Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Heat Shock Factor 1 (HSF1) specifically potentiates c-MYC-mediated transcription independently of the canonical heat-shock response
doi: 10.1101/2022.02.22.481519
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) The expression of known c-MYC target genes was quantitated by qRT-PCR, following transient Gcn5 KD for 48 hr in immortalized MEFs (mean ± SD, n = 3 independent experiments, Two-way ANOVA). (B) Endogenous c-MYC transcriptional activities were measured by the dual reporter system in HEK293T cells transfected with indicated plasmids and siRNAs (mean ± SD, n = 3 independent experiments, One-way ANOVA). (C) Left panel: Endogenous c-MYC binding to gDNA binding was detected by PLA in immortalized MEFs stably expressing LacZ or GCN5 . Scale bars, 10 µm. Right panel: quantitation of these PLA foci per nucleus (mean ± SD, n≥100 nuclei, One-way ANOVA). (D) Quantitation of total RNAs extracted with immortalized MEFs stably expressing LacZ or GCN5 (mean ± SD, n = 3 biological replicates, One-way ANOVA). (E) Volcano plot of the differentially expressed genes due to Hsf1 KD. (F) Box-and-whisker plots of the abundance of DEGs in the control cells (n=1,640 or 1,269, Mann-Whitney U test). The box bounds the IQR divided by the median and the whiskers extend to the minimum and maximum values. (G) Visualization of DEGs in MEFs expressing different genes and siRNAs by clustering heatmaps (three biological replicates each group). (H) Seaborn correlation heatmap of gene expression among different experimental groups. (I) Venn diagram showing the overlaps among the c-MYC CUT&RUN-seq target genes, the DEGs following Hsf1 KD, and the DEGs rescued by GCN5 overexpression in immortalized MEFs. (J) Pathway enrichment analyses of the DEGs in immortalized MEFs following Hsf1 KD. (K) Heatmap visualization of the DEGs involved in the ribosome, proteasome, lysosome, and chaperone pathways (each data point represents the average of three biological replicates).
Article Snippet: pBabe-HSF1-FLAG was a gift from Robert Kingston (Addgene plasmid#1948). pMSCV-HA-cMYCT58A was a gift from Scott Lowe (Addgene plasmid#18773). pCherry-HSP90alpha was a gift from Didier Picard (Addgene plasmid#108222). pCDNA3-2xHA-c-MYC was a gift from Martine Roussel (Addgene plasmid#74161). pLX304-LacZ-V5 was a gift from William Hahn (Addgene plasmid#42560). pBabe-LacZ, pBabe-HSF1 1-323 , and pBabe-HSF1 324-529 were described previously . pLX304-MAX-V5 (HsCD00440967) and pDONR221-GCN5 (HsCD00829789) vectors were purchased from DNASU plasmid depository. pLX304-LacZ-V5 and pLX304-GCN5-V5 vectors were co-transfected with packaging vector (delta VPR) and an envelope vector (VSV-G) into HEK293T packaging cells using TurboFect transfection reagent (Cat#R0531, ThermoFisher).
Techniques: Expressing, Quantitative RT-PCR, Transfection, Binding Assay, Stable Transfection, Quantitation Assay, Whisker Assay, MANN-WHITNEY, Over Expression