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Nathan L, Daniel S. Single Virion Tracking Microscopy for the Study of Virus Entry Processes in Live Cells and Biomimetic Platforms. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2019; 1215:13-43. [PMID: 31317494 PMCID: PMC7122913 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14741-9_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The most widely-used assays for studying viral entry, including infectivity, cofloatation, and cell-cell fusion assays, yield functional information but provide low resolution of individual entry steps. Structural characterization provides high-resolution conformational information, but on its own is unable to address the functional significance of these conformations. Single virion tracking microscopy techniques provide more detail on the intermediate entry steps than infection assays and more functional information than structural methods, bridging the gap between these methods. In addition, single virion approaches also provide dynamic information about the kinetics of entry processes. This chapter reviews single virion tracking techniques and describes how they can be applied to study specific virus entry steps. These techniques provide information complementary to traditional ensemble approaches. Single virion techniques may either probe virion behavior in live cells or in biomimetic platforms. Synthesizing information from ensemble, structural, and single virion techniques ultimately yields a more complete understanding of the viral entry process than can be achieved by any single method alone.
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- Lakshmi Nathan
- Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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- Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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Otterstrom J, van Oijen AM. Visualization of membrane fusion, one particle at a time. Biochemistry 2013; 52:1654-68. [PMID: 23421412 DOI: 10.1021/bi301573w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Protein-mediated fusion between phospholipid bilayers is a fundamental and necessary mechanism for many cellular processes. The short-lived nature of the intermediate states visited during fusion makes it challenging to capture precise kinetic information using classical, ensemble-averaging biophysical techniques. Recently, a number of single-particle fluorescence microscopy-based assays that allow researchers to obtain highly quantitative data about the fusion process by observing individual fusion events in real time have been developed. These assays depend upon changes in the acquired fluorescence signal to provide a direct readout for transitions between the various fusion intermediates. The resulting data yield meaningful and detailed kinetic information about the transitory states en route to productive membrane fusion. In this review, we highlight recent in vitro and in vivo studies of membrane fusion at the single-particle level in the contexts of viral membrane fusion and SNARE-mediated synaptic vesicle fusion. These studies afford insight into mechanisms of coordination between fusion-mediating proteins as well as coordination of the overall fusion process with other cellular processes. The development of single-particle approaches to investigate membrane fusion and their successful application to a number of model systems have resulted in a new experimental paradigm and open up considerable opportunities to extend these methods to other biological processes that involve membrane fusion.
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- Jason Otterstrom
- Harvard Biophysics Program, Harvard Medical School , 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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Costello DA, Lee DW, Drewes J, Vasquez KA, Kisler K, Wiesner U, Pollack L, Whittaker GR, Daniel S. Influenza virus-membrane fusion triggered by proton uncaging for single particle studies of fusion kinetics. Anal Chem 2012; 84:8480-9. [PMID: 22974237 DOI: 10.1021/ac3006473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We report a method for studying membrane fusion, focusing on influenza virus fusion to lipid bilayers, which provides high temporal resolution through the rapid and coordinated initiation of individual virus fusion events. Each fusion event proceeds through a series of steps, much like multistep chemical reaction. Fusion is initiated by a rapid decrease in pH that accompanies the "uncaging" of an effector molecule from o-nitrobenzaldehyde, a photoisomerizable compound that releases a proton to the surrounding solution within microseconds of long-wave ultraviolet irradiation. In order to quantify pH values upon UV irradiation and uncaging, we introduce a simple silica nanoparticle pH sensor, useful for reporting the pH in homogeneous nanoliter volumes under conditions where traditional organic dye-type pH probes fail. Subsequent single-virion fusion events are monitored using total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy. Statistical analysis of these stochastic events uncovers kinetic information about the fusion reaction. This approach reveals that the kinetic parameters obtained from the data are sensitive to the rate at which protons are delivered to the bound viruses. Higher resolution measurements can enhance fundamental fusion studies and aid antiviral antifusogenic drug development.
