Microscopy preprints – applications in cell biology and more
Posted by FocalPlane, on 14 January 2022
Here is a curated selection of preprints published recently. In this post, we focus specifically on preprints using microscopy tools in different fields such as cell biology, plant biology, microbiology, and neuroscience.
Nanoscale details of mitochondrial fission revealed by cryo-electron tomography. Shrawan Kumar Mageswaran, Danielle Ann Grotjahn, Xiangrui Zeng, Benjamin Asher Barad, Michaela A Medina, My Hanh Hoang, Megan J Dobro, Yi-Wei Chang, Min Xu, Wei Yuan Yang, Grant J Jensen
![](https://focalplane.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/mitofission.png)
Islet primary cilia motility controls insulin secretion. Jung Hoon Cho, Zipeng A Li, Lifei Zhu, Brian Muegge, Henry Roseman, Toby Utterback, Louis Woodhams, Philip V Bayly, Jing Hughes
![](https://focalplane.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ciliaInsulin.png)
Entangled architecture of rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) and vacuoles enables topological damping in cytoplasm of an ultra-fast giant cell. Ray Chang, Manu Prakash
![](https://focalplane.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/RERvacuoles.png)
Precise measurement of nanoscopic septin ring structures in deep learning-assisted quantitative superresolution microscopy. Amin Zehtabian, Paul Markus Müller, Maximilian Goisser, Leon Obendorf, Lea Jänisch, Nadja Hümpfer, Jakob Rentsch, Helge Ewers
![](https://focalplane.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/septins-1024x583.jpg)
Free diffusion of PI(4,5)P2 in the plasma membrane in the presence of high density effector protein complexes. Jonathan Pacheco, Anna C Cassidy, James P Zewe, Rachel C Wills, Gerald R Hammond
![](https://focalplane.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/PIP2-diffusion-1024x502.jpg)
Microtubule Lattice Spacing Governs Cohesive Envelope Formation of Tau Family Proteins. Valerie Siahaan, Ruensern Tan, Tereza Humhalova, Lenka Libusova, Samuel E. Lacey, Tracy Tan, Mariah Dacy, Kassandra M. Ori-McKenney, Richard J. McKenney, Marcus Braun, Zdenek Lansky
![](https://focalplane.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/TauMicrotubules-702x1024.jpg)
Control of Leaf Vein Patterning by Regulated Plasmodesma Aperture. Nguyen Manh Linh, Enrico Scarpella
![](https://focalplane.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/leaf-development-1024x739.jpg)
Deep-learning microscopy image reconstruction with quality control reveals second-scale rearrangements in RNA polymerase II clusters. Hamideh Hajiabadi, Irina Mamontova, Roshan Prizak, Agnieszka Pancholi, Anne Koziolek, Lennart Hilbert
![](https://focalplane.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/RNApolII-1024x610.jpg)
Dynamics of CTCF and cohesin mediated chromatin looping revealed by live-cell imaging. Michele Gabriele, Hugo B Brandão, Simon Grosse-Holz, Asmita Jha, Gina M Dailey, Claudia Cattoglio, Tsung-Han S Hsieh, Leonid Mirny, Christoph Zechner, Anders Sejr Hansen
![](https://focalplane.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/chromatin-1024x643.jpg)
Unraveling the kinetochore nanostructure in Schizosaccharomyces pombe using multi-color single-molecule localization microscopy. David Virant, Ilijana Vojnovic, Jannik Winkelmeier, Marc Endesfelder, Bartosz Turkowyd, David Lando, Ulrike Endesfelder
![](https://focalplane.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/kinetochore_Saccharomyces-1024x827.jpg)
Nanoscale structural organization and stoichiometry of the budding yeast kinetochore. Konstanty Cieslinski, Yu-Le Wu, Lisa Nechyporenko, Sarah Janice Hörner, Duccio Conti, Jonas Ries
![](https://focalplane.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/kinetochore-748x1024.jpg)
Intra-colony channel morphology in Escherichia coli biofilms is governed by nutrient availability and substrate stiffness. Beatrice Bottura, Liam M Rooney, Paul A Hoskisson, Gail McConnell
![](https://focalplane.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ecoli_colony-1024x958.jpg)
Signalling centre vortices coordinate collective behaviour in social amoebae. Hugh Z Ford, Angelika Manhart, Jonathan R Chubb
![](https://focalplane.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/amoebae.png)
Neuronal circuits integrating visual motion information in Drosophila. Kazunori Shinomiya, Aljoscha Nern, Ian Meinertzhagen, Stephen M Plaza, Michael B Reiser
![](https://focalplane.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/neuronalCircuit-881x1024.jpg)
Nanoscale architecture and coordination of actin cores within the sealing zone of human osteoclasts. Marion Portes, Thomas Mangeat, Natacha Escalier, Brigitte Raynaud-Messina, Christophe Thibault, Isabelle Maridonneau-Parini, Christel Vérollet, Renaud Poincloux
![](https://focalplane.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/osteoclast-747x1024.jpg)
Mechanics of human embryo compaction. Julie Firmin, Nicolas Ecker, Diane Rivet Danon, Virginie Barraud Lange, Herve Turlier, Catherine Patrat, Jean-Leon Maitre
![](https://focalplane.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/mechanicsEmbryo.png)