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Kockelkoren G, Lauritsen L, Shuttle CG, Kazepidou E, Vonkova I, Zhang Y, Breuer A, Kennard C, Brunetti RM, D'Este E, Weiner OD, Uline M, Stamou D. Molecular mechanism of GPCR spatial organization at the plasma membrane. Nat Chem Biol 2024; 20:142-150. [PMID: 37460675 PMCID: PMC10792125 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-023-01385-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2022] [Accepted: 06/14/2023] [Indexed: 10/12/2023]
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G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) mediate many critical physiological processes. Their spatial organization in plasma membrane (PM) domains is believed to encode signaling specificity and efficiency. However, the existence of domains and, crucially, the mechanism of formation of such putative domains remain elusive. Here, live-cell imaging (corrected for topography-induced imaging artifacts) conclusively established the existence of PM domains for GPCRs. Paradoxically, energetic coupling to extremely shallow PM curvature (<1 µm-1) emerged as the dominant, necessary and sufficient molecular mechanism of GPCR spatiotemporal organization. Experiments with different GPCRs, H-Ras, Piezo1 and epidermal growth factor receptor, suggest that the mechanism is general, yet protein specific, and can be regulated by ligands. These findings delineate a new spatiomechanical molecular mechanism that can transduce to domain-based signaling any mechanical or chemical stimulus that affects the morphology of the PM and suggest innovative therapeutic strategies targeting cellular shape.
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- Gabriele Kockelkoren
- Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Membranes, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Membranes, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Membranes, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Membranes, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Membranes, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Neuroscience, Dorris Neuroscience Center, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Membranes, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Membranes, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Optical Microscopy Facility, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Membranes, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Membranes, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
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- Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Membranes, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Atomos Biotech, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Gandhi SA, Sanders MA, Granneman JG, Kelly CV. Four-color fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy with one laser and one camera. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2023; 14:3812-3827. [PMID: 37497523 PMCID: PMC10368031 DOI: 10.1364/boe.486937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2023] [Revised: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023]
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The diffusion and reorganization of phospholipids and membrane-associated proteins are fundamental for cellular function. Fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy (FCCS) measures diffusion and molecular interactions at nanomolar concentration in biological systems. We have developed an economical method to simultaneously monitor diffusion and complexation with the use of super-continuum laser and spectral deconvolution from a single detector. Customizable excitation wavelengths were chosen from the wide-band source and spectral fitting of the emitted light revealed the interactions for up to four chromatically overlapping fluorophores simultaneously. This method was applied to perform four-color FCCS that we demonstrated with polystyrene nanoparticles, lipid vesicles, and membrane-bound molecules. Up to four individually customizable excitation channels were selected from the broad-spectrum fiber laser to excite the diffusers within a diffraction-limited spot. The fluorescence emission passed through a cleanup filter and a dispersive prism prior to being collected by a sCMOS or EMCCD camera with up to 1.8 kHz frame rates. The emission intensity versus time of each fluorophore was extracted through a linear least-square fitting of each camera frame and temporally correlated via custom software. Auto- and cross-correlation functions enabled the measurement of the diffusion rates and binding partners. We have measured the induced aggregation of nanobeads and lipid vesicles in solution upon increasing the buffer salinity. Because of the adaptability of investigating four fluorophores simultaneously with a cost-effective method, this technique will have wide application for examining macromolecular complex formation in model and living systems.
