Quantitative FRET Microscopy Reveals a Crucial Role of Cytoskeleton in Promoting PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> Confinement

Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub>) is an essential plasma membrane component involved in several cellular functions, including membrane trafficking and cytoskeleton organization. This function multiplicity is partially achieved through a dynamic spatiotemporal o...

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Autores principales: Maria J. Sarmento, Luís Borges-Araújo, Sandra N. Pinto, Nuno Bernardes, Joana C. Ricardo, Ana Coutinho, Manuel Prieto, Fábio Fernandes
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:2e18d906e1f346aa964b02c4c62d82402021-11-11T17:11:06ZQuantitative FRET Microscopy Reveals a Crucial Role of Cytoskeleton in Promoting PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> Confinement10.3390/ijms2221117271422-00671661-6596https://doaj.org/article/2e18d906e1f346aa964b02c4c62d82402021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/21/11727https://doaj.org/toc/1661-6596https://doaj.org/toc/1422-0067Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub>) is an essential plasma membrane component involved in several cellular functions, including membrane trafficking and cytoskeleton organization. This function multiplicity is partially achieved through a dynamic spatiotemporal organization of PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> within the membrane. Here, we use a Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) approach to quantitatively assess the extent of PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> confinement within the plasma membrane. This methodology relies on the rigorous evaluation of the dependence of absolute FRET efficiencies between pleckstrin homology domains (PH<sub>PLCδ</sub>) fused with fluorescent proteins and their average fluorescence intensity at the membrane. PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> is found to be significantly compartmentalized at the plasma membrane of HeLa cells, and these clusters are not cholesterol-dependent, suggesting that membrane rafts are not involved in the formation of these nanodomains. On the other hand, upon inhibition of actin polymerization, compartmentalization of PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> is almost entirely eliminated, showing that the cytoskeleton network is the critical component responsible for the formation of nanoscale PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> domains in HeLa cells.Maria J. SarmentoLuís Borges-AraújoSandra N. PintoNuno BernardesJoana C. RicardoAna CoutinhoManuel PrietoFábio FernandesMDPI AGarticlePI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub>PH domainsmembrane organizationmembrane domainsFRET microscopyBiology (General)QH301-705.5ChemistryQD1-999ENInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences, Vol 22, Iss 11727, p 11727 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub>
PH domains
membrane organization
membrane domains
FRET microscopy
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
Chemistry
QD1-999
spellingShingle PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub>
PH domains
membrane organization
membrane domains
FRET microscopy
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
Chemistry
QD1-999
Maria J. Sarmento
Luís Borges-Araújo
Sandra N. Pinto
Nuno Bernardes
Joana C. Ricardo
Ana Coutinho
Manuel Prieto
Fábio Fernandes
Quantitative FRET Microscopy Reveals a Crucial Role of Cytoskeleton in Promoting PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> Confinement
description Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub>) is an essential plasma membrane component involved in several cellular functions, including membrane trafficking and cytoskeleton organization. This function multiplicity is partially achieved through a dynamic spatiotemporal organization of PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> within the membrane. Here, we use a Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) approach to quantitatively assess the extent of PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> confinement within the plasma membrane. This methodology relies on the rigorous evaluation of the dependence of absolute FRET efficiencies between pleckstrin homology domains (PH<sub>PLCδ</sub>) fused with fluorescent proteins and their average fluorescence intensity at the membrane. PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> is found to be significantly compartmentalized at the plasma membrane of HeLa cells, and these clusters are not cholesterol-dependent, suggesting that membrane rafts are not involved in the formation of these nanodomains. On the other hand, upon inhibition of actin polymerization, compartmentalization of PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> is almost entirely eliminated, showing that the cytoskeleton network is the critical component responsible for the formation of nanoscale PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> domains in HeLa cells.
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author Maria J. Sarmento
Luís Borges-Araújo
Sandra N. Pinto
Nuno Bernardes
Joana C. Ricardo
Ana Coutinho
Manuel Prieto
Fábio Fernandes
author_facet Maria J. Sarmento
Luís Borges-Araújo
Sandra N. Pinto
Nuno Bernardes
Joana C. Ricardo
Ana Coutinho
Manuel Prieto
Fábio Fernandes
author_sort Maria J. Sarmento
title Quantitative FRET Microscopy Reveals a Crucial Role of Cytoskeleton in Promoting PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> Confinement
title_short Quantitative FRET Microscopy Reveals a Crucial Role of Cytoskeleton in Promoting PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> Confinement
title_full Quantitative FRET Microscopy Reveals a Crucial Role of Cytoskeleton in Promoting PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> Confinement
title_fullStr Quantitative FRET Microscopy Reveals a Crucial Role of Cytoskeleton in Promoting PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> Confinement
title_full_unstemmed Quantitative FRET Microscopy Reveals a Crucial Role of Cytoskeleton in Promoting PI(4,5)P<sub>2</sub> Confinement
title_sort quantitative fret microscopy reveals a crucial role of cytoskeleton in promoting pi(4,5)p<sub>2</sub> confinement
publisher MDPI AG
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/2e18d906e1f346aa964b02c4c62d8240
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