Seeing (Small) Things in a New Light: Advanced Microscopy for Extracellular Vesicles, Biomembranes and Virus
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Biological Membrane Composition and Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 December 2021) | Viewed by 412
Special Issue Editors
Interests: egfr; extracellular vesicles; CLEM; cryo-FIB-SEM; structure-function relationships; advanced light microscopy; cryo-superresolution
Interests: breast cancers; targeted therapies; cell biology; endocytosis and trafficking; autophagy; electron microscopy; light microscopy; HER2/ERBB2 receptor; lysosomes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The study of EVs, virus and nanoparticles is made particularly challenging due to their heterogeneity and small size, which in many cases is below the resolution limit of conventional light microscopy techniques. Advanced microscopy techniques such as super resolution imaging, single-particle imaging, electron and atomic force microscopy, as well as correlative workflows, however, are able to capture detailed information on how EVs, as well as virus and nanoparticles are formed, released, and/or captured by target cells.
This Special Issue wishes to explore the ways in which advanced imaging methods and concepts can shed light on EV biology, virus morphology and trafficking, as well as nanoparticles morpho-functional relationships and in which the challenges posed by the study of such small particles can give rise to new protocols and methods to perform imaging studies, and how the two fields can cross-pollinate each other and lead to a better understanding of these communication mediators.
Dr. Laura Carolina Zanetti-Domingues
Prof. Dr. Katia Cortese
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- EVs
- advanced light microscopy
- super-resolution microscopy
- EM
- CLEM
- AFM
- single-particle imaging
- EV characterization
- EV heterogeneity
- EV trafficking
- nanoparticles
- nanoparticle trafficking
- virus ultrastructure and trafficking