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- Sonali A. Gandhi
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 40201, USA
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- Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 40201, USA
- Center for Integrative Metabolic and Endocrine Research, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
- Center for Integrative Metabolic and Endocrine Research, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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Büber E, Schröder T, Scheckenbach M, Dass M, Franquelim HG, Tinnefeld P. DNA Origami Curvature Sensors for Nanoparticle and Vesicle Size Determination with Single-Molecule FRET Readout. ACS NANO 2023; 17:3088-3097. [PMID: 36735241 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c11981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Particle size is an important characteristic of materials with a direct effect on their physicochemical features. Besides nanoparticles, particle size and surface curvature are particularly important in the world of lipids and cellular membranes as the cell membrane undergoes conformational changes in many biological processes which leads to diverging local curvature values. On account of that, it is important to develop cost-effective, rapid and sufficiently precise systems that can measure the surface curvature on the nanoscale that can be translated to size for spherical particles. As an alternative approach for particle characterization, we present flexible DNA nanodevices that can adapt to the curvature of the structure they are bound to. The curvature sensors use Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) as the transduction mechanism on the single-molecule level. The curvature sensors consist of segmented DNA origami structures connected via flexible DNA linkers incorporating a FRET pair. The activity of the sensors was first demonstrated with defined binding to different DNA origami geometries used as templates. Then the DNA origami curvature sensors were applied to measure spherical silica beads having different size, and subsequently on lipid vesicles. With the designed sensors, we could reliably distinguish different sized nanoparticles within a size range of 50-300 nm as well as the bending angle range of 50-180°. This study helps with the development of more advanced modular-curvature sensing devices that are capable of determining the sizes of nanoparticles and biological complexes.
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- Ece Büber
- Department of Chemistry and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Butenandtstraße 5-13, 81377Munich, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Butenandtstraße 5-13, 81377Munich, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Butenandtstraße 5-13, 81377Munich, Germany
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- Faculty of Physics and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, 80539Munich, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152Martinsried, Germany
- Interfaculty Centre for Bioactive Matter, Leipzig University, c/o Deutscher Platz 5 (BBZ), 04109Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Butenandtstraße 5-13, 81377Munich, Germany
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Gandhi SA, Sanders MA, Granneman JG, Kelly CV. Four-color fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy with one laser and one camera. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.01.30.526256. [PMID: 36778294 PMCID: PMC9915509 DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.30.526256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The diffusion and reorganization of phospholipids and membrane-associated proteins are fundamental for cellular function. Fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy (FCCS) measures the diffusion and molecular interactions at nanomolar concentration in biological systems. We have developed a novel, economical method to simultaneously monitor diffusion and oligomerization with the use of super-continuum laser and spectral deconvolution from a single detector. Customizable excitation wavelengths were chosen from the wide-band source and spectral fitting of the emitted light revealed the interactions for up to four spectrally overlapping fluorophores simultaneously. This method was applied to perform four-color FCCS, as demonstrated with polystyrene nanoparticles, lipid vesicles, and membrane-bound molecules. Up to four individually customizable excitation channels were selected from the broad-spectrum fiber laser to excite the diffusers within a diffraction-limited spot. The fluorescence emission passed through a cleanup filter and a dispersive prism prior to being collected by a sCMOS or EMCCD camera with up to 10 kHz frame rates. The emission intensity versus time of each fluorophore was extracted through a linear least-square fitting of each camera frame and temporally correlated via custom software. Auto- and cross-correlation functions enabled the measurement of the diffusion rates and binding partners. We have measured the induced aggregation of nanobeads and lipid vesicles in solution upon increasing the buffer salinity. Because of the adaptability of investigating four fluorophores simultaneously with a cost-effective method, this technique will have wide application for examining complex homo- and heterooligomerization in model and living systems.
