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Showing 51-60 of 2685 resultsThe central nervous system can generate various behaviors, including motor responses, which we can observe through video recordings. Recent advances in gene manipulation, automated behavioral acquisition at scale, and machine learning enable us to causally link behaviors to their underlying neural mechanisms. Moreover, in some animals, such as the Drosophila melanogaster larva, this mapping is possible at the unprecedented scale of single neurons, allowing us to identify the neural microcircuits generating particular behaviors. These high-throughput screening efforts, linking the activation or suppression of specific neurons to behavioral patterns in millions of animals, provide a rich dataset to explore the diversity of nervous system responses to the same stimuli. However, important challenges remain in identifying subtle behaviors, including immediate and delayed responses to neural activation or suppression, and understanding these behaviors on a large scale. We here introduce several statistically robust methods for analyzing behavioral data in response to these challenges: 1) A generative physical model that regularizes the inference of larval shapes across the entire dataset. 2) An unsupervised kernel-based method for statistical testing in learned behavioral spaces aimed at detecting subtle deviations in behavior. 3) A generative model for larval behavioral sequences, providing a benchmark for identifying higher-order behavioral changes. 4) A comprehensive analysis technique using suffix trees to categorize genetic lines into clusters based on common action sequences. We showcase these methodologies through a behavioral screen focused on responses to an air puff, analyzing data from 280 716 larvae across 569 genetic lines. Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.03.591825v1
Intermediate filaments (IFs) play key roles in cellular mechanics, signaling, and organization, but tools for their rapid, selective disassembly remain limited. Here, we introduce FilaBuster, a photochemical approach for efficient and spatiotemporally controlled IF disassembly in living cells. FilaBuster uses a three-step strategy: (1) targeting HaloTag to IFs, (2) labeling with a covalent photosensitizer ligand, and (3) light-induced generation of localized reactive oxygen species to trigger filament disassembly. This modular strategy applies broadly across IF subtypes—including vimentin, GFAP, desmin, peripherin, and keratin 18—and is compatible with diverse dyes and imaging platforms. Using vimentin IFs as a model system, we establish a baseline implementation in which vimentin-HaloTag labeled with a photosensitizer HaloTag ligand triggers rapid and specific IF disassembly upon light activation. We then refine this approach by (i) expanding targeting strategies to include a vimentin nanobody-HaloTag fusion, (ii) broadening the range of effective photosensitizers, and (iii) optimizing irradiation parameters to enable precise spatial control over filament disassembly. Together, these findings position FilaBuster as a robust platform for acute, selective, and spatiotemporally precise disassembly of IF networks, enabling new investigations into their structural and functional roles in cell physiology and disease.
Sample-induced aberrations and optical imperfections limit the resolution of fluorescence microscopy. Phase diversity is a powerful technique that leverages complementary phase information in sequentially acquired images with deliberately introduced aberrations--the phase diversities--to enable phase and object reconstruction and restore diffraction-limited resolution. These phase diversities are typically introduced into the optical path via a deformable mirror. Existing phase-diversity-based methods are limited to Zernike modes, require large numbers of diversity images, or depend on accurate mirror calibration--which are all suboptimal. We present DeepPD, a deep learning-based framework that combines neural representations of the object and wavefront with a learned model of the deformable mirror to jointly estimate both object and phase from only five images. DeepPD improves robustness and reconstruction quality over previous approaches, even under severe aberrations. We demonstrate its performance on calibration targets and biological samples, including immunolabeled myosin in fixed PtK2 cells.
Tumors are complex ecosystems composed of malignant and non-malignant cells embedded in a dynamic extracellular matrix (ECM). In the tumor microenvironment, molecular phenotypes are controlled by cell-cell and ECM interactions in 3D cellular neighborhoods (CNs). While their inhibition can impede tumor progression, routine molecular tumor profiling fails to capture cellular interactions. Single-cell spatial transcriptomics (ST) maps receptor-ligand interactions but usually remains limited to 2D tissue sections and lacks ECM readouts. Here, we integrate 3D ST with ECM imaging in serial sections from one clinical lung carcinoma to systematically quantify molecular states, cell-cell interactions, and ECM remodeling in CN. Our integrative analysis pinpointed known immune escape and tumor invasion mechanisms, revealing several druggable drivers of tumor progression in the patient under study. This proof-of-principle study highlights the potential of in-depth CN profiling in routine clinical samples to inform microenvironment-directed therapies. A record of this paper's transparent peer review process is included in the supplemental information.
Identifying the input-output operations of neurons requires measurements of synaptic transmission simultaneously at many of a neuron’s thousands of inputs in the intact brain. To facilitate this goal, we engineered and screened 3365 variants of the fluorescent protein glutamate indicator iGluSnFR3 in neuron culture, and selected variants in the mouse visual cortex. Two variants have high sensitivity, fast activation (< 2 ms) and deactivation times tailored for recording large populations of synapses (iGluSnFR4s, 153 ms) or rapid dynamics (iGluSnFR4f, 26 ms). By imaging action-potential evoked signals on axons and visually-evoked signals on dendritic spines, we show that iGluSnFR4s/4f primarily detect local synaptic glutamate with single-vesicle sensitivity. The indicators detect a wide range of naturalistic synaptic transmission, including in the vibrissal cortex layer 4 and in hippocampal CA1 dendrites. iGluSnFR4 increases the sensitivity and scale (4s) or speed (4f) of tracking information flow in neural networks in vivo.
