Journal: Cell death and differentiation
Article Title: The inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor regulates autophagy through its interaction with Beclin 1.
doi: 10.1038/cdd.2009.34
Figure Lengend Snippet: Figure 7 Overexpression of the IP3R-LBD inhibits xestospongin B-induced autophagy through interaction with Beclin 1. HeLa cells were cotransfected with GFP-LC3 and three IP3R-LBD-RFP chimeric proteins targeted to different subcellular compartments, namely the cytosol (Cyto), the outer mitochondrial membrane (OMM) and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). An inactive ER-targeted IP3R-LBD-RFP, including a non-apeptide linker (9aaER) as well as equally targeted variants of RFP alone were used as controls. Twenty-four hours after transfection, cells were subjected to treatment with xestospongin B or nutrient starvation. Representative pictures of Hoechst 33342- counterstained cells were taken 4 h after treatment (a) and the percentage of adherent cells exhibiting GFP-LC3 vacuolization into cytoplasmic puncta was determined (b). The interaction between the IP3R-LBD and Beclin 1 was assessed by immunoprecipitation experiments in HeLa cells that were transiently expressing IP3R-LBD-ER-RFP and concomitantly subjected to siRNA-mediated emerin or Bcl-2 knockdown as indicated (c). Coimmunoprecipitated Beclin 1 levels were normalized relative to input protein levels (d). LC3-II levels from the input lysates were normalized relative to GAPDH levels (e). Data are reported as mean±S.E.M. of three independent experiments carried out in triplicates. *Po0.05 and **Po0.01. The colour reproduction of this figure is available on the html full version of the manuscript
Article Snippet: Primary antibodies specific for Bcl-2, Beclin 1 (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA, USA), IP3R-I (Calbiochem), IP3R types I-II-III (Santa Cruz), LC3B, mTOR, p70S6K, phospho-mTOR or phospho-p70S6K (Cell Signaling, Danvers, MA, USA) were incubated overnight at 4 1C and revealed with the appropriate horseradish peroxidase-labeled secondary antibodies (SouthernBiotech, Birmingham, AL, USA) by means of the SuperSignal West Pico chemoluminiscent substrate (Pierce, Rockford, IL, USA).
Techniques: Over Expression, Membrane, Transfection, Immunoprecipitation, Expressing, Knockdown