High-throughput Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Enables Analysis of Proteome Dynamics in Living Cells

Overview

Journal Nat Biotechnol

Specialty Biotechnology

Date 2015 Mar 17

PMID 25774713

Citations 68

Authors

Malte Wachsmuth

Christian Conrad

Jutta Bulkescher

Birgit Koch

Robert Mahen

Mayumi Isokane

Rainer Pepperkok

Jan Ellenberg

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Abstract

To understand the function of cellular protein networks, spatial and temporal context is essential. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is a single-molecule method to study the abundance, mobility and interactions of fluorescence-labeled biomolecules in living cells. However, manual acquisition and analysis procedures have restricted live-cell FCS to short-term experiments of a few proteins. Here, we present high-throughput (HT)-FCS, which automates screening and time-lapse acquisition of FCS data at specific subcellular locations and subsequent data analysis. We demonstrate its utility by studying the dynamics of 53 nuclear proteins. We made 60,000 measurements in 10,000 living human cells, to obtain biophysical parameters that allowed us to classify proteins according to their chromatin binding and complex formation. We also analyzed the cell-cycle-dependent dynamics of the mitotic kinase complex Aurora B/INCENP and showed how a rise in Aurora concentration triggers two-step complex formation. We expect that throughput and robustness will make HT-FCS a broadly applicable technology for characterizing protein network dynamics in cells.

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