Biophysical Journal 70: 2327-2332 (1996)
© 1996 the Biophysical Society

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Diffusion of fluorescently labeled macromolecules in cultured muscle cells.

Laboratoire de Biologie Physico-Chimique, URA CNRS 1131, Orsay, France. martine.arrio@bpc.u-psud.fr

ABSTRACT

Myotubes were obtained from culture of satellite cells. They had a sarcomeric organization similar to that of muscle. The diffusion in the direction perpendicular to the fibers of microinjected fluorescein isothiocyanate-dextrans of molecular weight ranging from 9500 to 150,000 was examined by modulated fringe pattern photobleaching. On the time scale of the observation, 10-30 S, all of the dextrans were completely mobile in the cytoplasm. The diffusion coefficients were compared to the values obtained in water. The ratio D(cytoplasm)/D(w) decreased with the hydrodynamic radius R(h) of the macromolecules. The mobility of inert molecules in muscle cells is hindered by both the crowding of the fluid phase of the cytoplasm and the screening effect due to myofilaments: D(cytoplasm)/D(w) = (D/D(w)) protein crowding x (D/D(w))(filament screening). The equation (D/D(w))filament screening = exp(-K(L)RCh) was used for the contribution of the filaments to the restriction of diffusion. A free protein concentration of 135 mg/ml, a solvent viscosity of cytoplasm near that of bulk water, and a calculated K(L) of 0.066 nm(-1), which takes into account the sarcomeric organization of filaments, accurately represent our data.

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