Journal
MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY
Volume 229, Issue -, Pages 47-52Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2019.02.007
Keywords
Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Blood stage; Immunofluorescence; STED; Super-resolution
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- German Research Foundation (DFG) [349355339]
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Immunofluorescence staining is the key technique for visualizing organization of endogenous cellular structures in single cells. Labeling and imaging of blood stage Plasmodium falciparum has always been challenging since it is a small intracellular parasite. A widely-used standard for parasite immunofluorescence is fixation in suspension with addition of minute amounts of glutaraldehyde to the paraformaldehyde-based solution. While this maintains red blood cell integrity, it has been postulated that antigenicity of the parasite proteins was, if at all, only slightly reduced. Here we show the deleterious effect that even these small quantities of glutaraldehyde can have on immunofluorescence staining quality and present an alternative cell seeding protocol that allows fixation with only paraformaldehyde. The highly improved signal intensity and staining efficiency enabled us to carry out RescueSTED nanoscopy on microtubules and nuclear pores and describe their organization in greater detail throughout the blood stage cycle.
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