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- Deirdre A Costello
- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
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Hamilton BS, Whittaker GR, Daniel S. Influenza virus-mediated membrane fusion: determinants of hemagglutinin fusogenic activity and experimental approaches for assessing virus fusion. Viruses 2012; 4:1144-68. [PMID: 22852045 PMCID: PMC3407899 DOI: 10.3390/v4071144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2012] [Revised: 07/11/2012] [Accepted: 07/17/2012] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Hemagglutinin (HA) is the viral protein that facilitates the entry of influenza viruses into host cells. This protein controls two critical aspects of entry: virus binding and membrane fusion. In order for HA to carry out these functions, it must first undergo a priming step, proteolytic cleavage, which renders it fusion competent. Membrane fusion commences from inside the endosome after a drop in lumenal pH and an ensuing conformational change in HA that leads to the hemifusion of the outer membrane leaflets of the virus and endosome, the formation of a stalk between them, followed by pore formation. Thus, the fusion machinery is an excellent target for antiviral compounds, especially those that target the conserved stem region of the protein. However, traditional ensemble fusion assays provide a somewhat limited ability to directly quantify fusion partly due to the inherent averaging of individual fusion events resulting from experimental constraints. Inspired by the gains achieved by single molecule experiments and analysis of stochastic events, recently-developed individual virion imaging techniques and analysis of single fusion events has provided critical information about individual virion behavior, discriminated intermediate fusion steps within a single virion, and allowed the study of the overall population dynamics without the loss of discrete, individual information. In this article, we first start by reviewing the determinants of HA fusogenic activity and the viral entry process, highlight some open questions, and then describe the experimental approaches for assaying fusion that will be useful in developing the most effective therapies in the future.
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- Brian S. Hamilton
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA;
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA;
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA;
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Gopinath SCB, Sakamaki Y, Kawasaki K, Kumar PKR. An efficient RNA aptamer against human influenza B virus hemagglutinin. J Biochem 2006; 139:837-46. [PMID: 16751591 DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvj095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Aptamers are known for their higher discriminating ability between closely related molecules and their requirement for only a small region for binding, as compared to an antibody. In the present studies, we have isolated a specific RNA aptamer against the influenza virus B/Johannesburg/05/1999 by an in vitro selection procedure. The aptamer bound efficiently to the HA of influenza B and required 5 mM MgCl(2) ion for its recognition. The aptamer not only distinguished HA derived from the influenza A virus, but also inhibited HA-mediated membrane fusion.
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- Subash C B Gopinath
- Functional Nucleic Acids Group, Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Central 6, 1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566
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Gopinath SCB, Misono TS, Kawasaki K, Mizuno T, Imai M, Odagiri T, Kumar PKR. An RNA aptamer that distinguishes between closely related human influenza viruses and inhibits haemagglutinin-mediated membrane fusion. J Gen Virol 2006; 87:479-487. [PMID: 16476969 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81508-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Aptamers selected against various kinds of targets have shown remarkable specificity and affinity, similar to those displayed by antibodies to their antigens. To employ aptamers as genotyping reagents for the identification of pathogens and their strains, in vitro selections were carried out to find aptamers that specifically bind and distinguish the closely related human influenza A virus subtype H3N2. The selected aptamer, P30-10-16, binds specifically to the haemagglutinin (HA) region of the target strain A/Panama/2007/1999(H3N2) and failed to recognize other human influenza viruses, including another strain with the same subtype, H3N2. The aptamer displayed over 15-fold-higher affinity to the HA compared with the monoclonal antibody, and efficiently inhibited HA-mediated membrane fusion. These studies delineate the application of aptamers in the genotyping of viruses.
