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Where in the cell is my protein?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2021

David J. DeRosier Open the ORCID record for David J. DeRosier [Opens in a new window]
David J. DeRosier*
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Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
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Author for correspondence: David J. DeRosier, E-mail: derosier@brandeis.edu
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Abstract

The application of cryo-correlative light and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-CLEM) gives us a way to locate structures of interest in the electron microscope. In brief, the structures of interest are fluorescently tagged, and images from the cryo-fluorescent microscope (cryo-FM) maps are superimposed on those from the cryo-electron microscope (cryo-EM). By enhancing cryo-FM to include single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM), we can achieve much better localization. The introduction of cryo-SMLM increased the yield of photons from fluorophores, which can benefit localization efforts. Dahlberg and Moerner (2021, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 72, 253–278) have a recent broad and elegant review of super-resolution cryo-CLEM. This paper focuses on cryo(F)PALM/STORM for the cryo-electron tomography community. I explore the current challenges to increase the accuracy of localization by SMLM and the mapping of those positions onto cryo-EM images and maps. There is much to consider: we need to know if the excitation of fluorophores damages the structures we seek to visualize. We need to determine if higher numerical aperture (NA) objectives, which add complexity to image analysis but increase resolution and the efficiency of photon collection, are better than lower NA objectives, which pose fewer problems. We need to figure out the best way to determine the axial position of fluorophores. We need to have better ways of aligning maps determined by FM with those determined by EM. We need to improve the instrumentation to be easier to use, more accurate, and ice-contamination free. The bottom line is that we have more work to do.

Keywords

Cryo-CLEMcryo-electron microscopycryo-ETcryo-superresolution fluorescence microscopyFIB-SEM microscopylocalization of structures
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Review
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Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics , Volume 54 , 2021 , e9
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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