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

V Loconte, JH Chen, B Vanslembrouck… - The FASEB …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Develo** in silico models that accurately reflect a whole, functional cell is an ongoing
challenge in biology. Current efforts bring together mathematical models, probabilistic …

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 …

Advances in X-ray neuroimaging: Bridging scales from molecular to organ architectures

J Xu, C Shi, Y Cao, T Wu, C Duan, C Ma, H Lu… - TrAC Trends in …, 2024 - Elsevier
The intricate mesh of neural connections in the central nervous system (CNS) necessitates
high-resolution observations to gain insights into cellular composition and molecular …

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 …

Aberrant phase separation is a common killing strategy of positively charged peptides in biology and human disease

S Boeynaems, XR Ma, V Yeong, GM Ginell, JH Chen… - BioRxiv, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Positively charged repeat peptides are emerging as key players in neurodegenerative
diseases. These peptides can perturb diverse cellular pathways but a unifying framework for …

[HTML][HTML] A protocol for full-rotation soft X-ray tomography of single cells

JH Chen, B Vanslembrouck, V Loconte, A Ekman… - STAR protocols, 2022 - Elsevier
The protocol describes step-by-step sample preparation, data acquisition, and segmentation
of cellular organelles with soft X-ray tomography. It is designed for microscopes built to …

Automated 3D cytoplasm segmentation in soft X-ray tomography

A Erozan, PD Lösel, V Heuveline, V Weinhardt - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Cells' structure is key to understanding cellular function, diagnostics, and therapy
development. Soft X-ray tomography (SXT) is a unique tool to image cellular structure …

Three-dimensional imaging of mitochondrial cristae complexity using cryo-soft X-ray tomography

CC Polo, MH Fonseca-Alaniz, JH Chen, A Ekman… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that change morphology to adapt to cellular energetic
demands under both physiological and stress conditions. Cardiomyopathies and neuronal …

Extending imaging volume in soft X‐Ray tomography

A Ekman, JH Chen, B Vanslembrouck… - Advanced Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Soft X‐ray tomography offers rapid imaging of whole, single cells with a few tens of
nanometers spatial resolution without fixation or labeling. Herein, this technique is limited to …

[HTML][HTML] Assaying three-dimensional cellular architecture using X-ray tomographic and correlated imaging approaches

PO Bayguinov, MR Fisher, JAJ Fitzpatrick - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Much of our understanding of the spatial organization of and interactions between cellular
organelles and macromolecular complexes has been the result of imaging studies utilizing …