• Endocytic motif on a biotin-tagged hiv-1 env modulates the co-transfer of env and gag during cell-to-cell transmission 

      Barría, María Inés; Alvarez, Raymond A.; Law, Kenneth; Wolfson, Deanna; Huser, Thomas; Chen, Benjamin K. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-31)
      During HIV-1 transmission through T cell virological synapses, the recruitment of the envelope (Env) glycoprotein to the site of cell–cell contact is important for adhesion and for packaging onto nascent virus particles which assemble at the site. Live imaging studies in CD4 T cells have captured the rapid recruitment of the viral structural protein Gag to VSs. We explored the role of endocytic ...
    • Grazing incidence to total internal reflection fluorescence structured illumination microscopy enabled by a prism telescope 

      Ortkrass, Henning; Wiebusch, Gerd; Linnenbrügger, Jochen; Schürstedt, Jasmin; Szafranska, Karolina Joanna; McCourt, Peter Anthony; Huser, Thomas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-11-13)
      In super-resolution structured illumination microscopy (SR-SIM) the separation between opposing laser spots in the back focal plane of the objective lens affects the pattern periodicity, and, thus, the resulting spatial resolution. Here, we introduce a novel hexagonal prism telescope which allows us to seamlessly change the separation between parallel laser beams for 3 pairs of beams, simultaneously. ...
    • Multiscale and Multimodal Optical Imaging of the Ultrastructure of Human Liver Biopsies 

      Kong, Cihang; Bobe, Stefanie; Pilger, Christian; Lachetta, Mario; Øie, Cristina Ionica; Kirschnick, Nils; Mönkemöller, Viola; Hübner, Wolfgang; Förster, Christine; Schuttpelz, Mark; Kiefer, Friedemann; Huser, Thomas; Schulte am Esch, Jan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-17)
      The liver as the largest organ in the human body is composed of a complex macroscopic and microscopic architecture that supports its indispensable function to maintain physiological homeostasis. Optical imaging of the human liver is particularly challenging because of the need to cover length scales across 7 orders of magnitude (from the centimeter scale to the nanometer scale) in order to fully ...
    • Nanoscopy of bacterial cells immobilized by holographic optical tweezers 

      Diekmann, Robin; Wolfson, Deanna; Spahn, Christoph; Heilemann, Mike; Schuttpelz, Mark; Huser, Thomas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-12-13)
      Imaging non-adherent cells by super-resolution far-field fluorescence microscopy is currently not possible because of their rapid movement while in suspension. Holographic optical tweezers (HOTs) enable the ability to freely control the number and position of optical traps, thus facilitating the unrestricted manipulation of cells in a volume around the focal plane. Here we show that immobilizing ...
    • Primary rat LSECs preserve their characteristic phenotype after cryopreservation 

      Mönkemöller, Viola; Mao, Hong; Hubner, Wolfgang; Heimann, Peter; Levy, Gahl; Huser, Thomas; Kaltschmidt, Barbara; Kaltschmidt, Christian; Øie, Cristina Ionica (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-02)
      Liver disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Recently, the liver non-parenchymal cells have gained increasing attention for their potential role in the development of liver disease. Liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs), a specialized type of endothelial cells that have unique morphology and function, play a fundamental role in maintaining liver homeostasis. Current ...
    • The Relationship between Fenestrations, Sieve Plates and Rafts in Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells 

      Svistounov, Dmitri; Warren, Alessandra; McNerney, Gregory P; Owen, Dylan M.; Zencak, Dusan; Zykova, Svetlana N; Crane, Harry; Huser, Thomas; Quinn, Ronald J.; Smedsrød, Bård; Le Couteur, David G; Cogger, Victoria C (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Fenestrations are transcellular pores in endothelial cells that facilitate transfer of substrates between blood and the extravascular compartment. In order to understand the regulation and formation of fenestrations, the relationship between membrane rafts and fenestrations was investigated in liver sinusoidal endothelial cells where fenestrations are grouped into sieve plates. Three dimensional ...
    • The thuEFGKAB Operon of Rhizobia and Agrobacterium tumefaciens Codes for Transport of Trehalose, Maltitol, and Isomers of Sucrose and Their Assimilation through the Formation of Their 3-Keto Derivatives 

      Ampomah, Osei Yaw; Avetisyan, Anna; Hansen, Espen; Svenson, Johan; Huser, Thomas; Jensen, John Beck; Bhuvaneswari, T.V (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      The thu operon (thuEFGKAB) in Sinorhizobium meliloti codes for transport and utilization functions of the disaccharide trehalose. Sequenced genomes of members of the Rhizobiaceae reveal that some rhizobia and Agrobacterium possess the entire thu operon in similar organizations and that Mesorhizobium loti MAFF303099 lacks the transport (thuEFGK) genes. In this study, we show that this operon is ...