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Regulation of microtubule dynamics, mechanics and function through the growing tip. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2021; 22:777-795. [PMID: 34408299 DOI: 10.1038/s41580-021-00399-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/05/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Microtubule dynamics and their control are essential for the normal function and division of all eukaryotic cells. This plethora of functions is, in large part, supported by dynamic microtubule tips, which can bind to various intracellular targets, generate mechanical forces and couple with actin microfilaments. Here, we review progress in the understanding of microtubule assembly and dynamics, focusing on new information about the structure of microtubule tips. First, we discuss evidence for the widely accepted GTP cap model of microtubule dynamics. Next, we address microtubule dynamic instability in the context of structural information about assembly intermediates at microtubule tips. Three currently discussed models of microtubule assembly and dynamics are reviewed. These are considered in the context of established facts and recent data, which suggest that some long-held views must be re-evaluated. Finally, we review structural observations about the tips of microtubules in cells and describe their implications for understanding the mechanisms of microtubule regulation by associated proteins, by mechanical forces and by microtubule-targeting drugs, prominently including cancer chemotherapeutics.
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Skaar EP. Imaging Infection Across Scales of Size: From Whole Animals to Single Molecules. Annu Rev Microbiol 2021; 75:407-426. [PMID: 34343016 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-041521-121457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Infectious diseases are a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, and the threat of infectious diseases to human health is steadily increasing as new diseases emerge, existing diseases reemerge, and antimicrobial resistance expands. The application of imaging technology to the study of infection biology has the potential to uncover new factors that are critical to the outcome of host-pathogen interactions and to lead to innovations in diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. This article reviews current and future opportunities for the application of imaging to the study of infectious diseases, with a particular focus on the power of imaging objects across a broad range of sizes to expand the utility of these approaches. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Microbiology, Volume 75 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
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- Eric P Skaar
- Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA;
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Scher N, Rechav K, Paul-Gilloteaux P, Avinoam O. In situ fiducial markers for 3D correlative cryo-fluorescence and FIB-SEM imaging. iScience 2021; 24:102714. [PMID: 34258551 PMCID: PMC8253967 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2021] [Revised: 05/12/2021] [Accepted: 06/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Imaging of cells and tissues has improved significantly over the last decade. Dual-beam instruments with a focused ion beam mounted on a scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM), offering high-resolution 3D imaging of large volumes and fields-of-view are becoming widely used in the life sciences. FIB-SEM has most recently been implemented on fully hydrated, cryo-immobilized, biological samples. Correlative light and electron microscopy workflows combining fluorescence microscopy (FM) with FIB-SEM imaging exist, whereas workflows combining cryo-FM and cryo-FIB-SEM imaging are not yet commonly available. Here, we demonstrate that fluorescently labeled lipid droplets can serve as in situ fiducial markers for correlating cryo-FM and FIB-SEM datasets and that this approach can be used to target the acquisition of large FIB-SEM stacks spanning tens of microns under cryogenic conditions. We also show that cryo-FIB-SEM imaging is particularly informative for questions related to organelle structure and inter-organellar contacts, nuclear organization, and mineral deposits in cells.
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- Nadav Scher
- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Structure Fédérative de Recherche François Bonamy, INSERM, CNRS, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Kamalesh K, Scher N, Biton T, Schejter ED, Shilo BZ, Avinoam O. Exocytosis by vesicle crumpling maintains apical membrane homeostasis during exocrine secretion. Dev Cell 2021; 56:1603-1616.e6. [PMID: 34102104 PMCID: PMC8191493 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2020] [Revised: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Exocrine secretion commonly employs micron-scale vesicles that fuse to a limited apical surface, presenting an extreme challenge for maintaining membrane homeostasis. Using Drosophila melanogaster larval salivary glands, we show that the membranes of fused vesicles undergo actomyosin-mediated folding and retention, which prevents them from incorporating into the apical surface. In addition, the diffusion of proteins and lipids between the fused vesicle and the apical surface is limited. Actomyosin contraction and membrane crumpling are essential for recruiting clathrin-mediated endocytosis to clear the retained vesicular membrane. Finally, we also observe membrane crumpling in secretory vesicles of the mouse exocrine pancreas. We conclude that membrane sequestration by crumpling followed by targeted endocytosis of the vesicular membrane, represents a general mechanism of exocytosis that maintains membrane homeostasis in exocrine tissues that employ large secretory vesicles.
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- Kumari Kamalesh
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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Okolo CA, Kounatidis I, Groen J, Nahas KL, Balint S, Fish TM, Koronfel MA, Cortajarena AL, Dobbie IM, Pereiro E, Harkiolaki M. Sample preparation strategies for efficient correlation of 3D SIM and soft X-ray tomography data at cryogenic temperatures. Nat Protoc 2021; 16:2851-2885. [PMID: 33990802 DOI: 10.1038/s41596-021-00522-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2020] [Accepted: 02/09/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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3D correlative microscopy methods have revolutionized biomedical research, allowing the acquisition of multidimensional information to gain an in-depth understanding of biological systems. With the advent of relevant cryo-preservation methods, correlative imaging of cryogenically preserved samples has led to nanometer resolution imaging (2-50 nm) under harsh imaging regimes such as electron and soft X-ray tomography. These methods have now been combined with conventional and super-resolution fluorescence imaging at cryogenic temperatures to augment information content from a given sample, resulting in the immediate requirement for protocols that facilitate hassle-free, unambiguous cross-correlation between microscopes. We present here sample preparation strategies and a direct comparison of different working fiducialization regimes that facilitate 3D correlation of cryo-structured illumination microscopy and cryo-soft X-ray tomography. Our protocol has been tested at two synchrotron beamlines (B24 at Diamond Light Source in the UK and BL09 Mistral at ALBA in Spain) and has led to the development of a decision aid that facilitates experimental design with the strategic use of markers based on project requirements. This protocol takes between 1.5 h and 3.5 d to complete, depending on the cell populations used (adherent cells may require several days to grow on sample carriers).
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- Chidinma A Okolo
- Beamline B24, Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK
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- Beamline B24, Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK
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- Beamline B24, Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK.,Division of Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Beamline B24, Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK
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- Beamline B24, Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK
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- Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (CIC biomaGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Donostia San Sebastián, Spain.,Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
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- Micron Advanced Imaging Consortium, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Beamline 09-MISTRAL, ALBA Synchrotron, Barcelona, Spain
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- Beamline B24, Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK.
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Lange F, Agüi-Gonzalez P, Riedel D, Phan NTN, Jakobs S, Rizzoli SO. Correlative fluorescence microscopy, transmission electron microscopy and secondary ion mass spectrometry (CLEM-SIMS) for cellular imaging. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0240768. [PMID: 33970908 PMCID: PMC8109779 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Accepted: 04/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Electron microscopy (EM) has been employed for decades to analyze cell structure. To also analyze the positions and functions of specific proteins, one typically relies on immuno-EM or on a correlation with fluorescence microscopy, in the form of correlated light and electron microscopy (CLEM). Nevertheless, neither of these procedures is able to also address the isotopic composition of cells. To solve this, a correlation with secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) would be necessary. SIMS has been correlated in the past to EM or to fluorescence microscopy in biological samples, but not to CLEM. We achieved this here, using a protocol based on transmission EM, conventional epifluorescence microscopy and nanoSIMS. The protocol is easily applied, and enables the use of all three technologies at high performance parameters. We suggest that CLEM-SIMS will provide substantial information that is currently beyond the scope of conventional correlative approaches.
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- Felix Lange
- Research Group Mitochondrial Structure and Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
- Clinic for Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Center for Biostructural Imaging of Neurodegeneration, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Laboratory of Electron Microscopy, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Center for Biostructural Imaging of Neurodegeneration, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Research Group Mitochondrial Structure and Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
- Clinic for Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Center for Biostructural Imaging of Neurodegeneration, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- * E-mail: (SJ); (SOR)
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- Department of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Center for Biostructural Imaging of Neurodegeneration, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- * E-mail: (SJ); (SOR)
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Müller TG, Zila V, Peters K, Schifferdecker S, Stanic M, Lucic B, Laketa V, Lusic M, Müller B, Kräusslich HG. HIV-1 uncoating by release of viral cDNA from capsid-like structures in the nucleus of infected cells. eLife 2021; 10:64776. [PMID: 33904396 PMCID: PMC8169111 DOI: 10.7554/elife.64776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2020] [Accepted: 04/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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HIV-1 replication commences inside the cone-shaped viral capsid, but timing, localization, and mechanism of uncoating are under debate. We adapted a strategy to visualize individual reverse-transcribed HIV-1 cDNA molecules and their association with viral and cellular proteins using fluorescence and correlative-light-and-electron-microscopy (CLEM). We specifically detected HIV-1 cDNA inside nuclei, but not in the cytoplasm. Nuclear cDNA initially co-localized with a fluorescent integrase fusion (IN-FP) and the viral CA (capsid) protein, but cDNA-punctae separated from IN-FP/CA over time. This phenotype was conserved in primary HIV-1 target cells, with nuclear HIV-1 complexes exhibiting strong CA-signals in all cell types. CLEM revealed cone-shaped HIV-1 capsid-like structures and apparently broken capsid-remnants at the position of IN-FP signals and elongated chromatin-like structures in the position of viral cDNA punctae lacking IN-FP. Our data argue for nuclear uncoating by physical disruption rather than cooperative disassembly of the CA-lattice, followed by physical separation from the pre-integration complex.
