Spectral Phasor Analysis of Nile Red Identifies Membrane Microenvironment Changes in the Presence of Amyloid Peptides

Abstract The interaction of protein and peptide amyloid oligomers with membranes is thought to be one of the mechanisms contributing to cellular toxicity. However, techniques to study these interactions in the complex membrane environment of live cells are lacking. Spectral phasor analysis is a recently developed biophysical technique that can enable visualisation and analysis of membrane-associated fluorescent dyes. When the spectral profile of these dyes changes as a result of changes to the membrane microenvironment, spectral phasor analysis can localise those changes to discrete membrane regions. In this study, we investigated whether spectral phasor analysis could detect changes in the membrane microenvironment of live cells in the presence of fibrillar aggregates of the disease-related $ Aβ_{42} $ peptide or the functional amyloid neurokinin B. Our results show that the fibrils cause distinct changes to the microenvironment of nile red associated with both the plasma and the nuclear membrane. We attribute these shifts in nile red spectral properties to changes in membrane fluidity. Results from this work suggest that cells have mechanisms to avoid or control membrane interactions arising from functional amyloids which have implications for how these peptides are stored in dense core vesicles. Furthermore, the work highlights the utility of spectral phasor analysis to monitor microenvironment changes to fluorescent probes in live cells..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:81

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Cell biochemistry and biophysics - 81(2022), 1 vom: 06. Okt., Seite 19-27

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jayawardena, Bhawantha M. [VerfasserIn]
Menon, Resmi [VerfasserIn]
Jones, Mark R. [VerfasserIn]
Jones, Christopher E. [VerfasserIn]

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Fluorescence
Functional amyloid
Neurokinin
Spectral phasor analysis

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10.1007/s12013-022-01105-0

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SPR04932277X