Imaging live-cell dynamics and structure at the single-molecule level

Z Liu, LD Lavis, E Betzig - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Observation of molecular processes inside living cells is fundamental to a quantitative
understanding of how biological systems function. Specifically, decoding the complex …

Tracking single molecules at work in living cells

A Kusumi, TA Tsunoyama, KM Hirosawa… - Nature chemical …, 2014 - nature.com
Methods for imaging and tracking single molecules conjugated with fluorescent probes,
called single-molecule tracking (SMT), are now providing researchers with the …

A general method to improve fluorophores for live-cell and single-molecule microscopy

JB Grimm, BP English, J Chen, JP Slaughter, Z Zhang… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Specific labeling of biomolecules with bright fluorophores is the keystone of fluorescence
microscopy. Genetically encoded self-labeling tag proteins can be coupled to synthetic dyes …

Quantitative super-resolution imaging with qPAINT

R Jungmann, MS Avendaño, M Dai, JB Woehrstein… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Counting molecules in complexes is challenging, even with super-resolution microscopy.
Here, we use the programmable and specific binding of dye-labeled DNA probes to count …

Multiplex chromatin interactions with single-molecule precision

M Zheng, SZ Tian, D Capurso, M Kim, R Maurya, B Lee… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The genomes of multicellular organisms are extensively folded into 3D chromosome
territories within the nucleus. Advanced 3D genome-mapping methods that combine …

Resolution doubling in light-sheet microscopy via oblique plane structured illumination

B Chen, BJ Chang, P Roudot, F Zhou, E Sapoznik… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) doubles the spatial resolution of a fluorescence
microscope without requiring high laser powers or specialized fluorophores. However, the …

RNA Polymerase II cluster dynamics predict mRNA output in living cells

WK Cho, N Jayanth, BP English, T Inoue, JO Andrews… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Protein clustering is a hallmark of genome regulation in mammalian cells. However, the
dynamic molecular processes involved make it difficult to correlate clustering with functional …

[HTML][HTML] Super-resolution imaging of higher-order chromatin structures at different epigenomic states in single mammalian cells

J Xu, H Ma, J Jin, S Uttam, R Fu, Y Huang, Y Liu - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Histone modifications influence higher-order chromatin structures at individual epigenomic
states and chromatin environments to regulate gene expression. However, genome-wide …

Visualizing transcription factor dynamics in living cells

Z Liu, R Tjian - Journal of Cell Biology, 2018 - rupress.org
The assembly of sequence-specific enhancer-binding transcription factors (TFs) at cis-
regulatory elements in the genome has long been regarded as the fundamental mechanism …

Genome-wide analysis of chromatin packing in Arabidopsis thaliana at single-gene resolution

C Liu, C Wang, G Wang, C Becker, M Zaidem… - Genome …, 2016 - genome.cshlp.org
The three-dimensional packing of the genome plays an important role in regulating gene
expression. We have used Hi-C, a genome-wide chromatin conformation capture (3C) …