ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024
MINFLUX reveals dynein stepping in live neurons.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Characterizing dynamics of productive dynein stepping by MINFLUX.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2026Article
- Polarized mitochondrial respiratory chain complexes in synaptic mitochondria induced by plasticity signals.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2026Article
- Integrated MINFLUX tracking reveals two distinct chromatin dynamics classes across cell types.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2026Article
- Smart event-triggered MINFLUX microscopy to catch and follow rare events.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Using image classifiers to predict CMT2A disease-relevant mitochondrial motility phenotypes in iPSC motor neurons.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Integrating the Contrasting Perspectives Between the Constrained Disorder Principle and Deterministic Optical Nanoscopy: Enhancing Information Extraction from Imaging of Complex Systems.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Advances in high-resolution imaging of centrioles and cilia.Journal of cell science · 2025Review
- The mechanochemical cycle of reactive full-length human dynein 1.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2025Article
- Concurrent diffusion of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and fluorescent cholesterol disclosed by two-colour sub-millisecond MINFLUX-based single-molecule tracking.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Profile of Stefan W. Hell.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Super-resolution microscopy and deep learning methods: what can they bring to neuroscience: from neuron to 3D spine segmentation.Frontiers in neuroinformatics · 2025Review
- Super-resolution imaging of the neuronal cytoskeleton.Npj imaging · 2024Review
- Stepping dynamics of dynein characterized by MINFLUX.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Dynein is the primary molecular motor responsible for retrograde intracellular transport of a variety of cargoes, performing successive nanometer-sized steps within milliseconds. Due to the limited spatiotemporal precision of established methods for molecular tracking, current knowledge of dynein stepping is essentially limited to slowed-down measurements in vitro. Here, we use MINFLUX fluorophore localization to directly track CRISPR/Cas9-tagged endogenous dynein with nanometer/millisecond precision in living primary neurons. We show that endogenous dynein primarily takes 8 nm steps, including frequent sideways steps but few backward steps. Strikingly, the majority of direction reversals between retrograde and anterograde movement occurred on the time scale of single steps (16 ms), suggesting a rapid regulatory reversal mechanism. Tug-of-war-like behavior during pauses or reversals was unexpectedly rare. By analyzing the dwell time between steps, we concluded that a single rate-limiting process underlies the dynein stepping mechanism, likely arising from just one adenosine 5'-triphosphate hydrolysis event being required during each step. Our study underscores the power of MINFLUX localization to elucidate the spatiotemporal changes underlying protein function in living cells.
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