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ArticleJournal of visualized experiments : JoVE2020

Characterization of Amyloid Structures in Aging C. Elegans Using Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging.

Maria Lucia Pigazzini, Christian Gallrein, Manuel Iburg, Gabriele Kaminski Schierle, Janine Kirstein

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Article in Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2020. 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
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Maria Lucia Pigazzini *Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology im Forschungsverbund Berlin; NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
Christian Gallrein *Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology im Forschungsverbund Berlin.
Manuel Iburg *Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology im Forschungsverbund Berlin.
Gabriele Kaminski SchierleMolecular Neuroscience Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.
Janine KirsteinLeibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology im Forschungsverbund Berlin; Cell Biology, University of Bremen; kirstein@uni-bremen.de.
Forschungsverbund Berlin · DECharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEUniversity of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Enhancing and expanding the CGC Strain CollectionP40OD010440 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Aric L Daul, Ann E. Rougvie · 2012 to 2026
$7.5M
NIH HHS P40 OD010440Wellcome Trust 203249Wellcome Trust 203249/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amyloid fibrils are associated with a number of neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington's, Parkinson's, or Alzheimer's disease. These amyloid fibrils can sequester endogenous metastable proteins as well as components of the proteostasis network (PN) and thereby exacerbate protein misfolding in the cell. There are a limited number of tools available to assess the aggregation process of amyloid proteins within an animal. We present a protocol for fluorescence lifetime microscopy (FLIM) that allows monitoring as well as quantification of the amyloid fibrilization in specific cells, such as neurons, in a noninvasive manner and with the progression of aging and upon perturbation of the PN. FLIM is independent of the expression levels of the fluorophore and enables an analysis of the aggregation process without any further staining or bleaching. Fluorophores are quenched when they are in close vicinity of amyloid structures, which results in a decrease of the fluorescence lifetime. The quenching directly correlates with the aggregation of the amyloid protein. FLIM is a versatile technique that can be applied to compare the fibrilization process of different amyloid proteins, environmental stimuli, or genetic backgrounds in vivo in a non-invasive manner.

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FluorescenceAnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansOptical Imaging

Identifiers

PMID32281971
PMCPMC7614926
OpenAlexW3013766804

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