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ArticleNature communications2024

Single molecule delivery into living cells.

Chalmers C Chau, Christopher M Maffeo, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Sheena E Radford, Eric W Hewitt, Paolo Actis

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Chalmers C ChauSchool of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
Christopher M MaffeoDepartment of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9927-1502
Aleksei AksimentievDepartment of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6042-8442
Sheena E RadfordSchool of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3079-8039
Eric W HewittSchool of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. e.w.hewitt@leeds.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6238-6303
Paolo ActisSchool of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Pollard Institute, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. p.actis@leeds.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7146-1854

Funding

Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) RGP0047/2020National Science Foundation (NSF) OAC-2311550RCUK | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/X003086/1RCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EP/W004933/1Royal Society RSRP/R1/211057Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Controlled manipulation of cultured cells by delivery of exogenous macromolecules is a cornerstone of experimental biology. Here we describe a platform that uses nanopipettes to deliver defined numbers of macromolecules into cultured cell lines and primary cells at single molecule resolution. In the nanoinjection platform, the nanopipette is used as both a scanning ion conductance microscope (SICM) probe and an injection probe. The SICM is used to position the nanopipette above the cell surface before the nanopipette is inserted into the cell into a defined location and to a predefined depth. We demonstrate that the nanoinjection platform enables the quantitative delivery of DNA, globular proteins, and protein fibrils into cells with single molecule resolution and that delivery results in a phenotypic change in the cell that depends on the identity of the molecules introduced. Using experiments and computational modeling, we also show that macromolecular crowding in the cell increases the signal-to-noise ratio for the detection of translocation events, thus the cell itself enhances the detection of the molecules delivered.

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DNASingle Molecule ImagingAnimalsHumansMacromolecular SubstancesNanotechnologyProteinsSignal-To-Noise RatioDNAMacromolecular SubstancesProteins

Identifiers

PMID38782907
PMCPMC11116494

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