Authors:
Gražvydas Lukinavičius, Luc Reymond, Elisa D'Este, Anastasiya Masharina, Fabian Göttfert, Haisen Ta, Angelika Güther, Mathias Fournier, Stefano Rizzo, Herbert Waldmann, Claudia Blaukopf, Christoph Sommer, Daniel W Gerlich, Hans-Dieter Arndt, Stefan W Hell, & Kai Johnsson
Summary:
We introduce far-red, fluorogenic probes that combine minimal cytotoxicity with excellent brightness and photostability for fluorescence imaging of actin and tubulin in living cells. Applied in stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy, they reveal the ninefold symmetry of the centrosome and the spatial organization of actin in the axon of cultured rat neurons with a resolution unprecedented for imaging cytoskeletal structures in living cells.
Source:
Nature Methods; (05/25/14)