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- Sonali A. Gandhi
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, 48201
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- Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, 40201
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- Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, 40201,Center for Integrative Metabolic and Endocrine Research, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA. 48201
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, 48201,Center for Integrative Metabolic and Endocrine Research, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA. 48201,Corresponding author:
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Woodward X, Javanainen M, Fábián B, Kelly CV. Nanoscale membrane curvature sorts lipid phases and alters lipid diffusion. Biophys J 2023:S0006-3495(23)00001-2. [PMID: 36604961 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2023.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2022] [Revised: 11/23/2022] [Accepted: 01/03/2023] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The precise spatiotemporal control of nanoscale membrane shape and composition is the result of a complex interplay of individual and collective molecular behaviors. Here, we employed single-molecule localization microscopy and computational simulations to observe single-lipid diffusion and sorting in model membranes with varying compositions, phases, temperatures, and curvatures. Supported lipid bilayers were created over 50-nm-radius nanoparticles to mimic the size of naturally occurring membrane buds, such as endocytic pits and the formation of viral envelopes. The curved membranes recruited liquid-disordered lipid phases while altering the diffusion and sorting of tracer lipids. Disorder-preferring fluorescent lipids sorted to and experienced faster diffusion on the nanoscale curvature only when embedded in a membrane capable of sustaining lipid phase separation at low temperatures. The curvature-induced sorting and faster diffusion even occurred when the sample temperature was above the miscibility temperature of the planar membrane, implying that the nanoscale curvature could induce phase separation in otherwise homogeneous membranes. Further confirmation and understanding of these results are provided by continuum and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations with explicit and spontaneous curvature-phase coupling, respectively. The curvature-induced membrane compositional heterogeneity and altered dynamics were achieved only with a coupling of the curvature with a lipid phase separation. These cross-validating results demonstrate the complex interplay of lipid phases, molecular diffusion, and nanoscale membrane curvature that are critical for membrane functionality.
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- Xinxin Woodward
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
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Cail RC, Drubin DG. Membrane curvature as a signal to ensure robustness of diverse cellular processes. Trends Cell Biol 2022; 33:427-441. [PMID: 36244874 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2022.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2022] [Revised: 09/14/2022] [Accepted: 09/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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An increasing corpus of research has demonstrated that membrane shape, generated either by the external environment of the cell or by intrinsic mechanisms such as cytokinesis and vesicle or organelle formation, is an important parameter in the control of diverse cellular processes. In this review we discuss recent findings that demonstrate how membrane curvature (from nanometer to micron length-scales) alters protein function. We describe an expanding toolkit for experimentally modulating membrane curvature to reveal effects on protein function, and discuss how membrane curvature - far from being a passive consequence of the physical environment and the internal protein activity of a cell - is an important signal that controls protein affinity and enzymatic activity to ensure robust forward progression of key processes within the cell.
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Kenworthy AK, Schmieder SS, Raghunathan K, Tiwari A, Wang T, Kelly CV, Lencer WI. Cholera Toxin as a Probe for Membrane Biology. Toxins (Basel) 2021; 13:543. [PMID: 34437414 PMCID: PMC8402489 DOI: 10.3390/toxins13080543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2021] [Revised: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 07/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Cholera toxin B-subunit (CTxB) has emerged as one of the most widely utilized tools in membrane biology and biophysics. CTxB is a homopentameric stable protein that binds tightly to up to five GM1 glycosphingolipids. This provides a robust and tractable model for exploring membrane structure and its dynamics including vesicular trafficking and nanodomain assembly. Here, we review important advances in these fields enabled by use of CTxB and its lipid receptor GM1.
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- Anne K. Kenworthy
- Center for Membrane and Cell Physiology and Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA; (A.T.); (T.W.)
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Harvard Digestive Diseases Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA;
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- Center for Membrane and Cell Physiology and Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA; (A.T.); (T.W.)
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- Center for Membrane and Cell Physiology and Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA; (A.T.); (T.W.)
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Harvard Digestive Diseases Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Javanainen M, Martinez-Seara H, Kelly CV, Jungwirth P, Fábián B. Anisotropic diffusion of membrane proteins at experimental timescales. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:015102. [PMID: 34241397 DOI: 10.1063/5.0054973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Single-particle tracking (SPT) experiments of lipids and membrane proteins provide a wealth of information about the properties of biomembranes. Careful analysis of SPT trajectories can reveal deviations from ideal Brownian behavior. Among others, this includes confinement effects and anomalous diffusion, which are manifestations of both the nanoscale structure of the underlying membrane and the structure of the diffuser. With the rapid increase in temporal and spatial resolution of experimental methods, a new aspect of the motion of the particle, namely, anisotropic diffusion, might become relevant. This aspect that so far received only little attention is the anisotropy of the diffusive motion and may soon provide an additional proxy to the structure and topology of biomembranes. Unfortunately, the theoretical framework for detecting and interpreting anisotropy effects is currently scattered and incomplete. Here, we provide a computational method to evaluate the degree of anisotropy directly from molecular dynamics simulations and also point out a way to compare the obtained results with those available from SPT experiments. In order to probe the effects of anisotropic diffusion, we performed coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of peripheral and integral membrane proteins in flat and curved bilayers. In agreement with the theoretical basis, our computational results indicate that anisotropy can persist up to the rotational relaxation time [τ=(2Dr)-1], after which isotropic diffusion is observed. Moreover, the underlying topology of the membrane bilayer can couple with the geometry of the particle, thus extending the spatiotemporal domain over which this type of motion can be detected.
