Nature Communications (May 2020)

Ultrastructural visualization of 3D chromatin folding using volume electron microscopy and DNA in situ hybridization

  • Paweł Trzaskoma,
  • Błażej Ruszczycki,
  • Byoungkoo Lee,
  • Katarzyna K. Pels,
  • Katarzyna Krawczyk,
  • Grzegorz Bokota,
  • Andrzej A. Szczepankiewicz,
  • Jesse Aaron,
  • Agnieszka Walczak,
  • Małgorzata A. Śliwińska,
  • Adriana Magalska,
  • Michal Kadlof,
  • Artur Wolny,
  • Zofia Parteka,
  • Sebastian Arabasz,
  • Magdalena Kiss-Arabasz,
  • Dariusz Plewczyński,
  • Yijun Ruan,
  • Grzegorz M. Wilczyński

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15987-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The genome is folded in 3-dimensions, though the lack of robust ultra-resolution imaging makes this difficult to visualise. Here, the authors present 3D-EMISH that combines serial block-face scanning electron microscopy with in situ hybridization.