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  text: 'Super-resolution methods provide far better spatial resolution than the optical
    diffraction limit of about half the wavelength of light (∼200-300 nm). Nevertheless,
    they have yet to attain widespread use in plants, largely due to plants’ challenging
    optical properties. Expansion microscopy improves effective resolution by isotropically
    increasing the physical distances between sample structures while preserving relative
    spatial arrangements and clearing the sample. However, its application to plants
    has been hindered by the rigid, mechanically cohesive structure of plant tissues.
    Here, we report on whole-mount expansion microscopy of thale cress (Arabidopsis
    thaliana) root tissues (PlantEx), achieving a four-fold resolution increase over
    conventional microscopy. Our results highlight the microtubule cytoskeleton organization
    and interaction between molecularly defined cellular constituents. Combining PlantEx
    with stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy, we increase nanoscale resolution
    and visualize the complex organization of subcellular organelles from intact tissues
    by example of the densely packed COPI-coated vesicles associated with the Golgi
    apparatus and put these into a cellular structural context. Our results show that
    expansion microscopy can be applied to increase effective imaging resolution in
    Arabidopsis root specimens. '
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acknowledgement: "We gratefully acknowledge support by the Scientific Service Units
  at ISTA, including the Imaging and Optics and Lab Support facilities and the mechanical
  workshop and Library. We thank Philipp Velicky for STED microscope alignment.\r\nThis
  project has received funding from the European Research Council under the Horizon
  2020 Framework Programme (grant agreement No 742985, J.F.). It has also received
  funding from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie
  Grant Agreement No. 665385 (M.G.). S.T. has received funding as an ISTplus Fellow
  from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement
  no. 754411 and from EMBO via a Long-Term Fellowship (grant number ALTF 679-2018).
  M.R.T. received funding from the Austrian Academy of Sciences with DOC fellowship
  no. 26137. The project has further received funding from the Austrian Science Fund,
  via grant DK W1232 (M.R.T., N.A.D., and J.G.D). W.J. received a postdoctoral fellowship
  from the Human Frontier Science Program (LT000557/2018). The funders had no role
  in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation
  of the manuscript."
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- first_name: Caroline
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  last_name: Tavakoli
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  full_name: Agudelo Duenas, Nathalie
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  last_name: Agudelo Duenas
- first_name: Jakob
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  last_name: Vorlaufer
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- first_name: Wiebke
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  last_name: Jahr
- first_name: Marek
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  last_name: Randuch
- first_name: Alexander J
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  last_name: Johnson
  orcid: 0000-0002-2739-8843
- first_name: Eva
  full_name: Benková, Eva
  id: 38F4F166-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Benková
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- first_name: Jiří
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- first_name: Johann G
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  last_name: Danzl
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  ama: Gallei MC, Truckenbrodt SM, Kreuzinger C, et al. Super-resolution expansion
    microscopy in plant roots. <i>The Plant Cell</i>. 2025;37(4). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf006">10.1093/plcell/koaf006</a>
  apa: Gallei, M. C., Truckenbrodt, S. M., Kreuzinger, C., Inumella, S., Vistunou,
    V., Sommer, C. M., … Danzl, J. G. (2025). Super-resolution expansion microscopy
    in plant roots. <i>The Plant Cell</i>. Oxford University Press. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf006">https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf006</a>
  chicago: Gallei, Michelle C, Sven M Truckenbrodt, Caroline Kreuzinger, Syamala Inumella,
    Vitali Vistunou, Christoph M Sommer, Mojtaba Tavakoli, et al. “Super-Resolution
    Expansion Microscopy in Plant Roots.” <i>The Plant Cell</i>. Oxford University
    Press, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf006">https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf006</a>.
  ieee: M. C. Gallei <i>et al.</i>, “Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant
    roots,” <i>The Plant Cell</i>, vol. 37, no. 4. Oxford University Press, 2025.
  ista: Gallei MC, Truckenbrodt SM, Kreuzinger C, Inumella S, Vistunou V, Sommer CM,
    Tavakoli M, Agudelo Duenas N, Vorlaufer J, Jahr W, Randuch M, Johnson AJ, Benková
    E, Friml J, Danzl JG. 2025. Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots.
