Spin labels for cell surfaces
Spin labels for cell surfaces
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DOI:
10.1016/0014-5793(75)80448-0
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发表时间:
1975
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影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
A. Keith
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作者:
J. Lepock;P. D. Morse;R. Mehlhorn;R. Hammerstedt;W. Snipes;A. Keith
We describe the use of spin labels that localize on the outer surfaces of membranes. We use yeast as an example of a simple eucaryotic cell system. These labels should be very useful in probing the surfaces of a variety of vesicle and cell preparations. Most spin labels designed to probe membranes penetrate throughout the membrane system resulting in an average signal of all membranes present. It is necessary to use such probes as the ones described here in order to detect many of the interactions or modifications that appear to be localized on the surfaces of cells. These probes offer the opportunity of detecting physical state changes on or near the membrane surface. In recent years it has been well established that the cell surface is the site of many unique and important events. Virus attachments, antigen-induced antibody formation, hormone binding, lectin recognition, cellcell recognition, and contact inhibition are all regarded as cell surface events.Spin labels have become widely used as probes of membrane structure anc, function. Most studies of membranes using spin labels measure a signal that reflects an average of both halves of the bilayer and a more general average of all membranes in a given system. Spin labels may have specificity for localizing in a dielectric zone, such as near the membrane interface for some sterol [1] and aliphatic hydrocarbon labels [2], or at differing depths in bilayers depending on the nitroxide position on spin label fatty acids [3]. The spin labels we describe here localize only on the outer surface of the plasma membrane.