Cadherin clusters stabilized by a combination of specific and nonspecific cis-interactions
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, United States
- Department of Systems and Computational Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States
- Department of Biochemistry and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States
Figures
Figure 1 with 7 supplements
Observation of cis-interactions via single-molecule FRET.
(A) Representative heat map of donor and acceptor intensities showing two populations at high and low FRET efficiency indicated by the asterisks. The black line represents the threshold between the …
Figure 1—figure supplement 1
Heat maps showing binned acceptor and donor intensities using all molecular observations.
(A–C) Heat maps for the mutant and the intermediate and high concentration wild-type E-cad conditions, respectively. All heat maps show two distinct peaks corresponding to two populations …
Figure 1—figure supplement 2
Overall complementary cumulative distributions of squared displacement calculated using only trajectories from a single movie for all three experimental conditions.
(A) High coverage wild-type, (B) intermediate coverage wild-type, and (C) high coverage mutant CCSDDs. Legends indicate the order of the movie that was used to calculate the CCSDD. No systematic …
Figure 1—figure supplement 3
Complementary cumulative association time (high-FRET state dwell time) distributions calculated using only trajectories from a single movie for each of the three experimental conditions.
(A) High coverage wild-type, (B) intermediate coverage wild-type, and (C) high coverage mutant association time distributions. Legends indicate the order of the movie that was used to calculate the …
Figure 1—figure supplement 4
Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) analysis indicates the formation of a continuous, fluid supported lipid bilayer.
(A–B) Epifluorescence images showing the photobleached region 0 s and 40 s, respectively, after photobleaching. (C) FRAP recovery curve indicating a mobile fraction of greater than 0.95.
Figure 1—figure supplement 5
All localized and tracked trajectories two frames and longer from the 30 s high surface coverage wild-type movie clip included as Video 1 (left).
Zoomed in view of the region outlined by the dashed black square (right).
Figure 1—figure supplement 6
Representative histogram of positional localization uncertainties for all molecular observations for the high surface coverage wild-type condition indicating a significant number of observations with a large position uncertainty comparable to the size of a pixel (0.43 µm).
Figure 1—figure supplement 7
Trajectory median donor intensity histograms showing the 60th percentile cutoff as a vertical red line used to remove bright contaminants, donor E-cad aggregates, and donor E-cad labeled with multiple fluorophores.
The 60th percentile was selected as a consistent cutoff to remove trajectories corresponding to the tail of these distributions, as indicated by the figures. (A–C) Histograms for the mutant, high …
Figure 2 with 2 supplements
E-cad diffusion depends on FRET state and interaction capability.
(A–C) Complementary cumulative squared displacement distributions in the high-FRET and low-FRET states for the mutant and two wild-type E-cad conditions, along with the respective Gaussian mixture …
Figure 2—figure supplement 1
Overall CCSDDs, using all displacements from both high and low-FRET states, for the mutant and two wild-type E-cad conditions.
Gaussian mixture model fits are shown as the black curve. Error bars represent the standard deviation of 100 bootstrapped samples.
Figure 2—figure supplement 2
Displacement-based trajectory filtering results in short-time diffusion expected for supported lipid bilayers.
(A) Complementary cumulative squared displacement distributions for the three FRET conditions and a lipid in the bilayer. Solid black curves correspond to a two-term Gaussian mixture model fit. …
Figure 3 with 6 supplements
Average dissociation rate constants () for the mutant and two wild-type conditions resulting from modeling interactions using a Markov model.
Error bars were estimated as the square root of the Cramèr-Rao lower bound.
Figure 3—figure supplement 1
Complementary cumulative association time (high-FRET state dwell time) distributions calculated for each of the three high surface coverage experimental conditions and the low coverage control.
Notably, the low coverage control shows dramatically shorter dwell times than all other conditions.
Figure 3—figure supplement 2
High-FRET and low-FRET complementary cumulative surface residence time (observation time) distributions for mutant E-cad and two concentrations of wild-type E-cad.
Qualitatively comparing the two wild-type high-FRET distributions indicates the probability of a long surface residence time increases with increasing surface coverage due to stronger lateral …
Figure 3—figure supplement 3
Complementary cumulative state dwell time distributions for the high and low-FRET states for the mutant and two wild-type E-cad conditions, compared to the predicted state dwell time distributions based upon the three-state, heterogeneous Markov model maximum likelihood estimate with beta-distributed transition probabilities.
Figure 3—figure supplement 4
Probability density functions for the state transition rates between the high and low-FRET states for the mutant and wild-type conditions determined based upon the Markov model estimated, beta-distributed transition probabilities.
