Currently, it is highly desirable but still challenging to obtain high-resolution (<50 nm) three-dimensional (3D) super-resolution information on structures in fixed specimens as well as for dynamic processes in live cells. Here we introduce a simple approach, without using 3D super-resolution microscopy or real-time 3D particle tracking, to estimate 3D sub-diffraction-limited structural or dynamic information in rotationally symmetric biostructures. This is a postlocalization analysis that transforms 2D super-resolution images or 2D single-molecule localization distributions into their corresponding 3D spatial probability distributions on the basis of prior known structural knowledge. This analysis is ideal in cases where the ultrastructure of a cellular structure is known but the substructural localization of a particular (usually mobile) protein is not. The method has been successfully applied to achieve 3D structural and functional sub-diffraction-limited information for 25-300 nm subcellular organelles that meet the rotational symmetry requirement, such as nuclear pore complex, primary cilium, and microtubule. In this Article, we will provide comprehensive analyses of this method by using experimental data and computational simulations. Finally, open source code of the 2D to 3D transformation algorithm (MATLAB) and simulations (Python) have also been developed.
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