Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 13, Issue 3, 2050011(2020)

Interaction between Bax and Bcl-XL proteins confirmed by partial acceptor photobleaching-based FRET imaging

Fangfang Yang1... Mengyan Du1, Xiaoping Wang2,* and Tongsheng Chen1 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1MOE Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science and College of Biophotonics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, P. R. China
  • 2Department of Pain Management, the First A±liated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, P. R. China
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    Exact interaction mechanism between Bax and Bcl-XL, two key Bcl-2 family proteins, is an interesting and controversial issue. Partial acceptor photobleaching-based quantitative fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) measurement, PbFRET, is a widely used FRET quantification method in living cells. In this report, we implemented pixel-to-pixel PbFRET imaging on a wide-field microscope to map the FRET e±ciency (ET images of single living HepG2 cells co-expressing CFP-Bax and YFP-Bcl-XL. The E value between CFP-Bax and YFP-Bcl-XL was 4.59% in cytosol and 11.31% on mitochondria, conclusively indicating the direct interaction of the two proteins, and the interaction of the two proteins was strong on mitochondria and modest in cytosol.

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    Fangfang Yang, Mengyan Du, Xiaoping Wang, Tongsheng Chen. Interaction between Bax and Bcl-XL proteins confirmed by partial acceptor photobleaching-based FRET imaging[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2020, 13(3): 2050011

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    Paper Information

    Received: Sep. 28, 2019

    Accepted: Jan. 19, 2020

    Published Online: Aug. 6, 2020

    The Author Email: Wang Xiaoping (txp2938@jnu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1142/s179354582050011x

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