期刊
JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
卷 -, 期 78, 页码 -出版社
JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
DOI: 10.3791/50531
关键词
Cellular Biology; Issue 78; Molecular Biology; Infection; Medicine; Immunology; Biomedical Engineering; Anatomy; Physiology; Biophysics; Genetics; Bacterial Toxins; Microscopy; Video; Endocytosis; Biology; Cell Biology; streptolysin O; plasma membrane repair; ceramide; endocytosis; Ca2+; wounds
资金
- NIH [R37 AI34867, R01 GM064625]
Plasma membrane injury is a frequent event, and wounds have to be rapidly repaired to ensure cellular survival. Influx of Ca2+ is a key signaling event that triggers the repair of mechanical wounds on the plasma membrane within similar to 30 sec. Recent studies revealed that mammalian cells also reseal their plasma membrane after permeabilization with pore forming toxins in a Ca2+-dependent process that involves exocytosis of the lysosomal enzyme acid sphingomyelinase followed by pore endocytosis. Here, we describe the methodology used to demonstrate that the resealing of cells permeabilized by the toxin streptolysin O is also rapid and dependent on Ca2+ influx. The assay design allows synchronization of the injury event and a precise kinetic measurement of the ability of cells to restore plasma membrane integrity by imaging and quantifying the extent by which the liphophilic dye FM1-43 reaches intracellular membranes. This live assay also allows a sensitive assessment of the ability of exogenously added soluble factors such as sphingomyelinase to inhibit FM1-43 influx, reflecting the ability of cells to repair their plasma membrane. This assay allowed us to show for the first time that sphingomyelinase acts downstream of Ca2+-dependent exocytosis, since extracellular addition of the enzyme promotes resealing of cells permeabilized in the absence of Ca2+.
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