Microbiota in tumors: from understanding to application

Y Xie, F Xie, X Zhou, L Zhang, B Yang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Microbes with complex functions have been found to be a potential component in tumor
microenvironments. Due to their low biomass and other obstacles, intratumor microbiota is …

Guidelines for naming and studying plasma membrane domains in plants

Y Jaillais, E Bayer, DC Bergmann, MA Botella, Y Boutté… - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
Biological membranes play a crucial role in actively hosting, modulating and coordinating a
wide range of molecular events essential for cellular function. Membranes are organized …

Chemically stable fluorescent proteins for advanced microscopy

BC Campbell, MG Paez-Segala, LL Looger… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We report the rational engineering of a remarkably stable yellow fluorescent protein
(YFP),'hyperfolder YFP'(hfYFP), that withstands chaotropic conditions that denature most …

Liquid–liquid phase separation mediates the formation of herpesvirus assembly compartments

S Zhou, Z Fu, Z Zhang, X Jia, G Xu, L Sun, F Sun… - Journal of Cell …, 2022 - rupress.org
Virus assembly, which takes place during the late stage of viral replication, is essential for
virus propagation. However, the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood …

Surface-engineered gold nanoclusters for stimulated emission depletion and correlated light and electron microscopy imaging

H Yang, Y Wu, H Ruan, F Guo, Y Liang, G Qin… - Analytical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Stimulated emission depletion (STED) nanoscopy is an emerging super-resolution imaging
platform for the study of the cellular structure. Developing suitable fluorescent probes of …

Fluorescence CLEM in biology: historic developments and current super‐resolution applications

K van den Dries, J Fransen, A Cambi - Febs Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) is a powerful imaging approach that
allows the direct correlation of information obtained on a light and an electron microscope …

Mesoscale chromatin confinement facilitates target search of pioneer transcription factors in live cells

Z Wang, B Wang, D Niu, C Yin, Y Bi… - Nature Structural & …, 2024 - nature.com
Pioneer transcription factors (PTFs) possess the unique capability to access closed
chromatin regions and initiate cell fate changes, yet the underlying mechanisms remain …

Genetically encodable fluorescent protein markers in advanced optical imaging

K Nienhaus, GU Nienhaus - Methods and Applications in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical fluorescence microscopy plays a pivotal role in the exploration of biological structure
and dynamics, especially on live specimens. Progress in the field relies, on the one hand, on …

Accelerating data sharing and reuse in volume electron microscopy

KJ Czymmek, I Belevich, J Bischof, A Mathur… - nature cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Volume electron microscopy (vEM) generates large 3D volumes of cells or tissues at
nanoscale resolutions, enabling analyses of organelles in their cellular environment. Here …

A super-resolution and transmission electron microscopy correlative approach to study intracellular trafficking of nanoparticles

T Andrian, Y Muela, L Delgado, L Albertazzi, S Pujals - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanoparticles (NPs) are used to encapsulate therapeutic cargos and deliver them
specifically to the target site. The intracellular trafficking of NPs dictates the NP-cargo …