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- Matti Javanainen
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nám. 542/2, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nám. 542/2, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, 666 W Hancock Street, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nám. 542/2, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nám. 542/2, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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Woodward X, Kelly CV. Single-lipid dynamics in phase-separated supported lipid bilayers. Chem Phys Lipids 2020; 233:104991. [PMID: 33121937 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2020.104991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Revised: 10/02/2020] [Accepted: 10/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Phase separation is a fundamental organizing mechanism on cellular membranes. Lipid phases have complex dependencies on the membrane composition, curvature, tension, and temperature. Lipid diffusion rates vary by up to ten-fold between liquid-disordered (Ld) and liquid-ordered (Lo) phases depending on the membrane composition, measurement technique, and the surrounding environment. This manuscript reports the lipid diffusion on phase-separated supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) with varying temperature, composition, and lipid phase. Lipid diffusion is measured by single-particle tracking (SPT) and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) via custom data acquisition and analysis protocols that apply to diverse membranes systems. Traditionally, SPT is sensitive to diffuser aggregation, whereas the diffusion rates reported by FCS are unaffected by the presence of immobile aggregates. Within this manuscript, we report (1) improved single-particle tracking analysis of lipid diffusion, (2) comparison and consistency between diffusion measurement methods for non-Brownian diffusers, and (3) the application of these methods to measure the phase, temperature, and composition dependencies in lipid diffusion. We demonstrate improved SPT analysis methods that yield consistent FCS and SPT diffusion results even when most fluorescent lipids are frequently confined within aggregates within the membrane. With varying membrane composition and temperature, we demonstrate differences in diffusion between the Ld and Lo phases of SLBs.
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- Xinxin Woodward
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States.
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Larsen J, Rosholm KR, Kennard C, Pedersen SL, Munch HK, Tkach V, Sakon JJ, Bjørnholm T, Weninger KR, Bendix PM, Jensen KJ, Hatzakis NS, Uline MJ, Stamou D. How Membrane Geometry Regulates Protein Sorting Independently of Mean Curvature. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE 2020; 6:1159-1168. [PMID: 32724850 PMCID: PMC7379390 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2020] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Biological membranes have distinct geometries that confer specific functions. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the phenomenological geometry/function correlations remain elusive. We studied the effect of membrane geometry on the localization of membrane-bound proteins. Quantitative comparative experiments between the two most abundant cellular membrane geometries, spherical and cylindrical, revealed that geometry regulates the spatial segregation of proteins. The measured geometry-driven segregation reached 50-fold for membranes of the same mean curvature, demonstrating a crucial and hitherto unaccounted contribution by Gaussian curvature. Molecular-field theory calculations elucidated the underlying physical and molecular mechanisms. Our results reveal that distinct membrane geometries have specific physicochemical properties and thus establish a ubiquitous mechanistic foundation for unravelling the conserved correlations between biological function and membrane polymorphism.
