論文

査読有り
2016年8月

Semi-in situ atomic force microscopy imaging of intracellular neurofilaments under physiological conditions through the ‘sandwich’ method

Microscopy
  • Fumiya Sato
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  • Fumiya Sato
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  • Fumiya Sato
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  • Hitoshi Asakawa
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  • Takeshi Fukuma
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  • Takeshi Fukuma
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  • Sumio Terada
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  • Sumio Terada

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開始ページ
316
終了ページ
324
DOI
10.1093/jmicro/dfw006

© The Author 2016. Neurofilaments are intermediate filament proteins specific for neurons and characterized by formation of biochemically stable, obligate heteropolymers in vivo. While purified or reassembled neurofilaments have been subjected to morphological analyses by electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy, there has been a need for direct imaging of cytoplasmic genuine intermediate filaments with minimal risk of artefactualization. In this study, we applied the modified ‘cells on glass sandwich’ method to exteriorize intracellular neurofilaments, reducing the risk of causing artefacts through sample preparation. SW13vim(-) cells were double transduced with neurofilament medium polypeptide (NF-M) and alpha-internexin (α-inx). Cultured cells were covered with a cationized coverslip after prestabilization with tannic acid to form a sandwich and then split into two. After confirming that neurofilaments could be deposited on ventral plasma membranes exposed via unroofing, we performed atomic force microscopy imaging semi-in situ in aqueous solution. The observed thin filaments, considered to retain native structures of the neurofilaments, exhibited an approximate periodicity of 50-60 nm along their length. Their structural property appeared to reflect the morphology formed by their constituents, i.e. NF-M and α-inx. The success of semi-in situ atomic force microscopy of exposed bona fide assembled neurofilaments through separating the sandwich suggests that it can be an effective and alternative method for investigating cytoplasmic intermediate filaments under physiological conditions by atomic force microscopy.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/jmicro/dfw006
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26960670
URL
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84988420982&origin=inward
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1093/jmicro/dfw006
  • ISSN : 2050-5698
  • PubMed ID : 26960670
  • SCOPUS ID : 84988420982

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