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2695 Janelia Publications

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05/20/25 | Myocardium and endocardium of the early mammalian heart tube arise from independent multipotent lineages specified at the primitive streak
Sendra M, McDole K, de Dios Hourcade J, Temiño S, Raiola M, Guignard L, Keller PJ, Domínguez JN, Torres M
Dev Cell. 2025 May 20:. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2025.05.002

The formation of the primitive heart tube from cardiomyocytes and endocardial cells is a key event in mammalian development. Previous studies suggested that cardiomyocytes and endocardial cells segregate from a shared cardiac progenitor around the onset of gastrulation, yet their lineage relationship with other mesodermal tissues remains unclear. Using retrospective and prospective clonal analyses in mouse embryos, we traced cardiomyocyte and endocardial progenitors from the primitive streak to the heart tube. Our results identify two independent mesodermal populations specified around gastrulation onset. While each of these populations is unipotent in producing cardiomyocytes or endocardium, they retain multipotency and contribute to different subsets of non-cardiac mesoderm. Nonetheless, live imaging identifies simultaneous ingression and intermingling of these two mesodermal lineages in the primitive streak, showing their coordinated specification and migration. The proposed model for cardiac progenitor specification will help understanding the origins of congenital heart diseases and designing tissue engineering strategies.

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05/19/25 | Imaging neuronal voltage beyond the scattering limit
Tsai-Wen Chen , Xian-Bin Huang , Sarah E. Plutkis , Katie L. Holland , Luke D. Lavis , Bei-Jung Lin
Nat Methods. 2025 May 19:. doi: 10.1038/s41592-025-02692-5

Voltage imaging is a promising technique for high-speed recording of neuronal population activity. However, tissue scattering severely limits its application in dense neuronal populations. Here, we adopted the principle of localization microscopy, a technique that enables super-resolution imaging of single-molecules, to resolve dense neuronal activities in vivo. Leveraging the sparse activation of neurons during action potentials (APs), we precisely localize the fluorescence change associated with each AP, creating a super-resolution image of neuronal activities. This approach, termed Activity Localization Imaging (ALI), identifies overlapping neurons and separates their activities with over 10-fold greater precision than what tissue scattering permits. Using ALI, we simultaneously recorded over a hundred densely-labeled CA1 neurons, creating a map of hippocampal theta oscillation at single-cell and single-cycle resolution.

 

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.03.56840

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05/14/25 | A Salmonella subset exploits erythrophagocytosis to subvert SLC11A1-imposed iron deprivation
Béatrice Roche , Beatrice Claudi , Olivier Cunrath , Christopher K.E. Bleck , Minia Antelo-Varela , Jiagui Li , Dirk Bumann
Cell Host & Microbe. 2025 May 14;33:632-642.e4. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2025.04.013

Summary Solute carrier family 11 member 1 (SLC11A1) is critical for host resistance to diverse intracellular pathogens. During infection, SLC11A1 limits Salmonella’s access to iron, zinc, and magnesium, but only magnesium deprivation significantly impairs Salmonella replication. To understand the unexpected minor impact of iron, we determined Salmonella’s iron access in infected SLC11A1-deficient and normal mice. Using reporter strains and mass spectrometry of Salmonella purified from the spleen, we found that SLC11A1 caused growth-restricting iron deprivation in a subset of Salmonella. Volume electron microscopy revealed that another Salmonella subset circumvented iron restriction by targeting iron-rich endosomes in macrophages degrading red blood cells (erythrophagocytosis). These iron-replete bacteria dominated overall Salmonella growth, masking the effects of the other Salmonella subset’s iron deprivation. Thus, SLC11A1 effectively sequesters iron, but heterogeneous Salmonella populations partially bypass this nutritional immunity by targeting iron-rich tissue microenvironments.

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05/15/25 | Proprioceptive limit detectors mediate sensorimotor control of the Drosophila leg
Pratt BG, Dallmann CJ, Chou GM, Siwanowicz I, Walling-Bell S, Cook A, Sustar A, Azevedo A, Tuthill JC
bioRxiv. 2025 May 15:. doi: 10.1101/2025.05.15.654260

Many animals possess mechanosensory neurons that fire when a limb nears the limit of its physical range, but the function of these proprioceptive limit detectors remains poorly understood. Here, we investigate a class of proprioceptors on the Drosophila leg called hair plates. Using calcium imaging in behaving flies, we find that a hair plate on the fly coxa (CxHP8) detects the limits of anterior leg movement. Reconstructing CxHP8 axons in the connectome, we found that they are wired to excite posterior leg movement and inhibit anterior leg movement. Consistent with this connectivity, optogenetic activation of CxHP8 neurons elicited posterior postural reflexes, while silencing altered the swing-to-stance transition during walking. Finally, we use comprehensive reconstruction of peripheral morphology and downstream connectivity to predict the function of other hair plates distributed across the fly leg. Our results suggest that each hair plate is specialized to control specific sensorimotor reflexes that are matched to the joint limit it detects. They also illustrate the feasibility of predicting sensorimotor reflexes from a connectome with identified proprioceptive inputs and motor outputs.

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05/13/25 | Unlocking in vivo metabolic insights with vibrational microscopy.
Chen T, Savini M, Wang MC
Nat Methods. 2025 May 13;22(5):886-889. doi: 10.1038/s41592-025-02616-3
05/13/25 | Unlocking in vivo metabolic insights with vibrational microscopy.
Chen T, Savini M, Wang MC
Nat Methods. 2025 May 13;22(5):886-889. doi: 10.1038/s41592-025-02616-3

No abstract available.

