A New Electron Microscopic Method to Observe the Distribution of Phosphatidylinositol 3,4-bisphosphate.

A New Electron Microscopic Method to Observe the Distribution of Phosphatidylinositol 3,4-bisphosphate.
Acta Histochem Cytochem. 2017 Oct 24;50(5):141-147
Authors: Aktar S, Takatori S, Tsuji T, Orii M, Ohsaki Y, Cheng J, Fujimoto T
Abstract
Phosphatidylinositol 3,4-bisphosphate [PtdIns(3,4)P2] is a phosphoinositide that plays important roles in signal transduction, endocytosis, and cell migration among others. The intracellular distribution of PtdIns(3,4)P2 has mainly been studied by observing the distribution of GFP-tagged PtdIns(3,4)P2-binding protein domains in live cells and by labeling with anti-PtdIns(3,4)P2 antibody in fixed cell samples, but these methods only offer low spatial resolution results and may have pitfalls. In the present study, we developed an electron microscopic method to observe the PtdIns(3,4)P2 distribution using the SDS-treated freeze-fracture replica labeling method. The recombinant GST-tagged pleckstrin homology (PH) domain of TAPP1 was used as the binding probe, and its binding to PtdIns(3,4)P2 in the freeze-fracture replica was confirmed by using liposomes containing different phosphoinositides and by the lack of labeling by a mutant probe, in which one amino acid in the PH domain was substituted. The method was applied to NIH3T3 cell samples and showed that the increase of PtdIns(3,4)P2 in cells treated with hydrogen peroxide occurs in the cytoplasmic leaflet of the plasma membrane, except in the caveo...

Source: Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica - October 24, 2017 Category: Biochemistry Authors: Aktar S, Takatori S, Tsuji T, Orii M, Ohsaki Y, Cheng J, Fujimoto T Tags: Acta Histochem Cytochem Source Type: research