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- Subash C B Gopinath
- Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Central 6, 1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan
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- Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Central 6, 1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan
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- Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Central 6, 1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan
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- Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Central 6, 1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan
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- Department of Virology III, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 4-7-1 Gakuen, Musashimurayama, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan
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- Department of Virology III, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 4-7-1 Gakuen, Musashimurayama, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan
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- Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Central 6, 1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan
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Imai M, Mizuno T, Kawasaki K. Membrane fusion by single influenza hemagglutinin trimers. Kinetic evidence from image analysis of hemagglutinin-reconstituted vesicles. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:12729-35. [PMID: 16505474 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m600902200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Influenza hemagglutinin, the receptor-binding and membrane fusion protein of the virus, is a prototypic model for studies of biological membrane fusion in general. To elucidate the minimum number of hemagglutinin trimers needed for fusion, the kinetics of fusion induced by reconstituted vesicles of hemagglutinin was studied by using single-vesicle image analysis. The surface density of hemagglutinin fusion-activity sites on the vesicles was varied, while keeping the surface density of receptor-binding activity sites constant, by co-reconstitution of the fusogenic form of hemagglutinin, HA(1,2), and the non-fusogenic form, HA(0), at various HA(1,2):(HA(1,2) + HA(0)) ratios. The rate of fusion between the hemagglutinin vesicles containing a fluorescent lipid probe, octadecylrhodamine B, and red blood cell ghost membranes was estimated from the time distribution of fusion events of single vesicles observed by fluorescence microscopy. The best fit of a log-log plot of fusion rate versus the surface density of HA(1,2) exhibited a slope of 0.85, strongly supporting the hypothesis that single hemagglutinin trimers are sufficient for fusion. When only HA(1,2) (without HA(0)) was reconstituted on vesicles, the dependence of fusion rate on the surface density of HA(1,2) was distinct from that for the HA(1,2)-HA(0) co-reconstitution. The latter result suggested interference with fusion activity by hemagglutinin-receptor binding, without having to assume a fusion mechanism involving multiple hemagglutinin trimers.
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- Masaki Imai
- Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan
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Chen FS, Markosyan RM, Melikyan GB. The process of membrane fusion: Nipples, hemifusion, pores, and pore growth. PEPTIDE-LIPID INTERACTIONS 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/s1063-5823(02)52020-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Razinkov VI, Melikyan GB, Cohen FS. Hemifusion between cells expressing hemagglutinin of influenza virus and planar membranes can precede the formation of fusion pores that subsequently fully enlarge. Biophys J 1999; 77:3144-51. [PMID: 10585935 PMCID: PMC1300584 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(99)77144-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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The chronological relation between the establishment of lipid continuity and fusion pore formation has been investigated for fusion of cells expressing hemagglutinin (HA) of influenza virus to planar bilayer membranes. Self-quenching concentrations of lipid dye were placed in the planar membrane to monitor lipid mixing, and time-resolved admittance measurements were used to measure fusion pores. For rhodamine-PE, fusion pores always occurred before a detectable amount of dye moved into an HA-expressing cell. However, with DiI in the planar membrane, the relationship was reversed: the spread of dye preceded formation of small pores. In other words, by using DiI as probe, hemifusion was clearly observed to occur before pore formation. For hemifused cells, a small pore could form and subsequently fully enlarge. In contrast, for cells that express a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored ectodomain of HA, hemifusion occurred, but no fully enlarged pores were observed. Therefore, the transmembrane domain of HA is required for the formation of fully enlarging pores. Thus, with the planar bilayer membranes as target, hemifusion can precede pore formation, and the occurrence of lipid dye spread does not preclude formation of pores that can enlarge fully.
