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SNARE-Mediated Single-Vesicle Fusion Events with Supported and Freestanding Lipid Membranes.


ABSTRACT: In vitro single-vesicle fusion assays are important tools to analyze the details of SNARE-mediated fusion processes. In this study, we employed planar pore-spanning membranes (PSMs) prepared on porous silicon substrates with large pore diameters of 5 ?m, allowing us to compare the process of vesicle docking and fusion on the supported parts of the PSMs (s-PSMs) with that on the freestanding membrane parts (f-PSM) under the exact same experimental conditions. The PSMs harbor the t-SNARE ?N49-complex to investigate the dynamics and fusogenicity of single large unilamellar vesicles doped with the v-SNARE synaptobrevin 2 by means of spinning-disc confocal microscopy with a time resolution of 10 ms. Our results demonstrate that vesicles docked to the s-PSM were fully immobile, whereas those docked to the f-PSM were mobile with a mean diffusion coefficient of 0.42 ?m2/s. Despite the different dynamics of the vesicles on the two membrane types, similar fusion kinetics were observed, giving rise to a common fusion mechanism. Further investigations of individual lipid mixing events on the s-PSMs revealed semi-stable post-fusion structures.

SUBMITTER: Kuhlmann JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5474721 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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SNARE-Mediated Single-Vesicle Fusion Events with Supported and Freestanding Lipid Membranes.

Kuhlmann Jan W JW   Junius Meike M   Diederichsen Ulf U   Steinem Claudia C  

Biophysical journal 20170601 11


In vitro single-vesicle fusion assays are important tools to analyze the details of SNARE-mediated fusion processes. In this study, we employed planar pore-spanning membranes (PSMs) prepared on porous silicon substrates with large pore diameters of 5 μm, allowing us to compare the process of vesicle docking and fusion on the supported parts of the PSMs (s-PSMs) with that on the freestanding membrane parts (f-PSM) under the exact same experimental conditions. The PSMs harbor the t-SNARE ΔN49-comp  ...[more]

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