2019
Isotropic Light-Sheet Microscopy and Automated Cell Lineage Analyses to Catalogue Caenorhabditis elegans Embryogenesis with Subcellular Resolution.
Duncan LH, Moyle MW, Shao L, Sengupta T, Ikegami R, Kumar A, Guo M, Christensen R, Santella A, Bao Z, Shroff H, Mohler W, Colón-Ramos DA. Isotropic Light-Sheet Microscopy and Automated Cell Lineage Analyses to Catalogue Caenorhabditis elegans Embryogenesis with Subcellular Resolution. Journal Of Visualized Experiments 2019 PMID: 31233035, PMCID: PMC7255390, DOI: 10.3791/59533.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGene expressionC. elegans embryosCell lineage identityCell lineage analysisSingle-cell resolutionElegans embryosCaenorhabditis elegansC. elegansSelective plane illumination microscopyLight-sheet microscopyLineage analysisNematode embryosCell resolutionEntire nervous systemSubcellular levelOnly organismSubcellular resolutionElegansCellular originSingle cellsEmbryosIllumination microscopyEmbryogenesisMorphological dynamicsExpression
2011
Nonlinear structured-illumination microscopy with a photoswitchable protein reveals cellular structures at 50-nm resolution
Rego EH, Shao L, Macklin JJ, Winoto L, Johansson GA, Kamps-Hughes N, Davidson MW, Gustafsson MG. Nonlinear structured-illumination microscopy with a photoswitchable protein reveals cellular structures at 50-nm resolution. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2011, 109: e135-e143. PMID: 22160683, PMCID: PMC3271870, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1107547108.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStructured-illumination microscopyUltralow light intensitiesSuperresolution imaging methodExcited statesFluorophore excited stateStructured illumination microscopyLight intensityRequired nonlinearityResolution extensionHigh light intensityActin cytoskeletonCellular structureReversible photoswitchingNuclear poresNonlinear responseIllumination intensitySuch nonlinear responsesPhotoswitchable proteinsSpatial resolutionFluorescent proteinBiological samplesSix-orderImaging methodMicroscopyPolystyrene beads