Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy as a tool to study the nanoscale organization of chromosomes.

Abstract:

:Chromatin organization spans a wide range of structural complexity. Substructures at the 10-200nm scale are poorly characterized, especially in living cells, due to the limitations of electron microscopy and standard optical microscopy. Recently developed super-resolution fluorescence microscopy methods represent an exciting opportunity to access those substructures, and recent progress with these techniques has yielded insights into chromatin organization at different condensation stages. Recent studies have focused on confronting the challenges that are specific to chromatin super-resolution imaging, such as the high packing density of mitotic chromosomes and difficulties in interpreting interphase chromatin images. Building on these first results and with ongoing rapid technical advances in super-resolution fluorescence imaging there is great potential to uncover new features with unprecedented detail.

journal_name

Curr Opin Chem Biol

authors

Flors C,Earnshaw WC

doi

10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.10.004

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-12-01 00:00:00

pages

838-44

issue

6

eissn

1367-5931

issn

1879-0402

pii

S1367-5931(11)00151-7

journal_volume

15

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