项目来源

美国卫生和人类服务部基金(HHS)

项目主持人

SAMMAK, PAUL J

项目受资助机构

YALE UNIVERSITY

立项年度

2019

立项时间

未公开

项目编号

5R01GM118486-04

研究期限

未知 / 未知

项目级别

国家级

受资助金额

837500.00美元

学科

Bioengineering; Biotechnology; Nanotechnology;

学科代码

未公开

基金类别

Non-SBIR/STTR RPGs

关键词

未公开

参与者

BADDELEY, DAVID ; BEWERSDORF, JOERG ; TOOMRE, DEREK K.

参与机构

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES

项目标书摘要：? DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term aim of this project is to enable the imaging of vesicle and organelle dynamics inside living cells with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. The most compelling advantage of new super-resolution techniques such as single molecule switching (SMS) nanoscopy is the potential to image dynamic processes in living cells with 10-20 nm resolution and hence solve the many open questions in cell biology which need both high structural and temporal resolution. One such problem is how the Golgi is dynamically organized, a major and highly debated enigma. Although SMS imaging in fixed cells is already yielding impressive new biological discoveries, the potential to resolve dynamics is far from fully realized. Key limiting factors include: (i) lack of instrumentation capable of both attaining the highest resolutions and doing so in an environment and at a speed which are compatible with extended imaging in living cells, (ii) lack of good probes which can non-toxically label and switch inside a live cell with high specificity, density and brightness, and (iii) uncertainty about how to deal with the potentially incomplete data that high-speed super-resolution microscopy delivers. Motivated by a long-standing biological problem, namely the mechanism by which proteins are trafficked through the Golgi complex, we propose to address these major current limitations and develop the microscope hardware, probes and algorithms to make dynamic nanoscopy a reality. Our specific aims are: 1) To implement a 4Pi-SMS instrument which will deliver the best possible 3D resolution in living cells with minimal photodamage, 2) To develop a new genre of blinkable high-density live-cell SMS probes to image the Golgi, and 3) To develop new image processing tools which leverage prior biophysical knowledge to improve the reconstruction and quantification of Golgi morphology. These three methodological developments will be applied to a novel synthetic biology system that 'landlocks' Golgi cisternae to mitochondria and will facilitate favorable geometries to monito Golgi function. Although targeted at the Golgi, our methodological developments will be broadly applicable to live-cell super-resolution dynamic imaging of nearly every organelle within the cell.