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ArticleACS nano2017

Hybrid Structured Illumination Expansion Microscopy Reveals Microbial Cytoskeleton Organization.

Aaron R Halpern, Germain C M Alas, Tyler J Chozinski, Alexander R Paredez, Joshua C Vaughan

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Article in ACS nano, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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5 authors.

Aaron R HalpernDepartment of Chemistry, ‡Department of Biology, and §Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington 98195, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8149-0691
Germain C M AlasDepartment of Chemistry, ‡Department of Biology, and §Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington 98195, United States.
Tyler J ChozinskiDepartment of Chemistry, ‡Department of Biology, and §Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington 98195, United States.
Alexander R ParedezDepartment of Chemistry, ‡Department of Biology, and §Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington 98195, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9298-3264
Joshua C VaughanDepartment of Chemistry, ‡Department of Biology, and §Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington 98195, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6550-8935

Funding

Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics Enabled by Ultrabright Pdot Probes for Interrogation of Complex TissuesR01MH115767 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI CHIU, DANIEL T, VAUGHAN, JOSHUA · 2017 to 2021
$3.7M
Rac: a critical regulator of the cytoskeleton and membrane trafficking in GiardiaR01AI110708 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI PAREDEZ, ALEXANDER RICHARD · 2015 to 2019
$1.9M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI110708NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH115767Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recently developed tissue-hydrogel methods for specimen expansion now enable researchers to perform super-resolution microscopy with ∼65 nm lateral resolution using ordinary microscopes, standard fluorescent probes, and inexpensive reagents. Here we use the combination of specimen expansion and the optical super-resolution microscopy technique structured illumination microscopy (SIM) to extend the spatial resolution to ∼30 nm. We apply this hybrid method, which we call ExSIM, to study the cytoskeleton of the important human pathogen Giardia lamblia including the adhesive disc and flagellar axonemes. We determined the localization of two recently identified disc-associated proteins, including DAP86676 , which localizes to disc microribbons, and the functionally unknown DAP16263 , which primarily localizes to dorsal microtubules of the disc overlap zone and the paraflagellar rod of ventral axonemes. Based on its strong performance in revealing known and unknown details of the ultrastructure of Giardia, we find that ExSIM is a simple, rapid, and powerful super-resolution method for the study of fixed specimens, and it should be broadly applicable to other biological systems of interest.

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Image Processing, Computer-AssistedCytoskeletonGiardia lambliaHydrogel, Polyethylene Glycol DimethacrylateProtozoan ProteinsHydrogel, Polyethylene Glycol DimethacrylateProtozoan Proteinscytoskeletonexpansion microscopyGiardia lambliastructured illumination microscopysuper-resolution microscopy

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PMID29165993
PMCPMC5752594

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