Imagining the future of optical microscopy: everything, everywhere, all at once

H Balasubramanian, CM Hobson, TL Chew… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The optical microscope has revolutionized biology since at least the 17th Century. Since
then, it has progressed from a largely observational tool to a powerful bioanalytical platform …

Advances in the labelling and selective manipulation of synapses

B Timalsina, S Lee, BK Kaang - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Synapses are highly specialized neuronal structures that are essential for
neurotransmission, and they are dynamically regulated throughout the lifetime. Although …

Comparative analysis of CRISPR off-target discovery tools following ex vivo editing of CD34+ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells

MK Cromer, KR Majeti, GR Rettig, K Murugan… - Molecular Therapy, 2023 - cell.com
While a number of methods exist to investigate CRISPR off-target (OT) editing, few have
been compared head-to-head in primary cells after clinically relevant editing processes …

Tracking endogenous proteins based on RNA editing-mediated genetic code expansion

M Hao, X Ling, Y Sun, X Wang, W Li, L Chang… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Protein labeling approaches are important to study proteins in living cells, and genome
editing tools make it possible to tag endogenous proteins to address the concerns …

[HTML][HTML] Plasticity of postsynaptic nanostructure

WJ Droogers, HD MacGillavry - Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, 2023 - Elsevier
The postsynaptic density (PSD) of excitatory synapses is built from a wide variety of
scaffolding proteins, receptors, and signaling molecules that collectively orchestrate synaptic …

Knock-in tagging in zebrafish facilitated by insertion into non-coding regions

DS Levic, N Yamaguchi, S Wang, H Knaut… - …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
Zebrafish provide an excellent model for in vivo cell biology studies because of their
amenability to live imaging. Protein visualization in zebrafish has traditionally relied on …

Proximity analysis of native proteomes reveals phenotypic modifiers in a mouse model of autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions

Y Gao, D Shonai, M Trn, J Zhao, EJ Soderblom… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
One of the main drivers of autism spectrum disorder is risk alleles within hundreds of genes,
which may interact within shared but unknown protein complexes. Here we develop a …

Cas phosphorylation regulates focal adhesion assembly

S Kumar, A Stainer, J Dubrulle, C Simpkins, JA Cooper - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Integrin-mediated cell attachment rapidly induces tyrosine kinase signaling. Despite years of
research, the role of this signaling in integrin activation and focal adhesion assembly is …

Precision and efficacy of RNA-guided DNA integration in high-expressing muscle loci

MH Padmaswari, G Bulliard, S Agrawal, MS Jia… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2024 - cell.com
Gene replacement therapies primarily rely on adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors for
transgene expression. However, episomal expression can decline over time due to vector …

Duplex labeling and manipulation of neuronal proteins using sequential CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing

WJ Droogers, J Willems, HD MacGillavry, APH de Jong - ENeuro, 2022 - eneuro.org
Abstract CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knock-in methods enable the labeling of individual
endogenous proteins to faithfully determine their spatiotemporal distribution in cells …