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- Jannik
B. Larsen
- Bionanotecnology
and Nanomedicine Laboratory, University
of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Nano-Science
Center, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Lundbeck
Foundation Center Biomembranes in Nanomedicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Bionanotecnology
and Nanomedicine Laboratory, University
of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Nano-Science
Center, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Lundbeck
Foundation Center Biomembranes in Nanomedicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, University of South
Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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- Lundbeck
Foundation Center Biomembranes in Nanomedicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Lundbeck
Foundation Center Biomembranes in Nanomedicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Bionanotecnology
and Nanomedicine Laboratory, University
of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Nano-Science
Center, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Lundbeck
Foundation Center Biomembranes in Nanomedicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department
of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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- Bionanotecnology
and Nanomedicine Laboratory, University
of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Nano-Science
Center, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Lundbeck
Foundation Center Biomembranes in Nanomedicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department
of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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- Lundbeck
Foundation Center Biomembranes in Nanomedicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Bionanotecnology
and Nanomedicine Laboratory, University
of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Nano-Science
Center, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Lundbeck
Foundation Center Biomembranes in Nanomedicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center
for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Systems, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
- (M.J.U.) E-mail:
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- Bionanotecnology
and Nanomedicine Laboratory, University
of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Nano-Science
Center, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Lundbeck
Foundation Center Biomembranes in Nanomedicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Center
for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Systems, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- (D.S.)
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Membrane deformation by the cholera toxin beta subunit requires more than one binding site. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:17467-17469. [PMID: 32641504 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2011359117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Structured clustering of the glycosphingolipid GM1 is required for membrane curvature induced by cholera toxin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:14978-14986. [PMID: 32554490 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2001119117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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AB5 bacterial toxins and polyomaviruses induce membrane curvature as a mechanism to facilitate their entry into host cells. How membrane bending is accomplished is not yet fully understood but has been linked to the simultaneous binding of the pentameric B subunit to multiple copies of glycosphingolipid receptors. Here, we probe the toxin membrane binding and internalization mechanisms by using a combination of superresolution and polarized localization microscopy. We show that cholera toxin subunit B (CTxB) can induce membrane curvature only when bound to multiple copies of its glycosphingolipid receptor, GM1, and the ceramide structure of GM1 is likely not a determinant of this activity as assessed in model membranes. A mutant CTxB capable of binding only a single GM1 fails to generate curvature either in model membranes or in cells, and clustering the mutant CTxB-single-GM1 complexes by antibody cross-linking does not rescue the membrane curvature phenotype. We conclude that both the multiplicity and specific geometry of GM1 binding sites are necessary for the induction of membrane curvature. We expect this to be a general rule of membrane behavior for all AB5 toxins and polyomaviruses that bind glycosphingolipids to invade host cells.
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Chasing Uptake: Super-Resolution Microscopy in Endocytosis and Phagocytosis. Trends Cell Biol 2019; 29:727-739. [PMID: 31227311 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2019.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2019] [Revised: 05/14/2019] [Accepted: 05/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Since their invention about two decades ago, super-resolution microscopes have become a method of choice in cell biology. Owing to a spatial resolution below 50 nm, smaller than the size of most organelles, and an order of magnitude better than the diffraction limit of conventional light microscopes, super-resolution microscopy is a powerful technique for resolving intracellular trafficking. In this review we discuss discoveries in endocytosis and phagocytosis that have been made possible by super-resolution microscopy - from uptake at the plasma membrane, endocytic coat formation, and cytoskeletal rearrangements to endosomal maturation. The detailed visualization of the diverse molecular assemblies that mediate endocytic uptake will provide a better understanding of how cells ingest extracellular material.
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Hu SW, Huang CY, Tsao HK, Sheng YJ. Hybrid membranes of lipids and diblock copolymers: From homogeneity to rafts to phase separation. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:012403. [PMID: 30780280 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.012403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Hybrid lipid-polymer vesicles can integrate benefits of liposomes and polymersomes. In this work, the phase behavior of hybrid membranes containing lipids and diblock copolymers is explored by dissipative particle dynamics simulations. The influences of lipid unsaturation and thickness mismatch between lipids and polymers are considered. The transition from the mixing state (homogeneous distribution) to the demixing state (formation of bilayered lipid-rich domains) is always observed as the lipid concentration (φ_{l}) exceeds a critical value, which increases with the degree of unsaturation. It is found that phase separation is driven by weak energy incompatibility between the hydrophobic segments of lipids and polymers. When the effect of thickness mismatch becomes significant, the occurrence of the demixing state is retarded, and monolayer lipid rafts emerge before phase separation. Lipid fluidity associated with the physical state of a hybrid membrane can be characterized by lateral lipid diffusivity (D_{l}). In the polymer-rich membrane, D_{l} is higher in the mixing state, but decreases generally with φ_{l} due to lipid-lipid interactions and interdigitation.
