2020
Correlative three-dimensional super-resolution and block-face electron microscopy of whole vitreously frozen cells
Hoffman DP, Shtengel G, Xu CS, Campbell KR, Freeman M, Wang L, Milkie DE, Pasolli HA, Iyer N, Bogovic JA, Stabley DR, Shirinifard A, Pang S, Peale D, Schaefer K, Pomp W, Chang CL, Lippincott-Schwartz J, Kirchhausen T, Solecki DJ, Betzig E, Hess HF. Correlative three-dimensional super-resolution and block-face electron microscopy of whole vitreously frozen cells. Science 2020, 367 PMID: 31949053, PMCID: PMC7339343, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz5357.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCorrelative super-resolution fluorescenceEndoplasmic reticulum-associated proteinSuper-resolution fluorescenceChromatin domainsMammalian cellsBlock-face electron microscopyDistinct proteinsTranscriptional activityBiochemical needsSpatial compartmentalizationIntranuclear vesiclesUltrastructural variabilityFrozen cellsWhole cellsFluorescence retentionCultured neuronsProteinCellsElectron microscopyCompartmentalizationVesiclesUltrastructureAdhesionDomainFluorescence
2018
The ESCRT-III Protein CHMP1A Mediates Secretion of Sonic Hedgehog on a Distinctive Subtype of Extracellular Vesicles
Coulter ME, Dorobantu CM, Lodewijk GA, Delalande F, Cianferani S, Ganesh VS, Smith RS, Lim ET, Xu CS, Pang S, Wong ET, Lidov HGW, Calicchio ML, Yang E, Gonzalez DM, Schlaeger TM, Mochida GH, Hess H, Lee WA, Lehtinen MK, Kirchhausen T, Haussler D, Jacobs FMJ, Gaudin R, Walsh CA. The ESCRT-III Protein CHMP1A Mediates Secretion of Sonic Hedgehog on a Distinctive Subtype of Extracellular Vesicles. Cell Reports 2018, 24: 973-986.e8. PMID: 30044992, PMCID: PMC6178983, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.06.100.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsExtracellular vesiclesMultivesicular bodiesIntraluminal vesicle formationESCRT proteinsHedgehog secretionProgenitor maintenanceMolecular mechanistic insightsComplex proteinsCell communicationEV subtypesVesicle formationChmp1AAutosomal recessive microcephalyHuman cerebral organoidsSonic hedgehogProgenitor proliferationFunction mutationsImpairs secretionAdult functionMechanistic insightsCerebral organoidsNull micePontocerebellar hypoplasiaShhProtein