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. 1981 Feb;1(2):128–135. doi: 10.1128/mcb.1.2.128

Membrane phase state and the rearrangement of hematopoietic cell surface receptors.

P L Williamson 1, W A Massey 1, B M Phelps 1, R A Schlegel 1
PMCID: PMC369651  PMID: 6965249

Abstract

Transformed murine hematopoietic cells of several lineages bound the fluorescent membrane probe merocyanine 540, whereas their normal counterparts did not. Similar selective binding was reproduced in artificial liposomes which bound this probe above their phase transition temperature, but not below it. The regions of the membrane to which merocyanine 540 binds along with the receptors for the lectin concanavalin A, but not the receptors for the lectin wheat germ agglutinin, were rearranged during the course of induced differentiation of erythroleukemia cells. Based on these findings, we propose a model of hematopoietic cell surface differentiation in which proteins such as concanavalin A receptors, which are destined for removal from the plasma membrane, are specifically associated with disordered, liquid-like lipid domains which can be visualized with merocyanine 540. For the specific case of erythroid differentiation, these domains and their associated proteins are collected at the region of the membrane where nuclear extrusion occurs and are eliminated from the reticulocyte plasma membrane by the enucleation event.

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