    The Plant Cell. 37(4), koaf006.
  mla: Gallei, Michelle C., et al. “Super-Resolution Expansion Microscopy in Plant
    Roots.” <i>The Plant Cell</i>, vol. 37, no. 4, koaf006, Oxford University Press,
    2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf006">10.1093/plcell/koaf006</a>.
  short: M.C. Gallei, S.M. Truckenbrodt, C. Kreuzinger, S. Inumella, V. Vistunou,
    C.M. Sommer, M. Tavakoli, N. Agudelo Duenas, J. Vorlaufer, W. Jahr, M. Randuch,
    A.J. Johnson, E. Benková, J. Friml, J.G. Danzl, The Plant Cell 37 (2025).
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  text: Multiplexed fluorescence microscopy imaging is widely used in biomedical applications.
    However, simultaneous imaging of multiple fluorophores can result in spectral
    leaks and overlapping, which greatly degrades image quality and subsequent analysis.
    Existing popular spectral unmixing methods are mainly based on computational intensive
    linear models and the performance is heavily dependent on the reference spectra,
    which may greatly preclude its further applications. In this paper, we propose
    a deep learning-based blindly spectral unmixing method, termed AutoUnmix, to imitate
    the physical spectral mixing process. A tranfer learning framework is further
    devised to allow our AutoUnmix adapting to a variety of imaging systems without
    retraining the network. Our proposed method has demonstrated real-time unmixing
    capabilities, surpassing existing methods by up to 100-fold in terms of unmixing
    speed. We further validate the reconstruction performance on both synthetic datasets
    and biological samples. The unmixing results of AutoUnmix achieve a highest SSIM
    of 0.99 in both three- and four-color imaging, with nearly up to 20% higher than
    other popular unmixing methods. Due to the desirable property of data independency
    and superior blind unmixing performance, we believe AutoUnmix is a powerful tool
    to study the interaction process of different organelles labeled by multiple fluorophores.
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acknowledgement: "We gratefully acknowledge support by the Scientific Service Units
  at ISTA, including the Imaging and Optics and Lab Support facilities and the mechanical
  workshop and Library. We thank Philipp Velicky for STED microscope alignment.\r\n\r\nThis
  project has received funding from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): I 3630-B25 (J.G.D)
  and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020
  research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 742985, J.F.). It has also
  received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
  programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385. S.T. has
  received funding as an ISTplus Fellow from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research
  and Innovation Programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 754411
  and from an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship (grant number ALTF 679-2018). It has further
  received funding from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) grant DK W1232 (M.T, N.A-D.,
  J.G.D). W.J. received funding via a Human Frontier Science Program postdoctoral
  fellowship LT000557/2018.\r\n\r\nThe funders had no role in study design, data collection
  and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript."
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  orcid: 0000-0003-1286-7368
- first_name: Sven M
  full_name: Truckenbrodt, Sven M
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  last_name: Truckenbrodt
- first_name: Caroline
  full_name: Kreuzinger, Caroline
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  last_name: Kreuzinger
- first_name: Syamala
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  orcid: 0009-0002-5890-120X
- first_name: Vitali
  full_name: Vistunou, Vitali
  id: 7e146587-8972-11ed-ae7b-d7a32ea86a81
  last_name: Vistunou
- first_name: Christoph M
  full_name: Sommer, Christoph M
  id: 4DF26D8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Sommer
  orcid: 0000-0003-1216-9105
- first_name: Mojtaba
  full_name: Tavakoli, Mojtaba
  id: 3A0A06F4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Tavakoli
  orcid: 0000-0002-7667-6854
- first_name: Nathalie
  full_name: Agudelo Duenas, Nathalie
  id: 40E7F008-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Agudelo Duenas
- first_name: Jakob
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  last_name: Vorlaufer
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  full_name: Jahr, Wiebke
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  last_name: Jahr
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  last_name: Randuch
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  full_name: Johnson, Alexander J
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  last_name: Johnson
  orcid: 0000-0002-2739-8843
- first_name: Eva
  full_name: Benková, Eva
  id: 38F4F166-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Benková
  orcid: 0000-0002-8510-9739
- first_name: Jiří
  full_name: Friml, Jiří
  id: 4159519E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Friml
  orcid: 0000-0002-8302-7596
- first_name: Johann G
  full_name: Danzl, Johann G
  id: 42EFD3B6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Danzl
  orcid: 0000-0001-8559-3973
citation:
  ama: Gallei MC, Truckenbrodt SM, Kreuzinger C, et al. Super-resolution expansion
    microscopy in plant roots. <i>bioRxiv</i>. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.21.581330">10.1101/2024.02.21.581330</a>
  apa: Gallei, M. C., Truckenbrodt, S. M., Kreuzinger, C., Inumella, S., Vistunou,
    V., Sommer, C. M., … Danzl, J. G. (n.d.). Super-resolution expansion microscopy
    in plant roots. <i>bioRxiv</i>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.21.581330">https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.21.581330</a>
  chicago: Gallei, Michelle C, Sven M Truckenbrodt, Caroline Kreuzinger, Syamala Inumella,
    Vitali Vistunou, Christoph M Sommer, Mojtaba Tavakoli, et al. “Super-Resolution
    Expansion Microscopy in Plant Roots.” <i>BioRxiv</i>, n.d. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.21.581330">https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.21.581330</a>.
