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ArticleBiophysical journal2008

Both MHC class II and its GPI-anchored form undergo hop diffusion as observed by single-molecule tracking.

Yasuhiro M Umemura, Marija Vrljic, Stefanie Y Nishimura, Takahiro K Fujiwara, Kenichi G N Suzuki, Akihiro Kusumi

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Yasuhiro M UmemuraMembrane Mechanisms Project, International Cooperative Research Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Marija Vrljic
Stefanie Y Nishimura
Takahiro K Fujiwara
Kenichi G N Suzuki
Akihiro Kusumi
Kyoto University · JPStanford University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previously, investigations using single-fluorescent-molecule tracking at frame rates of up to 65 Hz, showed that the transmembrane MHC class II protein and its GPI-anchored modified form expressed in CHO cells undergo simple Brownian diffusion, without any influence of actin depolymerization with cytochalasin D. These results are at apparent variance with the view that GPI-anchored proteins stay with cholesterol-enriched raft domains, as well as with the observation that both lipids and transmembrane proteins undergo short-term confined diffusion within a compartment and long-term hop diffusion between compartments. Here, this apparent discrepancy has been resolved by reexamining the same paradigm, by using both high-speed single-particle tracking (50 kHz) and single fluorescent-molecule tracking (30 Hz). Both molecules exhibited rapid hop diffusion between 40-nm compartments, with an average dwell time of 1-3 ms in each compartment. Cytochalasin D hardly affected the hop diffusion, consistent with previous observations, whereas latrunculin A increased the compartment sizes with concomitant decreases of the hop rates, which led to an approximately 50% increase in the median macroscopic diffusion coefficient. These results indicate that the actin-based membrane skeleton influences the diffusion of both transmembrane and GPI-anchored proteins.

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Molecular Probe TechniquesAnimalsCHO CellsCricetinaeCricetulusDiffusionGlycosylphosphatidylinositolsHistocompatibility Antigens Class IIMicroscopy, FluorescenceGlycosylphosphatidylinositolsHistocompatibility Antigens Class II

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PMID18339737
PMCPMC2426619
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