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DISCO is a VUV to visible beamline dedicated to biochemistry, chemistry and cell biology. The spectral region is optimised between 60 and 700 nm with conservation of the natural polarization of the light.

DISCO offers three experimental endstations to the scientific communities: SRCD (circular dichroism using synchrotron radiation), APEX (ionisation experiment at atmospheric pressure) and DUV imaging.

Team

JAMME
JAMME Frederic
Beamline Manager
CHAUVET
CHAUVET Hugo
Beamline Scientist
WIEN
WIEN Frank
Beamline Scientist
ROUAM
ROUAM Valerie
Beamline Engineer Assistant
LEROY
LEROY Amandine
MOSCA
RAPOPORT
RAPOPORT David
RISTA
RISTA Harisa
PhD Student
TURBANT
TURBANT Florian
PhD Student
YADAV
Thoury Mathieu
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Scientifique Imaging
Now : IR CNRS, IPANEMA
Miron Simona
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Post doctorante SRCD
Now : CR Inserm
Ta Ha-Phuong
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Post-doctorante SRCD
Zubkov Vitaly
Ancien rôle à DISCO: M2 SERP-CHEM
Milosavljevic Aleksandar
Ancien rôle à DISCO:Post-doctorant ANR SRMS2
Now: Beamlline Scientist, PLEIADES
Voir le CV
Canon Francis
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Post-doc APEX
Now: CR INRA, Dijon
Voir le CV
Diouf Youssouf
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Master SRCD
Cinquin Bertrand
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Doctorant Polyphème (P7)
Now: IR CNRS, IPGG, Paris
Buriankova Luba
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Doctorante Polyphème (U. Safarik)
Now: Kosice Univ, Sk
Yan Huang
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Visiting scientist
Now: Scientist, BSRF
Srichan Sirinart
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Doctorante avec SMIS (P7)
Now: Research Assistant at SLRI Thaï Synchrotron
Foussat Clara
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Stagiaire SRCD (DUT Génie Chimique)
Premvardhan Lavanya
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Post-doctorante
Guery David
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Stagiaire APEX (P11)
Soundiramourty Anuradha
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Master SRCD (P11)
Bourquin Déborah
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Licence Pro Biophotonique (P7)
Now: Eotech
Jobard Priscilla
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Licence de Biologie (P11)
Kascakova Slavka
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Post-doctorante Imageries
Now: MCU University Paris Saclay
Batard Eric
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Visiting Scientist
Now: PUPH CHU Nantes
Buléon Alain
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Associé
Villette Sandrine
Ancien rôle à DISCO: Associée
Now: IR CNRS at Bordeaux
Fidecka Kasia
Master 2 Student (Erasmus mundus)
Now PhD student University Milano
El Amoui Omar
Master 2 Student SRCD
now PhD student U. Bordeaux
Auvray François
PhD Student
Pajovic Jelena
Post-Doc IMI: Translocation
now lecture University of Belgrade
Giuliani Alexandre
Devaux Marie-Françoise
Ancien rôle à Disco: associée
Refregiers Matthieu
Ancien rôle à Disco: responsable de ligne

Photo Disco team et Associés

disco team

Disco team

Associés

Marie-Françoise Devaux : IR INRA - chimiométricienne

 

Technical data

Optics

Flat and toroid mirrors with cold finger for M0. Beam divided in three for the endstation

Source

Dipole Radiation: 40 mrd H x 10 mrd V

By branches

BRANCHES

 

SRCD

 

APEX

 

POLYPHEME

 

Energy domains

 

120-400 nm

 

60-220 nm

 

180-1000 nm

 

Resolution in energy 

 

0.1 nm

 

0.1 nm

 

0.5 nm 

 

Flux @ first optical element

 

 

 

 

 

10 e+14 Phot/s/0.1%bw @ 100 nm

 

Samples environnement

 

Cellules en CaF2 

 

Variable

 

Inverted microscope
with spectral and temporal
resolutions with controled
temperature and CO2

Beamsize @ sample

 

4x4 mm2

 

4x4 mm2

 

0.1x0.1 μm2

 

Detectors

 

PMTs 

 

mass spectrometer

 

PMTs, time gated CCD

 

 

Polarization

Circular 

Optical design

DISCO beam is extracted from a dipole : D04.1 (1.71 T). A 40 per 10 mrad opening is taken.