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- V I Razinkov
- Rush Medical College, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, 1653 W. Congress Parkway, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
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Kricka LJ, Stanley PE. Assays using digital fluorescence: 1985-1998. LUMINESCENCE 1999; 14:271-9. [PMID: 10512992 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1522-7243(199909/10)14:5<271::aid-bio549>3.0.co;2-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Luminescence continues to provide comprehensive literature surveys which will be published in most issues. These are a continuation of the literature surveys begun in 1986 in the Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence which, up until 1998, encompassed more than 6000 references cited by year or specialized topic. With this newly named journal these searches are expanding to reflect the journal's wider scope. In future we will cover all fundamental and applied aspects of biological and chemical luminescence and include not only bioluminescence and chemiluminescence but also fluorescence, time resolved fluorescence, electrochemiluminescence, phosphorescence, sonoluminescence, lyoluminescence and triboluminescence. The compilers would be pleased to receive any comments from the readership. Contact by e-mail: L.J. Kricka: larry_kricka@path1a.med.upenn.edu or P.E. Stanley: Stanley@LUMIWEB.COM Copyright 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Rasmusson BJ, Flanagan TD, Turco SJ, Epand RM, Petersen NO. Fusion of Sendai virus and individual host cells and inhibition of fusion by lipophosphoglycan measured with image correlation spectroscopy. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1404:338-52. [PMID: 9739163 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4889(98)00082-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Fusion between Sendai virus (SV) and individual host cells was investigated with confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) and image correlation spectroscopy (ICS). SV was labeled with the fluorescent probe 7-octadecylamino-4-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazole (NBD-NH-C18) and was allowed to bind to host cells (HEp-2, BALB-3T3) at 4 degrees C. The effect of lipophosphoglycan (LPG), isolated from Leishmania donovani, on virus fusion was investigated by incorporation of LPG (0, 5, 10 or 20 microM) into the host cell membrane (HEp-2) before addition of SV. LPG did not affect the number of SV bound per cell. After incubation at 37 degrees C for 15 min without LPG, CLSM revealed a redistribution of NBD-NH-C18 from the SV envelope to the host cell membrane and an increase in average fluorescence intensity, indicating dequenching. ICS analysis of images obtained after incubation at 37 degrees C showed an increased mean cluster density to 260% of the value at 4 degrees C, reflecting the disappearance of labeled SV from the cell surface and diffusion of NBD-NH-C18 into the host cell membrane. Preincubation of the cells with LPG inhibited the temperature-induced redistribution and dequenching of NBD-NH-C18 in a concentration-dependent manner, with a total inhibition of fusion at 20 microM LPG. Together, the results demonstrate that CLSM combined with ICS is a powerful tool for studies of fusion of enveloped viruses with individual host cells and that LPG inhibits the fusion process at or before the hemifusion (lipid mixing) stage of SV interaction with cells.
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- B J Rasmusson
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. N6A 5B7, Canada
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Nie S, Zare RN. Optical detection of single molecules. ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE 1997; 26:567-96. [PMID: 9241430 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.26.1.567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 245] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Recent advances in ultrasensitive instrumentation have allowed for the detection, identification, and dynamic studies of single molecules in the condensed phase. This measurement capability provides a new set of tools for scientists to address important current problems and to explore new frontiers in many scientific disciplines, such as chemistry, molecular biology, molecular medicine, and nanostructured materials. This review focuses on the methodologies and biological applications of single-molecule detection based on laser-induced fluorescence.
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- S Nie
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, USA.
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MacDonald AG, Wraight PC. Combined spectroscopic and electrical recording techniques in membrane research: prospects for single channel studies. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1995; 63:1-29. [PMID: 7538220 DOI: 10.1016/0079-6107(94)00007-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- A G MacDonald
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
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Tse FW, Iwata A, Almers W. Membrane flux through the pore formed by a fusogenic viral envelope protein during cell fusion. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1993; 121:543-52. [PMID: 8486735 PMCID: PMC2119554 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.121.3.543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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We have investigated the mechanism of cell fusion mediated by HA, the fusogenic hemagglutinin of the Influenza viral envelope. Single erythrocytes (RBCs) were attached to fibroblasts expressing the HA on their cell surface, and fusion of the paired cells was triggered by rapid acidification. The RBC membrane was stained with fluorescent lipid, and the fusion-induced escape of lipid into the fibroblast was observed by quantitative image analysis. At the same time, the formation of an aqueous connection (i.e., the fusion pore) between the two cells was monitored electrically. Within minutes after acidification, an electrical conductance between the two cells appeared abruptly as the fusion pore opened, and then increased gradually as the pore dilated. Later, fluorescent lipid diffused into the fibroblast, approaching equilibrium over the next 5-20 min. No lipid flux was seen while the pore conductance remained 0.5 nS or less. Evidently lipid flux requires a threshold pore size. Our finding suggests that the smallest and earliest fusion pores are surrounded by a ring of protein. A fusion pore expands by breaking this ring and recruiting lipid into its circumference.