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- Thorsten G Müller
- Department of Infectious Diseases Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases Integrative Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases Integrative Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.,German Center for Infection Research, partner site Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases Integrative Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.,German Center for Infection Research, partner site Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.,German Center for Infection Research, partner site Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Zhou Y, Peskett TR, Landles C, Warner JB, Sathasivam K, Smith EJ, Chen S, Wetzel R, Lashuel HA, Bates GP, Saibil HR. Correlative light and electron microscopy suggests that mutant huntingtin dysregulates the endolysosomal pathway in presymptomatic Huntington's disease. Acta Neuropathol Commun 2021; 9:70. [PMID: 33853668 PMCID: PMC8048291 DOI: 10.1186/s40478-021-01172-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Accepted: 03/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Huntington's disease (HD) is a late onset, inherited neurodegenerative disorder for which early pathogenic events remain poorly understood. Here we show that mutant exon 1 HTT proteins are recruited to a subset of cytoplasmic aggregates in the cell bodies of neurons in brain sections from presymptomatic HD, but not wild-type, mice. This occurred in a disease stage and polyglutamine-length dependent manner. We successfully adapted a high-resolution correlative light and electron microscopy methodology, originally developed for mammalian and yeast cells, to allow us to correlate light microscopy and electron microscopy images on the same brain section within an accuracy of 100 nm. Using this approach, we identified these recruitment sites as single membrane bound, vesicle-rich endolysosomal organelles, specifically as (1) multivesicular bodies (MVBs), or amphisomes and (2) autolysosomes or residual bodies. The organelles were often found in close-proximity to phagophore-like structures. Immunogold labeling localized mutant HTT to non-fibrillar, electron lucent structures within the lumen of these organelles. In presymptomatic HD, the recruitment organelles were predominantly MVBs/amphisomes, whereas in late-stage HD, there were more autolysosomes or residual bodies. Electron tomograms indicated the fusion of small vesicles with the vacuole within the lumen, suggesting that MVBs develop into residual bodies. We found that markers of MVB-related exocytosis were depleted in presymptomatic mice and throughout the disease course. This suggests that endolysosomal homeostasis has moved away from exocytosis toward lysosome fusion and degradation, in response to the need to clear the chronically aggregating mutant HTT protein, and that this occurs at an early stage in HD pathogenesis.
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- Ya Zhou
- Huntington’s Disease Centre, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease and UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London, WC1E 7HX UK
- Present Address: Department of Biology, Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich, Otto-Stern-Weg 3, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Huntington’s Disease Centre, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease and UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Chemical Biology of Neurodegeneration, Brain Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Huntington’s Disease Centre, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease and UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Huntington’s Disease Centre, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease and UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London, WC1E 7HX UK
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- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Chemical Biology of Neurodegeneration, Brain Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Huntington’s Disease Centre, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease and UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London, WC1E 7HX UK
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Krishnan RK, Baskar R, Anna B, Elia N, Boermel M, Bausch AR, Abdu U. Recapitulating Actin Module Organization in the Drosophila Oocyte Reveals New Roles for Bristle-Actin-Modulating Proteins. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22084006. [PMID: 33924532 PMCID: PMC8070096 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22084006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2021] [Revised: 04/05/2021] [Accepted: 04/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The generation of F-actin bundles is controlled by the action of actin-binding proteins. In Drosophila bristle development, two major actin-bundling proteins—Forked and Fascin—were identified, but still the molecular mechanism by which these actin-bundling proteins and other proteins generate bristle actin bundles is unknown. In this study, we developed a technique that allows recapitulation of bristle actin module organization using the Drosophila ovary by a combination of confocal microscopy, super-resolution structured illumination microscopy, and correlative light and electron microscope analysis. Since Forked generated a distinct ectopic network of actin bundles in the oocyte, the additive effect of two other actin-associated proteins, namely, Fascin and Javelin (Jv), was studied. We found that co-expression of Fascin and Forked demonstrated that the number of actin filaments within the actin bundles dramatically increased, and in their geometric organization, they resembled bristle-like actin bundles. On the other hand, co-expression of Jv with Forked increased the length and density of the actin bundles. When all three proteins co-expressed, the actin bundles were longer and denser, and contained a high number of actin filaments in the bundle. Thus, our results demonstrate that the Drosophila oocyte could serve as a test tube for actin bundle analysis.
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- Ramesh Kumar Krishnan
- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel; (R.K.K.); (R.B.); (B.A.); (N.E.)
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- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel; (R.K.K.); (R.B.); (B.A.); (N.E.)
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- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel; (R.K.K.); (R.B.); (B.A.); (N.E.)
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- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel; (R.K.K.); (R.B.); (B.A.); (N.E.)
- National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Electron Microscopy Core Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany;
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- Lehrstuhl für Zellbiophysik E27, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany;
- Center for Protein Assemblies (CPA), Ernst-Otto-Fischer Str. 8, 85747 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel; (R.K.K.); (R.B.); (B.A.); (N.E.)
- Correspondence:
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Baena V, Conrad R, Friday P, Fitzgerald E, Kim T, Bernbaum J, Berensmann H, Harned A, Nagashima K, Narayan K. FIB-SEM as a Volume Electron Microscopy Approach to Study Cellular Architectures in SARS-CoV-2 and Other Viral Infections: A Practical Primer for a Virologist. Viruses 2021; 13:v13040611. [PMID: 33918371 PMCID: PMC8066521 DOI: 10.3390/v13040611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2021] [Revised: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 03/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The visualization of cellular ultrastructure over a wide range of volumes is becoming possible by increasingly powerful techniques grouped under the rubric “volume electron microscopy” or volume EM (vEM). Focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM) occupies a “Goldilocks zone” in vEM: iterative and automated cycles of milling and imaging allow the interrogation of microns-thick specimens in 3-D at resolutions of tens of nanometers or less. This bestows on FIB-SEM the unique ability to aid the accurate and precise study of architectures of virus-cell interactions. Here we give the virologist or cell biologist a primer on FIB-SEM imaging in the context of vEM and discuss practical aspects of a room temperature FIB-SEM experiment. In an in vitro study of SARS-CoV-2 infection, we show that accurate quantitation of viral densities and surface curvatures enabled by FIB-SEM imaging reveals SARS-CoV-2 viruses preferentially located at areas of plasma membrane that have positive mean curvatures.
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- Valentina Baena
- Center for Molecular Microscopy, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; (V.B.); (R.C.); (P.F.); (E.F.); (T.K.); (H.B.); (A.H.); (K.N.)
- Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA
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- Center for Molecular Microscopy, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; (V.B.); (R.C.); (P.F.); (E.F.); (T.K.); (H.B.); (A.H.); (K.N.)
- Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA
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- Center for Molecular Microscopy, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; (V.B.); (R.C.); (P.F.); (E.F.); (T.K.); (H.B.); (A.H.); (K.N.)
- Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA
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- Center for Molecular Microscopy, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; (V.B.); (R.C.); (P.F.); (E.F.); (T.K.); (H.B.); (A.H.); (K.N.)
- Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA
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- Center for Molecular Microscopy, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; (V.B.); (R.C.); (P.F.); (E.F.); (T.K.); (H.B.); (A.H.); (K.N.)
- Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Division of Clinical Research, Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF-Frederick), Frederick, MD 21702, USA;
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- Center for Molecular Microscopy, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; (V.B.); (R.C.); (P.F.); (E.F.); (T.K.); (H.B.); (A.H.); (K.N.)
- Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA
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- Center for Molecular Microscopy, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; (V.B.); (R.C.); (P.F.); (E.F.); (T.K.); (H.B.); (A.H.); (K.N.)
- Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA
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- Center for Molecular Microscopy, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; (V.B.); (R.C.); (P.F.); (E.F.); (T.K.); (H.B.); (A.H.); (K.N.)
- Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA
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- Center for Molecular Microscopy, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; (V.B.); (R.C.); (P.F.); (E.F.); (T.K.); (H.B.); (A.H.); (K.N.)
- Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA
- Correspondence:
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Lane R, Vos Y, Wolters AHG, Kessel LV, Chen SE, Liv N, Klumperman J, Giepmans BNG, Hoogenboom JP. Optimization of negative stage bias potential for faster imaging in large-scale electron microscopy. JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY-X 2021; 5:100046. [PMID: 33763642 PMCID: PMC7973379 DOI: 10.1016/j.yjsbx.2021.100046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2020] [Revised: 12/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The use of a negative bias potential was empirically optimized for tissue imaging with SEM. Optimized bias potential leads to a factor 20 increase in imaging speeds as well as an order of magnitude improvement to SNR. SNR increase results from a combination of BSE acceleration and detector response. Similar increases to SNR can be obtained when a magnetic immersion field is combined with a negative bias potential. Stage bias can be applied within an integrated fluorescence and electron microscope allowing for fast correlative imaging of tissue sections.
Large-scale electron microscopy (EM) allows analysis of both tissues and macromolecules in a semi-automated manner, but acquisition rate forms a bottleneck. We reasoned that a negative bias potential may be used to enhance signal collection, allowing shorter dwell times and thus increasing imaging speed. Negative bias potential has previously been used to tune penetration depth in block-face imaging. However, optimization of negative bias potential for application in thin section imaging will be needed prior to routine use and application in large-scale EM. Here, we present negative bias potential optimized through a combination of simulations and empirical measurements. We find that the use of a negative bias potential generally results in improvement of image quality and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The extent of these improvements depends on the presence and strength of a magnetic immersion field. Maintaining other imaging conditions and aiming for the same image quality and SNR, the use of a negative stage bias can allow for a 20-fold decrease in dwell time, thus reducing the time for a week long acquisition to less than 8 h. We further show that negative bias potential can be applied in an integrated correlative light electron microscopy (CLEM) application, allowing fast acquisition of a high precision overlaid LM-EM dataset. Application of negative stage bias potential will thus help to solve the current bottleneck of image acquisition of large fields of view at high resolution in large-scale microscopy.