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- Ssu-Wei Hu
- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan 320, Republic of China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106, Republic of China
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan 320, Republic of China
- Department of Physics, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan 320, Republic of China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106, Republic of China
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Junghans V, Santos AM, Lui Y, Davis SJ, Jönsson P. Dimensions and Interactions of Large T-Cell Surface Proteins. Front Immunol 2018; 9:2215. [PMID: 30319654 PMCID: PMC6170634 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.02215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2018] [Accepted: 09/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The first step of the adaptive immune response involves the interaction of T cells that express T-cell receptors (TCRs) with peptide-loaded major histocompatibility complexes expressed by antigen-presenting cells (APCs). Exactly how this leads to activation of the TCR and to downstream signaling is uncertain, however. Recent findings suggest that one of the key events is the exclusion of the large receptor-type tyrosine phosphatase CD45, from close contacts formed at sites of T-cell/APC interaction. If this is true, a full understanding of how close contact formation leads to signaling would require insights into the structures of, and interactions between, large membrane proteins like CD45 and other proteins forming the glycocalyx, such as CD43. Structural insights into the overall dimensions of these proteins using crystallographic methods are hard to obtain, and their conformations on the cell surface are also unknown. Several imaging-based optical microscopy techniques have however been developed for analyzing protein dimensions and orientation on model cell surfaces with nanometer precision. Here we review some of these methods with a focus on the use of hydrodynamic trapping, which relies on liquid flow from a micropipette to move and trap membrane-associated fluorescently labeled molecules. Important insights that have been obtained include (i) how protein flexibility and coverage might affect the effective heights of these molecules, (ii) the height of proteins on the membrane as a key parameter determining how they will distribute in cell-cell contacts, and (iii) how repulsive interactions between the extracellular parts of the proteins influences protein aggregation and distribution.
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- Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Woodward X, Stimpson EE, Kelly CV. Single-lipid tracking on nanoscale membrane buds: The effects of curvature on lipid diffusion and sorting. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2018; 1860:2064-2075. [PMID: 29856992 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2018.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2018] [Revised: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 05/19/2018] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Nanoscale membrane curvature in cells is critical for endocytosis/exocytosis and membrane trafficking. However, the biophysical ramifications of nanoscale membrane curvature on the behavior of lipids remain poorly understood. Here, we created an experimental model system of membrane curvature at a physiologically-relevant scale and obtained nanoscopic information on single-lipid distributions and dynamics. Supported lipid bilayers were created over 50 and 70 nm radius nanoparticles to create membrane buds. Single-molecule localization microscopy was performed with diverse mixtures of fluorescent and non-fluorescent lipids. Variations in lipid acyl tales length, saturation, head-group, and fluorescent labeling strategy were tested while maintaining a single fluid lipid phase throughout the membrane. Monte Carlo simulations were used to fit our experimental results and quantify the effects of curvature on the lipid diffusion and sorting. Whereas varying the composition of the non-fluorescent lipids yielded minimal changes to the curvature effects, the labeling strategy of the fluorescent lipids yielded highly varying effects of curvature. Most conditions yield single-population Brownian diffusion throughout the membrane; however, curvature-induced lipid sorting, slowing, and aggregation were observed in some conditions. Head-group labeled lipids such as DPPE-Texas Red and POPE-Rhodamine diffused >2.4× slower on the curved vs. the planar membranes; tail-labeled lipids such as NBD-PPC, TopFluor-PPC, and TopFluor-PIP2, as well as DiIC12 and DiIC18 displayed no significant changes in diffusion due to the membrane curvature. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Emergence of Complex Behavior in Biomembranes edited by Marjorie Longo.