Setup

The imaging endstation comprises two inverted microscope with pre and post monochromators and three detectors : one PMT, one phase gated CCD camera and one APD. 
The mass spectrometry endstation comprises one commercial mass spectrometer with an injection port and an analysis station.
The CD endstation comprises one optical bench with a photoelastic modulator, a sample holder and a PMT. 

Other facilities

A tiny lab dedicated and very close to DISCO  includes a cell laboratory and a mini biochemistry lab. 
The huge biochemistry lab for users is located closely undercover from the beamline.

Scientific Opportunities

Material sciences

Microscopic Analysis defaults inside optical materials ; prebiotics and fossils inclusions topology inside geological materials.
Biochemistry Proteins and DNA structures and dynamics ; sugar structures ; Mass spectrometry of proteins
Biology , Biomedics

Imaging biochemical reactions inside individual cells with fluorescent proteins; Autofluorescence of tumoral cells and tissues; Study of drug distribution inside human tissues without additional labelling ; diagnosis of hydrophobic molecules

DISCO is a VUV to visible beamline of phase 2. First users were received in september  2009.
Three endstations are operated around a common scientific topic : Biomolecular investigations, with special emphasis on proteins, particularly membrane proteins:

  • A circular dichroism endstation in the VUV range which opens new fields in the investigation of biological molecules, with, in particular, the possibility to follow rapid kinetics such as proteins folding and unfolding in real time,.
  • An endstation for mass spectrometry of non-soluble molecules based on VUV photoionization with new opportunities for proteomics and photochemistry of hydrophobic molcules.
  • An imaging endstation for biological (living cells) and material applications with new possibilities of excitation and detection, also allowing biomedical investigation of normal and tumoral tissues moreover, new paradigms in autofluorescence diagnosis appear and "abandonned" molecules that fluoresce only in the UV can be used as probes.

Two endstations are always working in parallel, the imaging one and SRCD or APEX.

See also the scientifical section in SOLEIL:  HelioBio

1. SRCD allows to record circular dichroism spectra in solution down to 165 nm even with very aborbing buffers and films down to 120 nm. Very fast  acquisition of datas about folding and stability of biomacromolecules.

2. IMAGING : two microscopes (wiki)   

  • a microspectrofluorimeter (POLYPHEME) for recording fluorescence spectral images of molecules absorbing between 190 and 400 nm. allows femtoliter spectral recording.    
  •  a full field, fully automatized inverted microscope (TELEMOS), for fast imaging of live cells or any other specimen that do present fluorescence in UV. Often used in Z-Stacks configurations.

       - Numerous molecules present a specific fluorescence when excited in UV (190 to 400 nm), here are some examples that we did encounter: aromatic amino acids of course, but also NADH, DHE (that may be sustitued to cholesterol for studying membranes), ferulic acids, lignin, G quadruplexes, polyenes, metal oxydes, ...

3. APEX : to ionize at atmospheric pressure the biomolecules between 5 and 20 eV. This ionization can be coupled with a mass spectrometer.

SRCD

DISCO Beamline SRCD endstation provides users with a fully flexible circular dichroism spectrometer in the UV. Reference publication of the endstation :
 M. Réfrégiers, F. Wien, H.-P. Ta, L. Premvardhan, S. Bac, F. Jamme, V. Rouam, B. Lagarde, F. Polack, J.-L. Giorgetta, J.-P. Ricaud, M. Bordessoule and A. Giuliani DISCO synchrotron-radiation circular-dichroism endstation at SOLEIL J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 831-835

SRCD advantages

Synchrotron radiation extends toward higher energies the spectral domain of circular dichroism. Moreover the exterme stability of the beam and the wide accessible spectral range are real asset for difficult solvants.

Data analysis

We strongly recommand you to analyse your data with BestSel a novel method for the secondary structure determination and fold recognition from protein circular dichroism spectra. More about the algorithm at Micsonai et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (2015) doi:10.1073/pnas.1500851112.

SRCD Spectroscopy of Proteins

Figure 1 d'après Wallace, B.A. and Janes, R.W. (2001) SRCD Spectroscopy of Proteins: Secondary Structure, Fold Recognition and Structural Genomics. Curr. Opin. in Chemical Biology, 5: 567-571


Figure 1 d'après Wallace, B.A. and Janes, R.W. (2001) SRCD Spectroscopy of Proteins: Secondary Structure, Fold Recognition and Structural Genomics. Curr. Opin. in Chemical Biology, 5: 567-571

The high synchrotron brilliance allows to work with turbides and very absorbing samples and buffers.

