This report describes the use of live cell imaging and photobleach techniques to determine the surface expression, transport pathways and trafficking kinetics of exogenously expressed, pH-sensitive GFP-tagged proteins at the plasma membrane of neurons.
Hildick, K. L., González-González, I. M., Jaskolski, F., Henley, J. M. Lateral Diffusion and Exocytosis of Membrane Proteins in Cultured Neurons Assessed using Fluorescence Recovery and Fluorescence-loss Photobleaching. J. Vis. Exp. (60), e3747, doi:10.3791/3747 (2012).