三功能链接器通过扩展显微镜使动素的可视化得到改善
Gang Wen1,2, Matthew Domenic Lycas2, Yuqing Jia3
1Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Leuven, 3001, Belgium.
ACS nano
|October 3, 2023
概括
优化的三功能链接器 (TRITON) 显著增强使用扩展显微镜 (ExM) 的活性丝可视化. 这种方法使信号保留率提高了10倍,使细胞和组织中actin结构的详细成像成为可能.
科学领域:
- 生物技术是生物技术.
- 显微镜的使用方法
- 细胞生物学 细胞生物学
背景情况:
- 扩展显微镜 (ExM) 能够在标准显微镜上进行超高分辨率成像.
- 使用ExM有效地可视化actin纤维仍然是一个挑战.
- 以前试图用多功能分子改进actin成像的尝试取得了中等的成功.
研究的目的:
- 开发针对法洛伊丁结合物移植的优化方法,用于ExM中增强的actin成像.
- 引入和评估三功能链接器 (TRITON) 以改善动态可视化.
- 在各种ExM协议和样本类型中证明TRITON链接器的有效性.
主要方法:
- 优化了法洛伊丁合物移植策略.
- 三功能连接器 (TRITON) 的开发和应用.
- 使用ExM和Airyscan共聚焦显微镜在培养的神经元和大脑切片中的actin结构的成像.
主要成果:
- 优化的接种策略大约提高了10倍的定和信号保留.
- 在细胞和组织样本中,TRITON链接器在actin成像方面表现出高效率.
- 10X ExM与TRITON标记的actin允许可视化神经元和大脑切片中的actin环周期性.
结论:
- 在ExM中,TRITON链接器提供了一种有效的Actin可视化方法.
- 当目标结合的单体度较低时,这种方法特别有益.
- 使用TRITON优化ExM可增强对生物样本中富含actin的结构的研究.
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