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ArticleScientific reports2017

Measurement of caveolin-1 densities in the cell membrane for quantification of caveolar deformation after exposure to hypotonic membrane tension.

Masashi Tachikawa, Nobuhiro Morone, Yosuke Senju, Tadao Sugiura, Kyoko Hanawa-Suetsugu, Atsushi Mochizuki, Shiro Suetsugu

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Masashi TachikawaTheoretical Biology Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, 351-0198, Japan. mtach@riken.jp.
Nobuhiro MoroneMRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK, and Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan.
Yosuke SenjuInstitute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 00014, Finland.
Tadao SugiuraGraduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, 630-0192, Japan.
Kyoko Hanawa-SuetsuguGraduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, 630-0192, Japan.
Atsushi MochizukiTheoretical Biology Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, 351-0198, Japan.
Shiro SuetsuguGraduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, 630-0192, Japan. suetsugu@bs.naist.jp.
Nara Institute of Science and Technology · JPJapan Science and Technology Agency · JPKyoto University · JPRIKEN Advanced Science Institute · JPUniversity of Helsinki · FI

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Caveolae are abundant flask-shaped invaginations of plasma membranes that buffer membrane tension through their deformation. Few quantitative studies on the deformation of caveolae have been reported. Each caveola contains approximately 150 caveolin-1 proteins. In this study, we estimated the extent of caveolar deformation by measuring the density of caveolin-1 projected onto a two-dimensional (2D) plane. The caveolin-1 in a flattened caveola is assumed to have approximately one-quarter of the density of the caveolin-1 in a flask-shaped caveola. The proportion of one-quarter-density caveolin-1 increased after increasing the tension of the plasma membrane through hypo-osmotic treatment. The one-quarter-density caveolin-1 was soluble in detergent and formed a continuous population with the caveolin-1 in the caveolae of cells under isotonic culture. The distinct, dispersed lower-density caveolin-1 was soluble in detergent and increased after the application of tension, suggesting that the hypo-osmotic tension induced the dispersion of caveolin-1 from the caveolae, possibly through flattened caveolar intermediates.

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Osmotic PressureCaveolaeCaveolin 1Cell MembraneHeLa CellsHumansCaveolin 1

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PMID28798329
PMCPMC5552771
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