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- Xinxin Woodward
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States.
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Kabbani AM, Kelly CV. Nanoscale Membrane Budding Induced by CTxB and Detected via Polarized Localization Microscopy. Biophys J 2017; 113:1795-1806. [PMID: 29045873 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.08.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2017] [Revised: 08/07/2017] [Accepted: 08/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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For endocytosis and exocytosis, membranes transition among planar, budding, and vesicular topographies through nanoscale reorganization of lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates. However, prior attempts to understand the initial stages of nanoscale bending have been limited by experimental resolution. Through the implementation of polarized localization microscopy, this article reports the inherent membrane bending capability of cholera toxin subunit B (CTxB) in quasi-one-component-supported lipid bilayers. Membrane buds were first detected with <50 nm radius, grew to >200 nm radius, and extended into longer tubules with dependence on the membrane tension and CTxB concentration. Compared to the concentration of the planar-supported lipid bilayers, CTxB was (12 ± 4)× more concentrated on the positive curvature top and (26 ± 11)× more concentrated on the negative Gaussian curvature neck of the nanoscale membrane buds. CTxB is frequently used as a marker for liquid-ordered lipid phases; however, the coupling between CTxB and membrane bending provides an alternate understanding of CTxB-induced membrane reorganization. These findings allow for the reinterpretation of prior observations by correlating CTxB clustering and diffusion to CTxB-induced membrane bending. Single-particle tracking was performed on single lipids and CTxB to reveal the correlations among single-molecule diffusion, CTxB accumulation, and membrane topography. Slowed lipid and CTxB diffusion was observed at the nanoscale bud locations, suggesting a local increase in the effective membrane viscosity or molecular crowding upon membrane bending. These results suggest inherent CTxB-induced membrane bending as a mechanism for initiating CTxB internalization in cells that could be independent of clathrin, caveolin, actin, and lipid phase separation.
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- Abir M Kabbani
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
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Kabbani AM, Woodward X, Kelly CV. Revealing the Effects of Nanoscale Membrane Curvature on Lipid Mobility. MEMBRANES 2017; 7:membranes7040060. [PMID: 29057801 PMCID: PMC5746819 DOI: 10.3390/membranes7040060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2017] [Revised: 09/29/2017] [Accepted: 10/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Recent advances in nanoengineering and super-resolution microscopy have enabled new capabilities for creating and observing membrane curvature. However, the effects of curvature on single-lipid diffusion have yet to be revealed. The simulations presented here describe the capabilities of varying experimental methods for revealing the effects of nanoscale curvature on single-molecule mobility. Traditionally, lipid mobility is revealed through fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP), fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), and single particle tracking (SPT). However, these techniques vary greatly in their ability to detect the effects of nanoscale curvature on lipid behavior. Traditionally, FRAP and FCS depend on diffraction-limited illumination and detection. A simulation of FRAP shows minimal effects on lipids diffusion due to a 50 nm radius membrane bud. Throughout the stages of the budding process, FRAP detected minimal changes in lipid recovery time due to the curvature versus flat membrane. Simulated FCS demonstrated small effects due to a 50 nm radius membrane bud that was more apparent with curvature-dependent lipid mobility changes. However, SPT achieves a sub-diffraction-limited resolution of membrane budding and lipid mobility through the identification of the single-lipid positions with ≤15 nm spatial and ≤20 ms temporal resolution. By mapping the single-lipid step lengths to locations on the membrane, the effects of membrane topography and curvature could be correlated to the effective membrane viscosity. Single-fluorophore localization techniques, such SPT, can detect membrane curvature and its effects on lipid behavior. These simulations and discussion provide a guideline for optimizing the experimental procedures in revealing the effects of curvature on lipid mobility and effective local membrane viscosity.
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- Abir Maarouf Kabbani
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
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