title: Microenvironment and effect of energy depletion in the nucleus analyzed by mobility of multiple oligomeric EGFPs.
abstract: Four different tandem EGFPs were constructed to elucidate the nuclear microenvironment by quantifying its diffusional properties in both aqueous solution and the nuclei of living cells. Diffusion of tandem EGFP was dependent on the length of the protein as a rod-like molecule or molecular ruler in solution. On the other hand, we found two kinds of mobility, fast diffusional mobility and much slower diffusional mobility depending on cellular compartments in living cells. Diffusion in the cytoplasm and the nucleoplasm was mainly measured as fast diffusional mobility. In contrast, diffusion in the nucleolus was complex and mainly much slower diffusional mobility, although both the fast and the slow diffusional mobilities were dependent on the protein length. Interestingly, we found that diffusion in the nucleolus was clearly changed by energy depletion, even though the diffusion in the cytoplasm and the nucleoplasm was not changed. Our results suggest that the nucleolar microenvironment is sensitive to energy depletion and very different from the nucleoplasm.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Supramolecular Biophysics, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
authors.forename: Changi
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pack
authors.forename: Kenta
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Mamoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tamura
authors.forename: Masataka
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kinjo
mesh_terms: D002460:Cell Line; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000502:physiology*; D019281:Dimerization; D004735:Energy Transfer / Q000502:physiology*; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000502:physiology*; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D021381:Protein Transport / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D009687:Nuclear Proteins; C485184:enhanced green fluorescent protein; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins