Chemical fixation creates nanoscale clusters on the cell surface by aggregating membrane proteins

T Ichikawa, D Wang, K Miyazawa, K Miyata… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Chemical fixations have been thought to preserve the structures of the cells or tissues.
However, given that the fixatives create crosslinks or aggregate proteins, there is a …

Formamide denaturation of double-stranded DNA for fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) distorts nanoscale chromatin structure

AR Shim, J Frederick, EM Pujadas, T Kuo, IC Ye… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
As imaging techniques rapidly evolve to probe nanoscale genome organization at higher
resolution, it is critical to consider how the reagents and procedures involved in sample …

Multimodal interference-based imaging of nanoscale structure and macromolecular motion uncovers UV induced cellular paroxysm

S Gladstein, LM Almassalha, L Cherkezyan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Understanding the relationship between intracellular motion and macromolecular structure
remains a challenge in biology. Macromolecular structures are assembled from numerous …

Chromatin packing domains persist after RAD21 depletion in 3D.

WS Li, LM Carter, LM Almassalha, EM Pujadas-Liwag… - biorxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Understanding chromatin organization requires integrating measurements of genome
connectivity and physical structure. Prior work demonstrates that RAD21 depletion results in …

Chromosome inner structure investigation by electron tomography and electron diffraction in a transmission electron microscope

R Phengchat, M Malac, M Hayashida - Chromosome Research, 2021 - Springer
Our understanding of the inner structure of metaphase chromosomes remains inconclusive
despite intensive studies using multiple imaging techniques. Transmission electron …

Multimodal interferometric imaging of nanoscale structure and macromolecular motion uncovers UV induced cellular paroxysm

S Gladstein, LM Almassalha, L Cherkezyan… - bioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
We present a multimodal label-free interferometric imaging platform for measuring
intracellular nanoscale structure and macromolecular dynamics in living cells with a …