Structural mosaicism on the submicron scale in the plasma membrane

Biophysical Journal
R SimsonK A Jacobson

Abstract

The lateral mobility of the neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) was examined using single particle tracking (SPT). Various isoforms of human NCAM, differing in their ectodomain, their membrane anchorage mode, or the size of their cytoplasmic domain, were expressed in National Institutes of Health 3T3 cells and C2C12 muscle cells. On a 6.6-s time scale, SPT measurements on both transmembrane and glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchored isoforms of NCAM expressed in 3T3 cells could be classified into mobile (Brownian diffusion), slow diffusion, corralled diffusion, and immobile subpopulations. On a 90-s time scale, SPT studies in C2C12 cells revealed that 40-60% of transfected NCAM was mobile, whereas a smaller fraction (approximately 10-30%) experienced much slower diffusion. In addition, a fraction of approximately 30% of both transfected GPI and transmembrane isoforms and endogenous NCAM isoforms in C2C12 cells experienced transient confinement for approximately 8 s within regions of approximately 300-nm diameter. Diffusion within both these and the slow diffusion regions was anomalous, consistent with movements through a dense field of obstacles, whereas diffusion outside these regions was normal. Thus the membrane appear...Continue Reading

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