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Biophysical Journal 49: 901-911 (1986)
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Molecular counting of low-density lipoprotein particles as individuals and small clusters on cell surfaces.

D Gross and W W Webb

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We employ the intensely fluorescent analogue diI-LDL (Barak, L. S., and W. W. Webb, 1981, J. Cell Biol. 90:595-604) as a counting marker to determine the numbers of LDL-receptor complexes that are contained in clusters on the surfaces of human fibroblasts and human epidermoid carcinoma cells. The application of quantitative digital intensified video optical microscopy allows the measurement of the fluorescence power collected from individual fluorescent spots on a cell with sufficient accuracy that the number of optically unresolved particles producing the fluorescence in the spot can be estimated. We demonstrate that isolated individual diI-LDL particles are detected on the surface of all cells investigated. Analysis of the LDL cluster size distributions on the various cell lines shows clear differences that correlate with efficiency of LDL metabolism. We find that normal fibroblasts (GM3348) have LDL-receptor complex populations dominated by large cluster sizes (greater than 4 LDL), while internalization-deficient J.D. mutant fibroblasts (GM2408A) and epidermoid carcinoma cells (A-431) show predominantly small clusters (1-3 LDL). No evidence for large-scale ordering or "superclustering" of clusters is found.




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