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Genes to Cells (2006) 11, 1085-1096. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2443.2006.01004.x
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Dynamics of yeast prion aggregates in single living cells

Shigeko Kawai-Noma1,a, Satoru Ayano2,a, Chan-Gi Pack3, Masataka Kinjo3, Masasuke Yoshida4, Kenji Yasuda2 and Hideki Taguchi1,*

1 Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, FSB401, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8562, Japan
2 Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8902 Japan
3 Laboratory of Supramolecular Biophysics, Research Institute of Electronic Sciences, Hokkaido University, N-12 W-6, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0812, Japan
4 Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Yokohama, 226-8503 Japan

Prions are propagating proteins that are ordered protein aggregates, in which the phenotypic trait is retained in the altered protein conformers. To understand the dynamics of the prion aggregates in living cells, we directly monitored the fate of the aggregates using an on-chip single-cell cultivation system as well as fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS). Single-cell imaging revealed that the visible foci of yeast prion Sup35 fused with GFP are dispersed throughout the cytoplasm during cell growth, but retain the prion phenotype. FCS showed that [PSI+] cells, irrespective of the presence of foci, contain diffuse oligomers, which are transmitted to their daughter cells. Single-cell observations of the oligomer-based transmission provide a link between previous in vivo and in vitro analyses of the prion and shed light on the relationship between the protein conformation and the phenotype.

aThese authors contributed equally.

Communicated by: Yoshikazu Nakamura

* Correspondence: E-mail: taguchi{at}k.u-tokyo.ac.jp




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