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Live-cell Imaging of Endocytic Transport using Functionalized Nanobodies in Cultured Cells
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2025
Endocytic and retrograde transport of proteins from the plasma membrane to the trans-Golgi network is essential to maintaining membrane homeostasis and regulating signaling. Here, we describe a method to image and quantify endocytic transport of transmembrane cargo proteins by live-cell microscopy using derivatized anti-GFP nanobodies in HeLa cells.
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Measuring Plasma Membrane Protein Endocytic Rates by Reversible Biotinylation
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2009
Regulated endocytosis governs the cell surface expression levels of the majority of membrane proteins. Here we utilize reducible, membrane impermeant biotinylation reagents to measure the endocytic rate of the dopamine transporter (DAT), a polytopic membrane protein. The method facilitates a straightforward approach to measuring the endocytic rate of most plasma membrane proteins.
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FM Dyes in Vesicle Recycling
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2023
FM dyes are a class of fluorescent molecules that has found important use in studying the vesicle recycling process. By virtue of a chemical structure, these molecules can insert themselves into the outer leaflet of phospholipid bilayer membranes. After membrane insertion, they are internalized into the cell via endocytosed vesicles, and released when these vesicles recycle back to the membrane. Since, these dyes fluoresce strongly in the hydrophobic environment within membranes and weakly in...
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Measuring Synaptic Vesicle Endocytosis in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons
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2017
Synaptic vesicle endocytosis is detected by light microscopy of pHluorin fused with synaptic vesicle protein and by electron microscopy of vesicle uptake.
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Simultaneous pH Measurement in Endocytic and Cytosolic Compartments in Living Cells using Confocal Microscopy
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2014
Several methods are available for measuring intracellular pH but very few of these allow simultaneous measurement of cytoplasmic and organellar pH. Here, we describe in detail a rapid and accurate methodology to simultaneously measure cytoplasmic and vesicular pH by ratiometric imaging of living cells.
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Clathrin coats assist the plasma membrane as it bends around extracellular material, membrane proteins, or fluid. Dynamin contributes to the scission step that separates the constricted membrane neck from the cell surface. Together, these components help coordinate cargo enclosure and vesicle release, allowing internalized material to enter the cell’s trafficking system rather than remaining at the plasma membrane.
After formation, the vesicle delivers its contents to an early endosome, which acts as a sorting compartment. From there, cargo may be directed toward recycling, degradation, or transport elsewhere in the cell. This sorting decision gives endocytosis functional flexibility: internalized material can return to the cell surface, be removed, or continue through an intracellular trafficking route.
Selective enclosure allows the cell to internalize particular extracellular molecules or membrane proteins rather than indiscriminately removing surface material. This control connects endocytosis to receptor signaling, nutrient uptake, and membrane organization. By concentrating chosen cargo within a vesicle, the cell can regulate how that material is delivered to early endosomes and what subsequent fate it receives.
They provide a route for bringing extracellular material into the cytoplasm for processing through the endocytic trafficking system. Once delivered to early endosomes, internalized cargo can be sorted and transported according to cellular needs. This mechanism makes endocytic vesicles important for cell physiology because nutrient acquisition depends on controlled movement of material across the plasma membrane.
Internalization changes the location of membrane proteins and receptors, moving selected surface components into intracellular compartments. Delivery to early endosomes then permits sorting toward recycling, degradation, or other transport destinations. Consequently, endocytic vesicles help regulate receptor availability at the plasma membrane and connect membrane trafficking with the strength and duration of signaling responses.
Endocytic trafficking removes portions of the plasma membrane while directing internalized membrane components through sorting pathways, supporting membrane renewal. The same entry route can also be used by pathogens to gain access to cells. Studying these vesicles therefore links basic cell biology with disease research, including questions about membrane maintenance and how infectious agents enter host cells.