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CIL:49418*  Cite 
Description

Mitochondria are sequestered inside Rab5+ endosomes after FCCP treatment in WT and Atg5-/- MEFs. Wild-type (WT) and Atg5-/- mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) were transfected with GFP-Rab5, nanobody against GFP (VHH)-APEX2, HA-Parkin, and mPlum-mito-3 using Fugene 6. Cells were treated with DMSO or 25 uM FCCP for 4 hours and fixed with 2.5% gluteraldehyde. Cells were imaged by confocal microscopy and subsequently processed and imaged for transmission electron microscopy. Colocalizing puncta found by confocal microscopy, indicating mPlum-mito-3+ mitochondria within GFP-Rab5+ early endosomes, were correlated to their location in the electron micrographs. Tomograms were acquired of these locations, which morphological confirm the presence of mitochondria within single-membraned early endosomes.

Technical Details

For the correlated light and electron microscopy, cells were plated on gridded MatTek dishes (MatTek Corporation) and transfected with GFP-Rab5, nanobody against GFP (VHH)-APEX272, HA-Parkin, and mPlum-mito-3 using Fugene6 (Promega Inc.) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Cells were treated with 25 µM FCCP or DMSO for 4 hours, then fixed in 2.5% glutaraldehyde in 0.1M cacodylate buffer pH 7.4 for 1 hour on ice, and imaged on a Leica SPE II (Leica) inverted confocal microscope. For VHH-APEX2, the DAB staining was performed as previously described25. Cells were post-fixed in 1% osmium tetroxide for 30 minutes on ice. After several washes in cold double distilled water, cells were dehydrated in a cold graded ethanol series (20%, 50%, 70%, 90%, 100%) 3 minutes each on ice, then washed in room temperature 100% ethanol, and embedded in Durcupan ACM resin (Electron Microscopy Sciences, Hatfield, PA ). Sections were cut using a diamond knife (Diatome) at a thickness between 200nm and 300nm for electron tomography and collected on LuxFilm grids (Luxel Corporation). Colloidal gold particles (5 and 10nm diameter) were deposited on each side of the sections to serve as fiducial markers. EM data were obtained using FEI Titan high base microscope operated at 300kV; micrographs were produced using a 4k x 4k Gatan CCD camera (US4000). For each section, montages of the cell of interest were acquired using the SerialEM software package. The set of 2D EM maps of the cell under scrutiny was correlated with the 3D light microscopy (LM) stack allowing a global registration of the two modalities. This enabled the EM tracking of puncta representing the colocalization of the Rab5-GFP and the mitochondrial signal in the LM volume. This was accomplished using an in-house software allowing side-by-side comparison of multiple views across different microscopy modalities, and establishing an optimal 3D registration. For tomography, double-tilt series were collected using the SerialEM package. For each series the sample was tilted from -60 to +60 degrees, every 0.5 degree. Tomograms were generated using iterative reconstruction procedure73. To analyze larger volumes consecutive sections were reconstructed serially. 3D reconstruction modeling was done with the IMOD tomography software package.

Biological Sources
NCBI Organism Classification
Mus musculus
Cell Type
embryonic cell
Cell Line
CL:0000057
Cellular Component
endosome
mitochondria
Attribution
Names
Babette Hammerling
Rita Najor
Melissa Cortez
Sarah Shires
Leonardo Leon
Eileen Gonzalez
Daniela Boassa
Sébastien Phan
Andrea Thor
Rebecca Jimenez
Hong Li
Richard Kitsis
Gerald Dorn
Junichi Sadoshima
Mark Ellisman
Asa Gustafsson
Link
PubMed
OTHER
project_20381
Citation
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
doi:10.7295/W9CIL49418
Archival Resource Key (ARK)
ark:/b7295/w9cil49418