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* Department of Biophysics and Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Correspondence: Address reprint requests to Dr. T. Schmidt, Dept. of Biophysics, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands. Tel.: 31-71-527-5982; Fax: 31-71-527-5819; E-mail: tschmidt{at}biophys.leidenuniv.nl.
In the last decade evidence has accumulated that small domains of 50–700 nm in diameter are located in the exoplasmic leaflet of the plasma membrane. Most of these domains supposedly consist of specific sets of lipids and proteins, and are believed to coordinate signal transduction cascades. Whether similar domains are also present in the cytoplasmic leaflet of the plasma membrane is unclear so far. To investigate the presence of cytoplasmic leaflet domains, the H-Ras membrane-targeting sequence was fused to the C-terminus of the enhanced yellow fluorescent protein. Using single-molecule fluorescence microscopy, trajectories of individual molecules diffusing in the cytoplasmic leaflet of the plasma membrane were recorded. From these trajectories, the diffusion of individual membrane-anchored enhanced yellow fluorescent protein molecules was studied in live cells on timescales from 5 to 200 ms. The results show that the diffusion of 30–40% of the molecules is constrained in domains with a typical size of 200 nm. Neither breakdown of actin nor cholesterol extraction changed the domain characteristics significantly, indicating that the observed domains may not be related to the membrane domains identified so far.
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