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- Ryan Lane
- Imaging Physics, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
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- Imaging Physics, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Imaging Physics, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
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- Cell Biology, Center for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Cell Biology, Center for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Cell Biology, Center for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
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Gomez-Navarro N, Melero A, Li XH, Boulanger J, Kukulski W, Miller EA. Cargo crowding contributes to sorting stringency in COPII vesicles. J Cell Biol 2021; 219:151777. [PMID: 32406500 PMCID: PMC7300426 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201806038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2018] [Revised: 03/11/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Accurate maintenance of organelle identity in the secretory pathway relies on retention and retrieval of resident proteins. In the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), secretory proteins are packaged into COPII vesicles that largely exclude ER residents and misfolded proteins by mechanisms that remain unresolved. Here we combined biochemistry and genetics with correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) to explore how selectivity is achieved. Our data suggest that vesicle occupancy contributes to ER retention: in the absence of abundant cargo, nonspecific bulk flow increases. We demonstrate that ER leakage is influenced by vesicle size and cargo occupancy: overexpressing an inert cargo protein or reducing vesicle size restores sorting stringency. We propose that cargo recruitment into vesicles creates a crowded lumen that drives selectivity. Retention of ER residents thus derives in part from the biophysical process of cargo enrichment into a constrained spherical membrane-bound carrier.
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- Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
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- Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
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- Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
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- Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
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Find your coat: Using correlative light and electron microscopy to study intracellular protein coats. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2021; 71:21-28. [PMID: 33684808 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2021.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2020] [Revised: 01/27/2021] [Accepted: 01/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Protein coats, important for vesicular trafficking in eukaryotic cells, help shape membranes and package cargo. But their dynamic construction cannot be fully understood until the distinct steps of their assembly in their native intracellular context at molecular resolution can be visualized. For this, correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) is an essential tool. Here, we discuss how emerging CLEM techniques have been used to study the assembly of protein coats inside cells. We review how current and developing CLEM technologies are poised to answer fundamental questions of protein coat architecture at the nanoscale.
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Tanner H, Hodgson L, Mantell J, Verkade P. Fluorescent platinum nanoclusters as correlative light electron microscopy probes. Methods Cell Biol 2021; 162:39-68. [PMID: 33707021 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2020.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Correlative Imaging (CI) visualizes a single sample/region of interest with two or more imaging modalities. The technique seeks to elucidate information that may not be discernible by using either of the constituent techniques in isolation. Correlative Light Electron Microscopy (CLEM) can be employed to streamline workflows, i.e., using fluorescent signals in the light microscope (LM) to inform the user of regions which should be imaged with electron microscopy (EM). The efficacy of correlative techniques requires high spatial resolution of signals from both imaging modalities. Ideally, a single point should originate from both the fluorescence and electron density. However, many of the ubiquitously used probes have a significant distance between their fluorescence and electron dense portions. Furthermore, electron dense metal nanoparticles used for EM visualization readily quench any proximal adjacent fluorophores. Therefore, accurate registration of both signals becomes difficult. Here we describe fluorescent nanoclusters in the context of a CLEM probe as they are composed of several atoms of a noble metal, in this case platinum, providing electron density. In addition, their structure confers them with fluorescence via a mechanism analogous to quantum dots. The electron dense core gives rise to the fluorescence which enables highly accurate signal registration between epifluorescence and electron imaging modalities. We provide a protocol for the synthesis of the nanoclusters with some additional techniques for their characterization and finally show how they can be used in a CLEM set up.
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- Hugh Tanner
- School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Biomedical Sciences Building, University Walk, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Biomedical Sciences Building, University Walk, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Biomedical Sciences Building, University Walk, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Biomedical Sciences Building, University Walk, Bristol, United Kingdom.
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Yang JE, Larson MR, Sibert BS, Shrum S, Wright ER. CorRelator: Interactive software for real-time high precision cryo-correlative light and electron microscopy. J Struct Biol 2021; 213:107709. [PMID: 33610654 PMCID: PMC8601405 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2021.107709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2020] [Revised: 01/06/2021] [Accepted: 02/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Cryo-correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) is a technique that uses the spatiotemporal cues from fluorescence light microscopy (FLM) to investigate the high-resolution ultrastructure of biological samples by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Cryo-CLEM provides advantages for identifying and distinguishing fluorescently labeled proteins, macromolecular complexes, and organelles from the cellular environment. Challenges remain on how correlation workflows and software tools are implemented on different microscope platforms to support automated cryo-EM data acquisition. Here, we present CorRelator: an open-source desktop application that bridges between cryo-FLM and real-time cryo-EM/ET automated data collection. CorRelator implements a pixel-coordinate-to-stage-position transformation for flexible, high accuracy on-the-fly and post-acquisition correlation. CorRelator can be integrated into cryo-CLEM workflows and easily adapted to standard fluorescence and transmission electron microscope (TEM) system configurations. CorRelator was benchmarked under live-cell and cryogenic conditions using several FLM and TEM instruments, demonstrating that CorRelator reliably supports real-time, automated correlative cryo-EM/ET acquisition, through a combination of software-aided and interactive alignment. CorRelator is a cross-platform software package featuring an intuitive Graphical User Interface (GUI) that guides the user through the correlation process. CorRelator source code is available at: https://github.com/wright-cemrc-projects/corr.
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- Jie E Yang
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, United States; Cryo-Electron Microscopy Research Center, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, United States; Midwest Center for Cryo-Electron Tomography, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, United States; Cryo-Electron Microscopy Research Center, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, United States; Midwest Center for Cryo-Electron Tomography, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, United States; Cryo-Electron Microscopy Research Center, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, United States; Midwest Center for Cryo-Electron Tomography, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, United States
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- Biophysics Graduate Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, United States; Cryo-Electron Microscopy Research Center, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, United States; Biophysics Graduate Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, United States; Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, WI, 53715, United States; Midwest Center for Cryo-Electron Tomography, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, United States.
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Zila V, Margiotta E, Turoňová B, Müller TG, Zimmerli CE, Mattei S, Allegretti M, Börner K, Rada J, Müller B, Lusic M, Kräusslich HG, Beck M. Cone-shaped HIV-1 capsids are transported through intact nuclear pores. Cell 2021; 184:1032-1046.e18. [PMID: 33571428 PMCID: PMC7895898 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.01.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 55.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2020] [Revised: 11/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) remains a major health threat. Viral capsid uncoating and nuclear import of the viral genome are critical for productive infection. The size of the HIV-1 capsid is generally believed to exceed the diameter of the nuclear pore complex (NPC), indicating that capsid uncoating has to occur prior to nuclear import. Here, we combined correlative light and electron microscopy with subtomogram averaging to capture the structural status of reverse transcription-competent HIV-1 complexes in infected T cells. We demonstrated that the diameter of the NPC in cellulo is sufficient for the import of apparently intact, cone-shaped capsids. Subsequent to nuclear import, we detected disrupted and empty capsid fragments, indicating that uncoating of the replication complex occurs by breaking the capsid open, and not by disassembly into individual subunits. Our data directly visualize a key step in HIV-1 replication and enhance our mechanistic understanding of the viral life cycle.
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- Vojtech Zila
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Virology, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany; Collaboration for joint PhD degree between EMBL and Heidelberg University, Faculty of Biosciences, Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Virology, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland; European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Imaging Center, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Virology, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; German Center for Infection Research, partner site Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Virology, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Virology, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Virology, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; German Center for Infection Research, partner site Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Virology, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; German Center for Infection Research, partner site Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany; Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Department of Molecular Sociology, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany.
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Heiligenstein X, de Beer M, Heiligenstein J, Eyraud F, Manet L, Schmitt F, Lamers E, Lindenau J, Kea-Te Lindert M, Salamero J, Raposo G, Sommerdijk N, Belle M, Akiva A. HPM live μ for a full CLEM workflow. Methods Cell Biol 2021; 162:115-149. [PMID: 33707009 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2020.10.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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With the development of advanced imaging methods that took place in the last decade, the spatial correlation of microscopic and spectroscopic information-known as multimodal imaging or correlative microscopy (CM)-has become a broadly applied technique to explore biological and biomedical materials at different length scales. Among the many different combinations of techniques, Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM) has become the flagship of this revolution. Where light (mainly fluorescence) microscopy can be used directly for the live imaging of cells and tissues, for almost all applications, electron microscopy (EM) requires fixation of the biological materials. Although sample preparation for EM is traditionally done by chemical fixation and embedding in a resin, rapid cryogenic fixation (vitrification) has become a popular way to avoid the formation of artifacts related to the chemical fixation/embedding procedures. During vitrification, the water in the sample transforms into an amorphous ice, keeping the ultrastructure of the biological sample as close as possible to the native state. One immediate benefit of this cryo-arrest is the preservation of protein fluorescence, allowing multi-step multi-modal imaging techniques for CLEM. To minimize the delay separating live imaging from cryo-arrest, we developed a high-pressure freezing (HPF) system directly coupled to a light microscope. We address the optimization of sample preservation and the time needed to capture a biological event, going from live imaging to cryo-arrest using HPF. To further explore the potential of cryo-fixation related to the forthcoming transition from imaging 2D (cell monolayers) to imaging 3D samples (tissue) and the associated importance of homogeneous deep vitrification, the HPF core technology has been revisited to allow easy modification of the environmental parameters during vitrification. Lastly, we will discuss the potential of our HPM within CLEM protocols especially for correlating live imaging using the Zeiss LSM900 with electron microscopy.
