A guide to single-particle tracking

F Simon, LE Weiss, S van Teeffelen - Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 2024 - nature.com
Individual proteins and protein complexes undergo various motion types, including free
diffusion, confinement, subdiffusion and directed motion. Different motion behaviours reflect …

Probing cellular events, one quantum dot at a time

F Pinaud, S Clarke, A Sittner, M Dahan - Nature methods, 2010 - nature.com
Monitoring the behavior of single molecules in living cells is a powerful approach to
investigate the details of cellular processes. Owing to their optical, chemical and …

Mean square displacement analysis of single-particle trajectories with localization error: Brownian motion in an isotropic medium

X Michalet - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2010 - APS
We examine the capability of mean square displacement (MSD) analysis to extract reliable
values of the diffusion coefficient D of a single particle undergoing Brownian motion in an …

Dynamic multiple-target tracing to probe spatiotemporal cartography of cell membranes

A Sergé, N Bertaux, H Rigneault, D Marguet - Nature methods, 2008 - nature.com
Although the highly dynamic and mosaic organization of the plasma membrane is well-
recognized, depicting a resolved, global view of this organization remains challenging. We …

mGluR5 is transiently confined in perisynaptic nanodomains to shape synaptic function

N Scheefhals, M Westra, HD MacGillavry - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
The unique perisynaptic distribution of postsynaptic metabotropic glutamate receptors
(mGluRs) at excitatory synapses is predicted to directly shape synaptic function, but …

GPI-anchored receptor clusters transiently recruit Lyn and Gα for temporary cluster immobilization and Lyn activation: single-molecule tracking study 1

KGN Suzuki, TK Fujiwara, F Sanematsu, R Iino… - The Journal of cell …, 2007 - rupress.org
The signaling mechanisms for glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored receptors (GPI-ARs)
have been investigated by tracking single molecules in living cells. Upon the engagement or …

Imaging, tracking and computational analyses of virus entry and egress with the cytoskeleton

IH Wang, CJ Burckhardt, A Yakimovich, UF Greber - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
Viruses have a dual nature: particles are “passive substances” lacking chemical energy
transformation, whereas infected cells are “active substances” turning-over energy. How …

A hidden Markov model for single particle tracks quantifies dynamic interactions between LFA-1 and the actin cytoskeleton

R Das, CW Cairo, D Coombs - PLoS computational biology, 2009 - journals.plos.org
The extraction of hidden information from complex trajectories is a continuing problem in
single-particle and single-molecule experiments. Particle trajectories are the result of …

Quantitative evaluation of methods to analyze motion changes in single-particle experiments

G Muñoz-Gil, H Bachimanchi, J Pineda… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The analysis of live-cell single-molecule imaging experiments can reveal valuable
information about the heterogeneity of transport processes and interactions between cell …

Automatic detection of diffusion modes within biological membranes using back-propagation neural network

P Dosset, P Rassam, L Fernandez, C Espenel… - BMC …, 2016 - Springer
Background Single particle tracking (SPT) is nowadays one of the most popular technique to
probe spatio-temporal dynamics of proteins diffusing within the plasma membrane. Indeed …