Metallodrugs are unique: Opportunities and challenges of discovery and development

EJ Anthony, EM Bolitho, HE Bridgewater… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Metals play vital roles in nutrients and medicines and provide chemical functionalities that
are not accessible to purely organic compounds. At least 10 metals are essential for human …

Volume electron microscopy

CJ Peddie, C Genoud, A Kreshuk, K Meechan… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Life exists in three dimensions, but until the turn of the century most electron microscopy
methods provided only 2D image data. Recently, electron microscopy techniques capable of …

Single-cell chemistry of photoactivatable platinum anticancer complexes

EM Bolitho, C Sanchez-Cano, H Shi… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The Pt (IV) prodrug trans, trans, trans-[Pt (pyridine) 2 (N3) 2 (OH) 2](Pt1) and its coumarin
derivative trans, trans, trans-[Pt (pyridine) 2 (N3) 2 (OH)(coumarin-3-carboxylate)](Pt2) are …

Using soft X-ray tomography for rapid whole-cell quantitative imaging of SARS-CoV-2-infected cells

V Loconte, JH Chen, M Cortese, A Ekman… - Cell reports …, 2021 - cell.com
High-resolution and rapid imaging of host cell ultrastructure can generate insights toward
viral disease mechanism, for example for a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …

[HTML][HTML] Soft X‐ray tomograms provide a structural basis for whole‐cell modeling

V Loconte, JH Chen, B Vanslembrouck… - The FASEB …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Developing in silico models that accurately reflect a whole, functional cell is an ongoing
challenge in biology. Current efforts bring together mathematical models, probabilistic …

Sample preparation strategies for efficient correlation of 3D SIM and soft X-ray tomography data at cryogenic temperatures

CA Okolo, I Kounatidis, J Groen, KL Nahas, S Balint… - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract 3D correlative microscopy methods have revolutionized biomedical research,
allowing the acquisition of multidimensional information to gain an in-depth understanding …

Soft X-ray tomography to map and quantify organelle interactions at the mesoscale

V Loconte, J Singla, A Li, JH Chen, A Ekman… - Structure, 2022 - cell.com
Inter-organelle interactions are a vital part of normal cellular function; however, these have
proven difficult to quantify due to the range of scales encountered in cell biology and the …

From 2D STXM to 3D imaging: soft X-ray laminography of thin specimens

K Witte, A Späth, S Finizio, C Donnelly, B Watts… - Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
X-ray tomography has become an indispensable tool for studying complex 3D interior
structures with high spatial resolution. Three-dimensional imaging using soft X-rays offers …

Septins and K63 ubiquitin chains are present in separate bacterial microdomains during autophagy of entrapped Shigella

D Lobato-Márquez, JJ Conesa… - Journal of cell …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
During host cell invasion, Shigella escapes to the cytosol and polymerizes actin for cell-to-
cell spread. To restrict cell-to-cell spread, host cells employ cell-autonomous immune …

[HTML][HTML] Hydroxyapatite nanoparticles-cell interaction: New approaches to disclose the fate of membrane-bound and internalised nanoparticles

M Bonany, AJ Pérez-Berná, T Dučić, E Pereiro… - Biomaterials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hydroxyapatite nanoparticles are popular tools in bone regeneration, but they have also
been used for gene delivery and as anticancer drugs. Understanding their mechanism of …