Quantitation of the binding, uptake, and degradation of fluoresceinylated neoglycoproteins by flow cytometry
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- 30 April 1987
- Vol. 8 (3), 327-334
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cyto.990080314
Abstract
The fluorescence properties of the fluorescein residues bound to a protein are used to analyze by flow cytometry the neoglycoproteins' endocytosis mediated by membrane lectins of Lewis lung carcinoma cells (3LL cells). The quantum yield of fluorescein bound to a protein is dependent on the number of fluorophore molecules bound to a protein molecule and the pH of the environmental medium. The mean fluorescence intensity of a fluorescein molecule bound to a protein decreases when the number of fluorescein residues per protein molecule increases. However, after proteolytic digestion, the mean fluorescence intensity of a fluorescein molecule is constant and equal to that of free fluorescein. The binding of fluorescein-labeled α-glucosylated serum albumin to 3LL cells at 4°C can easily be determined by flow cytometry because under these conditions the environmental pH is neutral, and the neoglycoprotein is not degraded. When the cells are incubated at 37°C in the presence of a fluorescein-labeled neoglycoprotein, the fluorescence intensity of a cell is low because of the low pH of endosomes and lysosomes but is increased upon a postincubation at 4°C in the presence of monensin, a proton/sodium ionophore. The extent of the proteolytic digestion of an endocytosed neoglycoprotein can be assessed by comparing, upon a monensin postincubation at 4°C, the high cell-associated fluorescence of cells incubated in the absence of leupeptin (an inhibitor of lysosomal proteases) and the relatively low fluorescence intensity of cells incubated in the presence of leupeptin.Keywords
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