As a new method of cell-cell communication,tunneling nanotubes(TNTs)play important roles in cell-cell signaling and mass exchanges.However,a lack of powerful tools to visualize dynamic TNTs with high temporal/spatial ...As a new method of cell-cell communication,tunneling nanotubes(TNTs)play important roles in cell-cell signaling and mass exchanges.However,a lack of powerful tools to visualize dynamic TNTs with high temporal/spatial resolution restricts the exploration of their formation and cleavage,hindering the complete understanding of its mechanism.Herein,we present the first example of using stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy(STORM)to observe the tube-like structures of TNTs linking live cells with an easily prepared fluorescent dye.Because of this new imaging microscopy,the cleavage process of TNTs was observed with a high spatial resolution.展开更多
基金This work has been partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61875131,61525503,61620106016,and 61835009)Shenzhen Basic Research Project(Nos.JCYJ20170818100931714,JCYJ20180305125549234,and JCYJ20170412105003520)Shenzhen International Cooperation Research Project(No.GJHZ20180928161811821).
文摘As a new method of cell-cell communication,tunneling nanotubes(TNTs)play important roles in cell-cell signaling and mass exchanges.However,a lack of powerful tools to visualize dynamic TNTs with high temporal/spatial resolution restricts the exploration of their formation and cleavage,hindering the complete understanding of its mechanism.Herein,we present the first example of using stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy(STORM)to observe the tube-like structures of TNTs linking live cells with an easily prepared fluorescent dye.Because of this new imaging microscopy,the cleavage process of TNTs was observed with a high spatial resolution.
