Schuhmacher, M.* ; Grasskamp, A.T.* ; Barahtjan, P.* ; Wagner, N.* ; Lombardot, B.* ; Schuhmacher, J.S.* ; Sala, P. ; Lohmann, A.* ; Henry, I.* ; Shevchenko, A.* ; Coskun, Ü. ; Walter, A.M.* ; Nadler, A.*
Live-cell lipid biochemistry reveals a role of diacylglycerol side-chain composition for cellular lipid dynamics and protein affinities.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 117, 7729-7738 (2020)
Every cell produces thousands of distinct lipid species, but insight into how lipid chemical diversity contributes to biological signaling is lacking, particularly because of a scarcity of methods for quantitatively studying lipid function in living cells. Using the example of diacylglycerols, prominent second messengers, we here investigate whether lipid chemical diversity can provide a basis for cellular signal specification. We generated photo-caged lipid probes, which allow acute manipulation of distinct diacylglycerol species in the plasma membrane. Combining uncaging experiments with mathematical modeling, we were able to determine binding constants for diacylglycerol-protein interactions, and kinetic parameters for diacylglycerol transbilayer movement and turnover in quantitative live-cell experiments. Strikingly, we find that affinities and kinetics vary by orders of magnitude due to diacylglycerol side-chain composition. These differences are sufficient to explain differential recruitment of diacylglycerol binding proteins and, thus, differing downstream phosphorylation patterns. Our approach represents a generally applicable method for elucidating the biological function of single lipid species on subcellular scales in quantitative live-cell experiments.
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Signaling Lipids ; Diacylglycerol ; Protein Kinase C ; Mathematical Modeling ; Caged Lipid Probes; Kinase-c; Cholesterol; Metabolism; Activation; Channels; Ca2+
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2020
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0027-8424
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Institute of Pancreatic Islet Research (IPI)
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90000 - German Center for Diabetes Research
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Helmholtz Diabetes Center
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2020-04-02