Stiffness tomography of eukaryotic intracellular compartments by atomic force microscopy

Precise localization and biophysical characterization of cellular structures is a key to the understanding of biological processes happening both inside the cell and at the cell surface. Atomic force microscopy is a powerful tool to study the cell surface - topography, elasticity, viscosity, interac...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nanoscale 2019-05, Vol.11 (21), p.132-1328
Hauptverfasser: Janel, Sébastien, Popoff, Michka, Barois, Nicolas, Werkmeister, Elisabeth, Divoux, Séverine, Perez, Franck, Lafont, Frank
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Zusammenfassung:Precise localization and biophysical characterization of cellular structures is a key to the understanding of biological processes happening both inside the cell and at the cell surface. Atomic force microscopy is a powerful tool to study the cell surface - topography, elasticity, viscosity, interactions - and also the viscoelastic behavior of the underlying cytoplasm, cytoskeleton or the nucleus. Here, we demonstrate the ability of atomic force microscopy to also map and characterize organelles and microorganisms inside cells, at the nanoscale, by combining stiffness tomography with super-resolution fluorescence and electron microscopy. By using this correlative approach, we could both identify and characterize intracellular compartments. The validation of this approach was performed by monitoring the stiffening effect according to the metabolic status of the mitochondria in living cells in real-time. After identification by fluorescence microscopy, intracellular compartments are analyzed by stiffness tomography using atomic force microscopy, before further processing for ultrastructural characterization by electron microscopy.
ISSN:2040-3364
2040-3372
DOI:10.1039/c8nr08955h