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
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
Received: Sep. 28, 2019
Accepted: Jan. 19, 2020
Published Online: Aug. 6, 2020
The Author Email: Wang Xiaoping (txp2938@jnu.edu.cn)