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ReviewBiophysical journal2018

Rediscovering Bacteria through Single-Molecule Imaging in Living Cells.

Achillefs N Kapanidis, Alessia Lepore, Meriem El Karoui

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Review in Biophysical journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Biochemistry: one molecule at a time.Essays in biochemistry · 2021
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  9. From single bacterial cell imaging towardsEssays in biochemistry · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Achillefs N KapanidisBiological Physics Research Group, Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Electronic address: kapanidis@physics.ox.ac.uk.
Alessia LeporeInstitute of Cell Biology and SynthSys, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Meriem El KarouiInstitute of Cell Biology and SynthSys, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Electronic address: meriem.elkaroui@ed.ac.uk.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H01795X/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J00054X/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/N018656/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 110164/Z/15/ZWellcome Trust 205008/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteria are microorganisms central to health and disease, serving as important model systems for our understanding of molecular mechanisms and for developing new methodologies and vehicles for biotechnology. In the past few years, our understanding of bacterial cell functions has been enhanced substantially by powerful single-molecule imaging techniques. Using single fluorescent molecules as a means of breaking the optical microscopy limit, we can now reach resolutions of ∼20 nm inside single living cells, a spatial domain previously accessible only by electron microscopy. One can follow a single bacterial protein complex as it performs its functions and directly observe intricate cellular structures as they move and reorganize during the cell cycle. This toolbox enables the use of in vivo quantitative biology by counting molecules, characterizing their intracellular location and mobility, and identifying functionally distinct molecular distributions. Crucially, this can all be achieved while imaging large populations of cells, thus offering detailed views of the heterogeneity in bacterial communities. Here, we examine how this new scientific domain was born and discuss examples of applications to bacterial cellular mechanisms as well as emerging trends and applications.

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BacteriaMicroscopyPhotonsSingle Molecule Imaging

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PMID29680157
PMCPMC6050715

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