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Measurement of Force-Sensitive Protein Dynamics in Living Cells Using a Combination of Fluorescent Techniques
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Visualizing mechanical tension across membrane receptors with a fluorescent sensor
Daniel R Stabley1, Carol Jurchenko, Stephen S Marshall
1Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Nature Methods
|November 1, 2011
Abstract:
We report a fluorescence-based turn-on sensor for mapping the mechanical strain exerted by specific cell-surface proteins in living cells. The sensor generates force maps with high spatial and temporal resolution using conventional fluorescence microscopy. We demonstrate the approach by mapping mechanical forces during the early stages of regulatory endocytosis of the ligand-activated epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR).

