Imaging cellular architecture with X-rays. Curr Opin Struc Biol 20:623–631.
  • Lima E., Diaz A., Guizar-Sicairos M., Gorelick S., Pernot P., Schleier T., Menzel A. 2013. Cryo-scanning X-ray diffraction microscopy of frozen-hydrated yeast. J Microsc 249:1–7.
  • Lister JJ. 1900. Astrosclera willeyana, the type of a new family of sponges. Zool Results 4:461–482.
  • Llopart X., Campbell M., Dinapoli R., San Segundo D, Pernigotti E. 2002. Medipix2: A 64k pixel readout chip with55μ, square elements working in single photon counting mode. IEEE T Nucl Sci 49:2279–2283.
  • Maiden AM, Rodenburg JM. 2009. An improved ptychographical phase retrieval algorithm for diffractive imaging. Ultramicroscopy 109:1256–1262.
  • Maiden A., Morrison G., Kaulich B., Gianoncelli A., Rodenburg J. 2013. Soft X-ray spectromicroscopy using ptychography with randomly phased illumination. Nat Commun 4:1669.
  • Maki J. 2013. Bacterial intracellular sulfur globules: Structure and function. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol 23:270–280.
  • Meyerdierks A., Kube M., Kostadinov I., Teeling H., Glöckner FO, Reinhardt R., Amann R. 2010. Metagenome and mRNA expression analyses of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea of the ANME-1 group. Environ Microbiol 12:422–439.
  • Miao J., Charalambous P., Kirz J., Sayre D. 1999. Extending the methodology of X-ray crystallography to allow imaging of micrometre-sized non-crystalline specimens. Nature 400:342–344.
  • Miao JW, Sandberg RL, Song CY. 2012. Coherent X-ray Diffraction imaging. IEEE J Select Top Quant 18:399–410.
  • Michaelis W., Seifert R., Nauhaus K., Treude T., Thiel V., Blumenberg M., Knittel K., Gieseke A., Peterknecht K., Pape T., Boetius A., Amann R., Jørgensen B B, Widdel F., Peckmann J., Pimenov NV, Gulin MB. 2002. Microbial reefs in the Black sea fueled by anaerobic oxidation of methane. Science 297:1013–1015.
  • Miot J., Benzerara K., Morin G., Bernard S., Beyssac O., Larquet E., Kappler A., Guyot F. 2009. Transformation of vivianite by anaerobic nitrate-reducing iron-oxidizing bacteria. Geobiol 7:373–384.
  • Morrison G., Eaton W., Barrett R., Charalambous P. 2003. STXM imaging with a configured detector. J Phys IV 104:547–550.
  • Morrison G., Niemann B. 1998. Differential phase contrast x-ray microscopy. In: Thieme, J., Schmahl, G., Rudolph, D., Umbach, E., editors. X-ray microscopy and spectromicroscopy: status report from the Fifth International Conference, Würzburg, August 19–23, 1996, Part I. Springer Berlin Heidelberg:85–94.
  • Nauhaus K., Treude T., Boetius A., Krüger M. 2005. Environmental regulation of the anaerobic oxidation of methane: a comparison of ANME-I and ANME-II communities. Environ Microbiol 7:98–106.
  • Nielsen PH, De Muro MA, Nielsen JL. 2000. Studies on the in situ physiology of Thiothrix spp. present in activated sludge. Environ Microbiol 2:389–398.
  • Obst M., Schmid G. 2014. 3D chemical mapping: Application of scanning transmission (Soft) X-ray microscopy (STXM) in combination with angle-scan tomography in bio-, geo-, and environmental sciences. In: Kuo J., editor. Electron Microscopy Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 1117, 3rd ed. New York: Springer Science+Business Media, p757–781.
  • Obst M., Wang J., Hitchcock AP. 2009. Soft X-ray spectro-tomography study of cyanobacterial biomineral nucleation. Geobiol 7:577–591.
  • Ohradanova A., Vullo D., Pastorekova S., Pastorek J., Jackson DJ, Wörheide G., Supuran CT. 2012. Anion inhibition studies of an α-carbonic anhydrase from the living fossil Astrosclera willeyana. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 22:1314–1316.
  • Pfaltz A., Jaun B., Fassler A., Eschenmoser A., Jaenchen R., Gilles HH, Diekert G., Thauer RK. 1982. Zur Kenntnis des Faktors F430 aus methanogenen Bakterien: Struktur des porphinoiden Ligandsystems. Helv Chim Acta 65:828–865.
