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ArticleNature methods2022

Capturing the start point of the virus-cell interaction with high-speed 3D single-virus tracking.

Courtney Johnson, Jack Exell, Yuxin Lin, Jonathan Aguilar, Kevin D Welsher

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Article in Nature methods, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Perspective: An outlook on fluorescence tracking.The Journal of chemical physics · 2025
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  17. Label-Free Anti-Brownian Trapping of Single Nanoparticles in Solution.The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Courtney Johnson *Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5938-1176
Jack Exell *Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5335-5065
Yuxin LinDepartment of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1758-6215
Jonathan AguilarDepartment of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Kevin D WelsherDepartment of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. kdw32@duke.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3180-279X

Funding

Unraveling the Viral Infection Pathway with Virus-locked ObservationR35GM124868 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Kevin Welsher · 2017 to 2026
$3.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM124868U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R35GM124868
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The early stages of the virus-cell interaction have long evaded observation by existing microscopy methods due to the rapid diffusion of virions in the extracellular space and the large three-dimensional cellular structures involved. Here we present an active-feedback single-particle tracking method with simultaneous volumetric imaging of the live cell environment called 3D-TrIm to address this knowledge gap. 3D-TrIm captures the extracellular phase of the infectious cycle in what we believe is unprecedented detail. We report what are, to our knowledge, previously unobserved phenomena in the early stages of the virus-cell interaction, including skimming contact events at the millisecond timescale, orders of magnitude change in diffusion coefficient upon binding and cylindrical and linear diffusion modes along cellular protrusions. Finally, we demonstrate how this method can move single-particle tracking from simple monolayer culture toward more tissue-like conditions by tracking single virions in tightly packed epithelial cells. This multiresolution method presents opportunities for capturing fast, three-dimensional processes in biological systems.

Indexed as

Imaging, Three-DimensionalVirusesCell CommunicationMicroscopySingle Molecule Imaging

Identifiers

PMID36357694
PMCPMC10154077

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