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Published on: September 20, 2011
Visualizing G protein-coupled receptor homomers using photoactivatable dye localization microscopy
Uchechukwu Agwuegbo1, Kim Carol Jonas1
1Department of Women and Children's Health, School of Life Course Sciences, King's College London, Guy's Campus, London, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) di/oligomerization has revealed potential mechanisms for receptors diversification of signal selectivity, specificity, and amplitude. The use of super-resolution imaging techniques to investigate these di/oligomer molecular complexities have undoubtably provided insight to the dynamics of complexes formed at the plasma membrane. Here we describe the methodology of photoactivatable dye localization microscopy (PD-PALM) to study the spatial organization of GPCR homomers at the plasma membrane.