Useful infos
Samples are sandwiched between CaF2 coverslips, a transparent material in the VUV.  Optical pathways may vary from 2,5 μm to 50 μm.

- Typical concentrations are between 0,1 and 10 mg/ml.
- Only few microliters are necessary: from 0.5 μl to 15 μl for optical pathways comprised between 2.5 μm and 50 μm.
- Full thermal scans from 0 to 100°C.

Some buffers and salts absorb a lot in DUV and shall be replaced.  This table adapted from Franz X. Schmid, p. 251 « Protein structure – a practical approach », IRL Press, Oxford 1989, gives absorbances of salts and buffers at 0.01 M in 0.1 cm pathlength.

Substance transparent
jusqu'à
abs 200 nm abs 180 nm
NaClO4 170 nm 0 0
NaF, KF 170 nm 0 0
Ac. Borique 180 nm 0 0
NaCl 205 nm 0.02 >0.5
Na2HPO4 210  nm 0.05 >0.5
NaH2PO4 195 nm 0 0.15
Na Ac. 220 nm 0.17 >0.5
Glycine 220 nm 0.1 >0.5
Diethyl Amine 240 nm >0.5 >0.5
NaOH 230 nm >2 >2
AcideBorique-NaOH 200 nm 0 0.3
Tricine 230 nm 0.44 >0.5
Tris 220 nm 0.13 >0.5
Hepes 230 nm 0.5 >0.5
Pipes 230 nm 0.5 >0.5
Mops 230 nm 0.34 >0.5
Mes 230 nm 0.3 >0.5
Cacodylate 210 nm 0.2 >0.5

Bientôt, ici, un logiciel avancé pour l'analyse des spectres de dichroïsme circulaire: CiDiPy

IMAGING

Waiting for a detailed manual (one day ?), you will find here, some useful infos on the two microscopes available at DISCO beamline.

Both microscopes receive   monochromatic light quickly tuneable between 200 and 600 nm. The first, POLYPHEME, is dedicated to DUV fluorescence microspectroscopy  fluorescence, the second, TELEMOS, is a DUV fast full field microscope with Z scanning for 3D reconstruction.

Référence: Jamme, F., Villette, S., Giuliani, A., Rouam, V., Wien, F., Lagarde, B., & Refregiers, M.Synchrotron UV Fluorescence Microscopy Uncovers New Probes in Cells and Tissues. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2010, 16(5): 507-514

Samples preparation:

Both microscopes are inverted, POLYPHEME is a IX71, TELEMOS is an axioobserver Z1. Most samples will therefore be positioned upside downover a quartz coverslip. Our two main objective use immersion glycerin, it is also possible to observe samples with a air long working distance objective.

  • Cells
    Nous possédons une cellule attofluor (Invitrogen). Elle permet de recevoir des cellules qui ont poussé sur une lamelle ronde en suprasyl (nous contacter si vous désirez recevoir de telles lamelles). Si vous possédez vos propres chambres d'incubation, n'hésitez pas à nous contacter.
  • Tissues
    Nous conseillons de déposer les biopsies ou coupes sur des lames sans monter de lamelles sauf si vous avez des lamelles UV. Les épaisseurs peuvent varier entre 1 et 10 µm environ, pour des demandes spécifiques n'hésitez pas à nous contacter. Certains milieux de montage transparents aux UVs peuvent être utilisés.
  • Fixation protocole (from Slavka Kascakova) :
  1. Before seeding the cells on quartz slides, the slides need to be sterile. It's sufficient to sterilize them with 70% of EtOH (let slides from 30 min - 1 hour in 70% of EtOH and then let them dry under the flow). You can eventually, once the slides are dried, let them under the UV light for 30 min.
  2. Afterthat the quartz slides are placed into the well plates or Petri dish and cells are deposit on it with its culture medium. The plate is then placed into the incubator with 5% CO2 and 37°C. We are making sure that cells nicely adapt on slide and proliferate.
  3. Individual cell treatment.....Incubation with nanoparticles, drug or whatever product for different periods. After incubation, cells are washed with PBS or medium without FCS.
  4. Cell treatment is followed by fixation for microscopic observation: Slide is gently removed from well and placed into the Petri dish with 4 % formalin in PBS for 20 min at room temperature. After this period, cells are then washed for 5 seconds with distilled water, to remove the residual PBS from the surface of the cells. The cells are then dried under ambient conditions and stored in fridge at 4°C. (For drying process, one can eventually deposit the slides on Whatman lens cleaning tissue (http://www.whatman.com/PRODLensCleaningTissue.aspx) (Whatman paper leaves no fibers and it's not damaging optical surfaces). It's also important to mention, that manipulation with slide should be very gentle - very easily one can do scratches on the surface of slide or break the slide.
Platine PI de POLYPHEME

