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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Ice gliding diatoms establish record-low temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell.

Qing Zhang, Hope T Leng, Hongquan Li, Kevin R Arrigo, Manu Prakash

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. 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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5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Challenges and limitations for live cell imaging in extreme cold.Methods and applications in fluorescence · 2026
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  3. Dynamic switching of cell-substrate contact sites allows gliding diatoms to modulate the curvature of their paths.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. Ice gliding diatoms establish record-low temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  5. Functional morphology of gliding motility in benthic diatoms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 authors.

Qing ZhangDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.ORCID 0000-0002-7462-0136
Hope T LengDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.ORCID 0000-0001-5097-854X
Hongquan LiDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Kevin R ArrigoDepartment of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.ORCID 0000-0002-7364-876X
Manu PrakashDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.ORCID 0000-0002-8046-8388

Funding

Dalio Foundation N.A.Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) N.A.Moore foundation N.A.National Science Foundation (NSF) 135316National Science Foundation (NSF) DBI-1548297NSF | National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) DGE-1656518Schmidt Foundation N.A.Stanford VPGE DARE fellowship N.A.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite periods of permanent darkness and extensive ice coverage in polar environments, photosynthetic ice diatoms display a remarkable capability of living inside the ice matrix. How these organisms navigate such hostile conditions with limited light and extreme cold remains unknown. Using a custom subzero temperature microscope during an Arctic expedition, we present the finding of motility at record-low temperatures in a Eukaryotic cell. By characterizing the gliding motility of several ice diatom species, collected from ice cores in the Chukchi Sea, we record that they retain motility at temperatures as low as [Formula: see text]15

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Cold TemperatureDiatomsEukaryotic CellsIceArctic RegionsIcebiophysicscellular motilitycold adaptationice glidingpsychrophilic diatoms

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PMID40924446
PMCPMC12452890

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