Monitoring single membrane protein dynamics in a liposome manipulated in solution by the ABELtrap

T. Rendler; M. Renz; E. Hammann; S. Ernst; N. Zarrabi; M. Börsch

doi:10.1117/12.873069

22 February 2011 Monitoring single membrane protein dynamics in a liposome manipulated in solution by the ABELtrap

T. Rendler, M. Renz, E. Hammann, S. Ernst, N. Zarrabi, M. Börsch

Proceedings Volume 7902, Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Biomolecules, Cells, and Tissues IX; 79020M (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873069
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

F_oF₁-ATP synthase is the essential membrane enzyme maintaining the cellular level of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and comprises two rotary motors. We measure subunit rotation in F_oF₁-ATP synthase by intramolecular Foerster resonance energy transfer (FRET) between two fluorophores at the rotor and at the stator of the enzyme. Confocal FRET measurements of freely diffusing single enzymes in lipid vesicles are limited to hundreds of milliseconds by the transit times through the laser focus. We evaluate two different methods to trap the enzyme inside the confocal volume in order to extend the observation times. Monte Carlo simulations show that optical tweezers with low laser power are not suitable for lipid vesicles with a diameter of 130 nm. A. E. Cohen (Harvard) and W. E. Moerner (Stanford) have recently developed an Anti-Brownian electrokinetic trap (ABELtrap) which is capable to apparently immobilize single molecules, proteins, viruses or vesicles in solution. Trapping of fluorescent particles is achieved by applying a real time, position-dependent feedback to four electrodes in a microfluidic device. The standard deviation from a given target position in the ABELtrap is smaller than 200 nm. We develop a combination of the ABELtrap with confocal FRET measurements to monitor single membrane enzyme dynamics by FRET for more than 10 seconds in solution.

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T. Rendler, M. Renz, E. Hammann, S. Ernst, N. Zarrabi, and M. Börsch "Monitoring single membrane protein dynamics in a liposome manipulated in solution by the ABELtrap", Proc. SPIE 7902, Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Biomolecules, Cells, and Tissues IX, 79020M (22 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873069

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