FRAP Group 3a Alessandro Borgia Juliane Winkler Measure the intracellular (HeLa) diffusion of: EGF (membrane bound) GFP in cytosol
FRAP: membrane bound EGF-receptor TIME (AFTER BLEACHING) t=0 t=100 ms t=1000 ms t=1500 ms t=3000 ms
FRAP: membrane bound EGF receptor whole cell intensity (cell) mean fluorescence intensity ROI Background (BG) Time (sec)
mean fluorescence intensity EGF-receptor cell ROI background the average intensity of the prebleach image is set to 1 Time (sec) mean fluorescence intensity FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY CURVE
Increasing the ROI 1 4
Cytosolic GFP TIME (AFTER BLEACHING) = 130 ms TIME (AB) = 195 ms PREBLEACH TIME (AFTER BLEACHING) = 130 ms TIME (AB) = 195 ms TIME (AB) = 455 ms
Cytosolic GFP
TROUBLESHOOTING (or troubles shooting at us, you decide...) 1ST BLEACHING - SIGNAL POOR ENOUGH LASER POWER ADJUSTED TO MAX DATA STILL VERY NOISY - HOW TO IMPROVE IT? HIGHTEN PHOTOMOLTIPLICATION OR GAIN INCREASE SPOT AREA INCREASES OVERALL SIGNAL INTENSITY BUT IT TAKES LONGER TO FULLY RECOVER THE FLUO LONGER EXPOSURE TO IMAGING LASER HIGHER PHOTOBLEACHING OF THE WHOLE CELL FROM IMAGING LASER DID NOT WORK OPTIMIZATION OF THE ACQUISITION ALTOGETHER: REDUCE SCANNING AREA („CLIPPING“) ADJUST BLEACHING TIME TO TRIGGER THE BLEACHING WHEN THE SCANNER IS VERY CLOSE TO THE BLEACHED SPOT INCREASE PIXEL SIZE AND TRIED TO SCAN BIDIRECTIONALLY - LOSE RESOLUTION! FOR CYTOSOL ONLY OPEN THE PINHOLE FULLY - INCREASES SIGNAL AND IS LESS SENSITIVE TO MOTION ALONG Z-AXIS (NO DEFOCUSING PROBLEMS).
THANKS TO: Stefan Terjung Christian Tischer YOU ALL