PI 542.2CD – 80x80 mm aperture – 100x100 μm travel range

Liste des objectifs
40x Ultrafluar Zeiss Glyc
N.A: 0.6
Working distance: 0.36
Features: Infinity corrected
100x Ultrafluar Zeiss Glyc
N.A: 1.25
Working distance: 0.17
Features:
40x OFR LMU
N.A: 0.5 
Working distance: 1 mm
Features: Infinity corrected
10x Ultrafluar Zeiss
N.A: 0.2
Working distance: 7.4
Features: Infinity corrected
Liste des filtres accessibles sur TELEMOS :
  • Dichroïques
    DM300, DM400, DM505
  • Bandpass and longpass filtres
    Un panel de filtres passes bandes à l'émission sont utilisables. Ce sont des filtres 1" provenant de chez Omega Filters. Vous pouvez aussi amener vos propres filtres ou discuter avec l'équipe de ligne pour des achats spécifiques pouvant profiter au plus grand nombre.
Tableau des filtres passes bandes de Polypheme
Nom XF1000 XF3000 XF1076 QMAX/EM420-480 XF3075 QMAX/EM510-560 XF3085
Description OMEGA OMEGA OMEGA OMEGA OMEGA OMEGA OMEGA
Tableau des filtres passes bandes de Polypheme
Nom

XF1009

QMAX/EM600-650 QMAX/EX355-405 QMAX/EX530-570
Description OMEGA OMEGA OMEGA OMEGA
Liste of  excitables fluorochromes in DUV  :

• Pour une liste détaillée de fluorochromes endogènes, nous vous conseillons de consulter :
Wagnieres G.A., Star W.M. and Wilson B.C. (1998) ln Vivo Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Imaging for Oncological Applications. Photochem. Photobiol. 68, 603-632

Les logiciels utilisés sur les deux microscopes :
  1. Pour l'acquisition de données
    - En microspectrofluorimétrie : Labspec
    - En imagerie plein champ et 3D : µManager
  2. Pour l'analyse 
    Pour le traitement d'images spectrales :
    Labspec
    Matlab
    Pour le traitement d'images 2D : ImageJ
    Pour la déconvolution d'images et la reconstruction d'images 3D: Huygens
Recording mosaïcs

1- In micromanager, check that the pixel size is calibrated

Objective Pixel size
10x zeiss ultrafluar 1.2 um
100x zeiss ultraflar 0.153 um
40x Zeiss Ultrafluar 0.313 um

2- perform slide explorer until you obtain the area of interest in transmission mode, save it

3- define a rectangle (ROI) with imageJ tools and click on ROI -> POS

4- launch a multidimensionnal acquisition with multiposition on but only one filter.

How to perform mosaïcs of images for large area mapping on TELEMOS microscope at DISCO Beamline:
Recording mosaïcs

1- In micromanager, check that the pixel size is  calibrated (! for a binning of 1)

Objective Pixel size
100x zeiss ultrafluar 0.153 um  
40x zeiss ultraflar 0.313 um  
10x Zeiss Ultrafluar 1.2 um 

2- perform slide explorer until you obtain the area of interest in transmission mode, save it
3- define a rectangle (ROI) with imageJ tools and click on ROI -> POS
4- launch a multidimensional acquisition with multiposition on but only one filter.

Stitching mosaic

1- you will first need to reorder your data, this can easily be made by opening the saved folder in micromanager and clicking on save stack

2- in FIJI, use the plug-in:Stitchin:Deprecated:Stitch sequence of grid of images

3- use the following options : overlap 12% for the 10x.

4- for post-treatment of mosaics, we recommend the use of BaSiC

Soon here: ICY protocols for image analysis; because, as ICY's team, we believe in reproducible research.

That's it !

Do not forget to save the result.

 

 

APEX

La branche APEX de la ligne DISCO délivre des photons VUV entre 350 et 60 nm à pression atmosphérique sous une atmosphère de gaz rare (argon ou néon).
La branche peut être couplée à une source de photoionisation à pression atmosphérique (APPI pour atmospheric pressure photoionisation) pour des analyses par spectrométrie de masse.  Le spectromètre de masse utilisé dans ce cas est un QStar pulsar i de la société ABSciex.  La gamme de masse accessible va jusqu’à m/z 10000 avec un pouvoir de résolution de 9000 dans les deux modes d’ionisation.

