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ArticleJournal of structural biology2021

Lattice micropatterning for cryo-electron tomography studies of cell-cell contacts.

Leeya Engel, Claudia G Vasquez, Elizabeth A Montabana, Belle M Sow, Marcin P Walkiewicz, William I Weis, Alexander R Dunn

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Article in Journal of structural biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Leeya EngelDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States.
Claudia G VasquezDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States.
Elizabeth A MontabanaStanford-SLAC CryoEM Initiative, Stanford, CA 94305, United States.
Belle M SowDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States.
Marcin P WalkiewiczCell Sciences Imaging Facility, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States.
William I WeisDepartment of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, United States; Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, United States.
Alexander R DunnDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States. Electronic address: alex.dunn@stanford.edu.
Stanford University · US

Funding

Molecular mechanisms underlying force transduction at cellular adhesion complexesR35GM130332 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Alexander R Dunn · 2019 to 2026
$4.9M
Molecular mechanisms of Wnt and mechanical signaling through β-cateninR35GM131747 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI POKUTTA, SABINE · 2019 to 2023
$3.1M
alpha-Catenin/F-actin Structure at Cell-Cell JunctionsR01GM119948 · NIGMS · SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE · PI HANEIN, DORIT, VOLKMANN, NIELS · 2017 to 2019
$1.9M
Molecular mechanisms underlying flow sensing in lymphatic endothelial cellsR01HL128779 · NHLBI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI DUNN, ALEXANDER R, FULLER, GERALD · 2015 to 2018
$1.5M
Bio-AFM for combined light and atomic force imagingS10OD021514 · OD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI DUNN, ALEXANDER R · 2016 to 2016
$513k
Investigating the physical mechanisms that drive multicellular lumen morphogenesisF32GM125113 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI VASQUEZ, CLAUDIA GABRIELA · 2017 to 2018
$118k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL128779NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM125113NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM119948NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM130332NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM131747NIH HHS S10 OD021514
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cryo-electron tomography is the highest resolution tool available for structural analysis of macromolecular complexes within their native cellular environments. At present, data acquisition suffers from low throughput, in part due to the low probability of positioning a cell such that the subcellular structure of interest is on a region of the electron microscopy (EM) grid that is suitable for imaging. Here, we photo-micropatterned EM grids to optimally position endothelial cells so as to enable high-throughput imaging of cell-cell contacts. Lattice micropatterned grids increased the average distance between intercellular contacts and thicker cell nuclei such that the regions of interest were sufficiently thin for direct imaging. We observed a diverse array of membranous and cytoskeletal structures at intercellular contacts, demonstrating the utility of this technique in enhancing the rate of data acquisition for cellular cryo-electron tomography studies.

Indexed as

Cell CommunicationCadherinsCell NucleusCells, CulturedCryoelectron MicroscopyElectron Microscope TomographyEndothelial CellsExtracellular MatrixHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalIntercellular JunctionsMicroscopy, Atomic ForceMicroscopy, ConfocalMicroscopy, Electron, TransmissionReproducibility of ResultsCadherinsbioengineeringcryo-EMcryo-ETmicropatterning

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PMID34520869
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