Affiliation:
1. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Health Science Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8661
Abstract
Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) controls a surprisingly large number of processes in cells. Thus, many investigators have suggested that there might be different pools of PIP2on the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane. If a significant fraction of PIP2is bound electrostatically to unstructured clusters of basic residues on membrane proteins, the PIP2diffusion constant, D, should be reduced. We microinjected micelles of Bodipy TMR-PIP2into cells, and we measured D on the inner leaflet of fibroblasts and epithelial cells by using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. The average ± SD value from all cell types was D = 0.8 ± 0.2 μm2/s (n = 218; 25°C). This is threefold lower than the D in blebs formed on Rat1 cells, D = 2.5 ± 0.8 μm2/s (n = 26). It is also significantly lower than the D in the outer leaflet or in giant unilamellar vesicles and the diffusion coefficient for other lipids on the inner leaflet of these cell membranes. The simplest interpretation is that approximately two thirds of the PIP2on inner leaflet of these plasma membranes is bound reversibly.
Publisher
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
Subject
Cell Biology,Molecular Biology
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