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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2012

Automating single subunit counting of membrane proteins in mammalian cells.

Hugo McGuire, Mark R P Aurousseau, Derek Bowie, Rikard Blunck

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
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43 citing papers in PubMed, 92 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hugo McGuireGroupe d'Étude des Protéines Membranaires, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada.
Mark R P Aurousseau
Derek Bowie
Rikard Blunck
Université de Montréal · CAMcGill University · CA

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Elucidating subunit stoichiometry of neurotransmitter receptors is preferably carried out in a mammalian expression system where the rules of native protein assembly are strictly obeyed. Although successful in Xenopus oocytes, single subunit counting, manually counting photobleaching steps of GFP-tagged subunits, has been hindered in mammalian cells by high background fluorescence, poor control of expression, and low GFP maturation efficiency. Here, we present a fully automated single-molecule fluorescence counting method that separates tagged proteins on the plasma membrane from background fluorescence and contaminant proteins in the cytosol or the endoplasmic reticulum and determines the protein stoichiometry. Lower GFP maturation rates observed in cells cultured at 37 °C were partly offset using a monomeric version of superfolder GFP. We were able to correctly identify the stoichiometry of GluK2 and α1 glycine receptors. Our approach permits the elucidation of stoichiometry for a wide variety of plasma membrane proteins in mammalian cells with any commercially available TIRF microscope.

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AnimalsCell MembraneFluorescenceGluK2 Kainate ReceptorGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHEK293 CellsHumansKainic Acid ReceptorsReceptors, GlycineRecombinant Fusion ProteinsXenopusGluK2 Kainate ReceptorGreen Fluorescent ProteinsKainic Acid ReceptorsReceptors, GlycineRecombinant Fusion Proteins

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PMID22930752
PMCPMC3476259
OpenAlexW2001756723

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