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- Electron Microscopy Center, Radboudumc Technology Center Microscopy, Radboud Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Department of Cell Biology, Radboud Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Department of Biochemistry, Radboud Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Electron Microscopy Center, Radboudumc Technology Center Microscopy, Radboud Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Department of Cell Biology, Radboud Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- SERPICO Inria Team/UMR 144 CNRS & National Biology and Health Infrastructure "France Bioimaging", Institut Curie, Paris, France
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- Institut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS, UMR144, Cell and Tissue Imaging Facility (PICT-IBiSA), Paris, France; Institut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS, UMR144, Structure and Membrane Compartments, Paris, France
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- Electron Microscopy Center, Radboudumc Technology Center Microscopy, Radboud Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Department of Biochemistry, Radboud Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Electron Microscopy Center, Radboudumc Technology Center Microscopy, Radboud Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Department of Cell Biology, Radboud Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Ulyanov EV, Vinogradov DS, McIntosh JR, Gudimchuk NB. Brownian dynamics simulation of protofilament relaxation during rapid freezing. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0247022. [PMID: 33577570 PMCID: PMC7880439 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2020] [Accepted: 01/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Electron cryo-microscopy (Cryo-EM) is a powerful method for visualizing biological objects with up to near-angstrom resolution. Instead of chemical fixation, the method relies on very rapid freezing to immobilize the sample. Under these conditions, crystalline ice does not have time to form and distort structure. For many practical applications, the rate of cooling is fast enough to consider sample immobilization instantaneous, but in some cases, a more rigorous analysis of structure relaxation during freezing could be essential. This difficult yet important problem has been significantly under-reported in the literature, despite spectacular recent developments in Cryo-EM. Here we use Brownian dynamics modeling to examine theoretically the possible effects of cryo-immobilization on the apparent shapes of biological polymers. The main focus of our study is on tubulin protofilaments. These structures are integral parts of microtubules, which in turn are key elements of the cellular skeleton, essential for intracellular transport, maintenance of cell shape, cell division and migration. We theoretically examine the extent of protofilament relaxation within the freezing time as a function of the cooling rate, the filament's flexural rigidity, and the effect of cooling on water's viscosity. Our modeling suggests that practically achievable cooling rates are not rapid enough to capture tubulin protofilaments in conformations that are incompletely relaxed, suggesting that structures seen by cryo-EM are good approximations to physiological shapes. This prediction is confirmed by our analysis of curvatures of tubulin protofilaments, using samples, prepared and visualized with a variety of methods. We find, however, that cryofixation may capture incompletely relaxed shapes of more flexible polymers, and it may affect Cryo-EM-based measurements of their persistence lengths. This analysis will be valuable for understanding of structures of different types of biopolymers, observed with Cryo-EM.
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- Evgeniy V. Ulyanov
- Department of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of MCD Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- Department of MCD Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States of America
- Dmitry Rogachev National Medical Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, Moscow, Russia
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Post-correlation on-lamella cryo-CLEM reveals the membrane architecture of lamellar bodies. Commun Biol 2021; 4:137. [PMID: 33514845 PMCID: PMC7846596 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-01567-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2020] [Accepted: 12/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Lamellar bodies (LBs) are surfactant-rich organelles in alveolar cells. LBs disassemble into a lipid-protein network that reduces surface tension and facilitates gas exchange in the alveolar cavity. Current knowledge of LB architecture is predominantly based on electron microscopy studies using disruptive sample preparation methods. We established and validated a post-correlation on-lamella cryo-correlative light and electron microscopy approach for cryo-FIB milled cells to structurally characterize and validate the identity of LBs in their unperturbed state. Using deconvolution and 3D image registration, we were able to identify fluorescently labeled membrane structures analyzed by cryo-electron tomography. In situ cryo-electron tomography of A549 cells as well as primary Human Small Airway Epithelial Cells revealed that LBs are composed of membrane sheets frequently attached to the limiting membrane through “T”-junctions. We report a so far undescribed outer membrane dome protein complex (OMDP) on the limiting membrane of LBs. Our data suggest that LB biogenesis is driven by parallel membrane sheet import and by the curvature of the limiting membrane to maximize lipid storage capacity. Using the post-correlation on-lamella cryo-CLEM workflow, Klein, Wimmer et al. show that lamellar bodies (LBs) are composed of membrane sheets frequently attached to the limiting membrane through T-junctions in ABCA3 overexpressing cells and in primary human small airway epithelial cells. This study provides insights into LB biogenesis and membrane packing inside the LB.
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Shewring JR, Hodgson L, Bryant HL, Bullough PA, Weinstein JA, Verkade P. Refining a correlative light electron microscopy workflow using luminescent metal complexes. Methods Cell Biol 2021; 162:69-87. [PMID: 33707023 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2020.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The potential for increasing the application of Correlative Light Electron Microscopy (CLEM) technologies in life science research is hindered by the lack of suitable molecular probes that are emissive, photostable, and scatter electrons well. Most brightly fluorescent organic molecules are intrinsically poor electron-scatterers, while multi-metallic compounds scatter electrons well but are usually non-luminescent. Thus, the goal of CLEM to image the same object of interest on the continuous scale from hundreds of microns to nanometers remains a major challenge partially due to requirements for a single probe to be suitable for light (LM) and electron microscopy (EM). Some of the main CLEM probes, based on gold nanoparticles appended with fluorophores and quantum dots (QD) have presented significant drawbacks. Here we present an Iridium-based luminescent metal complex (Ir complex 1) as a probe and describe how we have developed a CLEM workflow based on such metal complexes.
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- School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Biomedical Sciences Building, University Walk, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Biomedical Sciences Building, University Walk, Bristol, United Kingdom.
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Oorschot V, Lindsey BW, Kaslin J, Ramm G. TEM, SEM, and STEM-based immuno-CLEM workflows offer complementary advantages. Sci Rep 2021; 11:899. [PMID: 33441723 PMCID: PMC7806999 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-79637-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Identifying endogenous tissue stem cells remains a key challenge in developmental and regenerative biology. To distinguish and molecularly characterise stem cell populations in large heterogeneous tissues, the combination of cytochemical cell markers with ultrastructural morphology is highly beneficial. Here, we realise this through workflows of multi-resolution immuno-correlative light and electron microscopy (iCLEM) methodologies. Taking advantage of the antigenicity preservation of the Tokuyasu technique, we have established robust protocols and workflows and provide a side-by-side comparison of iCLEM used in combination with scanning EM (SEM), scanning TEM (STEM), or transmission EM (TEM). Evaluation of the applications and advantages of each method highlights their practicality for the identification, quantification, and characterization of heterogeneous cell populations in small organisms, organs, or tissues in healthy and diseased states. The iCLEM techniques are broadly applicable and can use either genetically encoded or cytochemical markers on plant, animal and human tissues. We demonstrate how these protocols are particularly suited for investigating neural stem and progenitor cell populations of the vertebrate nervous system.
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- Viola Oorschot
- Ramaciotti Centre for Cryo EM, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Electron Microscopy Core Facility, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia
- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, R3E 0J9, Canada
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- Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.
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- Ramaciotti Centre for Cryo EM, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.
- Department of Biochemistry, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.
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Prabhakar N, Peurla M, Shenderova O, Rosenholm JM. Fluorescent and Electron-Dense Green Color Emitting Nanodiamonds for Single-Cell Correlative Microscopy. Molecules 2020; 25:E5897. [PMID: 33322105 PMCID: PMC7764487 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25245897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2020] [Revised: 12/07/2020] [Accepted: 12/12/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) is revolutionizing how cell samples are studied. CLEM provides a combination of the molecular and ultrastructural information about a cell. For the execution of CLEM experiments, multimodal fiducial landmarks are applied to precisely overlay light and electron microscopy images. Currently applied fiducials such as quantum dots and organic dye-labeled nanoparticles can be irreversibly quenched by electron beam exposure during electron microscopy. Generally, the sample is therefore investigated with a light microscope first and later with an electron microscope. A versatile fiducial landmark should offer to switch back from electron microscopy to light microscopy while preserving its fluorescent properties. Here, we evaluated green fluorescent and electron dense nanodiamonds for the execution of CLEM experiments and precisely correlated light microscopy and electron microscopy images. We demonstrated that green color emitting fluorescent nanodiamonds withstand electron beam exposure, harsh chemical treatments, heavy metal straining, and, importantly, their fluorescent properties remained intact for light microscopy.
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- Neeraj Prabhakar
- Pharmaceutical Sciences Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, 20520 Turku, Finland;
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- Institute of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, 20520 Turku, Finland;
- Cancer Research Laboratory FICAN West, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, 20520 Turku, Finland
- Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, 20520 Turku, Finland
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- Adámas Nanotechnologies, Inc., 8100 Brownleigh Drive, Suite 120, Raleigh, NC 27617, USA;
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, 20520 Turku, Finland;
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Photonic-chip assisted correlative light and electron microscopy. Commun Biol 2020; 3:739. [PMID: 33288833 PMCID: PMC7721707 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-01473-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2020] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) unifies the versatility of light microscopy (LM) with the high resolution of electron microscopy (EM), allowing one to zoom into the complex organization of cells. Here, we introduce photonic chip assisted CLEM, enabling multi-modal total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy over large field of view and high precision localization of the target area of interest within EM. The photonic chips are used as a substrate to hold, to illuminate and to provide landmarking of the sample through specially designed grid-like numbering systems. Using this approach, we demonstrate its applicability for tracking the area of interest, imaging the three-dimensional (3D) structural organization of nano-sized morphological features on liver sinusoidal endothelial cells such as fenestrations (trans-cytoplasmic nanopores), and correlating specific endo-lysosomal compartments with its cargo protein upon endocytosis. Tinguely et al. develop a photonic chip-based correlative light-electron microscopy system to generate co-registered multi-modal total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRF) and electron microscopy (EM) images of biological samples at nanometer scale.
