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  • 2011Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.artnumber","7368"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","204"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Nature"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","208"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","478"],["dc.contributor.author","Grotjohann, Tim"],["dc.contributor.author","Testa, Ilaria"],["dc.contributor.author","Leutenegger, Marcel"],["dc.contributor.author","Bock, Hannes"],["dc.contributor.author","Urban, Nicolai T."],["dc.contributor.author","Lavoie-Cardinal, Flavie"],["dc.contributor.author","Willig, Katrin I."],["dc.contributor.author","Eggeling, Christian"],["dc.contributor.author","Jakobs, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Hell, Stefan W."],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:43:21Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:43:21Z"],["dc.date.issued","2011"],["dc.description.abstract","Lens-based optical microscopy failed to discern fluorescent features closer than 200 nm for decades, but the recent breaking of the diffraction resolution barrier by sequentially switching the fluorescence capability of adjacent features on and off is making nanoscale imaging routine. Reported fluorescence nanoscopy variants switch these features either with intense beams at defined positions or randomly, molecule by molecule. Here we demonstrate an optical nanoscopy that records raw data images from living cells and tissues with low levels of light. This advance has been facilitated by the generation of reversibly switchable enhanced green fluorescent protein (rsEGFP), a fluorescent protein that can be reversibly photoswitched more than a thousand times. Distributions of functional rsEGFP-fusion proteins in living bacteria and mammalian cells are imaged at <40-nanometre resolution. Dendritic spines in living brain slices are super-resolved with about a million times lower light intensities than before. The reversible switching also enables all-optical writing of features with subdiffraction size and spacings, which can be used for data storage."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1038/nature10497"],["dc.identifier.gro","3142644"],["dc.identifier.isi","000295782800041"],["dc.identifier.pmid","21909116"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/71"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","WoS Import 2017-03-10"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","PUB_WoS_Import"],["dc.relation.issn","0028-0836"],["dc.title","Diffraction-unlimited all-optical imaging and writing with a photochromic GFP"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2012Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","992"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","6"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Neuron"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","1000"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","75"],["dc.contributor.author","Testa, Ilaria"],["dc.contributor.author","Urban, Nicolai T."],["dc.contributor.author","Jakobs, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Eggeling, Christian"],["dc.contributor.author","Willig, Katrin I."],["dc.contributor.author","Hell, Stefan"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:48:25Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:48:25Z"],["dc.date.issued","2012"],["dc.description.abstract","Lens-based fluorescence microscopy, which has long been limited in resolution to about 200 nanometers by diffraction, is rapidly evolving into a nanoscale imaging technique. Here, we show that the superresolution fluorescence microscopy called RESOLFT enables comparatively fast and continuous imaging of sensitive, nanosized features in living brain tissue. Using low-intensity illumination to switch photochromic fluorescent proteins reversibly between a fluorescent and a nonfluorescent state, we increased the resolution more than 3-fold over that of confocal microscopy in all dimensions. Dendritic spines located 10-50 mu m deep inside living organotypic hippocampal brain slices were recorded for hours without signs of degradation. Using a fast-switching protein increased the imaging speed 50-fold over reported RESOLFT schemes, which in turn enabled the recording of spontaneous and stimulated changes of dendritic actin filaments and spine morphology occurring on time scales from seconds to hours."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.neuron.2012.07.028"],["dc.identifier.gro","3142464"],["dc.identifier.isi","000309198900011"],["dc.identifier.pmid","22998868"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8574"],["dc.notes.intern","WoS Import 2017-03-10"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","PUB_WoS_Import"],["dc.publisher","Cell Press"],["dc.relation.issn","0896-6273"],["dc.title","Nanoscopy of Living Brain Slices with Low Light Levels"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2013Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","534a"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","2"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Biophysical