Mitochondria-ER membrane contact sites (MERCS) represent a fundamental ultrastructural feature underlying unique biochemistry and physiology in eukaryotic cells. The ER protein PDZD8 is required for the formation of MERCS in many cell types, however, its tethering partner on the outer mitochondrial membrane (OMM) is currently unknown. Here we identify the OMM protein FKBP8 as the tethering partner of PDZD8 using a combination of unbiased proximity proteomics, CRISPR-Cas9 endogenous protein tagging, Cryo-electron tomography, and correlative light-electron microscopy. Single molecule tracking reveals highly dynamic diffusion properties of PDZD8 along the ER membrane with significant pauses and captures at MERCS. Overexpression of FKBP8 is sufficient to narrow the ER-OMM distance, whereas independent versus combined deletions of these two proteins demonstrate their interdependence for MERCS formation. Furthermore, PDZD8 enhances mitochondrial complexity in a FKBP8-dependent manner. Our results identify a novel ER-mitochondria tethering complex that regulates mitochondrial morphology in mammalian cells. Preprint: 10.1101/2025.02.22.639343
Cell fate choice is a key event happening during preimplantation mouse development. From embryonic day 3.5 (E3.5) to E4.5, the inner cell mass (ICM) differentiates into epiblast (Epi, NANOG expressing cells) and primitive endoderm (PrE, GATA6, SOX17 and/or GATA4 expressing cells). The mechanism by which ICM cells differentiate into Epi cells and PrE cells remains partially unknown. FGF/ERK has been proposed as the main signalling pathway for this event, but it does not explain co-expression of NANOG and GAT6 or how the cell fate choice is initiated. In this study, we investigate whether Wnt/β-catenin signalling also plays a role. To this end, we use two in vitro models based on inducible GATA6 expression: one in 2D, and another in 3D, namely ICM organoids. By combining these in vitro models with in vivo mouse embryos, chemical and classical genetics, and quantitative 3D immunofluorescence analyses, we propose a dual role for Wnt/β-catenin signalling. We find that β-catenin, acting alongside FGF/ERK signalling, helps to guide the cell fate choice towards PrE. Additionally, by regulating GATA6 and GATA4 stability, β-catenin further facilitates this choice. To summarise, we observe that pathway activation promotes PrE differentiation, while its inhibition stalls it. SUMMARY STATEMENT Wnt/β-catenin signalling promotes PrE fate in mouse preimplantation embryos.
Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) has proven to be a valuable tool for advanced biological and pharmacological research, providing phase information for the study of cell features and physiology in label-free conditions. The next step for QPI to become a gold standard is the quantitative assessment of the phase gradients over the different microscopy setups. Given the large variety of QPI systems, a systematic comparison is a challenging task, and requires a calibration target representative of the living samples. In this paper, we introduce a tailor-made 3D-printed phantom derived from phase images of eukaryotic cells. It comprises typical morphologies and optical thicknesses found in biological cultures and is characterized with digital holographic microscopy (reference measurements). The performance of three different full field QPI optical systems, in terms of optical path difference and dry mass accuracy, were evaluated. This phantom opens up other possibilities for the validation of reconstruction algorithms and post-processing routines, and paves the way for calibration targets designed ad hoc for specific biological questions.
SIGNIFICANCE: one-photon fluorescence imaging of calcium and voltage indicators expressed in neurons enables noninvasive recordings of neural activity with submillisecond precision. However, data acquisition speed is limited by the frame rate of cameras. AIM: We developed a compressive streak fluorescence microscope to record fluorescence in individual neurons at high speeds ( frames per second) exceeding the nominal frame rate of the camera by trading off spatial pixels for temporal resolution. APPROACH: Our microscope leverages a digital micromirror device for targeted illumination, a galvo mirror for temporal scanning, and a ridge regression algorithm for fast computational reconstruction of fluorescence traces with high temporal resolution. RESULTS: In simulations, the ridge regression algorithm reconstructs traces of high temporal resolution with limited signal loss. Validation experiments with fluorescent beads and experiments in larval zebrafish demonstrate accurate reconstruction with a data compression ratio of 10 and accurate recordings of neural activity with 200- to 400-Hz sampling speeds. CONCLUSIONS: Our compressive microscopy enables new experimental capabilities to monitor activity at a sampling speed that outpaces the nominal frame rate of the camera.
Genetically encoded calcium ion (Ca) indicators (GECIs) are widely-used molecular tools for functional imaging of Ca dynamics and neuronal activities with single-cell resolution. Here we report the design and development of two far-red fluorescent GECIs, FR-GECO1a and FR-GECO1c, based on the monomeric far-red fluorescent proteins mKelly1 and mKelly2. FR-GECOs have excitation and emission maxima at ~596 nm and ~644 nm, respectively, display large responses to Ca in vitro (ΔF/F = 6 for FR-GECO1a, 18 for FR-GECO1c), are bright under both one-photon and two-photon illumination, and have high affinities (apparent K = 29 nM for FR-GECO1a, 83 nM for FR-GECO1c) for Ca. FR-GECOs offer sensitive and fast detection of single action potentials in neurons, and enable in vivo all-optical manipulation and measurement of cellular activities in combination with optogenetic actuators.