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ArticleScientific reports2018

Bacterial cell wall nanoimaging by autoblinking microscopy.

Kevin Floc'h, Françoise Lacroix, Liliana Barbieri, Pascale Servant, Remi Galland, Corey Butler, Jean-Baptiste Sibarita, Dominique Bourgeois, Joanna Timmins

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Kevin Floc'hUniv. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, F-38000, Grenoble, France.
Françoise LacroixUniv. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, F-38000, Grenoble, France.
Liliana BarbieriUniv. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, F-38000, Grenoble, France.
Pascale ServantInstitute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Remi GallandInstitut Interdisciplinaire de Neurosciences, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
Corey ButlerInstitut Interdisciplinaire de Neurosciences, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.ORCID 0000-0003-3677-9194
Jean-Baptiste SibaritaInstitut Interdisciplinaire de Neurosciences, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.ORCID 0000-0002-9920-7700
Dominique BourgeoisUniv. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, F-38000, Grenoble, France. dominique.bourgeois@ibs.fr.
Joanna TimminsUniv. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, F-38000, Grenoble, France. Joanna.timmins@ibs.fr.ORCID 0000-0002-9066-9095
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRUniversité de Bordeaux · FRUniversité Paris-Sud · FR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spurious blinking fluorescent spots are often seen in bacteria during single-molecule localization microscopy experiments. Although this 'autoblinking' phenomenon is widespread, its origin remains unclear. In Deinococcus strains, we observed particularly strong autoblinking at the periphery of the bacteria, facilitating its comprehensive characterization. A systematic evaluation of the contributions of different components of the sample environment to autoblinking levels and the in-depth analysis of the photophysical properties of autoblinking molecules indicate that the phenomenon results from transient binding of fluorophores originating mostly from the growth medium to the bacterial cell wall, which produces single-molecule fluorescence through a Point Accumulation for Imaging in Nanoscale Topography (PAINT) mechanism. Our data suggest that the autoblinking molecules preferentially bind to the plasma membrane of bacterial cells. Autoblinking microscopy was used to acquire nanoscale images of live, unlabeled D. radiodurans and could be combined with PALM imaging of PAmCherry-labeled bacteria in two-color experiments. Autoblinking-based super-resolved images provided insight into the formation of septa in dividing bacteria and revealed heterogeneities in the distribution and dynamics of autoblinking molecules within the cell wall.

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Cell WallDeinococcusMicroscopy, FluorescenceNanotechnologySingle Molecule Imaging

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PMID30232348
PMCPMC6145920
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