Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: PEPCy: Photostable fluoromodules for live cell, super-resolution microscopy of surface proteins
doi: 10.1101/2024.07.03.601615
Figure Lengend Snippet: Applications of PEPCy tags for imaging cell surface receptors. A . Schematic of membrane protein tracking experiment using TIRF microscopy. AlphaFold predicted structures of PEPCy tags. B . Normalized probability distributions of photons detected per trajectory from single particle analyses between PEPCy and HT targeted to their cognate dyes. (N = 1000-1300 single tracks per sample). C. Super-resolution microscopy of Intimin fused to PEPCy3 expressed on E.coli outer membrane. Schematic of the fusion is shown followed by diffraction-limited DIC and fluorscence images of the cells expressing the same. Maximum intensity projections (MIP) compared with a 2D reconstruction of single molecule localization data. Inset compares a cluster observable in the MIP that is resolved into two clusters in the super-resolved image. D . Time-lapse confocal microscopy of HeLa cells expressing PEPCy3-B2AR labeled using Cy3. Numbers on the left of each image denote the time in minutes. Isoproterenol was added at t = 0 and imaged were acquired every 30s for 1 hour. E . Schematic of simultaneous two color tracking of PEPCy3-B2AR and PEPCy5-B2AR-Ala on the same cell. F . Single molecule trajectories of PEPCy3 (left) and PEPCy5 (right) on a HEK cell, color coded by median trajectory speed. All scale bars in the figure unless mentioned otherwise are 5 µ m. A and E were created with BioRender.com .
Article Snippet: Single molecule localization microscopy was performed on a Nikon Eclipse Ti2 microscope using a 100x (1.45 N.A.) oil immersion objective.
Techniques: Imaging, Membrane, Microscopy, Single Particle, Super-Resolution Microscopy, Expressing, Confocal Microscopy, Labeling