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NATURE PROTOCOLS
Volume 6, Issue 12, Pages 1953-1968Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.414
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- National Institutes of Health [NS052637]
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T his protocol describes a method for determining both the average number and variance of proteins, in the few to tens of copies, in isolated cellular compartments such as organelles and protein complexes. Other currently available protein quantification techniques either provide an average number, but lack information on the variance, or they are not suitable for reliably counting proteins present in the few to tens of copies. This protocol entails labeling of the cellular compartment with fluorescent primary-secondary antibody complexes, total internal reflection fluorescence microscopic imaging of the cellular compartment, digital image analysis and deconvolution of the fluorescence intensity data. A minimum of 2.5 d is required to complete the labeling, imaging and analysis of a set of samples. As an illustrative example, we describe in detail the procedure used to determine the copy number of proteins in synaptic vesicles. The same procedure can be applied to other organelles or signaling complexes.
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