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05/15/25 | Norepinephrine changes behavioral state via astroglial purinergic signaling
Chen AB, Duque M, Wang VM, Dhanasekar M, Mi X, Rymbek A, Tocquer L, Narayan S, Prober D, Yu G, Wyart C, Engert F, Ahrens MB
Science. 2025 May 15:. doi: 10.1126/science.adq5233

Both neurons and glia communicate through diffusible neuromodulators; however, how neuron-glial interactions in such neuromodulatory networks influence circuit computation and behavior is unclear. During futility-induced behavioral transitions in the larval zebrafish, the neuromodulator norepinephrine (NE) drives fast excitation and delayed inhibition of behavior and circuit activity. We found that astroglial purinergic signaling implements the inhibitory arm of this motif. In larval zebrafish, NE triggers astroglial release of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), extracellular conversion of ATP into adenosine, and behavioral suppression through activation of hindbrain neuronal adenosine receptors. Our results suggest a computational and behavioral role for an evolutionarily conserved astroglial purinergic signaling axis in NE-mediated behavioral and brain state transitions and position astroglia as important effectors in neuromodulatory signaling.

 

Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2024/05/23/2024.05.23.595576

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05/12/25 | Compartmentalization of the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Mouse Kidney Proximal Tubule Epithelial Cells
Reyna-Neyra A, Pandya RD, Lackner EM, Pang S, Li W, Xu CS, Zugates C, Burdyniuk M, Pandya VD, Weisz OA, Caplan MJ
Physiology. 2025 May 12;40:1280. doi: 10.1152/physiol.2025.40.S1.1280

The renal proximal tubule plays a critical role in water and solute reabsorption. Recently we generated a high resolution 3D, quantifiable volume microscopic identification of the ultrastructure of kidney Proximal Tubule (PT) cells using enhanced Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy (eFIB-SEM) and machine learning-based segmentation approaches. This analysis revealed that, in a volume of 70x60x177 µm3 of mouse kidney tissue, the mean volume of PT cells is 1980.25 µm3 ± 491.28 μm3. In an analysis of 25 PT cells, mitochondria (MITO) and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) accounted for an average of 26.4% and 6.3% of cell volume, respectively. Importantly, 91% of the total ER volume appeared to be comprised of a single contiguous ER structure as determined by tracing the ER surface. Using semi-thin sections (0.5 µm) of mouse kidney and antibodies directed against ER proteins we assessed the functional compartmentalization of the ER in PT cells by immunofluorescence microscopy. We find that ER proteins that participate in maintaining ER structure and lipid exchange, such as CLIMP-63 and VAP-A, localize to regions of the ER that are in close apposition to the basolateral plasma membrane (BL PM) of the PT cell. This distribution is confirmed by co-staining with an antibody directed against the Na, K-ATPase, a marker of the BL PM. In contrast, regions of the ER that are involved in calcium ion storage, as detected by staining for the SERCA calcium ATPase, are distributed broadly through the cytoplasm in the area of the cell that is rich in MITO. Staining for mitofilin, a MITO outer membrane protein, confirmed the abundance and distribution of the MITO in all of the PT cells. PDI, a protein that regulates proper folding and maturation of newly synthesized proteins in the lumen of the ER, resides primarily in portions of the ER that surround the nucleus and extend into the apical regions of the cell. PDI is mostly absent from the BL portions of the PT cells. Interestingly, calreticulin, which participates both in ER calcium storage and newly synthesized protein folding and quality control processes, is heavily concentrated in the subapical region of the cell. Using the machine learning algorithm to segment the lumen of the seemingly continuous ER structure demonstrates that, within the limit of resolution of this technique, continuity of ER lumens is limited to discrete patches. The defined distributions of these ER markers demonstrates that the extensive ER network in proximal tubule cells is divided into subdomains with distinct functional capacities and properties. NIH-RC2 DK120534. RDP and EML conributed equally. OAW and MJC contributed equally. This abstract was presented at the American Physiology Summit 2025 and is only available in HTML format. There is no downloadable file or PDF version. The Physiology editorial board was not involved in the peer review process.

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05/13/25 | Quantitative spatial analysis of chromatin biomolecular condensates using cryoelectron tomography.
Zhou H, Hutchings J, Shiozaki M, Zhao X, Doolittle LK, Yang S, Yan R, Jean N, Riggi M, Yu Z, Villa E, Rosen MK
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 May 13;122(19):e2426449122. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2426449122

Phase separation is an important mechanism to generate certain biomolecular condensates and organize the cell interior. Condensate formation and function remain incompletely understood due to difficulties in visualizing the condensate interior at high resolution. Here, we analyzed the structure of biochemically reconstituted chromatin condensates through cryoelectron tomography. We found that traditional blotting methods of sample preparation were inadequate, and high-pressure freezing plus focused ion beam milling was essential to maintain condensate integrity. To identify densely packed molecules within the condensate, we integrated deep learning-based segmentation with context-aware template matching. Our approaches were developed on chromatin condensates and were also effective on condensed regions of in situ native chromatin. Using these methods, we determined the average structure of nucleosomes to 6.1 and 12 Å resolution in reconstituted and native systems, respectively, found that nucleosomes form heterogeneous interaction networks in both cases, and gained insight into the molecular origins of surface tension in chromatin condensates. Our methods should be applicable to biomolecular condensates containing large and distinctive components in both biochemical reconstitutions and certain cellular systems.

Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.01.626131v2

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Integrative Imaging
05/06/25 | Challenges of microscopy technology dissemination to resource-constrained communities.
Aaron JS, Jacobs CA, Malacrida L, Keppler A, French P, Fletcher DA, Wood C, Brown CM, Wright GD, Ogawa S, Maina M, Chew T
Nat Methods. 2025 May 06:. doi: 10.1038/s41592-025-02690-7

No abstract available.

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