title: Studying kinetochore-fiber ultrastructure using correlative light-electron microscopy.
abstract: Electron microscopy (EM) has dominated high-resolution cellular imaging for over 50 years, thanks to its ability to resolve on nanometer-scale intracellular structures such as the microtubules of the mitotic spindle. It is advantageous to view the cell of interest prior to processing the sample for EM. Correlative light-electron microscopy (CLEM) is a technique that allows one to visualize cells of interest by light microscopy (LM) before being transferred to EM for ultrastructural examination. Here, we describe how CLEM can be applied as an effective tool to study the spindle apparatus of mitotic cells. This approach allows transfected cells of interest, in desirable stages of mitosis, to be followed from LM to EM. CLEM has often been considered as a technically challenging and laborious technique. In this chapter, we provide step-by-step pictorial guides that allow successful CLEM to be achieved. In addition, we explain how it is possible to vary the sectioning plane, allowing spindles and microtubules to be analyzed from different angles, and the outputs that can be obtained from these methods when applied to the study of kinetochore fiber ultrastructure.
authors: Department of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 3BX, U.K.|Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, King's Building, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, U.K.
authors: Daniel G
authors: DG
authors: Booth
authors: Department of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 3BX, U.K.
authors: Liam P
authors: LP
authors: Cheeseman
authors: Department of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 3BX, U.K.
authors: Ian A
authors: IA
authors: Prior
authors: Department of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 3BX, U.K.|Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Division of Biomedical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K.
authors: Stephen J
authors: SJ
authors: Royle
mesh_terms: D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D018386:Kinetochores / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008854:Microscopy, Electron / Q000379:methods*; D008870:Microtubules / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008938:Mitosis; D008941:Spindle Apparatus / Q000648:ultrastructure*
keywords: Correlative electron microscopy; Kinetochore-fiber; Microtubule; Mitosis; Mitotic spindle
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