Division of Immunology and Pathogenesis, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Immunol Cell Biol. 2011 May;89(4):549-57. doi: 10.1038/icb.2010.122. Epub 2010 Oct 19.
The movement of proteins within cells can provide dynamic indications of cell signaling and cell polarity, but methods are needed to track and quantify subcellular protein movement within tissue environments. Here we present a semiautomated approach to quantify subcellular protein location for hundreds of migrating cells within intact living tissue using retrovirally expressed fluorescent fusion proteins and time-lapse two-photon microscopy of intact thymic lobes. We have validated the method using GFP-PKCζ, a marker for cell polarity, and LAT-GFP, a marker for T-cell receptor signaling, and have related the asymmetric distribution of these proteins to the direction and speed of cell migration. These approaches could be readily adapted to other fluorescent fusion proteins, tissues and biological questions.
细胞内蛋白质的运动可以为细胞信号转导和细胞极性提供动态指示,但需要方法来跟踪和量化组织环境中细胞内的亚细胞蛋白运动。在这里,我们提出了一种使用逆转录病毒表达的荧光融合蛋白和完整胸腺小叶的延时双光子显微镜对完整活组织中的数百个迁移细胞进行定量亚细胞蛋白定位的半自动方法。我们已经使用 GFP-PKCζ(细胞极性的标志物)和 LAT-GFP(T 细胞受体信号的标志物)验证了该方法,并将这些蛋白质的不对称分布与细胞迁移的方向和速度相关联。这些方法可以很容易地适应其他荧光融合蛋白、组织和生物学问题。
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