Journal: eLife
Article Title: Microtubules restrict F-actin polymerization to the immune synapse via GEF-H1 to maintain polarity in lymphocytes
doi: 10.7554/eLife.78330
Figure Lengend Snippet: Experiments for this figure were performed using IIA1.6 cells transfected either with siCtrl or siGEF-H1 siRNAs 60 hr before experiment, with F-tractin-tdTomato the day before experiment, then put in contact with a F(ab′) 2 αIgG-coated droplet. Cells were pretreated for 1 hr with DMSO, suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA) 10 µM or with nocodazole 5 µM, kept in solution during the experiment. ( A ) Quantification of the ratio of acetylated α-tubulin/α-tubulin in the whole cell, for IIA1.6 cells in contact with a droplet for different times, by immunofluorescence. Imaging by confocal microscopy (median ± IQR, 0–5 min N = 14;20, 15–20 min N = 18;14, two independent experiments, Mann–Whitney test). ( B ) Left: immunofluorescence images of IIA1.6 cells treated with DMSO or nocodazole, and in contact with a droplet for 0–5 min or 15–20 min. F-actin stained with phalloidin (red), GEF-H1 (green), and antigen on droplet (blue). Scale bar 6 µm. Right: quantification of the enrichment in GEF-H1 within 1 µm of the droplet divided by the total intensity in the cell in one plane, imaged by laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM), for IIA1.6 cells in contact with a droplet for different times, by immunofluorescence (median ± IQR, DMSO 0–5 min N = 20;18, DMSO 15–20 min N = 20;20, Noco 15–20 min N = 19;20, two independent experiments, Kruskal–Wallis test with multiple comparisons, Dunn’s post test). ( C ) From immunofluorescence imaged with LSCM, quantification of the enrichment in GEF-H1 within 1 µm of the droplet divided by the total intensity in the cell, in one plane, and ( D ) quantification of F-actin (stained with phalloidin) on six planes (δz = 0.34 µm) around the immune synapse, ratio of intensity in the half of the cell near the synapse (front), and the half away from the synapse (back), for IIA1.6 cells treated with DMSO or SAHA in contact with a droplet for 15–20 min (median ± IQR, DMSO N = 23;16, SAHA N = 21;19, two independent experiments, Mann–Whitney test). ( E ) Western blot of GEF-H1 to evaluate the efficiency of GEF-H1 silencing. α-tubulin was used as a loading control. The blot presented is representative of two independent experiments. ( F ) Time-lapse images of F-actin in cells transfected with siCtrl or siGEF-H1 and treated with DMSO (control) or nocodazole, using SDCM 3D time-lapse imaging. Scale bar 5 µm. ( G ) Solidity in 2D and ( H ) aspect ratio of cells after 40 min of immune synapse formation (siCtrl DMSO N = 30;8, siCtrl Noco N = 19;4, siGEF-H1 DMSO N = 19;46, siGEF-H1 Noco N = 7;27, two independent experiments, Kruskal–Wallis test with multiple comparisons between DMSO and Noco, Dunn’s post test), analyzed on maximum z-projections of SDCM 3D images. ( I ) Left: examples of 3D SIM immunofluorescence imaging of F-actin and antigen on the droplet after 15–20 min of immune synapse formation. Side view: scale bar 5 µm. Front view: scale bar 2 µm. MIP visualization. Right: profiles of F-actin at the immune synapse, from symmetric radial scans of the immune synapse, normalized to the maxima (mean ± SEM, pooled from two experiments, siCtrl DMSO N = 11;7, siCtrl Noco N = 5;6, siGEF-H1 Noco N = 2;7). Figure 6—source data 1. Raw file of the full unedited Western blot images of , and a figure with annotated images of the full Western blot. Figure 6—source data 2. Data tables related to graphs in .
Article Snippet: Antibody , Biotin-SP-conjugated F(ab′) 2 goat polyclonal anti-mouse IgG , Jackson ImmunoResearch , 115-066-072 , Droplet functionalization (5.7 µL).
Techniques: Transfection, Immunofluorescence, Imaging, Confocal Microscopy, MANN-WHITNEY, Staining, Western Blot