Micrometric segregation of fluorescent membrane lipids: relevance for endogenous lipids and biogenesis in erythrocytes |
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| Authors: | Ludovic D'Auria Marisa Fenaux Paulina Aleksandrowicz Patrick Van Der Smissen Christophe Chantrain Christiane Vermylen Miikka Vikkula Pierre J. Courtoy Donatienne Tyteca |
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| Affiliation: | *CELL Unit, Division of Hematology-Oncology, de Duve Institute and Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium;†Department of Pediatrics, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, de Duve Institute and Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium;§Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, de Duve Institute and Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium |
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| Abstract: | Micrometric membrane lipid segregation is controversial. We addressed this issue in attached erythrocytes and found that fluorescent boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) analogs of glycosphingolipids (GSLs) [glucosylceramide (BODIPY-GlcCer) and monosialotetrahexosylganglioside (GM1BODIPY)], sphingomyelin (BODIPY-SM), and phosphatidylcholine (BODIPY-PC inserted into the plasma membrane spontaneously gathered into distinct submicrometric domains. GM1BODIPY domains colocalized with endogenous GM1 labeled by cholera toxin. All BODIPY-lipid domains disappeared upon erythrocyte stretching, indicating control by membrane tension. Minor cholesterol depletion suppressed BODIPY-SM and BODIPY-PC but preserved BODIPY-GlcCer domains. Each type of domain exchanged constituents but assumed fixed positions, suggesting self-clustering and anchorage to spectrin. Domains showed differential association with 4.1R versus ankyrin complexes upon antibody patching. BODIPY-lipid domains also responded differentially to uncoupling at 4.1R complexes [protein kinase C (PKC) activation] and ankyrin complexes (in spherocytosis, a membrane fragility disease). These data point to micrometric compartmentation of polar BODIPY-lipids modulated by membrane tension, cholesterol, and differential association to the two nonredundant membrane:spectrin anchorage complexes. Micrometric compartmentation might play a role in erythrocyte membrane deformability and fragility. |
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| Keywords: | lipid domains plasma membrane compartmentation confocal imaging cholesterol membrane tension spherocytosis membrane:spectrin anchorage complexes |
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