Lateral diffusion of rhodopsin in photoreceptor cells measured by fluorescence photobleaching and recovery

Biophysical Journal
C L WeyM Edidin

Abstract

Frog rod outer segments were labeled with the sulfhydryl-reactive label iodoacetamido tetramethylrhodamine. The bulk of the label reacted with the major disk membrane protein, rhodopsin. Fluorescence photobleaching and recovery (FPR) experiments on labeled rods showed that the labeled proteins diffused rapidly in the disk membranes. In these FPR experiments we observed both the recovery of fluorescence in the bleached spot and the loss of fluorescence from nearby, unbleached regions of the photoreceptor. These and previous experiments show that the redistribution of the fluorescent labeled proteins after bleaching was due to diffusion. The diffusion constant, D, was (3.0 +/- 10(-9) cm2 s-1 if estimated from the rate of recovery of fluorescence in the bleached spot, and (5.3 +/- 2.4) x 10(-9) cm2 s-1 if estimated from the rate of depletion of fluorescence from nearby regions. The temperature coefficient, Q10, for diffusion was 1.7 +/- 0.5 over the range 10 degrees--29 degrees C. These values obtained by FPR are in good agreement with those previously obtained by photobleaching rhodopsin in fresh, unlabeled rods. This agreement indicates that the labeling and bleaching procedures required by the FPR method did not significantly a...Continue Reading

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