Journal: Advanced Science
Article Title: EIF1AX Nucleolar Condensates Enhance Susceptibilities for the Management of Endometrial Cancer
doi: 10.1002/advs.202504238
Figure Lengend Snippet: Identification of proteins interacting with EIF1AX within nucleolar condensates. a) Workflow of the mass spectrometry‐based strategy used to identify proteins interacting with EIF1AX‐WT (WT), EIF1AX‐NLS (NLS), and EIF1AX‐NLS N11A/D142A (N11A/D142A). b) Venn diagram showing common and unique interacting proteins among the WT, NLS, and N11A/D142A groups. c) Chord diagrams illustrating enriched pathways among common interactors (left) and group‐specific interactors (right). d,e) Candidate EIF1AX‐binding proteins identified through yeast two‐hybrid screening (d) and co‐immunoprecipitation (Co‐IP) assays (e). f) Immunofluorescence staining of UBTF and EIF1AX in HEC‐1A cells. Scale bars: 10 µm (overview); 5 µm (zoom). Fluorescence intensity profiles along the indicated arrow directions are shown. g) Co‐IP analysis of interactions among EIF1AX‐WT, EIF1AX‐NLS, and EIF1AX‐NLS N11A/D142A in HEC‐1A cells. h) Immunofluorescence staining of DDX21 in HEC‐1A cells expressing WT, NLS, or N11A/D142A EIF1AX. Scale bar: 10 µm. Fluorescence intensity tracings along the indicated arrows are quantified. i) Denaturing GST pull‐down assays showing interactions between His‐DDX21 and GST‐tagged EIF1AX‐WT, IDR1, IDR2, RBP, or IDR1+IDR2 fragments. j) Proposed model: EIF1AX forms phase‐separated condensates with DDX21 via its IDR region, while binding to DDX21 through its RBP domain.
Article Snippet: The following primary antibodies and dilutions were used: DDX21 (Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA, #59278; 1:1000), PCNA (Cell Signaling Technology, #2586; 1:1000), Cleaved Caspase‐3 (Cell Signaling Technology, #9664; 1:1000), p16 (Sigma‐Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA, #SAB56000308; 1:1000), EIF1AX (Sigma‐Aldrich, #HPA002561; 1:1000), and γH2AX (Sigma‐Aldrich, #SAB5700688; 1:1000).
Techniques: Mass Spectrometry, Binding Assay, Two Hybrid Screening, Immunoprecipitation, Co-Immunoprecipitation Assay, Immunofluorescence, Staining, Fluorescence, Expressing