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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2025

Long-Term Single-Molecule Tracking in Living Cells using Weak-Affinity Protein Labeling.

Claudia Catapano, Marina S Dietz, Julian Kompa, Soohyen Jang, Petra Freund, Kai Johnsson, Mike Heilemann

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. WormTagDB: A Systematic Survey of Endogenously Tagged Proteins inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Claudia CatapanoInstitute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany.
Marina S DietzInstitute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0504-1824
Julian KompaDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Jahnstr. 29, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4479-5429
Soohyen JangInstitute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9719-5446
Petra FreundInstitute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany.
Kai JohnssonDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Jahnstr. 29, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8002-1981
Mike HeilemannInstitute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9821-3578

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft INST 161/778-1 FUGGDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft SFB 1507Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft TRR 186École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneIMPRS Cellular BiophysicsMax-Planck-Gesellschaft
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-particle tracking (SPT) has become a powerful tool to monitor the dynamics of membrane proteins in living cells. However, permanent labeling strategies for SPT suffer from photobleaching as a major limitation, restricting observation times, and obstructing the study of long-term cellular processes within single living cells. Here, we use exchangeable HaloTag Ligands (xHTLs) as an easy-to-apply labeling approach for live-cell SPT and demonstrate extended observation times of individual living cells of up to 30 minutes. Using the xHTL/HaloTag7 labeling system, we measure the ligand-induced activation kinetics of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in single living cells. We generate spatial maps of receptor diffusion in cells, report non-uniform distributions of receptor mobility, and the formation of spatially confined 'hot spots' of EGFR activation. Furthermore, we measured the mobility of an ER-luminal protein in living cells and found diffusion coefficients that correlated with the ER nano-structure. This approach represents a general strategy to monitor protein mobility in a functional context and for extended observation times in single living cells.

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ErbB ReceptorsSingle Molecule ImagingHumansLigandsEGFR protein, humanErbB ReceptorsLigandsmembrane receptorsself-labeling protein tagssingle-molecule fluorescencesingle-particle trackingweak-affinity binders

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PMID39545345
PMCPMC11701368

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