  ieee: M. C. Gallei <i>et al.</i>, “Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant
    roots,” <i>bioRxiv</i>. .
  ista: Gallei MC, Truckenbrodt SM, Kreuzinger C, Inumella S, Vistunou V, Sommer CM,
    Tavakoli M, Agudelo Duenas N, Vorlaufer J, Jahr W, Randuch M, Johnson AJ, Benková
    E, Friml J, Danzl JG. Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots. bioRxiv,
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.21.581330">10.1101/2024.02.21.581330</a>.
  mla: Gallei, Michelle C., et al. “Super-Resolution Expansion Microscopy in Plant
    Roots.” <i>BioRxiv</i>, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.21.581330">10.1101/2024.02.21.581330</a>.
  short: M.C. Gallei, S.M. Truckenbrodt, C. Kreuzinger, S. Inumella, V. Vistunou,
    C.M. Sommer, M. Tavakoli, N. Agudelo Duenas, J. Vorlaufer, W. Jahr, M. Randuch,
    A.J. Johnson, E. Benková, J. Friml, J.G. Danzl, BioRxiv (n.d.).
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  text: Expansion microscopy is a recently developed super-resolution imaging technique,
    which provides an alternative to optics-based methods such as deterministic approaches
    (e.g. STED) or stochastic approaches (e.g. PALM/STORM). The idea behind expansion
    microscopy is to embed the biological sample in a swellable gel, and then to expand
    it isotropically, thereby increasing the distance between the fluorophores. This
    approach breaks the diffraction barrier by simply separating the emission point-spread-functions
    of the fluorophores. The resolution attainable in expansion microscopy is thus
    directly dependent on the separation that can be achieved, i.e. on the expansion
    factor. The original implementation of the technique achieved an expansion factor
    of fourfold, for a resolution of 70–80 nm. The subsequently developed X10 method
    achieves an expansion factor of 10-fold, for a resolution of 25–30 nm. This technique
    can be implemented with minimal technical requirements on any standard fluorescence
    microscope, and is more easily applied for multi-color imaging than either deterministic
    or stochastic super-resolution approaches. This renders X10 expansion microscopy
    a highly promising tool for new biological discoveries, as discussed here, and
    as demonstrated by several recent applications.
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  ama: 'Truckenbrodt SM, Rizzoli SO. Simple multi-color super-resolution by X10 microscopy.
    In: <i>Methods in Cell Biology</i>. Vol 161. Elsevier; 2021:33-56. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2020.04.016">10.1016/bs.mcb.2020.04.016</a>'
  apa: Truckenbrodt, S. M., &#38; Rizzoli, S. O. (2021). Simple multi-color super-resolution
    by X10 microscopy. In <i>Methods in Cell Biology</i> (Vol. 161, pp. 33–56). Elsevier.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2020.04.016">https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2020.04.016</a>
  chicago: Truckenbrodt, Sven M, and Silvio O. Rizzoli. “Simple Multi-Color Super-Resolution
    by X10 Microscopy.” In <i>Methods in Cell Biology</i>, 161:33–56. Elsevier, 2021.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2020.04.016">https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2020.04.016</a>.
  ieee: S. M. Truckenbrodt and S. O. Rizzoli, “Simple multi-color super-resolution
    by X10 microscopy,” in <i>Methods in Cell Biology</i>, vol. 161, Elsevier, 2021,
    pp. 33–56.
