Following DNA Compaction During the Cell Cycle by X-ray Nanodiffraction

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• 作者：Clément Y. J. Hémonnot ; Christiane Ranke ; Oliva Saldanha ; Rita Graceffa ; Johannes Hagemann ; Sarah Köster
• 刊名：ACS Nano
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 27, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：10
• 期：12
• 页码：10661-10670
• 全文大小：680K
• ISSN：1936-086X

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X-ray imaging of intact biological cells is emerging as a complementary method to visible light or electron microscopy. Owing to the high penetration depth and small wavelength of X-rays, it is possible to resolve subcellular structures at a resolution of a few nanometers. Here, we apply scanning X-ray nanodiffraction in combination with time-lapse bright-field microscopy to nuclei of 3T3 fibroblasts and thus relate the observed structures to specific phases in the cell division cycle. We scan the sample at a step size of 250 nm and analyze the individual diffraction patterns according to a generalized Porod’s law. Thus, we obtain information on the aggregation state of the nuclear DNA at a real space resolution on the order of the step size and in parallel structural information on the order of few nanometers. We are able to distinguish nucleoli, heterochromatin, and euchromatin in the nuclei and follow the compaction and decompaction during the cell division cycle.