表达蛋白和内源性蛋白的纳米级时空聚类分析
Nanoscale spatiotemporal cluster analysis of expressed and endogenous proteins.
作者信息
Gormal Rachel S, Wallis Tristan P, McCann Alex J, Kudo Kye, Jiang Anmin, Syed Parnayan, Longfield Shanley F, Amor Rumelo, Meunier Frédéric A
机构信息
Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia.
Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia.
出版信息
Nat Protoc. 2025 Aug 8. doi: 10.1038/s41596-025-01209-w.
Super-resolution microscopy has revolutionized the ability to investigate biological structures and processes, which are now accessible at nanoscale resolution. Recent advances in single-particle tracking (SPT) approaches have enabled researchers to study the intermolecular dynamics of individual proteins within their native environments in live cells. Fluorescent intrabody localization microscopy expands on existing SPT approaches such as SPT photoactivated localization microscopy by granting access to the nanoclustering dynamics of intracellular endogenous proteins through the use of single-domain nanobodies that can also differentiate between the conformational states of proteins. Here we detail how to perform single-molecule imaging of expressed proteins and nanobodies raised against endogenous proteins. We provide a streamlined analytical pipeline utilizing newly established clustering algorithms for extracting meaningful biological information. Nanoclustering analysis using spatiotemporal indexing is an open-source program with a user interface that enables the extraction of a range of dynamic nanoclustering metrics, including spatial and temporal information, from SPT data. This Protocol combines these single-molecule tracking and spatiotemporal clustering approaches into a comprehensive guide for researchers to achieve the precise localization of expressed and endogenous proteins and the characterization of their conformation-specific clustering behavior within subcellular compartments at nanoscale resolution. The procedure requires 2-4 d and is suitable for users with some prior experience in super-resolution microscopy and microscopy data analysis.
超分辨率显微镜技术彻底改变了研究生物结构和过程的能力,现在可以在纳米级分辨率下对其进行观察。单粒子追踪(SPT)方法的最新进展使研究人员能够在活细胞的天然环境中研究单个蛋白质的分子间动力学。荧光胞内抗体定位显微镜技术在现有的SPT方法(如SPT光激活定位显微镜)的基础上进行了拓展,通过使用单域纳米抗体来区分蛋白质的构象状态,从而研究细胞内源性蛋白质的纳米簇集动力学。在这里,我们详细介绍如何对表达的蛋白质以及针对内源性蛋白质产生的纳米抗体进行单分子成像。我们提供了一个简化的分析流程,利用新建立的聚类算法来提取有意义的生物学信息。使用时空索引的纳米簇集分析是一个具有用户界面的开源程序,能够从SPT数据中提取一系列动态纳米簇集指标,包括空间和时间信息。本方案将这些单分子追踪和时空聚类方法整合为一份全面指南,供研究人员在纳米级分辨率下实现表达蛋白和内源性蛋白的精确定位,并表征其在亚细胞区室中特定构象的簇集行为。该过程需要2 - 4天,适用于有超分辨率显微镜和显微镜数据分析相关经验的用户。