  ista: 'Truckenbrodt SM, Rizzoli SO. 2021.Simple multi-color super-resolution by
    X10 microscopy. In: Methods in Cell Biology. vol. 161, 33–56.'
  mla: Truckenbrodt, Sven M., and Silvio O. Rizzoli. “Simple Multi-Color Super-Resolution
    by X10 Microscopy.” <i>Methods in Cell Biology</i>, vol. 161, Elsevier, 2021,
    pp. 33–56, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2020.04.016">10.1016/bs.mcb.2020.04.016</a>.
  short: S.M. Truckenbrodt, S.O. Rizzoli, in:, Methods in Cell Biology, Elsevier,
    2021, pp. 33–56.
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2020-06-07T22:00:55Z
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date_updated: 2024-10-09T20:59:36Z
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  text: 'Expansion microscopy is a relatively new approach to super-resolution imaging
    that uses expandable hydrogels to isotropically increase the physical distance
    between fluorophores in biological samples such as cell cultures or tissue slices.
    The classic gel recipe results in an expansion factor of ~4×, with a resolution
    of 60–80 nm. We have recently developed X10 microscopy, which uses a gel that
    achieves an expansion factor of ~10×, with a resolution of ~25 nm. Here, we provide
    a step-by-step protocol for X10 expansion microscopy. A typical experiment consists
    of seven sequential stages: (i) immunostaining, (ii) anchoring, (iii) polymerization,
    (iv) homogenization, (v) expansion, (vi) imaging, and (vii) validation. The protocol
    presented here includes recommendations for optimization, pitfalls and their solutions,
    and detailed guidelines that should increase reproducibility. Although our protocol
    focuses on X10 expansion microscopy, we detail which of these suggestions are
    also applicable to classic fourfold expansion microscopy. We exemplify our protocol
    using primary hippocampal neurons from rats, but our approach can be used with
    other primary cells or cultured cell lines of interest. This protocol will enable
    any researcher with basic experience in immunostainings and access to an epifluorescence
    microscope to perform super-resolution microscopy with X10. The procedure takes
    3 d and requires ~5 h of actively handling the sample for labeling and expansion,
    and another ~3 h for imaging and analysis.'
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author:
- first_name: Sven M
  full_name: Truckenbrodt, Sven M
  id: 45812BD4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Truckenbrodt
- first_name: Christoph M
  full_name: Sommer, Christoph M
  id: 4DF26D8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Sommer
  orcid: 0000-0003-1216-9105
- first_name: Silvio O
  full_name: Rizzoli, Silvio O
  last_name: Rizzoli
- first_name: Johann G
  full_name: Danzl, Johann G
  id: 42EFD3B6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Danzl
  orcid: 0000-0001-8559-3973
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  ama: Truckenbrodt SM, Sommer CM, Rizzoli SO, Danzl JG. A practical guide to optimization
    in X10 expansion microscopy. <i>Nature Protocols</i>. 2019;14(3):832–863. doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-018-0117-3">10.1038/s41596-018-0117-3</a>
  apa: Truckenbrodt, S. M., Sommer, C. M., Rizzoli, S. O., &#38; Danzl, J. G. (2019).
    A practical guide to optimization in X10 expansion microscopy. <i>Nature Protocols</i>.
    Nature Publishing Group. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-018-0117-3">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-018-0117-3</a>
  chicago: Truckenbrodt, Sven M, Christoph M Sommer, Silvio O Rizzoli, and Johann
    G Danzl. “A Practical Guide to Optimization in X10 Expansion Microscopy.” <i>Nature
    Protocols</i>. Nature Publishing Group, 2019. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-018-0117-3">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-018-0117-3</a>.
  ieee: S. M. Truckenbrodt, C. M. Sommer, S. O. Rizzoli, and J. G. Danzl, “A practical
    guide to optimization in X10 expansion microscopy,” <i>Nature Protocols</i>, vol.
    14, no. 3. Nature Publishing Group, pp. 832–863, 2019.
  ista: Truckenbrodt SM, Sommer CM, Rizzoli SO, Danzl JG. 2019. A practical guide
    to optimization in X10 expansion microscopy. Nature Protocols. 14(3), 832–863.
  mla: Truckenbrodt, Sven M., et al. “A Practical Guide to Optimization in X10 Expansion
    Microscopy.” <i>Nature Protocols</i>, vol. 14, no. 3, Nature Publishing Group,
    2019, pp. 832–863, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-018-0117-3">10.1038/s41596-018-0117-3</a>.
  short: S.M. Truckenbrodt, C.M. Sommer, S.O. Rizzoli, J.G. Danzl, Nature Protocols
    14 (2019) 832–863.
