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ArticleBiophysical journal2009

Single-molecule microscopy reveals membrane microdomain organization of cells in a living vertebrate.

Marcel J M Schaaf, Wiepke J A Koopmans, Tobias Meckel, John van Noort, B Ewa Snaar-Jagalska, Thomas S Schmidt, Herman P Spaink

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marcel J M SchaafMolecular Cell Biology, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands. m.j.m.schaaf@biology.leidenuniv.nl
Wiepke J A Koopmans
Tobias Meckel
John van Noort
B Ewa Snaar-Jagalska
Thomas S Schmidt
Herman P Spaink
Leiden University · NL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has been possible for several years to study the dynamics of fluorescently labeled proteins by single-molecule microscopy, but until now this technology has been applied only to individual cells in culture. In this study, it was extended to stem cells and living vertebrate organisms. As a molecule of interest we used yellow fluorescent protein fused to the human H-Ras membrane anchor, which has been shown to serve as a model for proteins anchored in the plasma membrane. We used a wide-field fluorescence microscopy setup to visualize individual molecules in a zebrafish cell line (ZF4) and in primary embryonic stem cells. A total-internal-reflection microscopy setup was used for imaging in living organisms, in particular in epidermal cells in the skin of 2-day-old zebrafish embryos. Our results demonstrate the occurrence of membrane microdomains in which the diffusion of membrane proteins in a living organism is confined. This membrane organization differed significantly from that observed in cultured cells, illustrating the relevance of performing single-molecule microscopy in living organisms.

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AnimalsCells, CulturedEmbryonic Stem CellsMembrane MicrodomainsMicroscopy, ConfocalMicroscopy, FluorescenceMolecular Probe TechniquesZebrafish

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PMID19686669
PMCPMC2726327
OpenAlexW2117848358

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