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Shin JJH, Crook OM, Borgeaud AC, Cattin-Ortolá J, Peak-Chew SY, Breckels LM, Gillingham AK, Chadwick J, Lilley KS, Munro S. Spatial proteomics defines the content of trafficking vesicles captured by golgin tethers. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5987. [PMID: 33239640 PMCID: PMC7689464 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19840-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2020] [Accepted: 10/27/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Intracellular traffic between compartments of the secretory and endocytic pathways is mediated by vesicle-based carriers. The proteomes of carriers destined for many organelles are ill-defined because the vesicular intermediates are transient, low-abundance and difficult to purify. Here, we combine vesicle relocalisation with organelle proteomics and Bayesian analysis to define the content of different endosome-derived vesicles destined for the trans-Golgi network (TGN). The golgin coiled-coil proteins golgin-97 and GCC88, shown previously to capture endosome-derived vesicles at the TGN, were individually relocalised to mitochondria and the content of the subsequently re-routed vesicles was determined by organelle proteomics. Our findings reveal 45 integral and 51 peripheral membrane proteins re-routed by golgin-97, evidence for a distinct class of vesicles shared by golgin-97 and GCC88, and various cargoes specific to individual golgins. These results illustrate a general strategy for analysing intracellular sub-proteomes by combining acute cellular re-wiring with high-resolution spatial proteomics.
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- John J H Shin
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK.
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- The Milner Therapeutics Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0AW, UK
- Cambridge Centre for Proteomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QR, UK
- MRC Biostatistics Unit, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0SR, UK
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK
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- Cambridge Centre for Proteomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QR, UK
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK
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- The Milner Therapeutics Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0AW, UK
- Cambridge Centre for Proteomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QR, UK
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK.
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Bayguinov PO, Fisher MR, Fitzpatrick JAJ. Assaying three-dimensional cellular architecture using X-ray tomographic and correlated imaging approaches. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:15782-15793. [PMID: 32938716 PMCID: PMC7667966 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.rev120.009633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Revised: 09/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Much of our understanding of the spatial organization of and interactions between cellular organelles and macromolecular complexes has been the result of imaging studies utilizing either light- or electron-based microscopic analyses. These classical approaches, while insightful, are nonetheless limited either by restrictions in resolution or by the sheer complexity of generating multidimensional data. Recent advances in the use and application of X-rays to acquire micro- and nanotomographic data sets offer an alternative methodology to visualize cellular architecture at the nanoscale. These new approaches allow for the subcellular analyses of unstained vitrified cells and three-dimensional localization of specific protein targets and have served as an essential tool in bridging light and electron correlative microscopy experiments. Here, we review the theory, instrumentation details, acquisition principles, and applications of both soft X-ray tomography and X-ray microscopy and how the use of these techniques offers a succinct means of analyzing three-dimensional cellular architecture. We discuss some of the recent work that has taken advantage of these approaches and detail how they have become integral in correlative microscopy workflows.
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- Peter O Bayguinov
- Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; Departments of Cell Biology and Physiology and Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.
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Chang IY, Rahman M, Harned A, Cohen-Fix O, Narayan K. Cryo-fluorescence microscopy of high-pressure frozen C. elegans enables correlative FIB-SEM imaging of targeted embryonic stages in the intact worm. Methods Cell Biol 2020; 162:223-252. [PMID: 33707014 PMCID: PMC9472676 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2020.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Rapidly changing features in an intact biological sample are challenging to efficiently trap and image by conventional electron microscopy (EM). For example, the model organism C. elegans is widely used to study embryonic development and differentiation, yet the fast kinetics of cell division makes the targeting of specific developmental stages for ultrastructural study difficult. We set out to image the condensed metaphase chromosomes of an early embryo in the intact worm in 3-D. To achieve this, one must capture this transient structure, then locate and subsequently image the corresponding volume by EM in the appropriate context of the organism, all while minimizing a variety of artifacts. In this methodological advance, we report on the high-pressure freezing of spatially constrained whole C. elegans hermaphrodites in a combination of cryoprotectants to identify embryonic cells in metaphase by in situ cryo-fluorescence microscopy. The screened worms were then freeze substituted, resin embedded and further prepared such that the targeted cells were successfully located and imaged by focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM). We reconstructed the targeted metaphase structure and also correlated an intriguing punctate fluorescence signal to a H2B-enriched putative polar body autophagosome in an adjacent cell undergoing telophase. By enabling cryo-fluorescence microscopy of thick samples, our workflow can thus be used to trap and image transient structures in C. elegans or similar organisms in a near-native state, and then reconstruct their corresponding cellular architectures at high resolution and in 3-D by correlative volume EM.
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- Irene Y Chang
- Center for Molecular Microscopy, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, United States; Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, United States
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- The Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Center for Molecular Microscopy, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, United States; Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, United States
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- The Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Center for Molecular Microscopy, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, United States; Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, United States.
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Buerger K, Schmidt KN, Fokkema J, Gerritsen HC, Maier O, de Vries U, Zaytseva Y, Rachel R, Witzgall R. On-section correlative light and electron microscopy of large cellular volumes using STEM tomography. Methods Cell Biol 2020; 162:171-203. [PMID: 33707012 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2020.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The application of both fluorescence and electron microscopy results in a powerful combination of imaging modalities called "correlative light and electron microscopy" (CLEM). Whereas conventional transmission electron microscopy (TEM) tomography is only able to image sections up to a thickness of ~300nm, scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) tomography at 200kV allows the analysis of sections up to a thickness of 900nm in three dimensions. In the current study we have successfully integrated STEM tomography into CLEM as demonstrated for human retinal pigment epithelial 1 (RPE1) cells expressing various fluorescent fusion proteins which were high-pressure frozen and then embedded in Lowicryl HM20. Fluorescently labeled gold nanoparticles were applied onto resin sections and imaged by fluorescence and electron microscopy. STEM tomograms were recorded at regions of interest, and overlays were generated using the eC-CLEM software package. Through the nuclear staining of living cells, the use of fluorescently labeled gold fiducials for the generation of overlays, and the integration of STEM tomography we have markedly extended the application of the Kukulski protocol (Kukulski et al., 2011, 2012). Various fluorescently tagged proteins localizing to different cellular organelles could be assigned to their ultrastructural compartments. By combining STEM tomography with on-section CLEM, fluorescently tagged proteins can be localized in three-dimensional ultrastructural environments with a volume of at least 2.7×2.7×0.5μm.
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- Korbinian Buerger
- Institute for Molecular and Cellular Anatomy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
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- Institute for Molecular and Cellular Anatomy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Molecular Biophysics, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Molecular Biophysics, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Molecular and Cellular Anatomy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular and Cellular Anatomy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular and Cellular Anatomy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Center for Electron Microscopy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular and Cellular Anatomy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
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Naya M, Sato C. Pyrene Excimer-Based Fluorescent Labeling of Cysteines Brought into Close Proximity by Protein Dynamics: ASEM-Induced Thiol-Ene Click Reaction for High Spatial Resolution CLEM. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:E7550. [PMID: 33066147 PMCID: PMC7589919 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21207550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2020] [Revised: 10/02/2020] [Accepted: 10/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Fluorescence microscopy (FM) has revealed vital molecular mechanisms of life. Mainly, molecules labeled by fluorescent probes are imaged. However, the diversity of labeling probes and their functions remain limited. We synthesized a pyrene-based fluorescent probe targeting SH groups, which are important for protein folding and oxidative stress sensing in cells. The labeling achieved employs thiol-ene click reactions between the probes and SH groups and is triggered by irradiation by UV light or an electron beam. When two tagged pyrene groups were close enough to be excited as a dimer (excimer), they showed red-shifted fluorescence; theoretically, the proximity of two SH residues within ~30 Å can thus be monitored. Moreover, correlative light/electron microscopy (CLEM) was achieved using our atmospheric scanning electron microscope (ASEM); radicals formed in liquid by the electron beam caused the thiol-ene click reactions, and excimer fluorescence of the labeled proteins in cells and tissues was visualized by FM. Since the fluorescent labeling is induced by a narrow electron beam, high spatial resolution labeling is expected. The method can be widely applied to biological fields, for example, to study protein dynamics with or without cysteine mutagenesis, and to beam-induced micro-fabrication and the precise post-modification of materials.
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- Masami Naya
- Health and Medical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8566, Japan;
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- Health and Medical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8566, Japan;
- Master’s and Doctoral Programs in Neuroscience, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8574, Japan
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Gorelick S, Dierickx DA, Buckley G, Whisstock JC, De Marco A. Assembly and Imaging set up of PIE-Scope. Bio Protoc 2020; 10:e3768. [PMID: 33659426 DOI: 10.21769/bioprotoc.3768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2020] [Revised: 07/08/2020] [Accepted: 08/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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Cryo-Electron Tomography (cryo-ET) is a method that enables resolving the structure of macromolecular complexes directly in the cellular environment. However, sample preparation for in situ Cryo-ET is labour-intensive and can require both cryo-lamella preparation through cryo-Focused Ion Beam (FIB) milling and correlative light microscopy to ensure that the event of interest is present in the lamella. Here, we present an integrated cryo-FIB and light microscope setup called the Photon Ion Electron microscope (PIE-scope) that enables direct and rapid isolation of cellular regions containing protein complexes of interest. The PIE-scope can be retrofitted on existing microscopes, although the drawings we provide are meant to work on ThermoFisher DualBeams with small mechanical modifications those can be adapted on other brands.