  • Ponchut C., Clément J., Rigal J-M, Papillon E., Vallerga J., LaMarra D., Mikulec B. 2007. Photon-counting X-ray imaging at kilohertz frame rates. In: Bisogni MG, Rosso V, editors. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors, Pisa Italy July 2006. Nucl Instrum Meth A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 576:109–112.
  • Ponchut C., Rigal JM, Clément J., Papillon E., Homs A., Petitdemange S. 2011. MAXIPIX, a fast readout photon-counting X-ray area detector for synchrotron applications. J Instrum 6:C01069.
  • Pósfai M, Buseck PR, Bazylinsky DA, Frankel RB. 1998. Iron sulfides from magnetotactic bacteria: structure, composition, and phase transitions. Am Mineral 83:1469–1481.
  • Reitner J. 1992. Coralline Spongien - Der Versuch einer phylo-genetisch-taxonomischen Analyse. Berl geowiss Abh E 1:1–352.
  • Reitner J., Peckmann J., Blumenberg M., Michaelis W., Reimer A., Thiel V. 2005a. Concretionary methane-seep carbonates and associated microbial communities in Black Sea sediments. In: Peckmann J, Goedert JL, editors. Geobiology of Ancient and Modern Methane-Seeps - Geobiology of Ancient and Modern Methane-Seeps, Palaeogeogr Palaeocl Vol. 227, Amsterdam: Elsevier, p18–30.
  • Reitner J., Peckmann J., Reimer A., Schumann G., Thiel V. 2005b. Methane-derived carbonate build-ups and associated microbial communities at cold seeps on the lower Crimean shelf (Black Sea). Facies 51:66–79.
  • Rodenburg J. 2008. Ptychography and related diffractive imaging methods. In: Hawkes, editor. Adv Imag Elect Phys, Vol. 150, Amsterdam: Elsevier, p87–184.
  • Rodenburg JM, Hurst AC, Cullis AG, Dobson BR, Pfeiffer F., Bunk O., David C., Jefimovs K., Johnson I. 2007. Hard-X-ray lensless imaging of extended objects. Phys Rev Lett 98:034801.
  • Russell T. 1990. X-ray and neutron reflectivity for the investigation of polymers. Mater Sci Rep 5:171–271.
  • Sakdinawat A., Attwood D. 2010. Nanoscale X-ray imaging. Nat Photon 4:840–848.
  • Scheller S., Goenrich M., Boecher R., Thauer RK, Jaun B. 2010. The key nickel enzyme of methanogenesis catalyses the anaerobic oxidation of methane. Nature 465:606–608.
  • Schlenvoigt H-P, Haupt K., Debus A., Budde F., Jackel O., Pfotenhauer S., Schwoerer H., Rohwer E., Gallacher JG, Brunetti E., Shanks RP, Wiggins SM, Jaroszynski DA. 2008. A compact synchrotron radiation source driven by a laser-plasma Wakefield accelerator. Nat Phys 4:130–133.
  • Schroer CG, Kurapova O., Patommel J., Boye P., Feldkamp J., Lengeler B., Burghammer M., Riekel C., Vincze L., van der Hart A., Kuchler M. 2005. Hard X-ray nanoprobe based on refractive X-ray lenses. Appl Phys Lett 87:124103.
  • Schropp A., Boye P., Feldkamp JM, Hoppe R., Patommel J., Samberg D., Stephan S., Giewekemeyer K., Wilke RN, Salditt T., Gulden J., Mancuso AP, Vartanyants IA, Weckert E., Schoder S., Burghammer M., Schroer CG. 2010. Hard X-ray nanobeam characterization by coherent diffraction microscopy. Appl Phys Lett 96:091102.
  • Schropp A., Hoppe R., Meier V., Patommel J., Seiboth F., Lee HJ, Nagler B., Galtier EC, Arnold B., Zastrau U., Hastings JB, Nilsson D., Uhlen F., Vogt U., Hertz HM, Schroer CG. 2013. Full spatial characterization of a nanofocused X-ray free-electron laser beam by ptychographic imaging. Sci Rep 3:1633.
