Intranuclear binding kinetics and mobility of single native U1 snRNP particles in living cells
UMass Chan Affiliations
RNA Therapeutics InstituteDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Document Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2006-12-01Keywords
Binding SitesCell Nucleus
Cell Survival
HeLa Cells
Humans
Kinetics
Protein Binding
Protein Transport
Ribonucleoprotein, U1 Small Nuclear
Biochemistry
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
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Uridine-rich small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (U snRNPs) are splicing factors, which are diffusely distributed in the nucleoplasm and also concentrated in nuclear speckles. Fluorescently labeled, native U1 snRNPs were microinjected into the cytoplasm of living HeLa cells. After nuclear import single U1 snRNPs could be visualized and tracked at a spatial precision of 30 nm at a frame rate of 200 Hz employing a custom-built microscope with single-molecule sensitivity. The single-particle tracks revealed that most U1 snRNPs were bound to specific intranuclear sites, many of those presumably representing pre-mRNA splicing sites. The dissociation kinetics from these sites showed a multiexponential decay behavior on time scales ranging from milliseconds to seconds, reflecting the involvement of U1 snRNPs in numerous distinct interactions. The average dwell times for U1 snRNPs bound at sites within the nucleoplasm did not differ significantly from those in speckles, indicating that similar processes occur in both compartments. Mobile U1 snRNPs moved with diffusion constants in the range from 0.5 to 8 microm2/s. These values were consistent with uncomplexed U1 snRNPs diffusing at a viscosity of 5 cPoise and U1 snRNPs moving in a largely restricted manner, and U1 snRNPs contained in large supramolecular assemblies such as spliceosomes or supraspliceosomes.Source
Grünwald D, Spottke B, Buschmann V, Kubitscheck U. Intranuclear binding kinetics and mobility of single native U1 snRNP particles in living cells. Mol Biol Cell. 2006 Dec;17(12):5017-27. doi:10.1091/mbc.E06-06-0559. Link to article on publisher's site
DOI
10.1091/mbc.E06-06-0559Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/26038PubMed ID
16987963Notes
At the time of publication, David Grünwald was not yet affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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