Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 impairs the release sites of Parkinson’s disease vulnerable dopamine axons
doi: 10.1101/2025.08.28.672006
Figure Lengend Snippet: A. Experimental workflow of LC/MS-MS analysis in striatal synaptosomes isolated by subcellular fractionation from 3 technical replicates, with each technical replicate performed using 3 LRRK2 G2019S mice treated with either MLi-2 or the corresponding vehicle for 2 hours. Treatment conditions: Vehicle for MLi-2, 40% 2-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin; MLi-2, 10 mg/kg. This treatment leads to a decrease in LRRK2 kinase activity in vivo (see ). B. Volcano plot comparing the significantly altered phosphopeptides between vehicle and MLi-2-treated LRRK2 G2019S mice (p≤ 0.05 by multiple unpaired t-tests, |Log 2 FC|> 0.58). C . Gene Ontology analysis of proteins with at least one differentially regulated phosphopeptide in striatal synaptosomes from vehicle vs MLi2-treated LRRK2 G2019S mice. The top 15 pathways are significantly enriched in the biological process term analysis. All enriched pathways have been uploaded to Zenodo (link in the key resources table) and presented in Supplementary File 1. D. Representative PhosTag and SDS PAGE gels (upper and lower panels, respectively) from two independent experiments of LRRK2 WT and LRRK2 G2019S mice (indicated WT, GS, respectively) with or without MLi-2 treatment (10 mg/kg, 2 hours). SNc extracts from these mice were probed for RAB3A (closed/open circles = phosphorylated (p)- RAB3A/unphosphorylated RAB3A species, respectively). E. p-RAB3A/total (phosphorylated +unphosphorylated) RAB3A quantification. n=10 mice/treatment. All samples were normalized to the average signal of all WT samples in the same blot. F. Same as D, but probing for RAB3C. G. Same as E, but for RAB3C. n=7 mice/treatment. In E and G, data represent mean±SEM. Asterisks indicate statistical significance, as determined by Šídák’s multiple comparisons test following a two-way ANOVA. E: Treatment factor F(1,27)=11.33 p=0.0023, Genotype factor F(1,27)=8.593 p=0.0068. G, Treatment factor F(1,18)=7.398 p=0.0140, Genotype factor F(1,18)=14.76 p=0.0012. *p<0.05, **p<0.01.
Article Snippet: The samples were dried completely in a vacuum centrifuge and subjected to phosphopeptide enrichment using PolyMAC Phosphopeptide Enrichment kit (Tymora Analytical) according to manufacturer’s instructions, and the eluted phosphopeptides dried completely in a vacuum centrifuge.
Techniques: Liquid Chromatography with Mass Spectroscopy, Isolation, Fractionation, Activity Assay, In Vivo, Phospho-proteomics, SDS Page