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- Sergey Gorelick
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, Clayton, Australia.,Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, Clayton, Australia.,Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, Clayton, Australia.,Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, Clayton, Australia.,Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton Australia.,EMBL Australia, Monash University Clayton, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, Clayton, Australia.,Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton Australia
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Mouton SN, Thaller DJ, Crane MM, Rempel IL, Terpstra OT, Steen A, Kaeberlein M, Lusk CP, Boersma AJ, Veenhoff LM. A physicochemical perspective of aging from single-cell analysis of pH, macromolecular and organellar crowding in yeast. eLife 2020; 9:e54707. [PMID: 32990592 PMCID: PMC7556870 DOI: 10.7554/elife.54707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2019] [Accepted: 09/28/2020] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Cellular aging is a multifactorial process that is characterized by a decline in homeostatic capacity, best described at the molecular level. Physicochemical properties such as pH and macromolecular crowding are essential to all molecular processes in cells and require maintenance. Whether a drift in physicochemical properties contributes to the overall decline of homeostasis in aging is not known. Here, we show that the cytosol of yeast cells acidifies modestly in early aging and sharply after senescence. Using a macromolecular crowding sensor optimized for long-term FRET measurements, we show that crowding is rather stable and that the stability of crowding is a stronger predictor for lifespan than the absolute crowding levels. Additionally, in aged cells, we observe drastic changes in organellar volume, leading to crowding on the micrometer scale, which we term organellar crowding. Our measurements provide an initial framework of physicochemical parameters of replicatively aged yeast cells.
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- Sara N Mouton
- European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, University of Groningen, University Medical Center GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of MedicineNew HavenUnited States
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of WashingtonSeattleUnited States
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- European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, University of Groningen, University Medical Center GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, University of Groningen, University Medical Center GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, University of Groningen, University Medical Center GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of WashingtonSeattleUnited States
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- Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of MedicineNew HavenUnited States
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- European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, University of Groningen, University Medical Center GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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Correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) combines the strengths of light microscopy (LM) and electron microscopy (EM) to pin-point and visualize cellular or macromolecular structures. However, there are many different imaging modalities that can be combined in a CLEM workflow, creating a vast number of combinations that can overwhelm new-comers to the field. Here, we offer a conceptual framework to help guide the decision-making process for choosing the CLEM workflow that can best address your research question, based on the answer to five questions.
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Paul DM, Mantell J, Borucu U, Coombs J, Surridge KJ, Squire JM, Verkade P, Dodding MP. In situ cryo-electron tomography reveals filamentous actin within the microtubule lumen. J Cell Biol 2020; 219:e201911154. [PMID: 32478855 PMCID: PMC7480112 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201911154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2019] [Revised: 03/16/2020] [Accepted: 05/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Microtubules and filamentous (F-) actin engage in complex interactions to drive many cellular processes from subcellular organization to cell division and migration. This is thought to be largely controlled by proteins that interface between the two structurally distinct cytoskeletal components. Here, we use cryo-electron tomography to demonstrate that the microtubule lumen can be occupied by extended segments of F-actin in small molecule-induced, microtubule-based, cellular projections. We uncover an unexpected versatility in cytoskeletal form that may prompt a significant development of our current models of cellular architecture and offer a new experimental approach for the in situ study of microtubule structure and contents.
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- Danielle M. Paul
- School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- School of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- GW4 Facility for High-Resolution Electron Cryo-Microscopy, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- School of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- School of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- School of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Allegretti M, Zimmerli CE, Rantos V, Wilfling F, Ronchi P, Fung HKH, Lee CW, Hagen W, Turoňová B, Karius K, Börmel M, Zhang X, Müller CW, Schwab Y, Mahamid J, Pfander B, Kosinski J, Beck M. In-cell architecture of the nuclear pore and snapshots of its turnover. Nature 2020; 586:796-800. [PMID: 32879490 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2670-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2019] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) fuse the inner and outer membranes of the nuclear envelope. They comprise hundreds of nucleoporins (Nups) that assemble into multiple subcomplexes and form large central channels for nucleocytoplasmic exchange1,2. How this architecture facilitates messenger RNA export, NPC biogenesis and turnover remains poorly understood. Here we combine in situ structural biology and integrative modelling with correlative light and electron microscopy and molecular perturbation to structurally analyse NPCs in intact Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells within the context of nuclear envelope remodelling. We find an in situ conformation and configuration of the Nup subcomplexes that was unexpected from the results of previous in vitro analyses. The configuration of the Nup159 complex appears critical to spatially accommodate its function as an mRNA export platform, and as a mediator of NPC turnover. The omega-shaped nuclear envelope herniae that accumulate in nup116Δ cells3 conceal partially assembled NPCs lacking multiple subcomplexes, including the Nup159 complex. Under conditions of starvation, herniae of a second type are formed that cytoplasmically expose NPCs. These results point to a model of NPC turnover in which NPC-containing vesicles bud off from the nuclear envelope before degradation by the autophagy machinery. Our study emphasizes the importance of investigating the structure-function relationship of macromolecular complexes in their cellular context.
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- Matteo Allegretti
- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.,Collaboration for joint PhD degree between EMBL and Heidelberg University, Faculty of Biosciences, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), DESY and European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg, Germany
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- Electron Microscopy Core Facility (EMCF), European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), DESY and European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg, Germany
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- Electron Microscopy Core Facility (EMCF), European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Electron Microscopy Core Facility (EMCF), European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.,Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.,Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany.
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany. .,Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), DESY and European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg, Germany.
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany. .,Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany. .,Department of Molecular Sociology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany.
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An accelerated procedure for approaching and imaging of optically branded region of interest in tissue. Methods Cell Biol 2020; 162:205-221. [PMID: 33707013 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2020.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Many areas of biology have benefited from advances in light microscopy (LM). However, one limitation of the LM approach is that numerous critically important aspects of subcellular machineries are well beyond the resolution of conventional LM. For studying these, electron microscopy (EM) remains the technique of choice to visualize and identify macromolecules at the ultrastructural level. The most powerful approach is combining both techniques, LM and EM (i.e., to apply correlative light/electron microscopy, CLEM) to image exactly the same region of interest. This combination allows, for example, to immuno-localize proteins by LM and then to visualize the ultrastructural context of the same region of the sample. However, the identification and correlation of the regions of interest (ROIs) at the levels of LM and EM remains a major challenge, mostly due to the difficulties with correlation along the Z-axis for both modalities. In this chapter, we address this difficulty and describe an approach for performing CLEM in tissue samples using marks from near-infrared branding as indicators of a ROI, and then using serial block face-scanning electron microscopy (SBF-SEM) to identify and approach this ROI. Once a ROI has been approached, serial sections are collected on grids for high-resolution imaging by transmission EM, and subsequent correlation with LM images showing labeled proteins.
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Gudimchuk NB, Ulyanov EV, O'Toole E, Page CL, Vinogradov DS, Morgan G, Li G, Moore JK, Szczesna E, Roll-Mecak A, Ataullakhanov FI, Richard McIntosh J. Mechanisms of microtubule dynamics and force generation examined with computational modeling and electron cryotomography. Nat Commun 2020; 11:3765. [PMID: 32724196 PMCID: PMC7387542 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17553-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2020] [Accepted: 07/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Microtubules are dynamic tubulin polymers responsible for many cellular processes, including the capture and segregation of chromosomes during mitosis. In contrast to textbook models of tubulin self-assembly, we have recently demonstrated that microtubules elongate by addition of bent guanosine triphosphate tubulin to the tips of curving protofilaments. Here we explore this mechanism of microtubule growth using Brownian dynamics modeling and electron cryotomography. The previously described flaring shapes of growing microtubule tips are remarkably consistent under various assembly conditions, including different tubulin concentrations, the presence or absence of a polymerization catalyst or tubulin-binding drugs. Simulations indicate that development of substantial forces during microtubule growth and shortening requires a high activation energy barrier in lateral tubulin-tubulin interactions. Modeling offers a mechanism to explain kinetochore coupling to growing microtubule tips under assisting force, and it predicts a load-dependent acceleration of microtubule assembly, providing a role for the flared morphology of growing microtubule ends.
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- Nikita B Gudimchuk
- Department of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
- Center for Theoretical Problems of Physicochemical Pharmacology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
- Dmitry Rogachev National Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, Moscow, Russia.
