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Andrei Ivanov, Stephen A. Beers, Claire A. Walshe, Jamie Honeychurch, Waleed Alduaij, Kerry L. Cox, Kathleen N. Potter, Stephen Murray, Claude H.T. Chan, Tetyana Klymenko, Jekaterina Erenpreisa, Martin J. Glennie, Tim M. Illidge, Mark S. Cragg
Published in Volume 119, Issue 8
J Clin Invest. 2009; 119(8):2143–2159 doi:10.1172/JCI37884
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Figure 5
Lateral mobility of cellular actin, formation of syncytium, and polarization of mitochondria in cells undergoing HA.

(A) AcGFP-actin–expressing Raji cells were treated with either control mAbs (OKT3), tositumomab, or L243 (all at 10 μg/ml) for 4 hours, then studied by FRAP, with flurorescence recovery assessed for 100 seconds. Typical image data is shown for control- and tositumomab-treated cells. Upper panels: virtually no recovery was observed in control mAb–treated cells. Lower panels (Tos): recovery of junctional actin within the cell-to-cell contact area was observed after approximately 80 seconds. Scale bars: 20 μm. Squares indicate regions targeted for photobleaching. (B) Typical fluorescence recovery pattern of AcGFP-actin after photobleaching. Control cells showed no recovery within 100 seconds (left). Recovery of junctional actin fluorescence was shown within 80 seconds after photobleaching in cells treated with anti-CD20 (Tos; center) and anti–HLA-DR (L243; right). (C) Transient cytoplasmic bridges between cells undergoing HA. Phase contrast time-lapse microscopy of Raji cells treated with tositumomab (10 μg/ml). Intervals between images are 5 minutes. Arrows indicate location of bridge formation. Scale bar: 20 μm. (D and E) Peripheral relocalization of mitochondria toward cell-to-cell contact area as assessed by TEM (D) and JC-1 staining (E). Arrows indicate localized mitochondria. Scale bar: 10 μm. (E) JC-1–labeled cells were treated with tositumomab or L243 (10 μg/ml). After that, images were captured detecting monomeric (green) and J-aggregate (red) forms of JC-1. Arrows indicate J-aggregate mitochondria at cell-cell junctions. Scale bars: 10 μm (D); 20 μm (E). (F) Time-lapse video microscopy of JC-1–labeled cells. Red mitochondria represent mitochondria with high membrane potential, migrating toward cell-to-cell contact areas. Interval between images is 1 hour. Scale bar: 20 μm.