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NEW PHYTOLOGIST
Volume 223, Issue 4, Pages 1756-1761Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.15882
Keywords
chromatin; correlative light and electron microscopy; electron microscopy (EM); electron tomography (ET); endomembrane compartments; fluorescence microscopy; high-pressure freezing; plant organelle structures
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Structural analyses of organelles and localization of proteins in their confines are essential to investigate inner workings of eukaryotic cells. Electron tomography (ET) is a three-dimensional electron microscopy method with which we can extract sliced views of organelles from any direction and quantify their structural parameters at nanometer-level resolution. This advanced electron microscopy tool is suited for characterization of convoluted membrane compartments and of cellular constituents of dimensions smaller than 100 nm. ET studies of plant cells fixed by rapid freezing have expanded our understanding of the biogenesis and functions of plant organelles. Here we describe how the molecular imaging capacity of correlative light and electron microscopy can be integrated with ET in studies of plant organelles.
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