NDLI: Changes in the spectral properties of a plasma membrane lipid analog during the first seconds of endocytosis in living cells.

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Author	Chen, C. S. Martin, O. C. Pagano, R. E.
Abstract	N-[5-(5, 7-dimethyl Bodipy)-1-pentanoyl]-D-erythro-sphingosylphosphorylcholine (C5-DMB-SM), a fluorescent analog of sphingomyelin, has been used in a study of the formation of very early endosomes in human skin fibroblasts. This lipid exhibits a shift in its fluorescence emission maximum from green (approximately 515 nm) to red (approximately 620 nm) wavelengths with increasing concentrations in membranes. When cells were incubated with 5 microM C5-DMB-SM at 4 degrees C and washed, only plasma membrane fluorescence (yellow-green) was observed. When these cells were briefly (< or = 1 min) warmed to 37 degrees C to allow internalization to occur, and then incubated with defatted bovine serum albumin (back-exchanged) at 11 degrees C to remove fluorescent lipids from the plasma membrane, C5-DMB-SM was distributed in a punctate pattern throughout the cytoplasm. Interestingly, within the same cell some endosomes exhibited green fluorescence, whereas others emitted red-orange fluorescence. Furthermore, the red-orange endosomes were usually seen at the periphery of the cell, while the green endosomes were more uniformly distributed throughout the cytoplasm. This mixed population of endosomes was seen after internalization times as short as 7 s and was also seen over a wide range of C5-DMB-SM concentrations (1-25 microM). Control experiments established that the variously colored endosomes were not induced by changes in pH, membrane potential, vesicle size, or temperature. Quantitative fluorescence microscopy demonstrated that the apparent concentration of the lipid analog in the red-orange endosomes was severalfold higher than its initial concentration at the plasma membrane, suggesting selective internalization (sorting) of the lipid into a subset of early endosomes. Colocalization studies using C5-DMB-SM and either anti-transferrin receptor antibodies or fluorescently labeled low-density lipoprotein further demonstrated that this subpopulation of endosomes resulted from receptor-mediated endocytosis. We conclude that the spectral properties of C5-DMB-SM can be used to distinguish unique populations of early endosomes from one another and to record dynamic changes in their number and distribution within living cells.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0006-3495(97)78645-4
Ending Page	50
Page Count	14
Starting Page	37
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00063495
e-ISSN	15420086
Journal	Biophysical Journal
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	72
Language	English
Publisher Date	1997-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Biophysics Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Biophysics

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