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  text: Aged proteins can become hazardous to cellular function, by accumulating molecular
    damage. This implies that cells should preferentially rely on newly produced ones.
    We tested this hypothesis in cultured hippocampal neurons, focusing on synaptic
    transmission. We found that newly synthesized vesicle proteins were incorporated
    in the actively recycling pool of vesicles responsible for all neurotransmitter
    release during physiological activity. We observed this for the calcium sensor
    Synaptotagmin 1, for the neurotransmitter transporter VGAT, and for the fusion
    protein VAMP2 (Synaptobrevin 2). Metabolic labeling of proteins and visualization
    by secondary ion mass spectrometry enabled us to query the entire protein makeup
    of the actively recycling vesicles, which we found to be younger than that of
    non-recycling vesicles. The young vesicle proteins remained in use for up to ~
    24 h, during which they participated in recycling a few hundred times. They were
    afterward reluctant to release and were degraded after an additional ~ 24–48 h.
    We suggest that the recycling pool of synaptic vesicles relies on newly synthesized
    proteins, while the inactive reserve pool contains older proteins.
acknowledgement: We thank Reinhard Jahn for providing a plasmid for YFP-SNAP25. We
  thank Erwin Neher for help with the development of the mathematical model of the
  synaptic vesicle life cycle. We thank Martin Meschkat, Andreas Höbartner, Annedore
  Punge, and Peer Hoopmann for help with the experiments. We thank Burkhard Rammner
  for providing the illustrations of synaptic vesicle and protein dynamics. We thank
  Manuel Maidorn, Martin Helm, and Katharina N. Richter for critically reading the
  manuscript. S.T. was supported by an Excellence Stipend of the Göttingen Graduate
  School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB). E.F.F. is
  a recipient of long-term fellowships from the European Molecular Biology Organization
  (ALTF_797-2012) and from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP_LT000830/2013).
  The work was supported by grants to S.O.R. from the European Research Council (ERC-2013-CoG
  NeuroMolAnatomy) and from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Cluster of Excellence
  Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain, SFB1190/P09, SFB889/A05,
  and SFB1286/A03, and DFG RI 1967 7/1). The nanoSIMS instrument was funded by the
  German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (03F0626A).
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  last_name: Truckenbrodt
- first_name: Abhiyan
  full_name: Viplav, Abhiyan
  last_name: Viplav
- first_name: Sebsatian
  full_name: Jähne, Sebsatian
  last_name: Jähne
- first_name: Angela
  full_name: Vogts, Angela
  last_name: Vogts
- first_name: Annette
  full_name: Denker, Annette
  last_name: Denker
- first_name: Hanna
  full_name: Wildhagen, Hanna
  last_name: Wildhagen
- first_name: Eugenio
  full_name: Fornasiero, Eugenio
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  ama: Truckenbrodt SM, Viplav A, Jähne S, et al. Newly produced synaptic vesicle
    proteins are preferentially used in synaptic transmission. <i>The EMBO Journal</i>.
    2018;37(15). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15252/embj.201798044">10.15252/embj.201798044</a>
  apa: Truckenbrodt, S. M., Viplav, A., Jähne, S., Vogts, A., Denker, A., Wildhagen,
    H., … Rizzoli, S. (2018). Newly produced synaptic vesicle proteins are preferentially
    used in synaptic transmission. <i>The EMBO Journal</i>. Wiley. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15252/embj.201798044">https://doi.org/10.15252/embj.201798044</a>
  chicago: Truckenbrodt, Sven M, Abhiyan Viplav, Sebsatian Jähne, Angela Vogts, Annette
    Denker, Hanna Wildhagen, Eugenio Fornasiero, and Silvio Rizzoli. “Newly Produced
    Synaptic Vesicle Proteins Are Preferentially Used in Synaptic Transmission.” <i>The
    EMBO Journal</i>. Wiley, 2018. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15252/embj.201798044">https://doi.org/10.15252/embj.201798044</a>.
  ieee: S. M. Truckenbrodt <i>et al.</i>, “Newly produced synaptic vesicle proteins
    are preferentially used in synaptic transmission,” <i>The EMBO Journal</i>, vol.