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- F W Tse
- Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
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Niles WD, Li Q, Cohen FS. Computer detection of the rapid diffusion of fluorescent membrane fusion markers in images observed with video microscopy. Biophys J 1992; 63:710-22. [PMID: 1420909 PMCID: PMC1262204 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(92)81641-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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We have developed an algorithm for automated detection of the dynamic pattern characterizing flashes of fluorescence in video images of membrane fusion. The algorithm detects the spatially localized, transient increases and decreases in brightness that result from the dequenching of fluorescent dye in phospholipid vesicles or lipid-enveloped virions fusing with a planar membrane. The flash is identified in video images by its nonzero time derivative and the symmetry of its spatial profile. Differentiation is implemented by forward and backward subtractions of video frames. The algorithm groups spatially connected pixels brighter than a user-specified threshold into distinct objects in forward- and backward-differentiated images. Objects are classified as either flashes or noise particles by comparing the symmetries of matched forward and backward difference profiles and then by tracking each profile in successive difference images. The number of flashes identified depends on the brightness threshold, the size of the convolution kernel used to filter the image, and the time difference between the subtracted video frames. When these parameters are changed so that the algorithm identifies an increasing percentage of the flashes recognized by eye, an increasing number of noise objects are mistakenly identified as flashes. These mistaken flashes can be eliminated by a human observer. The algorithm considerably shortens the time needed to analyze video data. Tested extensively with phospholipid vesicle and virion fusion with planar membranes, our implementation of the algorithm accurately determined the rate of fusion of influenza virions labeled with the lipophilic dye octadecylrhodamine (R18).
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- W D Niles
- Department of Physiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois 60612
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Niles WD, Cohen FS. Fusion of influenza virions with a planar lipid membrane detected by video fluorescence microscopy. J Gen Physiol 1991; 97:1101-19. [PMID: 1875185 PMCID: PMC2216512 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.97.6.1101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The fusion of individual influenza virions with a planar phospholipid membrane was detected by fluorescence video microscopy. Virion envelopes were loaded with the lipophilic fluorescent marker octadecylrhodamine B (R18) to a density at which the fluorescence of the probe was self-quenched. Labeled virions were ejected toward the planar membrane from a micropipette in a custom-built video fluorescence microscope. Once a virion fused with the planar membrane, the marker was free to diffuse, and its fluorescence became dequenched, producing a flash of light. This flash was detected as a transient spot of light which increased and then diminished in brightness. The diffusion constants calculated from the brightness profiles for the flashes are consistent with fusion of virus to the membrane with consequent free diffusion of probe within the planar membrane. Under conditions known to be fusigenic for influenza virus (low pH and 37 degrees C), flashes appeared at a high rate and the planar membrane quickly became fluorescent. To further establish that these flashes were due to fusion, we showed that red blood cells, which normally do not attach to planar membranes, were able to bind to membranes that had been exposed to virus under fusigenic conditions. The amount of binding correlated with the amount of flashing. This indicates that flashes signaled the reconstitution of the hemagglutinin glycoprotein (HA) of influenza virus, a well-known erythrocyte receptor, into the planar membrane, as would be expected in a fusion process. The flash rate on ganglioside-containing asolectin membranes increased as the pH was lowered. This is also consistent with the known fusion behavior of influenza virus with cell membranes and with phospholipid vesicles. We conclude that the flashes result from the fusion of individual virions to the planar membrane.
