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福尔马林可以改变酿酒酵母中某些转录因子的细胞内定位
摘要:Indirect immunofluorescence (IF) microscopy is one of the most frequently employed methods to determine intracellular protein localization in yeast. It is especially useful for low abundance proteins, eg., the GATA-factors (Gln3, Gat1) which activate NCR-sensitive transcription. Limiting the nitrogen supply or treating cells with the Tor pathway inhibitor, rapamycin, elicits nuclear GATA-factor localization and increased NCR-sensitive transcription, whereas excess nitrogen restricts these proteins to the cytoplasm and decreases transcription. The initial step of the IF procedure is formalin-fixation that quenches cellular activity and fixes protein locations via cross-linking. Indeed, it is on the success of this immobilization step that the assay depends. We have found that under some conditions, formalin itself can influence GATA-factor localization. With low concentrations of formalin (1.6%), Gat1-Myc13 became more nuclear, and with higher concentrations (5.6%), it became more cytoplasmic. Gln3-Myc13 localization, on the other hand, did not respond to low formalin, but became more cytoplasmic at the higher concentration. Interestingly, the high concentration of formalin had no demonstrable effect when the GATA-factors were completely nuclear, i.e., after rapamycin-(Gat1-Myc13) or Msx-(Gln3-Myc13) treatment. Our data indicate that these effects are most likely elicited by methylene and polyoxymethylene glycols, which account for more than 99% of the formaldehyde in formalin. These compounds greatly increased the osmolarity of the medium (0.5–2) and leads us to suggest that varying degrees of osmotic stress, to which both Gln3 and Gat1 are known to respond, and protein movement in response to it can occur after the beginning of fixation but before proteins become immobilized. Therefore, precautions are required to minimize the problem if possible or to account for it during interpretation of IF or other experimental data derived from cells treated with formalin when it cannot be avoided.