Current progress in expansion microscopy: chemical strategies and applications

G Wen, V Leen, T Rohand, M Sauer… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Expansion microscopy (ExM) is a newly developed super-resolution technique, allowing
visualization of biological targets at nanoscale resolution on conventional fluorescence …

The cell biologist's guide to super-resolution microscopy

G Jacquemet, AF Carisey, H Hamidi… - Journal of Cell …, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
Fluorescence microscopy has become a ubiquitous method to observe the location of
specific molecular components within cells. However, the resolution of light microscopy is …

Magnify is a universal molecular anchoring strategy for expansion microscopy

A Klimas, BR Gallagher, P Wijesekara, S Fekir… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Expansion microscopy enables nanoimaging with conventional microscopes by physically
and isotropically magnifying preserved biological specimens embedded in a crosslinked …

Visualizing cellular and tissue ultrastructure using Ten-fold Robust Expansion Microscopy (TREx)

HGJ Damstra, B Mohar, M Eddison, A Akhmanova… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Expansion microscopy (ExM) is a powerful technique to overcome the diffraction limit of light
microscopy that can be applied in both tissues and cells. In ExM, samples are embedded in …

Click-ExM enables expansion microscopy for all biomolecules

D Sun, X Fan, Y Shi, H Zhang, Z Huang, B Cheng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Expansion microscopy (ExM) allows super-resolution imaging on conventional fluorescence
microscopes, but has been limited to proteins and nucleic acids. Here we develop click-ExM …

Light microscopy of proteins in their ultrastructural context

O M'Saad, J Bewersdorf - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Resolving the distribution of specific proteins at the nanoscale in the ultrastructural context of
the cell is a major challenge in fluorescence microscopy. We report the discovery of a new …

Expansion microscopy: A chemical approach for super-resolution microscopy

Y Zhuang, X Shi - Current opinion in structural biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Super-resolution microscopy is a series of imaging techniques that bypass the diffraction
limit of resolution. Since the 1990s, optical approaches, such as single-molecular …

Lipid expansion microscopy

BM White, P Kumar, AN Conwell, K Wu… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Strategies to visualize cellular membranes with light microscopy are restricted by the
diffraction limit of light, which far exceeds the dimensions of lipid bilayers. Here, we describe …

Single-shot 20-fold expansion microscopy

S Wang, TW Shin, HB Yoder, RB McMillan, H Su… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Expansion microscopy (ExM) is in increasingly widespread use throughout biology because
its isotropic physical magnification enables nanoimaging on conventional microscopes. To …

Expansion microscopy of C. elegans

CC Yu, NC Barry, AT Wassie, A Sinha, A Bhattacharya… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
We recently developed expansion microscopy (ExM), which achieves nanoscale-precise
imaging of specimens at~ 70 nm resolution (with~ 4.5 x linear expansion) by isotropic …