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- W D Niles
- Department of Physiology, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL 60612
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Rubin RJ, Chen YD. Diffusion and redistribution of lipid-like molecules between membranes in virus-cell and cell-cell fusion systems. Biophys J 1990; 58:1157-67. [PMID: 2291940 PMCID: PMC1281061 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(90)82457-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The kinetics of redistribution of lipid-like molecules between the membranes of two fused spherical vesicles is studied by solving the time-dependent diffusion equation of the system. The effects on the probe redistribution rate of pore size at the fusion junction and the relative sizes of the vesicles are examined. It is found that the redistribution rate constant decreases significantly, but not drastically, as the relative size of the pore to that of the vesicles decreases (the bottleneck effect). In general, the time scale of the probe redistribution rate is determined by the size of the vesicles that is loaded with the probe before the activation of the fusion. For a pore size 50 A in diameter and a typical diffusion coefficient of 10(-8) cm2/s for lipids, the mixing half times for typical virus-cell and cell-cell fusion systems are less than 30 ms and above 200 s, respectively. Thus, although the redistribution of lipid-like probes by diffusion is not rate limiting in virus-cell fusion, redistribution by diffusion is close to rate limiting in spike-protein mediated cell-cell fusion.
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- R J Rubin
- Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Dimitrov DS, Sowers AE. A delay in membrane fusion: lag times observed by fluorescence microscopy of individual fusion events induced by an electric field pulse. Biochemistry 1990; 29:8337-44. [PMID: 2174698 DOI: 10.1021/bi00488a020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Low light level video microscopy of the fusion of DiI- (1,1'-dihexadecyl-3,3,3',3'-tetramethylindocarbocyanine perchlorate) labeled rabbit erythrocyte ghosts with unlabeled rabbit erythrocyte ghosts, held in stable apposition by dielectrophoresis in sodium phosphate buffers, showed reproducible time intervals (delays) between the application of a single fusogenic electric pulse and the earliest detection of fluorescence in the unlabeled adjacent membranes. The delay increased over the range 0.3-4 s with a decrease in (i) the electric field strength of the fusion-inducing pulse from 1000 to 250 V/mm, (ii) the decay half-time of the fusogenic pulse in the range 1.8-0.073 ms, and (iii) the dielectrophoretic force which brings the membranes into close apposition. A change in the buffer viscosity from 1.8 to 10 mP.s caused the delay to increase from 0.36 to 3.7 s (in glycerol solutions) or to 5.2 s (in sucrose solutions). The delay decreased 2-3 times with an increase in temperature from 21 to 37 degrees C. It did not differ significantly for "white" ghosts [0.013 mM hemoglobin (Hb)] or "red" ghosts (0.15 mM Hb) or buffer strength over the range 5-60 mM (sodium phosphate, pH 8.5). The calculated activation energy, 17 kcal/mol, does not depend on the field strength. The yield of fused cells was high when the delay was short. The delay in electrofusion resembles the delays in pH-dependent fusion of vesicular stomatitis viruses with erythrocyte ghosts [Clague, M. J., Schoch, C., Zech, L., & Blumenthal, R. (1990) Biochemistry 29, 1303-1308] and of fibroblasts expressing influenza hemagglutinin and red blood cells [Morris, S. J., Sarkar, D.P., White, J. M., & Blumenthal, R. (1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 3972-3978].(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- D S Dimitrov
- Cell Biology, Holland Laboratory, American Red Cross, Rockville, Maryland 20855
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Lowy RJ, Sarkar DP, Chen Y, Blumenthal R. Observation of single influenza virus-cell fusion and measurement by fluorescence video microscopy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:1850-4. [PMID: 2308945 PMCID: PMC53581 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.5.1850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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We have used intensified video fluorescence microscopy and digital image processing to observe and quantitate influenza virus (A/PR8/34/H1N1) fusion to human erythrocyte membranes. Viruses labeled with the lipid probe octadecylrhodamine B (R18) were seen to undergo fluorescence dequenching and eventual disappearance after exposure to pH levels known to induce virus-cell membrane fusion. Quantitative intensity measurements of single individual particles were possible. From these fluorescence data it has been possible to calculate the fraction of R18 dye molecules transferred from the virus to the cell. The redistribution of the lipid probe upon fusion at pH 5.0 had a t1/2 of 46 s, longer than expected for a free-diffusion model. The R18 loss was approximately twice as fast at pH 5.0 as at pH 5.1. No obvious delay until the start of fluorescence dequenching was observed after the pH changes, suggesting that activation processes are faster than the time resolution, 1-5 s, of the current method.
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- R J Lowy
- Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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