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- Department of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Center for Theoretical Problems of Physicochemical Pharmacology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- Center for Theoretical Problems of Physicochemical Pharmacology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Dmitry Rogachev National Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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Elbaz-Alon Y, Guo Y, Segev N, Harel M, Quinnell DE, Geiger T, Avinoam O, Li D, Nunnari J. PDZD8 interacts with Protrudin and Rab7 at ER-late endosome membrane contact sites associated with mitochondria. Nat Commun 2020; 11:3645. [PMID: 32686675 PMCID: PMC7371716 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17451-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2019] [Accepted: 06/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Endosomes are compositionally dynamic organelles that regulate signaling, nutrient status and organelle quality by specifying whether material entering the cells will be shuttled back to the cell surface or degraded by the lysosome. Recently, membrane contact sites (MCSs) between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and endosomes have emerged as important players in endosomal protein sorting, dynamics and motility. Here, we show that PDZD8, a Synaptotagmin-like Mitochondrial lipid-binding Proteins (SMP) domain-containing ER transmembrane protein, utilizes distinct domains to interact with Rab7-GTP and the ER transmembrane protein Protrudin and together these components localize to an ER-late endosome MCS. At these ER-late endosome MCSs, mitochondria are also recruited to form a three-way contact. Thus, our data indicate that PDZD8 is a shared component of two distinct MCSs and suggest a role for SMP-mediated lipid transport in the regulation of endosome function. Membrane contact sites between organelles have been shown to play important biological roles. Here, the authors show that at the ER, PDZD8 associates with Protrudin and also with Rab7 endosomes and recruits mitochondria to form three-way contacts.
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- Yael Elbaz-Alon
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA. .,Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
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Mathew R, Rios-Barrera LD, Machado P, Schwab Y, Leptin M. Transcytosis via the late endocytic pathway as a cell morphogenetic mechanism. EMBO J 2020; 39:e105332. [PMID: 32657472 PMCID: PMC7429744 DOI: 10.15252/embj.2020105332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2020] [Revised: 06/10/2020] [Accepted: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Plasma membranes fulfil many physiological functions. In polarized cells, different membrane compartments take on specialized roles, each being allocated correct amounts of membrane. The Drosophila tracheal system, an established tubulogenesis model, contains branched terminal cells with subcellular tubes formed by apical plasma membrane invagination. We show that apical endocytosis and late endosome‐mediated trafficking are required for membrane allocation to the apical and basal membrane domains. Basal plasma membrane growth stops if endocytosis is blocked, whereas the apical membrane grows excessively. Plasma membrane is initially delivered apically and then continuously endocytosed, together with apical and basal cargo. We describe an organelle carrying markers of late endosomes and multivesicular bodies (MVBs) that is abolished by inhibiting endocytosis and which we suggest acts as transit station for membrane destined to be redistributed both apically and basally. This is based on the observation that disrupting MVB formation prevents growth of both compartments.
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- Renjith Mathew
- Directors' Research Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Directors' Research Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Electron Microscopy Core Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Electron Microscopy Core Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Directors' Research Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.,Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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Transbilayer Movement of Sphingomyelin Precedes Catastrophic Breakage of Enterobacteria-Containing Vacuoles. Curr Biol 2020; 30:2974-2983.e6. [PMID: 32649908 PMCID: PMC7416114 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.05.083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2019] [Revised: 04/11/2020] [Accepted: 05/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Pathogenic bacteria enter the cytosol of host cells through uptake into bacteria-containing vacuoles (BCVs) and subsequent rupture of the vacuolar membrane [1]. Bacterial invaders are sensed either directly, through cytosolic pattern-recognition receptors specific for bacterial ligands, or indirectly, through danger receptors that bind host molecules displayed in an abnormal context, for example, glycans on damaged BCVs [2, 3, 4]. In contrast to damage caused by Listeria monocytogenes, a Gram-positive bacterium, BCV rupture by Gram-negative pathogens such as Shigella flexneri or Salmonella Typhimurium remains incompletely understood [5, 6]. The latter may cause membrane damage directly, when inserting their Type Three Secretion needles into host membranes, or indirectly through translocated bacterial effector proteins [7, 8, 9]. Here, we report that sphingomyelin, an abundant lipid of the luminal leaflet of BCV membranes, and normally absent from the cytosol, becomes exposed to the cytosol as an early predictive marker of BCV rupture by Gram-negative bacteria. To monitor subcellular sphingomyelin distribution, we generated a live sphingomyelin reporter from Lysenin, a sphingomyelin-specific toxin from the earthworm Eisenia fetida [10, 11]. Using super resolution live imaging and correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM), we discovered that BCV rupture proceeds through two distinct successive stages: first, sphingomyelin is gradually translocated into the cytosolic leaflet of the BCV, invariably followed by cytosolic exposure of glycans, which recruit galectin-8, indicating bacterial entry into the cytosol. Exposure of sphingomyelin on BCVs may therefore act as an early danger signal alerting the cell to imminent bacterial invasion. Lysenin serves as a reporter of sphingomyelin exposure in the mammalian cytosol Chemical-, toxin-, or pathogen-induced membrane damage exposes sphingomyelin Sphingomyelin exposure precedes catastrophic breakage of bacteria-containing vacuoles Cytosolic sphingomyelin is indicative of membrane stress and imminent pathogen entry
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Choudhary V, El Atab O, Mizzon G, Prinz WA, Schneiter R. Seipin and Nem1 establish discrete ER subdomains to initiate yeast lipid droplet biogenesis. J Cell Biol 2020; 219:e201910177. [PMID: 32349126 PMCID: PMC7337503 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201910177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2019] [Revised: 02/26/2020] [Accepted: 04/03/2020] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Lipid droplets (LDs) are fat storage organelles that originate from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Relatively little is known about how sites of LD formation are selected and which proteins/lipids are necessary for the process. Here, we show that LDs induced by the yeast triacylglycerol (TAG)-synthases Lro1 and Dga1 are formed at discrete ER subdomains defined by seipin (Fld1), and a regulator of diacylglycerol (DAG) production, Nem1. Fld1 and Nem1 colocalize to ER-LD contact sites. We find that Fld1 and Nem1 localize to ER subdomains independently of each other and of LDs, but both are required for the subdomains to recruit the TAG-synthases and additional LD biogenesis factors: Yft2, Pex30, Pet10, and Erg6. These subdomains become enriched in DAG. We conclude that Fld1 and Nem1 are both necessary to recruit proteins to ER subdomains where LD biogenesis occurs.
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- Vineet Choudhary
- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Electron Microscopy Core Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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KUBA JAKUB, MITCHELS JOHN, HOVORKA MILOŠ, ERDMANN PHILIPP, BERKA LUKÁŠ, KIRMSE ROBERT, KÖNIG JULIA, DE BOCK JAN, GOETZE BERNHARD, RIGORT ALEXANDER. Advanced cryo‐tomography workflow developments – correlative microscopy, milling automation and cryo‐lift‐out. J Microsc 2020; 281:112-124. [DOI: 10.1111/jmi.12939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2020] [Revised: 05/22/2020] [Accepted: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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- JAKUB KUBA
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Brno s.r.o. Brno Czech Republic
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific Brno s.r.o. Brno Czech Republic
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific Brno s.r.o. Brno Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Structural Biology Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry Martinsried Germany
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific Brno s.r.o. Brno Czech Republic
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- Leica Microsystems CMS GmbH Mannheim Germany
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific FEI Deutschland GmbH Planegg Germany
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- Department of Molecular Structural Biology Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry Martinsried Germany
- Thermo Fisher Scientific FEI Deutschland GmbH Planegg Germany
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Ganeva I, Kukulski W. Membrane Architecture in the Spotlight of Correlative Microscopy. Trends Cell Biol 2020; 30:577-587. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2020.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Revised: 03/27/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Snijder EJ, Limpens RWAL, de Wilde AH, de Jong AWM, Zevenhoven-Dobbe JC, Maier HJ, Faas FFGA, Koster AJ, Bárcena M. A unifying structural and functional model of the coronavirus replication organelle: Tracking down RNA synthesis. PLoS Biol 2020; 18:e3000715. [PMID: 32511245 PMCID: PMC7302735 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 304] [Impact Index Per Article: 76.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2020] [Revised: 06/18/2020] [Accepted: 05/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Zoonotic coronavirus (CoV) infections, such as those responsible for the current severe acute respiratory syndrome-CoV 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, cause grave international public health concern. In infected cells, the CoV RNA-synthesizing machinery associates with modified endoplasmic reticulum membranes that are transformed into the viral replication organelle (RO). Although double-membrane vesicles (DMVs) appear to be a pan-CoV RO element, studies to date describe an assortment of additional CoV-induced membrane structures. Despite much speculation, it remains unclear which RO element(s) accommodate viral RNA synthesis. Here we provide detailed 2D and 3D analyses of CoV ROs and show that diverse CoVs essentially induce the same membrane modifications, including the small open double-membrane spherules (DMSs) previously thought to be restricted to gamma- and delta-CoV infections and proposed as sites of replication. Metabolic labeling of newly synthesized viral RNA followed by quantitative electron microscopy (EM) autoradiography revealed abundant viral RNA synthesis associated with DMVs in cells infected with the beta-CoVs Middle East respiratory syndrome-CoV (MERS-CoV) and SARS-CoV and the gamma-CoV infectious bronchitis virus. RNA synthesis could not be linked to DMSs or any other cellular or virus-induced structure. Our results provide a unifying model of the CoV RO and clearly establish DMVs as the central hub for viral RNA synthesis and a potential drug target in CoV infection.
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- Eric J. Snijder
- Molecular Virology Laboratory, Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Section Electron Microscopy, Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Molecular Virology Laboratory, Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Section Electron Microscopy, Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Molecular Virology Laboratory, Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Section Electron Microscopy, Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Section Electron Microscopy, Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Section Electron Microscopy, Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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Chakraborty S, Jasnin M, Baumeister W. Three-dimensional organization of the cytoskeleton: A cryo-electron tomography perspective. Protein Sci 2020; 29:1302-1320. [PMID: 32216120 PMCID: PMC7255506 DOI: 10.1002/pro.3858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2020] [Revised: 03/17/2020] [Accepted: 03/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Traditionally, structures of cytoskeletal components have been studied ex situ, that is, with biochemically purified materials. There are compelling reasons to develop approaches to study them in situ in their native functional context. In recent years, cryo-electron tomography emerged as a powerful method for visualizing the molecular organization of unperturbed cellular landscapes with the potential to attain near-atomic resolution. Here, we review recent works on the cytoskeleton using cryo-electron tomography, demonstrating the power of in situ studies. We also highlight the potential of this method in addressing important questions pertinent to the field of cytoskeletal biomechanics.
