Laboratory water-window x-ray microscopy

M Kördel, A Dehlinger, C Seim, U Vogt, E Fogelqvist… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Soft x-ray microscopy in the water window (∼ 285− 535 e V) is an emerging and unique tool
for 2D and 3D imaging of unstained intact cellular samples in their near-native state with few …

Cryo-soft X-ray tomography: using soft X-rays to explore the ultrastructure of whole cells

M Harkiolaki, MC Darrow, MC Spink… - Emerging topics in …, 2018 - portlandpress.com
Cryo-soft X-ray tomography is an imaging technique that addresses the need for mesoscale
imaging of cellular ultrastructure of relatively thick samples without the need for staining or …

Spontaneous driving forces give rise to protein− RNA condensates with coexisting phases and complex material properties

S Boeynaems, AS Holehouse… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Phase separation of multivalent protein and RNA molecules underlies the biogenesis of
biomolecular condensates such as membraneless organelles. In vivo, these condensates …

Nuclear and cytoplasmic spatial protein quality control is coordinated by nuclear–vacuolar junctions and perinuclear ESCRT

EM Sontag, F Morales-Polanco, JH Chen… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Effective protein quality control (PQC), essential for cellular health, relies on spatial
sequestration of misfolded proteins into defined inclusions. Here we reveal the coordination …

Nitrogen-fixing organelle in a marine alga

TH Coale, V Loconte, KA Turk-Kubo, B Vanslembrouck… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Symbiotic interactions were key to the evolution of chloroplast and mitochondria organelles,
which mediate carbon and energy metabolism in eukaryotes. Biological nitrogen fixation, the …

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 …

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

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

Sample preparation strategies for efficient correlation of 3D SIM and soft X-ray tomography data at cryogenic temperatures

CA Okolo, I Kounatidis, J Groen, KL Nahas, S Balint… - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract 3D correlative microscopy methods have revolutionized biomedical research,
allowing the acquisition of multidimensional information to gain an in-depth understanding …

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 …

Regulation of Oxygenic Photosynthesis during Trophic Transitions in the Green Alga Chromochloris zofingiensis

MS Roth, SD Gallaher, DJ Westcott, M Iwai… - The Plant …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Light and nutrients are critical regulators of photosynthesis and metabolism in plants and
algae. Many algae have the metabolic flexibility to grow photoautotrophically …