Re: How to differentiate plasma membrane vs. cytoplasm in Jurkat lymphocytes?

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The cytosolic  fraction of a protein can be differentiated from the
membrane fraction by FLIM. Membrane-bound fluorophore will have a shorter
lifetime; this is based on difference between refractive indices of cytosol
and plasma membrane.  See for reference "Refractive index sensing of green
fluorescent proteins in living cells using fluorescence lifetime imaging
microscopy" Biophysical Journal (2008), 94 (8), L67-L69
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> If you have to work with fixed cells, TIRF might be a good way to go.
> Cytosolic proteins would get brighter as you adjust the TIRF angle from
> more stringency to less while PM proteins would not.  If you are working
> with live cells, FRAP or FLIP would tell you whether they diffuse like
> membrane-bound proteins or soluble proteins.  Membrane mobility would go
> down significantly if you decrease the temperature a little.
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>     Dear fellow confocalists,
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>     One of my users would like to determine whether an epitope-tagged
> protein, expressed in Jurkat cells, is localized to the plasma membrane or
> the cytosol. These cells have only a thin layer of cytoplasm between the
> nucleus and PM.
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>     It seems to me that at minimum we need a good plasma membrane marker,
> and control proteins known to be in cytosol and plasma membrane
> respectively.  Then I’m thinking we could do scanning confocal with high NA
> lens, and profile analysis or overlap analysis to measure the degree of
> coincidence between the membrane marker and the tagged protein.   Does that
> make sense as a strategy?
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>     If so, do folks have a preferred membrane marker for this cell type?
> I’ve seen things like CellMask and PKH26, but the images I’ve seen online
> and in other cell types don’t show “pure” plasma membrane labeling.
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>     Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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