Advanced imaging techniques for studying protein phase separation in living cells and at single-molecule level

G Mekonnen, N Djaja, X Yuan, S Myong - Current Opinion in Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions are essential for cell function and survival.
These interactions facilitate the formation of ribonucleoprotein complexes and biomolecular …

Next generation single-molecule techniques: Imaging, labeling, and manipulation in vitro and in cellulo

T Ha, C Kaiser, S Myong, B Wu, J Xiao - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Owing to their unique abilities to manipulate, label, and image individual molecules in vitro
and in cellulo, single-molecule techniques provide previously unattainable access to …

Anomalous diffusion, nonergodicity, and ageing for exponentially and logarithmically time-dependent diffusivity: striking differences for massive versus massless …

AG Cherstvy, H Safdari, R Metzler - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Anomalous diffusion, nonergodicity, and ageing for exponentially and logarithmically time-dependent
diffusivity: striking differences for massive versus massless particles - IOPscience This site …

Synthetic analysis of chromatin tracing and live-cell imaging indicates pervasive spatial coupling between genes

CH Bohrer, DR Larson - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
The role of the spatial organization of chromosomes in directing transcription remains an
outstanding question in gene regulation. Here, we analyze two recent single-cell imaging …

Simulation-based Reconstructed Diffusion unveils the effect of aging on protein diffusion in Escherichia coli

L Mantovanelli, DS Linnik, M Punter… - PLoS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
We have developed Simulation-based Reconstructed Diffusion (SbRD) to determine
diffusion coefficients corrected for confinement effects and for the bias introduced by two …

Elongasome core proteins and class A PBP1a display zonal, processive movement at the midcell of Streptococcus pneumoniae

AJ Perez, MM Lamanna, KE Bruce… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Ovoid-shaped bacteria, such as Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus), have two
spatially separated peptidoglycan (PG) synthase nanomachines that locate zonally to the …

In vivo, in vitro and in silico: an open space for the development of microbe‐based applications of synthetic biology

A Danchin - Microbial Biotechnology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Living systems are studied using three complementary approaches: living cells, cell‐free
systems and computer‐mediated modelling. Progresses in understanding, allowing …

Fabrication of cyborg bacterial cells as living cell–material hybrids using intracellular hydrogelation

O Baghdasaryan, LE Contreras-Llano, S Khan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The production of living therapeutics, cell-based delivery of drugs and gene-editing tools
and the manufacturing of bio-commodities all share a common concept: they use either a …

Longitudinal diffusion barriers imposed by myofilaments and mitochondria in murine cardiac myocytes

C Deisl, JH Chung, DW Hilgemann - Journal of General Physiology, 2023 - rupress.org
Using optical and electrical methods, we document that diffusion in the cytoplasm of BL6
murine cardiomyocytes becomes restricted> 20-fold as molecular weight increases from 30 …

Genomic mysteries of giant bacteria: insights and implications

D Ionescu, JM Volland, PE Contarini… - Genome Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Bacteria and Archaea are traditionally regarded as organisms with a simple morphology
constrained to a size of 2–3 µm. Nevertheless, the history of microbial research is rich in the …