  • Schropp A., Hoppe R., Patommel J., Samberg D., Seiboth F., Stephan S., Wellenreuther G., Falkenberg G., Schroer CG. 2012. Hard X-ray scanning microscopy with coherent radiation: Beyond the resolution of conventional X-ray microscopes. Appl Phys Lett 100:253112.
  • Shima S., Krueger M., Weinert T., Demmer U., Kahnt J., Thauer RK, Ermler U. 2012. Structure of a methyl-coenzyme M reductase from Black Sea mats that oxidize methane anaerobically. Nature 481:98–101.
  • Skerman VBD, Dementjeva G., Carey BJ. 1957. Intracellular Deposition of Sulfur by Sphaerotilus Natans. J Bacteriol 73(4): 504–512.
  • Solé V., Papillon E., Cotte M., Walter P., Susini J. 2007. A multiplatform code for the analysis of energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectra. Spectrochim Acta B: Atom Spectrosc 62:63–68.
  • Takahashi Y., Suzuki A., Zettsu N., Kohmura Y., Yamauchi K., Ishikawa T. 2011a. Multiscale element mapping of buried structures by ptychographic X-ray diffraction microscopy using anomalous scattering. Appl Phys Lett 99:131905.
  • Takahashi Y., Suzuki A., Zettsu N., Kohmura Y., Senba Y., Ohashi H., Yamauchi K., Ishikawa T. 2011b. Towards high-resolution ptychographic X-ray diffraction microscopy. Phys Rev B 83:214109.
  • Templeton A., Knowles E. 2009. Microbial transformations of minerals and metals: Recent advances in geomicrobiology derived from synchrotron-based X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray microscopy. Annu Rev Earth Pl Sci 37:367–391.
  • Thauer RK. 1998. Biochemistry of methanogenesis: A tribute to Marjory Stephenson. Microbiology 144:2377–2406.
  • Thauer RK, Kaster A-K, Goenrich M., Schick M., Hiromoto T., Shima S. 2010. Hydrogenases from methanogenic archaea, nickel, a novel cofactor, and H2 storage. Annu Rev Biochem 79:507–536.
  • Thauer RK, Shima S. 2008. Methane as fuel for anaerobic microorganisms. Ann NY Acad Sci 1125:158–170.
  • Thibault P., Dierolf M., Bunk O., Menzel A., Pfeiffer F. 2009a. Probe retrieval in ptychographic coherent diffractive imaging. Ultramicroscopy 109:338–343.
  • Thibault P., Dierolf M., Menzel A., Bunk O., David C., Pfeiffer F. 2008. High-resolution scanning X-ray diffraction microscopy. Science 321:379–382.
  • Thibault P., Dierolf M., Kewish C M, Menzel A., Bunk O., Pfeiffer F. 2009b. Contrast mechanisms in scanning transmission X-ray microscopy. Phys Rev A 80:043813.
  • Vine DJ, Pelliccia D., Holzner C., Baines SB, Berry A., McNulty I., Vogt S., Peele AG, Nugent KA. 2012. Simultaneous X-ray fluorescence and ptychographic microscopy of Cyclotella meneghiniana. Opt Express 20:18287–18296.
  • Wilke RN, Priebe M., Bartels M., Giewekemeyer K., Diaz A., Karvinen P., Salditt T. 2012. Hard X-ray imaging of bacterial cells: nano-diffraction and ptychographic reconstruction. Optics Expr 20:19232–19254.
  • Wilke RN, Vassholz M., Salditt T. 2013. Semi-transparent central stop in high-resolution X-ray ptychography using Kirkpatrick-Baez focusing. Acta Crystallogr A 69:490–497.
  • Wörheide G. 1998. The reef cave dwelling ultraconservative coralline demosponge Astrosclera willeyana Lister 1900 from the Indo-Pacific. Facies 38:1–88.
  • Wrede C., Heller C., Reitner J., Hoppert M. 2008. Correlative light/electron microscopy for the investigation of microbial mats from Black Sea cold seeps. J Microbiol Meth 73:85–91.
  • Wrede C., Kokoschka S., Dreier A., Heller C., Reitner J., Hoppert M. 2013a. Deposition of biogenic iron minerals in a methane oxidizing microbial mat. Archaea, ID 102972.
  • Wrede C., Krukenberg V., Dreier A., Reitner J., Heller C., Hoppert M. 2013b. Detection of metabolic key enzymes of methane turnover processes in cold seep microbial biofilms. Geomicrobiol J 30:214–227.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.