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- Saikat Chakraborty
- Department of Molecular Structural BiologyMax Planck Institute of BiochemistryMartinsriedGermany
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- Department of Molecular Structural BiologyMax Planck Institute of BiochemistryMartinsriedGermany
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- Department of Molecular Structural BiologyMax Planck Institute of BiochemistryMartinsriedGermany
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Jun S, Ro HJ, Bharda A, Kim SI, Jeoung D, Jung HS. Advances in Cryo-Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy: Applications for Studying Molecular and Cellular Events. Protein J 2020; 38:609-615. [PMID: 31396855 DOI: 10.1007/s10930-019-09856-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Cryo-correlative light and electron microscopy (Cryo-CLEM) is materializing as a widespread approach amalgamating the advantages of both fluorescence light microscopy (FLM) as well as three dimensional (3D) cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) to reveal the ultrastructure of significant target molecules with specific cellular functions. Cryo-CLEM allows imaging of cells by means of fluorescence microscopy exhibiting the location of the destined molecule at high temporal and spatial resolution while cryo-ET is employed to analyze the 3D structure at a molecular resolution in close-to-physiological condition. Present review focuses upon the practical strategies for Cryo-CLEM and recent technical developments that will assist the broad implementation of this technique to investigate and answer questions pertaining to various biological events occurring in the cell.
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- Sangmi Jun
- Drug & Disease Target Team, Korea Basic Science Institute, 162, Yeongudanji-ro, Ochang-eup, Cheongwon-gu, Cheongju-Si, Chungcheongbuk-do, 28119, South Korea. .,Convergent Research Center for Emerging Virus Infection, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon, South Korea. .,Bio-Analytical Science, University of Science & Technology, Daejeon, South Korea.
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- Drug & Disease Target Team, Korea Basic Science Institute, 162, Yeongudanji-ro, Ochang-eup, Cheongwon-gu, Cheongju-Si, Chungcheongbuk-do, 28119, South Korea.,Convergent Research Center for Emerging Virus Infection, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon, South Korea.,Bio-Analytical Science, University of Science & Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Kangwon National University, 1 Kangwondaehak-gil, Chuncheon-Si, Gangwon-do, 200-701, South Korea
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- Drug & Disease Target Team, Korea Basic Science Institute, 162, Yeongudanji-ro, Ochang-eup, Cheongwon-gu, Cheongju-Si, Chungcheongbuk-do, 28119, South Korea.,Convergent Research Center for Emerging Virus Infection, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon, South Korea.,Bio-Analytical Science, University of Science & Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Kangwon National University, 1 Kangwondaehak-gil, Chuncheon-Si, Gangwon-do, 200-701, South Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Kangwon National University, 1 Kangwondaehak-gil, Chuncheon-Si, Gangwon-do, 200-701, South Korea.
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Marini G, Nüske E, Leng W, Alberti S, Pigino G. Reorganization of budding yeast cytoplasm upon energy depletion. Mol Biol Cell 2020; 31:1232-1245. [PMID: 32293990 PMCID: PMC7353153 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e20-02-0125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Yeast cells, when exposed to stress, can enter a protective state in which cell division, growth, and metabolism are down-regulated. They remain viable in this state until nutrients become available again. How cells enter this protective survival state and what happens at a cellular and subcellular level are largely unknown. In this study, we used electron tomography to investigate stress-induced ultrastructural changes in the cytoplasm of yeast cells. After ATP depletion, we observed significant cytosolic compaction and extensive cytoplasmic reorganization, as well as the emergence of distinct membrane-bound and membraneless organelles. Using correlative light and electron microscopy, we further demonstrated that one of these membraneless organelles was generated by the reversible polymerization of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2B, an essential enzyme in the initiation of protein synthesis, into large bundles of filaments. The changes we observe are part of a stress-induced survival strategy, allowing yeast cells to save energy, protect proteins from degradation, and inhibit protein functionality by forming assemblies of proteins.
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- Guendalina Marini
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden 01307, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden 01307, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden 01307, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden 01307, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden 01307, Germany
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Scollo F, Seggio M, Torrisi RL, Bua RO, Zimbone M, Contino A, Maccarrone G. New fluorescent-labelled nanoparticles: synthesis, characterization and interactions with cysteine and homocysteine to evaluate their stability in aqueous solution. APPLIED NANOSCIENCE 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s13204-019-01241-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Wong M, Newton LR, Hartmann J, Hennrich ML, Wachsmuth M, Ronchi P, Guzmán-Herrera A, Schwab Y, Gavin AC, Gilmour D. Dynamic Buffering of Extracellular Chemokine by a Dedicated Scavenger Pathway Enables Robust Adaptation during Directed Tissue Migration. Dev Cell 2020; 52:492-508.e10. [PMID: 32059773 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2020.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2019] [Revised: 11/22/2019] [Accepted: 01/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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How tissues migrate robustly through changing guidance landscapes is poorly understood. Here, quantitative imaging is combined with inducible perturbation experiments to investigate the mechanisms that ensure robust tissue migration in vivo. We show that tissues exposed to acute "chemokine floods" halt transiently before they perfectly adapt, i.e., return to the baseline migration behavior in the continued presence of elevated chemokine levels. A chemokine-triggered phosphorylation of the atypical chemokine receptor Cxcr7b reroutes it from constitutive ubiquitination-regulated degradation to plasma membrane recycling, thus coupling scavenging capacity to extracellular chemokine levels. Finally, tissues expressing phosphorylation-deficient Cxcr7b migrate normally in the presence of physiological chemokine levels but show delayed recovery when challenged with elevated chemokine concentrations. This work establishes that adaptation to chemokine fluctuations can be "outsourced" from canonical GPCR signaling to an autonomously acting scavenger receptor that both senses and dynamically buffers chemokine levels to increase the robustness of tissue migration.
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- Mie Wong
- Department of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland; Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Luxendo GmbH, Kurfürsten-Anlage 58, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Electron Microscopy Core Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany; Electron Microscopy Core Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany; Department for Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva, 1 rue Michel Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Department of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland; Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
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Lee CW, Wilfling F, Ronchi P, Allegretti M, Mosalaganti S, Jentsch S, Beck M, Pfander B. Selective autophagy degrades nuclear pore complexes. Nat Cell Biol 2020; 22:159-166. [DOI: 10.1038/s41556-019-0459-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2019] [Accepted: 12/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Wang P, Kang BH. Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy Imaging of the Plant trans-Golgi Network. Methods Mol Biol 2020; 2177:59-67. [PMID: 32632805 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0767-1_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
The plant trans-Golgi network (TGN) is a multifunctional organelle derived from the Golgi. It consists of tubulovesicular compartments scattered in the cytosol. They produce secretory vesicles delivering proteins and polysaccharides to the cell wall. They also serve as early endosomal compartments, receiving endocytic cargos from the plasma membrane. This versatility is thought to originate from functional variations among individual TGN compartments. Correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) combines the imaging capability of light microscopy and electron microscopy (EM) to determine the location of macromolecules in EM images in the cellular context. It is possible to identify organelles associated with specific fluorescent markers and examine their membrane architectures at nanometer-level resolutions using CLEM. In this chapter, we will explain the CLEM method that our lab uses to investigate functional and structural heterogeneity among individual TGN compartments in plant cells.
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- Pengfei Wang
- Center for Cell and Developmental Biology, State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
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- Center for Cell and Developmental Biology, State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China.
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Fu X, Ning J, Zhong Z, Ambrose Z, Charles Watkins S, Zhang P. AutoCLEM: An Automated Workflow for Correlative Live-Cell Fluorescence Microscopy and Cryo-Electron Tomography. Sci Rep 2019; 9:19207. [PMID: 31844138 PMCID: PMC6915765 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-55766-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2019] [Accepted: 12/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) combines the strengths of both light and electron imaging modalities and enables linking of biological spatiotemporal information from live-cell fluorescence light microscopy (fLM) to high-resolution cellular ultra-structures from cryo-electron microscopy and tomography (cryoEM/ET). This has been previously achieved by using fLM signals to localize the regions of interest under cryogenic conditions. The correlation process, however, is often tedious and time-consuming with low throughput and limited accuracy, because multiple correlation steps at different length scales are largely carried out manually. Here, we present an experimental workflow, AutoCLEM, which overcomes the existing limitations and improves the performance and throughput of CLEM methods, and associated software. The AutoCLEM system encompasses a high-speed confocal live-cell imaging module to acquire an automated fLM grid atlas that is linked to the cryoEM grid atlas, followed by cryofLM imaging after freezing. The fLM coordinates of the targeted areas are automatically converted to cryoEM/ET and refined using fluorescent fiducial beads. This AutoCLEM workflow significantly accelerates the correlation efficiency between live-cell fluorescence imaging and cryoEM/ET structural analysis, as demonstrated by visualizing human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) interacting with host cells.
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- Xiaofeng Fu
- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA
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- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA
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- Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA. .,Division of Structural Biology, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK. .,Electron Bio-Imaging Centre, Diamond Light Sources, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, OX11 0DE, UK.
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