Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Nanoscale imaging of bacterial infections by sphingolipid expansion microscopy

  • Ralph Götz,
  • Tobias C. Kunz,
  • Julian Fink,
  • Franziska Solger,
  • Jan Schlegel,
  • Jürgen Seibel,
  • Vera Kozjak-Pavlovic,
  • Thomas Rudel,
  • Markus Sauer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19897-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Imaging of lipid bilayers using light microscopy is challenging. Here the authors label cells using a short chain click-compatible ceramide to visualize mammalian and bacterial membranes with expansion microscopy.