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Integrated and correlative high-throughput and super-resolution microscopy

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We have developed a method to perform microscopic temporal and spacial multi-scale experiments by imaging cellular phenotypes of interest on complementary fluorescence microscopy systems. In a low-resolution fast data acquisition screen for phenotypic cellular responses induced by small interfering RNA (siRNA), cells in spots of siRNA cell arrays showing characteristic alterations have been selected automatically by feature space analysis. These objects were imaged on a second super-resolution dSTORM microscope (direct stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy). The coordinate transfer was based on fixed cells as reference points without the use of additional fiducial markers. This procedure is suitable to combine any kind of fluorescence microscopy technique, in order to gain further insights on the observed specimen at multiple temporal or special scales.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Nina Beil and Jürgen Beneke for help with the sample treatment and preparation of the ready-to-transfect cell arrays. This work was supported by contract research “Methoden für die Lebenswissenschaften” of the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung (Grant Nr. P-LS-SPII/11). The ViroQuant-CellNetworks RNAi screening facility is supported by the CellNetworks-Cluster of Excellence (EXC81).

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Gunkel, M., Flottmann, B., Heilemann, M. et al. Integrated and correlative high-throughput and super-resolution microscopy. Histochem Cell Biol 141, 597–603 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00418-014-1209-y

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