Figure 3—figure supplement 5
Low-FRET state complementary cumulative dwell time distributions for the mutant and two wild-type conditions.
Figure 3—figure supplement 6
Beta distributions of state transition probabilities between the high and low-FRET states for the mutant and two wild-type conditions corresponding to the Markov model maximum likelihood estimated beta distribution parameters.
Figure 4
A coarse-grained model was constructed to simulate the spatial-temporal process of E-cad clustering.
(A) E-cad extracellular domains (orange), nonspecific and specific cis-interactions. Cis-donor sites are labeled in purple, and cis-acceptor sites are labeled in red. A structural model of the E-cad …
Figure 5 with 5 supplements
Specific and nonspecific interactions can cause E-cad clustering.
(A–B) Representative experimental cluster size probability distribution functions for wild-type and mutant E-cad at low, intermediate, and high surface coverages. Error bars correspond to the …
Figure 5—figure supplement 1
Distributions of mutant E-cad cluster size for different combinations of nonspecific interaction on/off rate.
The 1st, 2nd and 3rd columns correspond to on rate 2 × 106 s−1, 2 × 105 s−1, and 2 × 104 s−1, respectively. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd rows correspond to off rate 104 s−1, 103 s−1, and 102 s−1, …
Figure 5—figure supplement 2
Distributions of wild-type E-cad cluster size for different combinations of specific interaction on/off rate.
The columns correspond to on rate 108 s−1, 107 s−1, and 106 s−1, respectively. The rows correspond to off rate 103 s−1, 102 s−1, and 10 s−1, respectively. Nonspecific interaction on and off rates, …
Figure 5—figure supplement 3
E-cad is primarily bound to a single lipid.
(A) Ensemble-time-averaged MSDs for mutant E-cad at high, intermediate and low surface coverage and a lipid in the bilayer. Linear fits are shown as the dot-dashed line. (B) Ensemble-time-averaged …
Figure 5—figure supplement 4
Trajectory averaged friction factor probability distributions for wild-type (top) and mutant (bottom) E-cad at high, intermediate, and low E-cad surface coverage.
The peak at a friction factor of ~0.5 s/µm2 corresponds to monomeric E-cad and was used to normalize all cluster size calculations.
Figure 5—figure supplement 5
Distribution of cluster size for wild-type and mutant E-cad at a surface density of 312.5 E-cad/µm2, 625 E-cad/µm2, and 1,250 E-cad/µm2, respectively.
The data are fit to a single exponential.
Figure 6
The comparison of experimental and simulated complementary cumulative association time distributions for mutant and wild-type E-cad.
Videos
Video 1
High-coverage wild-type E-cad movie segment.
Video 2
High-coverage mutant E-cad movie segment.
Video 3
Intermediate-coverage wild-type E-cad movie segment.
Video 4
Low-coverage wild-type E-cad control movie segment.
Video 5
Lipid tracer control movie segment.
Tables
Key resources table
| Reagent type (species) or resource | Designation | Source or reference | Identifiers | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cell line (human) | HEK293T | ATCC, Dr. Keith Johnson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln | CRL-3216 (RRID:CVCL_0063) | authenticated using STR-PCR and tested negative for mycoplasma |
| Transfected construct (human) | CEP 4.2 plasmid | Dr. Lawrence Shapiro, Columbia University | Encoding hexahistidine-tagged wild-type E-cad and L175D mutant | |
| Commercial assay or kit | Alexa Fluor 555 NHS-ester antibody labelling kit | Invitrogen | A20187 | Labeling E-cad |
| Commercial assay or kit | Alexa Fluor 647 NHS-ester antibody labelling kit | Invitrogen | A20186 | Labeling E-cad |
| Chemical compound, drug | DOPC | Sigma-Aldrich | P6354 | |
| Chemical compound, drug | DGS-NTA(Ni) | Avanti Polar Lipids | 790404 | |
| Chemical compound, drug | DOPE-LR | Avanti Polar Lipids | 810150 | |
| Software, algorithm | Custom Matlab-based software | 10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00004; 10.1021/acsnano.8b02956; 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00004 | Image analysis | |
| Software, algorithm | simjFRAP | 10.1038/srep11655 | Image analysis |
Additional files
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Supplementary file 1
Additional tables showing experimental parameters, simulation parameters, and sample size values.
- https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/59035/elife-59035-supp1-v2.docx
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Transparent reporting form
- https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/59035/elife-59035-transrepform-v2.pdf
