Table 3.

Summary of BRCA2 diffusion parameters obtained from different mobility assays in live cells.

Method D1,mob D2,mob Immobile particles τB,trans 
 µm2/s µm2/s % ms 
SPT 1.44 0.07 ∼50 ND 
SPTsim 2.0 ND ND 40 
FCS ND ND ND 25 
Method D1,mob D2,mob Immobile particles τB,trans 
 µm2/s µm2/s % ms 
SPT 1.44 0.07 ∼50 ND 
SPTsim 2.0 ND ND 40 
FCS ND ND ND 25 

Measured and simulated parameters are indicated with bold and nonbold text, respectively. D1,mob determined by SPT is lower than Dsim established by simulations, as expected due to reduction in dimensionality from 3D to 2D. The decay time constant τB found by FCS reflects transient BRCA2 binding, as revealed by and in good agreement with SPT simulations. This transient binding behavior could not be directly measured by SPT because of the larger frame acquisition time of 50 ms. However, it produces and matches the diffusion constant D2,mob very well. The theoretical diffusion parameters established by SPT simulations yielded the apparent diffusion constants D1 and D2 of 1.25 (53%) and 0.06 µm2/s after analyzing the synthetically generated data.

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