    37, no. 15. Wiley, 2018.
  ista: Truckenbrodt SM, Viplav A, Jähne S, Vogts A, Denker A, Wildhagen H, Fornasiero
    E, Rizzoli S. 2018. Newly produced synaptic vesicle proteins are preferentially
    used in synaptic transmission. The EMBO Journal. 37(15), e98044.
  mla: Truckenbrodt, Sven M., et al. “Newly Produced Synaptic Vesicle Proteins Are
    Preferentially Used in Synaptic Transmission.” <i>The EMBO Journal</i>, vol. 37,
    no. 15, e98044, Wiley, 2018, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15252/embj.201798044">10.15252/embj.201798044</a>.
  short: S.M. Truckenbrodt, A. Viplav, S. Jähne, A. Vogts, A. Denker, H. Wildhagen,
    E. Fornasiero, S. Rizzoli, The EMBO Journal 37 (2018).
corr_author: '1'
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  text: Expansion microscopy is a recently introduced imaging technique that achieves
    super‐resolution through physically expanding the specimen by ~4×, after embedding
    into a swellable gel. The resolution attained is, correspondingly, approximately
    fourfold better than the diffraction limit, or ~70 nm. This is a major improvement
    over conventional microscopy, but still lags behind modern STED or STORM setups,
    whose resolution can reach 20–30 nm. We addressed this issue here by introducing
    an improved gel recipe that enables an expansion factor of ~10× in each dimension,
    which corresponds to an expansion of the sample volume by more than 1,000‐fold.
    Our protocol, which we termed X10 microscopy, achieves a resolution of 25–30 nm
    on conventional epifluorescence microscopes. X10 provides multi‐color images similar
    or even superior to those produced with more challenging methods, such as STED,
    STORM, and iterative expansion microscopy (iExM). X10 is therefore the cheapest
    and easiest option for high‐quality super‐resolution imaging currently available.
    X10 should be usable in any laboratory, irrespective of the machinery owned or
    of the technical knowledge.
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  ama: Truckenbrodt SM, Maidorn M, Crzan D, Wildhagen H, Kabatas S, Rizzoli SO. X10
    expansion microscopy enables 25‐nm resolution on conventional microscopes. <i>EMBO
    reports</i>. 2018;19(9). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201845836">10.15252/embr.201845836</a>
  apa: Truckenbrodt, S. M., Maidorn, M., Crzan, D., Wildhagen, H., Kabatas, S., &#38;
    Rizzoli, S. O. (2018). X10 expansion microscopy enables 25‐nm resolution on conventional
    microscopes. <i>EMBO Reports</i>. Embo Press. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201845836">https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201845836</a>
  chicago: Truckenbrodt, Sven M, Manuel Maidorn, Dagmar Crzan, Hanna Wildhagen, Selda
    Kabatas, and Silvio O Rizzoli. “X10 Expansion Microscopy Enables 25‐nm Resolution
    on Conventional Microscopes.” <i>EMBO Reports</i>. Embo Press, 2018. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201845836">https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201845836</a>.
  ieee: S. M. Truckenbrodt, M. Maidorn, D. Crzan, H. Wildhagen, S. Kabatas, and S.
    O. Rizzoli, “X10 expansion microscopy enables 25‐nm resolution on conventional
    microscopes,” <i>EMBO reports</i>, vol. 19, no. 9. Embo Press, 2018.
  ista: Truckenbrodt SM, Maidorn M, Crzan D, Wildhagen H, Kabatas S, Rizzoli SO. 2018.
    X10 expansion microscopy enables 25‐nm resolution on conventional microscopes.
    EMBO reports. 19(9), e45836.
  mla: Truckenbrodt, Sven M., et al. “X10 Expansion Microscopy Enables 25‐nm Resolution
    on Conventional Microscopes.” <i>EMBO Reports</i>, vol. 19, no. 9, e45836, Embo
    Press, 2018, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201845836">10.15252/embr.201845836</a>.
  short: S.M. Truckenbrodt, M. Maidorn, D. Crzan, H. Wildhagen, S. Kabatas, S.O. Rizzoli,
    EMBO Reports 19 (2018).
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