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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 105, Issue 38, Pages 14271-14276Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807705105
Keywords
fluorescence; GFP; microscopy; resolution
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- German Ministry for Research and Education
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We demonstrate far-field optical imaging with subdiffraction resolution of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in the interior of a living mammalian cell. The diffraction barrier is overcome by applying stimulated emission depletion (STED) on a yellow fluorescent protein tag. Imaging individual structural elements of the ER revealed a focal plane (x, y) resolution of < 50 nm inside the living cell, corresponding to a 4-fold improvement over that of a confocal microscope and a 16-fold reduction in the focal-spot cross-sectional area. A similar gain in resolution is realized with both pulsed- and continuous-wave laser illumination. images of highly convoluted parts of the ER reveal a similar resolution improvement in 3D optical sectioning by a factor of 3 along the optic axis (z). Time-lapse STED recordings document morphological changes of the ER over time. Thus, nanoscale 313 imaging of organelles in the interior of living cells greatly expands the scope of light microscopy in cell biology.
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