STED-FLCS: An Advanced Tool to Reveal Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of Molecular Membrane Dynamics

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Beitragende

  • Giuseppe Vicidomini - , Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie (Karl-Friedrich-Bonhoeffer-Institut) (Autor:in)
  • Haisen Ta - , Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie (Karl-Friedrich-Bonhoeffer-Institut) (Autor:in)
  • Alf Honigmann - , Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie (Karl-Friedrich-Bonhoeffer-Institut), Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Autor:in)
  • Veronika Mueller - , Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie (Karl-Friedrich-Bonhoeffer-Institut) (Autor:in)
  • Mathias P. Clausen - , University of Oxford, University of Southern Denmark (Autor:in)
  • Dominic Waithe - , University of Oxford (Autor:in)
  • Silvia Galiani - , University of Oxford (Autor:in)
  • Erdinc Sezgin - , University of Oxford (Autor:in)
  • Alberto Diaspro - , Italian Institute of Technology (Autor:in)
  • Stefan W. Hell - , Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie (Karl-Friedrich-Bonhoeffer-Institut) (Autor:in)
  • Christian Eggeling - , Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie (Karl-Friedrich-Bonhoeffer-Institut), University of Oxford (Autor:in)

Abstract

Heterogeneous diffusion dynamics of molecules play an important role in many cellular signaling events, such as of lipids in plasma membrane bioactivity. However, these dynamics can often only be visualized by single-molecule and super-resolution optical microscopy techniques. Using fluorescence lifetime correlation spectroscopy (FLCS, an extension of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, FCS) on a super-resolution stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscope, we here extend previous observations of nanoscale lipid dynamics in the plasma membrane of living mammalian cells. STED-FLCS allows an improved determination of spatiotemporal heterogeneity in molecular diffusion and interaction dynamics via a novel gated detection scheme, as demonstrated by a comparison between STED-FLCS and previous conventional STED-FCS recordings on fluorescent phosphoglycerolipid and sphingolipid analogues in the plasma membrane of live mammalian cells. The STED-FLCS data indicate that biophysical and biochemical parameters such as the affinity for molecular complexes strongly change over space and time within a few seconds. Drug treatment for cholesterol depletion or actin cytoskeleton depolymerization not only results in the already previously observed decreased affinity for molecular interactions but also in a slight reduction of the spatiotemporal heterogeneity. STED-FLCS specifically demonstrates a significant improvement over previous gated STED-FCS experiments and with its improved spatial and temporal resolution is a novel tool for investigating how heterogeneities of the cellular plasma membrane may regulate biofunctionality.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)5912-5918
Seitenumfang7
FachzeitschriftNano letters
Jahrgang15
Ausgabenummer9
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 9 Sept. 2015
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa

Externe IDs

PubMed 26235350
ORCID /0000-0003-0475-3790/work/161889551

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • fluorescence-correlation spectroscopy, stimulated-emission-depletion microscopy, Super-resolved microscopy, time-correlated single-photon counting, time-resolved