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Use of granzyme B-based fluorescent protein reporters to monitor granzyme distribution and granule integrity in live cells

  • Catherina H. Bird , Alexandra Rizzitelli , Ian Harper , Mark Prescott und Phillip I. Bird
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 11. Juni 2010
Biological Chemistry
Aus der Zeitschrift Band 391 Heft 8

Abstract

Reporter proteins comprising granzyme B (GrB) fused to eGFP, ecliptic pHluorin or mCherry, were generated and used to study granule (lysosome) distribution and properties in COS-1 cells and natural killer cells. The reporters resembled native GrB in biosynthesis and localization, and accumulated in granules. In live cells both the eGFP and pHluorin reporters were dark in lysosomes, but fluoresced when the granule integrity or pH was perturbed by Leu-Leu methyl ester, hydrogen peroxide, naphthazarin, or sphingosine treatment. By contrast, fluorescence of the mCherry reporter was not pH-dependent. The quenching of eGFP within granules indicates that this commonly-used fluorescent protein is not appropriate as a vital intra-lysosomal marker.


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Received: 2009-12-21
Accepted: 2010-2-23
Published Online: 2010-06-11
Published in Print: 2010-08-01

©2010 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York

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