Fluorescence dequenching kinetics of single cell-cell fusion complexes.
AUTOR(ES)
Chen, Y D
RESUMO
In an earlier paper which models the cell-cell (or virus-cell) fusion complex as two partial spherical vesicles joined at a narrow neck (Rubin, R. J., and Yi-der Chen. 1990. Biophys. J. 58:1157-1167), the redistribution by diffusion of lipid-like molecules through the neck between the two fused cell surfaces was studied. In this paper, we extend the study to the calculation of the kinetics of fluorescence increase in a single fusion complex when the lipid-like molecules are fluorescent and self-quenching. The formalism developed in this paper is useful in deducing fusion activation mechanisms from cuvette fluorescence measurements in cell-cell fusion systems. Two different procedures are presented: 1) an exact one which is based on the exact local density functions obtained from diffusion equations in our earlier study; and 2) an approximate one which is based on treating the kinetics of transfer of probes between the two fused cells as a two-state chemical reaction. For typical cell-cell fusion complexes, the fluorescence dequencing curves calculated from the exact and approximate procedures are very similar. Due to its simplicity, the approximate method should be very useful in future applications. The formalism is applied to a typical cell-cell fusion complex to study the sensitivity of dequenching curves to changes in various fusion parameters, such as the radii of the cells, the radius of the pore at the fusion junction, and the number of probes initially loaded to the complex.
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