Photobleaching Enables Super-resolution Imaging of the FtsZ Ring in the Cyanobacterium ProchlorococcusYuanchao Zhan 1, Yaxin Liu 1, Qinglu Zeng 1,2,3
1Department of Ocean Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 3HKUST Shenzhen Research Institute
Here we describe a photobleaching method to reduce the autofluorescence of cyanobacteria. After photobleaching, stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy is used to obtain three-dimensional super-resolution images of the cyanobacterial FtsZ ring.
