Super-resolution microscopy for structural cell biology

S Liu, P Hoess, J Ries - Annual review of biophysics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Super-resolution microscopy techniques, and specifically single-molecule localization
microscopy (SMLM), are approaching nanometer resolution inside cells and thus have great …

Applications of nanobodies

S Muyldermans - Annual review of animal biosciences, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Unique, functional, homodimeric heavy chain–only antibodies, devoid of light chains, are
circulating in the blood of Camelidae. These antibodies recognize their cognate antigen via …

The ALFA-tag is a highly versatile tool for nanobody-based bioscience applications

H Götzke, M Kilisch, M Martínez-Carranza… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Specialized epitope tags are widely used for detecting, manipulating or purifying proteins,
but often their versatility is limited. Here, we introduce the ALFA-tag, a rationally designed …

Switchable fluorophores for single-molecule localization microscopy

H Li, JC Vaughan - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The past decade has witnessed an explosion in the use of super-resolution fluorescence
microscopy methods in biology and other fields. Single-molecule localization microscopy …

Photoswitching fingerprint analysis bypasses the 10-nm resolution barrier

DA Helmerich, G Beliu, D Taban, M Meub, M Streit… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Advances in super-resolution microscopy have demonstrated single-molecule localization
precisions of a few nanometers. However, translation of such high localization precisions …

Nanobody: a promising toolkit for molecular imaging and disease therapy

G Bao, M Tang, J Zhao, X Zhu - EJNMMI research, 2021 - Springer
Nanobodies are the recombinant variable domains of heavy-chain-only antibodies, with
many unique properties such as small size, excellent solubility, superior stability, quick …

Advanced imaging and labelling methods to decipher brain cell organization and function

D Choquet, M Sainlos, JB Sibarita - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
The brain is arguably the most complex organ. The branched and extended morphology of
nerve cells, their subcellular complexity, the multiplicity of brain cell types as well as their …

Molecular resolution imaging by post-labeling expansion single-molecule localization microscopy (Ex-SMLM)

FU Zwettler, S Reinhard, D Gambarotto… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Expansion microscopy (ExM) enables super-resolution fluorescence imaging of physically
expanded biological samples with conventional microscopes. By combining ExM with single …

A nanobody‐conjugated DNA nanoplatform for targeted platinum‐drug delivery

T Wu, J Liu, M Liu, S Liu, S Zhao, R Tian… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The targeted delivery of chemotherapeutic drugs is a major challenge in the clinical
treatment of cancer. Herein, we constructed a multifunctional DNA nanoplatform as a …

A genetically encoded probe for imaging nascent and mature HA-tagged proteins in vivo

N Zhao, K Kamijo, PD Fox, H Oda, T Morisaki… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
To expand the toolbox of imaging in living cells, we have engineered a single-chain variable
fragment binding the linear HA epitope with high affinity and specificity in vivo. The resulting …