Journal"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","104"],["dc.contributor.author","Testa, Ilaria"],["dc.contributor.author","Urban, Nicolai"],["dc.contributor.author","Willig, Katrin"],["dc.contributor.author","Hell, Stefan"],["dc.date.accessioned","2022-03-01T11:44:56Z"],["dc.date.available","2022-03-01T11:44:56Z"],["dc.date.issued","2013"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.bpj.2012.11.2958"],["dc.identifier.pii","S000634951204204X"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/103168"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI-Import GROB-531"],["dc.relation.issn","0006-3495"],["dc.title","Resolft Nanoscopy in Life Sciences: Unraveling Fine Details with Low Light Levels"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2016Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","122"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","2"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Nature Photonics"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","128"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","10"],["dc.contributor.author","Danzl, Johann G."],["dc.contributor.author","Sidenstein, Sven C."],["dc.contributor.author","Gregor, Carola"],["dc.contributor.author","Urban, Nicolai T."],["dc.contributor.author","Ilgen, Peter"],["dc.contributor.author","Jakobs, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Hell, Stefan W."],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:54:41Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:54:41Z"],["dc.date.issued","2016"],["dc.description.abstract","Far-field super-resolution fluorescence microscopy discerns fluorophores residing closer than the diffraction barrier by briefly transferring them in different (typically ON and OFF) states before detection. In coordinate-targeted super-resolution variants, such as stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy, this state difference is created by the intensity minima and maxima of an optical pattern, causing all fluorophores to assume the off state, for instance, except at the minima. Although strong spatial confinement of the on state enables high resolution, it also subjects the fluorophores to excess intensities and state cycles at the maxima. Here, we address these issues by driving the fluorophores into a second off state that is inert to the excess light. By using reversibly switchable fluorescent proteins as labels, our approach reduces bleaching and enhances resolution and contrast in live-cell STED microscopy. Using two or more transitions to off states is a useful strategy for augmenting the power of coordinate-targeted super-resolution microscopy."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1038/NPHOTON.2015.266"],["dc.identifier.gro","3141737"],["dc.identifier.isi","000369321400015"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/513"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","WoS Import 2017-03-10 / Funder: European Union [PIEF-GA-2011-299283]; Korber Foundation"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","PUB_WoS_Import"],["dc.relation.eissn","1749-4893"],["dc.relation.issn","1749-4885"],["dc.title","Coordinate-targeted fluorescence nanoscopy with multiple off states"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2015Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","103"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Nano Letters"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","106"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","15"],["dc.contributor.author","Testa, Ilaria"],["dc.contributor.author","D'Este, E."],["dc.contributor.author","Urban, Nicolai T."],["dc.contributor.author","Balzarotti, Francisco"],["dc.contributor.author","Hell, Stefan"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:44:46Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:44:46Z"],["dc.date.issued","2015"],["dc.description.abstract","We show that RESOLFT fluorescence nanoscopy, a low light level scanning superresolution technique employing reversibly switchable fluorescent proteins (rsFPs), is capable of dual-channel live-cell imaging that is virtually free of chromatic errors and temporal offsets. This is accomplished using rsEGFP and Dronpa, two rsFPs having similar spectra but different kinetics of switching and fluorescence emission. Our approach is demonstrated by imaging protein distributions and dynamics in living neurons and neuronal tissues."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1021/nl503058k"],["dc.identifier.gro","3141985"],["dc.identifier.isi","000348086100017"],["dc.identifier.pmid","25423166"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/3268"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","WoS Import 2017-03-10"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","PUB_WoS_Import"],["dc.relation.eissn","1530-6992"],["dc.relation.issn","1530-6984"],["dc.title","Dual Channel RESOLFT Nanoscopy by Using Fluorescent State Kinetics"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2017Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","A"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","ACS Photonics"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","J"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volumetitle","Recent Developments and Applications of Plasmonics"],["dc.contributor.author","Urban, Nicolai T."],["dc.contributor.author","Foreman, Matthew"],["dc.contributor.author","Hell, Stefan