PCNA appears in two populations of slow and fast diffusion with a constant ratio throughout S-phase in replicating mammalian cells.

DNA replication is a fundamental cellular process that precedes cell division. Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) is a central scaffold protein that orchestrates DNA replication by recruiting many factors essential for the replication machinery. We studied the mobility of PCNA in live mammalian cells using single-particle tracking in combination with photoactivated-localization microscopy (sptPALM) and found two populations.

Click chemistry facilitates direct labelling and super-resolution imaging of nucleic acids and proteins†Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI: 10.1039/c4ra01027bClick here for additional data file.

We demonstrate high-density labelling of cellular DNA and RNA using click chemistry and perform confocal and super-resolution microscopy. We visualize the crescent and ring-like structure of densely packed RNA in nucleoli. We further demonstrate click chemistry with unnatural amino acids for super-resolution imaging of outer-membrane proteins of .

Super-resolution fluorescence imaging of chromosomal DNA.

Super-resolution microscopy is a powerful tool for understanding cellular function. However one of the most important biomolecules - DNA - remains somewhat inaccessible because it cannot be effectively and appropriately labeled. Here, we demonstrate that robust and detailed super-resolution images of DNA can be produced by combining 5-ethynyl-2'-deoxyuridine (EdU) labeling using the 'click chemistry' approach and direct stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (dSTORM).

Organelle segregation into Plasmodium liver stage merozoites.

The liver stage of the Plasmodium parasite remains one of the most promising targets for intervention against malaria as it is clinically silent, precedes the symptomatic blood stage and represents a bottleneck in the parasite life cycle. However, many aspects of the development of the parasite during this stage are far from understood. During the liver stage, the parasite undergoes extensive replication, forming tens of thousands of infectious merozoites from each invading sporozoite.