@inbook{21368a5efef349fd8f5f1710b1767406,
title = "Super-Resolution Imaging of the Actin Cytoskeleton in Living Cells Using TIRF-SIM",
abstract = "Super-resolution (SR) imaging techniques have advanced rapidly in recent years, but only a subset of these techniques is gentle enough to be used by cell biologists to study living cells with minimal photodamage. Our research is focused on studies of the dynamic remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton in living pancreatic beta cells during insulin secretion. These studies require super-resolution light microscopic techniques that are gentle enough to record rapid changes of the actin cytoskeleton in real time. In this chapter, we describe an SR technique that breaks the diffraction limit of the conventional light microscope called TIRF-SIM. Using this SR techniques, we have been able to show that (1) microvilli on pancreatic beta cells translocate in the plane of the plasma membrane and (2) the cortical actin network reorganizes when cells are stimulated to secrete insulin. We describe the FIJI plugins that were used to process and analyze the TIRF-SIM images to obtain quantitative data.",
keywords = "Airyscan, CLSM, Cortical actin cytoskeleton, FIJI, Image processing and analysis, Live cell imaging, Microvilli, Pancreatic beta cells, Super-resolution microscopy, TIRF-SIM",
author = "Torsten W{\"o}llert and Langford, {George M.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors would like to thank Dr. Teng-Leong Chew, Director of the Advanced Imaging Center, and his team at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (https://www.aicjanelia.org/) for technical support with the TIRF-SIM imaging system. We would also like to thank Dr. Tanay Desay from Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC, for technical support with the LSM980 with Airyscan 2 and Drs. George G. Holz and Oleg Chepurny from SUNY Upstate Medical University for advice with the INS-1 832/13 cell culture. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1007/978-1-0716-1661-1_1",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Methods in Molecular Biology",
publisher = "Humana Press Inc.",
pages = "3--24",
booktitle = "Methods in Molecular Biology",
}