W."],["dc.contributor.author","Sivan, Yonatan"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-01-17T13:29:15Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-01-17T13:29:15Z"],["dc.date.issued","2017"],["dc.description.abstract","We demonstrate stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy with 20 nm gold nanospheres coated by fluorescently doped silica. We demonstrate significantly improved spatial resolution down to 75 nm, which is the first time that hybrid NPs are used in STED imaging beyond the diffraction limit of confocal microscopy. Unlike previous demonstrations of super-resolution with metal nanoparticles with different techniques, this 3.3-fold resolution improvement was limited only by the particle size. The STED intensity required for this is almost twice lower than for conventional STED based on dye alone, and we observe no melting or displacement of the NPs at the utilized intensities. Moreover, we show that the nanoparticles can be imaged in an aqueous environment, demonstrating the relevance to bioimaging. Finally, we also show, for the first time in this context, an up to 3-fold reduction in the rate of photobleaching compared to standard dye-based STED, thus enabling sustainably brighter images."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1021/acsphotonics.7b00833"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/11714"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.subject","fluorescence microscopy; nanoparticles; nanotechnology; plasmonics; STED nanoscopy; super-resolution"],["dc.title","Nanoparticle-Assisted STED Nanoscopy with Gold Nanospheres"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2017Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","186a"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","3"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Biophysical Journal"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","187a"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","112"],["dc.contributor.author","Danzl, Johann G."],["dc.contributor.author","Sidenstein, Sven"],["dc.contributor.author","Gregor, Carola"],["dc.contributor.author","Urban, Nicolai"],["dc.contributor.author","Ilgen, Peter"],["dc.contributor.author","Jakobs, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Hell, Stefan"],["dc.date.accessioned","2022-03-01T11:44:58Z"],["dc.date.available","2022-03-01T11:44:58Z"],["dc.date.issued","2017"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.bpj.2016.11.1034"],["dc.identifier.pii","S0006349516320641"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/103178"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI-Import GROB-531"],["dc.relation.issn","0006-3495"],["dc.title","Coordinate-Targeted Fluorescence Nanoscopy with Multiple Off-States"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2011Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","1277"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","5"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Biophysical Journal"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","1284"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","101"],["dc.contributor.author","Urban, Nicolai T."],["dc.contributor.author","Willig, Katrin I."],["dc.contributor.author","Hell, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Nägerl, U. Valentin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:43:24Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:43:24Z"],["dc.date.issued","2011"],["dc.description.abstract","It is difficult to investigate the mechanisms that mediate long-term changes in synapse function because synapses are small and deeply embedded inside brain tissue. Although recent fluorescence nanoscopy techniques afford improved resolution, they have so far been restricted to dissociated cells or tissue surfaces. However, to study synapses under realistic conditions, one must image several cell layers deep inside more-intact, three-dimensional preparations that exhibit strong light scattering, such as brain slices or brains in vivo. Using aberration-reducing optics, we demonstrate that it is possible to achieve stimulated emission depletion superresolution imaging deep inside scattering biological tissue. To illustrate the power of this novel (to our knowledge) approach, we resolved distinct distributions of actin inside dendrites and spines with a resolution of 60-80 nm in living organotypic brain slices at depths up to 120 Am. In addition, time-lapse stimulated emission depletion imaging revealed changes in actin-based structures inside spines and spine necks, and showed that these dynamics can be modulated by neuronal activity. Our approach greatly facilitates investigations of actin dynamics at the nanoscale within functionally intact brain tissue."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.bpj.2011.07.027"],["dc.identifier.gro","3142670"],["dc.identifier.isi","000294653800030"],["dc.identifier.pmid","21889466"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/99"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","WoS Import 2017-03-10"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","PUB_WoS_Import"],["dc.relation.issn","0006-3495"],["dc.title","STED Nanoscopy of Actin Dynamics in Synapses Deep Inside Living Brain Slices"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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