Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

A peptide tag-specific nanobody enables high-quality labeling for dSTORM imaging

  • David Virant,
  • Bjoern Traenkle,
  • Julia Maier,
  • Philipp D. Kaiser,
  • Mona Bodenhöfer,
  • Christian Schmees,
  • Ilijana Vojnovic,
  • Borbála Pisak-Lukáts,
  • Ulrike Endesfelder,
  • Ulrich Rothbauer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03191-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Nanobodies (Nbs) coupled to organic dyes are increasingly used for super-resolution cell imaging, but producing gene-specific Nbs is time-consuming. Here the authors present a peptide-tag/Nb combination for dSTORM imaging which can be easily adapted to different targets in fixed and live cells.