• Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences
  • Vol. 13, Issue 3, 2050011 (2020)
Fangfang Yang1, Mengyan Du1, Xiaoping Wang2、*, and Tongsheng Chen1
Author Affiliations
  • 1MOE Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science and College of Biophotonics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, P. R. China
  • 2Department of Pain Management, the First A±liated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, P. R. China
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    DOI: 10.1142/s179354582050011x Cite this Article
    Fangfang Yang, Mengyan Du, Xiaoping Wang, Tongsheng Chen. Interaction between Bax and Bcl-XL proteins confirmed by partial acceptor photobleaching-based FRET imaging[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2020, 13(3): 2050011 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Exact interaction mechanism between Bax and Bcl-XL, two key Bcl-2 family proteins, is an interesting and controversial issue. Partial acceptor photobleaching-based quantitative fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) measurement, PbFRET, is a widely used FRET quantification method in living cells. In this report, we implemented pixel-to-pixel PbFRET imaging on a wide-field microscope to map the FRET e±ciency (ET images of single living HepG2 cells co-expressing CFP-Bax and YFP-Bcl-XL. The E value between CFP-Bax and YFP-Bcl-XL was 4.59% in cytosol and 11.31% on mitochondria, conclusively indicating the direct interaction of the two proteins, and the interaction of the two proteins was strong on mitochondria and modest in cytosol.
    Fangfang Yang, Mengyan Du, Xiaoping Wang, Tongsheng Chen. Interaction between Bax and Bcl-XL proteins confirmed by partial acceptor photobleaching-based FRET imaging[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2020, 13(3): 2050011
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