Visualizing and discovering cellular structures with super-resolution microscopy

YM Sigal, R Zhou, X Zhuang - Science, 2018 - science.org
Super-resolution microscopy has overcome a long-held resolution barrier—the diffraction
limit—in light microscopy and enabled visualization of previously invisible molecular details …

Three-dimensional localization of single molecules for super-resolution imaging and single-particle tracking

L von Diezmann, Y Shechtman, WE Moerner - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Single-molecule super-resolution fluorescence microscopy and single-particle tracking are
two imaging modalities that illuminate the properties of cells and materials on spatial scales …

Small RNAs in bacteria and archaea: who they are, what they do, and how they do it

EGH Wagner, P Romby - Advances in genetics, 2015 - Elsevier
Small RNAs are ubiquitously present regulators in all kingdoms of life. Most bacterial and
archaeal small RNAs (sRNAs) act by antisense mechanisms on multiple target mRNAs …

Global mapping of small RNA-target interactions in bacteria

S Melamed, A Peer, R Faigenbaum-Romm, YE Gatt… - Molecular cell, 2016 - cell.com
Small RNAs (sRNAs) associated with the RNA chaperon protein Hfq are key
posttranscriptional regulators of gene expression in bacteria. Deciphering the sRNA-target …

Hfq: the flexible RNA matchmaker

TB Updegrove, A Zhang, G Storz - Current opinion in microbiology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Hfq contacts RNA via proximal, distal, rim and C-terminal surfaces.•RNAs interact
with Hfq in multiple ways.•Mechanisms of Hfq-facilitated RNA pairing are being elucidated …

Optimal stochastic restart renders fluctuations in first passage times universal

S Reuveni - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
Stochastic restart may drastically reduce the expected run time of a computer algorithm,
expedite the completion of a complex search process, or increase the turnover rate of an …

New aspects of RNA-based regulation by Hfq and its partner sRNAs

K Kavita, F de Mets, S Gottesman - Current opinion in microbiology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Novel cross-linking and sequencing methods uncover new sRNAs and sRNA
networks.•Many sRNAs are encoded within the 3′ and 5′ UTRs of mRNA as well as …

RNA-based recognition and targeting: sowing the seeds of specificity

SA Gorski, J Vogel, JA Doudna - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2017 - nature.com
RNA is involved in the regulation of multiple cellular processes, often by forming sequence-
specific base pairs with cellular RNA or DNA targets that must be identified among the large …

Bioorthogonal masked acylating agents for proximity-dependent RNA labelling

S Pani, T Qiu, K Kentala, SA Azizi, BC Dickinson - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
RNA localization is highly regulated, with subcellular organization driving context-
dependent cell physiology. Although proximity-based labelling technologies that use highly …

Kinetics of dCas9 target search in Escherichia coli

D Jones, C Unoson, P Leroy, V Curic, J Elf - Biophysical Journal, 2017 - cell.com
How fast can a cell locate a specific chromosomal DNA sequence specified by a single
stranded oligonucleotide? To address this question we study the CRISPR-associated …