Journal: Brain : a journal of neurology
Article Title: Impaired ribosome-associated quality control of C9orf72 arginine-rich dipeptide-repeat proteins.
doi: 10.1093/brain/awac479
Figure Lengend Snippet: Figure 1 Non-stop mRNA protein products are degraded by the RQC in a Listerin-dependent manner in mammalian cells. (A) Schematic of stalling reporters and EGFP constructs. (B) GFP versus RFP expression profile of stalling reporter with poly-A sequences compared to a no insert control (left). Ratio of median fluorescence intensity of RFP to GFP shows that poly-A sequences induce stalling independent of listerin. Data are shown as mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM) with all data points (two-way ANOVA, n = 3, reporter P < 0.0001, LTN1 KO P = 0.9771, interaction P = 0.8548) (C) Confocal images of HEK 293T and LTN1 KO cells expressing EGFP-NS reporter show accumulation and reduced clearance of NS protein in LTN1 KO cells over time (scale bar = 50 µm). (D) Listerin overexpression in LTN1 KO cells significantly reduces levels of NS reporter protein in cells quantified by flow cytometry. Percentage is shown as mean ± SEM (mixed effects model, n = 3, Ltn1:HEK 293T P = 0.1246, Ltn1:LTN1 KO #1 P = 0.0001, Ltn1:LTN1 KO #2 P < 0.0001).
Article Snippet: For listerin rescue experiments, the LTN1_pCSdest plasmid used was a gift from Roger Reeves (#53855, Addgene).52 Plasmids expressing VCP wildtype (WT) or dominant-negative mutant (D2) were previously described.53 For NEMF antibody validation experiments, a plasmid expressing C-terminally HA tagged NEMF synthesized by GenScript was used. pDsRed-monomer-N1 plasmid was used as a transfection control.
Techniques: Construct, Expressing, Control, Fluorescence, Over Expression, Flow Cytometry