Super-resolution microscopy demystified

L Schermelleh, A Ferrand, T Huser, C Eggeling… - Nature cell …, 2019 - nature.com
Super-resolution microscopy (SRM) bypasses the diffraction limit, a physical barrier that
restricts the optical resolution to roughly 250 nm and was previously thought to be …

Fluorescence nanoscopy in cell biology

SJ Sahl, SW Hell, S Jakobs - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
Fluorescence nanoscopy uniquely combines minimally invasive optical access to the
internal nanoscale structure and dynamics of cells and tissues with molecular detection …

[HTML][HTML] Focal adhesions, stress fibers and mechanical tension

K Burridge, C Guilluy - Experimental cell research, 2016 - Elsevier
Stress fibers and focal adhesions are complex protein arrays that produce, transmit and
sense mechanical tension. Evidence accumulated over many years led to the conclusion …

A layered view on focal adhesions

K Legerstee, AB Houtsmuller - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The cytoskeleton is a network of protein fibres within cells that provide
structure and support intracellular transport. Focal adhesions are protein complexes …

Cellular chirality arising from the self-organization of the actin cytoskeleton

YH Tee, T Shemesh, V Thiagarajan, RF Hariadi… - Nature cell …, 2015 - nature.com
Cellular mechanisms underlying the development of left–right asymmetry in tissues and
embryos remain obscure. Here, the development of a chiral pattern of actomyosin was …

The cell biologist's guide to super-resolution microscopy

G Jacquemet, AF Carisey, H Hamidi… - Journal of Cell …, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
Fluorescence microscopy has become a ubiquitous method to observe the location of
specific molecular components within cells. However, the resolution of light microscopy is …

SIMcheck: a toolbox for successful super-resolution structured illumination microscopy

G Ball, J Demmerle, R Kaufmann, I Davis, IM Dobbie… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Three-dimensional structured illumination microscopy (3D-SIM) is a versatile and accessible
method for super-resolution fluorescence imaging, but generating high-quality data is …

Generation of stress fibers through myosin-driven reorganization of the actin cortex

JI Lehtimäki, EK Rajakylä, S Tojkander, P Lappalainen - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Contractile actomyosin bundles, stress fibers, govern key cellular processes including
migration, adhesion, and mechanosensing. Stress fibers are thus critical for developmental …

Mechanosensing drives acuity of αβ T-cell recognition

Y Feng, KN Brazin, E Kobayashi… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
T lymphocytes use surface α β T-cell receptors (TCRs) to recognize peptides bound to MHC
molecules (pMHCs) on antigen-presenting cells (APCs). How the exquisite specificity of high …

Long-range self-organization of cytoskeletal myosin II filament stacks

S Hu, K Dasbiswas, Z Guo, YH Tee, V Thiagarajan… - Nature cell …, 2017 - nature.com
Although myosin II filaments are known to exist in non-muscle cells,, their dynamics and
organization are incompletely understood. Here, we combined structured illumination …