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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 94, 期 2, 页码 679-687出版社
BIOPHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.115188
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Cellular signal transduction is dynamic, with signaling proteins continually associating and dissociating into and from protein complexes. Here we present a fluorescence recovery after photobleaching technique to determine the lifetime of protein complexes on intracellular vesicles. We use Bayesian inference based on a model that includes the diffusion of cytosolic proteins and their interaction with membrane-bound receptors. Our analysis is general: we incorporate prior information on protein diffusion, measurement error in determining. uorescence intensities, corrections for photobleaching, and variation in the concentration of receptors between vesicles. We apply our method to the complexes formed on endosomes by G-protein-coupled receptors and the protein beta-arrestin. The lifetime of these complexes determines the recycling rate of the receptors. We find in mammalian cells that the bradykinin type 2 receptor and beta-arrestin2 complex has a lifetime of similar to 2 min, while the angiotensin II type 1A receptor and beta-arrestin2 complex has a lifetime of similar to 6 min. As well as allowing quantitative comparisons between experiments, our method provides in vivo parameters for systems biology simulations of signaling networks.
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