A New Electron Microscopic Method to Observe the Distribution of Phosphatidylinositol 3,4-bisphosphate

  • Aktar Sharmin
    Department of Anatomy and Molecular Cell Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
  • Takatori Sho
    Department of Anatomy and Molecular Cell Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine Present affiliation: Laboratory of Neuropathology and Neuroscience, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo
  • Tsuji Takuma
    Department of Anatomy and Molecular Cell Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
  • Orii Minami
    Department of Anatomy and Molecular Cell Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
  • Ohsaki Yuki
    Department of Anatomy and Molecular Cell Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
  • Cheng Jinglei
    Department of Anatomy and Molecular Cell Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
  • Fujimoto Toyoshi
    Department of Anatomy and Molecular Cell Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine

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<p>Phosphatidylinositol 3,4-bisphosphate [PtdIns(3,4)P2] is a phosphoinositide that plays important roles in signal transduction, endocytosis, and cell migration among others. The intracellular distribution of PtdIns(3,4)P2 has mainly been studied by observing the distribution of GFP-tagged PtdIns(3,4)P2-binding protein domains in live cells and by labeling with anti-PtdIns(3,4)P2 antibody in fixed cell samples, but these methods only offer low spatial resolution results and may have pitfalls. In the present study, we developed an electron microscopic method to observe the PtdIns(3,4)P2 distribution using the SDS-treated freeze-fracture replica labeling method. The recombinant GST-tagged pleckstrin homology (PH) domain of TAPP1 was used as the binding probe, and its binding to PtdIns(3,4)P2 in the freeze-fracture replica was confirmed by using liposomes containing different phosphoinositides and by the lack of labeling by a mutant probe, in which one amino acid in the PH domain was substituted. The method was applied to NIH3T3 cell samples and showed that the increase of PtdIns(3,4)P2 in cells treated with hydrogen peroxide occurs in the cytoplasmic leaflet of the plasma membrane, except in the caveolar membrane. The present method can define the distribution of PtdIns(3,4)P2 at a high spatial resolution and will facilitate our understanding of the physiological function of this less studied phosphoinositide.</p>

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