Le pompage différentiel est décrit dans :
Giuliani, A., Yao, I., Lagarde, B., Rey, S., Duval, J. F. L., Rommeluere, P., Jamme, F., Rouam, V., Wien, F., de Oliveira, C., Ros, M., Lestrade, A., Desjardins, K., Giorgetta, J. L., Laprévote, O., Herbeaux, C., & Refregiers, M. A differential pumping system to deliver windowless VUV photons at atmospheric pressure. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 2011, 18, on-line first.
Les possibilités sont décrites dans :
Giuliani, A., Giorgetta, J. L., Ricaud, J. P., Jamme, F., Rouam, V., Wien, F., & Refregiers, M.Atmospheric pressure photoionization using tunable VUV synchrotron radiation. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B, 2012, on-line first.

Quelques applications possibles des photons VUV...

DISCO receive users since septembre 09 on three endstations. Using UV synchrotorn radiation, man can observe biomolecules localization, structural changes and interactions in solution, in living cells or in tissues.

Communitiess

Projects Submission Help

- Do not forget to contact one of the beamline scientists (see Team).
- Energy domains are function of the endstations
- Sample environments may be defined with your local contact.
- Beamtime request justification is crucial.
- How to cite the beamline in your articles?
Nous vous recommandons de 
 • Cite the beamline in your material and methods (DISCO beamline), with the following reference Giuliani et al, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 2010;
 • Cite the endstation on which you recorded your experiment with the corresponding reference;
 • Thank SOLEIL in the acknowledgement, with your project numbers;
 • Thank the local contact if you want.
Do not forget to upload your publications linked to SOLEIL in the sunset

Websites & publications of interest

Users Publications

Link to users publications (reported by a U)

Our users do have talent !

  • En mars 2010, Stéphane Pallu et Gaël Rochefort de l'Inserm (CHRO, Orléans) ont tourné un film sur leur travail à DISCO : L'Ostéoporose à la lumière de SOLEIL
  • Béatrice Matot (CEA Saclay) a gagné le prix du poster 2010 au user meeting de SOLEIL.
  • Francis Canon (INRA, Montpellier) a réalisé un superbe reportage photo sur la ligne lors de sa construction.

Lexicon

  • DISCO: Dichroism, Imaging and mass Spectrometry for Chemical and biOlogical systems (Inspired author : L. Nahon)
  • CD BIO: Old name of DISCO
  • CD: Circular Dichroism
  • SRCD: Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism
  • APEX: Atmospheric Pressure Photoionisation EXperiment
  • POLYPHEME:Cyclop was already taken... this is DISCO Microscope nickname, son of Poseidon he does'nt know nobody
  • TELEMOS: Another Cyclop with the gift of telling the future, son of Protée

Related Topics

Complementary beamlines at SOLEIL

DISCO experiments is complementary to SMIS (Infrared microscopy) for cellular biology. SRCD and Mass spectrometry are complementary to SWINGPROXIMA I and PROXIMA II for structural biology and biochemistry.

Other SRCD beamlines in the world
Active
B23, Diamond UV1, ASTRID 3m NIM1, BESSY2 BL15, HiSOR
Oxon ,UK Aarhus, Dk Berlin, DE Hiroshima, JP
In construction
BESSY 2 new NSRL CD12 revamped 4B8,IHEP
Berlin, DE Hefei, CHINA Anka Beijing, CHINA

 

The in-house researches of the DISCO Team concern the interactions of light with biomolecules. They are funded by ANR, Région Centre and PRES UniverSud.

Research Areas

cellules DISCOLes recherches développées par l'équipe concernent les interactions de la lumière avec les biomolécules. Elles sont soutenues par l'ANR, la Région Centre et le PRES Universud.

  • Photochomie et photobiologie
  • Protéines intrinsèquements peu structurées
  • Suivi de médicaments non marqués

See also scientifical section in SOLEIL : HelioBio

Fundings

IMI : projet TRANSLOCATION

Région Centre

ANR : SRMS2, SOPOL, METABACT

ANS INRA : 

PRES UniverSud Paris

ICSN

Participation à l'axe NBS de C'Nano, à l'axe E du RTRA Triangle de la Physique.

 

Collaborations

  • CBM (Orléans)
  • BIA (Nantes)
  • UMR MD1 (Marseille)
  • UMR 8601 (Paris V)
  • IPCM (Paris VI) - H. Dossmann

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