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Monitoring dynamic protein interactions with photoquenching FRET.


ABSTRACT: The mammalian cell nucleus is a dynamic and highly organized structure. Most proteins are mobile within the nuclear compartment, and this mobility reflects transient interactions with chromatin, as well as network interactions with a variety of protein partners. To study these dynamic processes in living cells, we developed an imaging method that combines the photoactivated green fluorescent protein (PA-GFP) and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) microscopy. We used this new method, photoquenching FRET (PQ-FRET), to define the dynamic interactions of the heterochromatin protein-1 alpha (HP1alpha) and the transcription factor CCAAT/enhancer binding protein alpha (C/EBPalpha) in regions of centromeric heterochromatin in mouse pituitary cells. The advantage of the PQ-FRET assay is that it provides simultaneous measurement of a protein's mobility, its exchange within macromolecular complexes and its interactions with other proteins in the living cell without the need for corrections based on reference images acquired from control cells.

SUBMITTER: Demarco IA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2921620 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Monitoring dynamic protein interactions with photoquenching FRET.

Demarco Ignacio A IA   Periasamy Ammasi A   Booker Cynthia F CF   Day Richard N RN  

Nature methods 20060701 7


The mammalian cell nucleus is a dynamic and highly organized structure. Most proteins are mobile within the nuclear compartment, and this mobility reflects transient interactions with chromatin, as well as network interactions with a variety of protein partners. To study these dynamic processes in living cells, we developed an imaging method that combines the photoactivated green fluorescent protein (PA-GFP) and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) microscopy. We used this new method, p  ...[more]

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