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  • Title: Raft-based interactions of gangliosides with a GPI-anchored receptor.
    Author: Komura N, Suzuki KG, Ando H, Konishi M, Koikeda M, Imamura A, Chadda R, Fujiwara TK, Tsuboi H, Sheng R, Cho W, Furukawa K, Furukawa K, Yamauchi Y, Ishida H, Kusumi A, Kiso M.
    Journal: Nat Chem Biol; 2016 Jun; 12(6):402-10. PubMed ID: 27043189.
    Abstract:
    Gangliosides, glycosphingolipids containing one or more sialic acid(s) in the glyco-chain, are involved in various important physiological and pathological processes in the plasma membrane. However, their exact functions are poorly understood, primarily because of the scarcity of suitable fluorescent ganglioside analogs. Here, we developed methods for systematically synthesizing analogs that behave like their native counterparts in regard to partitioning into raft-related membrane domains or preparations. Single-fluorescent-molecule imaging in the live-cell plasma membrane revealed the clear but transient colocalization and codiffusion of fluorescent ganglioside analogs with a fluorescently labeled glycosylphosphatidylinisotol (GPI)-anchored protein, human CD59, with lifetimes of 12 ms for CD59 monomers, 40 ms for CD59's transient homodimer rafts in quiescent cells, and 48 ms for engaged-CD59-cluster rafts, in cholesterol- and GPI-anchoring-dependent manners. The ganglioside molecules were always mobile in quiescent cells. These results show that gangliosides continually and dynamically exchange between raft domains and the bulk domain, indicating that raft domains are dynamic entities.
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