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Title: | Single particle tracking as a tool to investigate the dynamics of integrated membrane complexes in vivo | ||||||
Author: | Robson, Alex J. |
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0000 0004 2745 8476
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Awarding Body: | University of Oxford | ||||||
Current Institution: | University of Oxford | ||||||
Date of Award: | 2012 | ||||||
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The last decade has seen substantial advances in single-molecule tracking methods with nano-metre level precision. A powerful tool in single-molecule tracking is fluorescence imaging. One particular application, total internal reflection microscopy, can capture biological processes at high contrast video rate imaging at the single-particle level. This thesis presents methodologically novel methods in analysing single particle tracking data. Presented here is an application of a Bayesian statistical approach that can discriminate between the different diffusive modes that appear with the presence of membrane architecture. This algorithm is denoted BARD; a Bayesian Analysis to Ranking Diffusion. These algorithms are applied to a total internal fluorescence microscopy based experimental data of a novel membrane probe in Escherichia coli. This probe is a plasmid expressed, non-native membrane integrating trans-membrane helix and thus acts as an ideal protein based probe under no specific native control. Two experiments were performed using a combination of varying helix probe size and growth temperature experiments effectively altering the transition temperature of the membrane. These data are suggestive of a passive partitioning of the helix protein into mobile and immobile domains that emerge from the underlying phase behaviour of the membrane.
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Supervisor: | Leake, Mark C.; Burrage, Kevin | Sponsor: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | ||||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.581159 | DOI: | Not available | ||||
Keywords: | Biophysics ; Membrane proteins ; Microscopy ; single-particle-tracking SPT TIRF diffusion membrane membrane-proteins | ||||||
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