Chapter title |
Spatiotemporal Fluctuation Analysis of Molecular Diffusion Laws in Live-Cell Membranes
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Chapter number | 13 |
Book title |
Systems Biology
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7456-6_13 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7455-9, 978-1-4939-7456-6
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Authors |
Francesco Cardarelli |
Abstract |
A present challenge of membrane biophysics is deciphering the dynamic behavior of molecules, such as lipids and proteins, within the natural environment of a living-cell membrane. Here, a fluorescence fluctuation-based approach will be described, which makes it possible to probe the "diffusion law" of molecules directly from imaging, in the form of a mean square displacement vs time-delay plot (iMSD), with no need for interpretative models. Of note, the presented approach does not require extraction of the molecular trajectories nor the use of bright fluorophores. Conversely, it can be used at high fluorophore density and with relatively dim fluorophores, such as GFP-tagged molecules transiently expressed within cells. The ability of this approach to resolve average molecular dynamic properties well below the diffraction limit will be discussed. Overall, this novel approach is proposed as a powerful tool for the determination of kinetic and thermodynamic parameters over wide spatial and temporal scales. |
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