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Freeze fracture: new avenues for the ultrastructural analysis of cells in vitro.
Histochemistry and Cell Biology 2018 January
The ultrastructural analysis of biological membranes by freeze fracture has a 60-year tradition. In this review, we summarize the benefits of the freeze-fracture technique and review special structures analyzed by freeze fracture and by combined freeze-fracture replica immunogold labeling (FRIL) of cell cultures. In principle, every cellular membrane whether of cell suspensions, mono- or bilayers of cell cultures can be analyzed in freeze fracture. The combination of freeze fracture and immunogold labeling of the replica allows the ultrastructural identification of protein assemblies in combination with the molecular identification of their constituent proteins using specific antibodies. The analysis of fractured and labeled intramembrane particles enables determination of the arrangement and organization of proteins within the membrane due to the high resolution of the transmission electron microscope. Because of cell-specific ultrastructural features such as square arrays, identification of cell types can be performed in parallel. This review is aimed at presenting the possibilities of freeze fracture and FRIL in the high-resolution ultrastructural analysis of membrane proteins and their assembly in naïve, transfected or otherwise treated cultured cells. At the interface of molecular approaches and morphology, the application of FRIL in genetically modified cells provides a novel and intriguing aspect for their analysis.
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