Journal: Human Mutation
Article Title: CHD8 Variant and Rett Syndrome: Overlapping Phenotypes, Molecular Convergence, and Expanding the Genetic Spectrum
doi: 10.1155/humu/5485987
Figure Lengend Snippet: Immunoblotting and mass spectrometry–based proteomic analysis. (a) Western blots indicating the level of CHD8 protein detected from controls (C1, C2) and proband (P) samples. Three technical repeats ( n = 3) of Western blotting using the CHD8 C-terminal antibody (Cell Signaling Technologies #11891, 1:1000) showed the relative quantities of CHD8-L1 and CHD8-L2 against GAPDH (loading control). (b) Protein band quantification of the Western blots showed a significant reduction of the CHD8-L1 and CHD8-L2 isoform levels in the proband (P) (L1: ~51%, L2: ~48%) compared to those of the controls (C) (Mann–Whitney test: p = 0.0089, p = 0.0238, respectively). (c) The abundance of CHD8 is ranked significantly lower in the proteome of the proband compared to the controls. (d) The abundance of CHD8 is significantly lower in proband fibroblasts (70%, red dot) and lies outside of the control range (80%–104%, n = 5). (e) Volcano plot showed the relative amount of proteins in the proband line compared to the controls, with vertical lines indicating +/−1.5 log 2 -fold change and the horizontal line indicating statistical significance. CHD8 is reduced significantly by ~30% ( p < 0.001) in the proband line compared to the controls. MeCP2 (green) is significantly reduced by ~43% ( p < 0.01), whereas bromodomain adjacent to zinc finger domain 1A ( BAZ1A ) encoding the accessory subunit of the ATP-dependent chromatin assembly factor (ACF) (orange) is significantly increased by ~72% ( p < 0.001). CHD8-regulated proteins (purple), including acylglycerol kinase (AGK), CDC42-binding protein kinase (CDC42BPB), phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), and dual-specificity tyrosine phosphorylation-regulated kinase 1A (DYRK1A), showed a reduction in their corresponding protein abundance, with AGK being the highest at ~55% ( p < 0.001). Transportin 3 (TNPO3), nuclear receptor corepressor 1 (NCOR1), and proteasome assembly chaperone 2 (PSMG2) showed an increase of abundance with TNPO3 being the highest at ~39% ( p < 0.001). (f) STRING network analysis revealed coexpression (black), interactions (magenta), and comentions in literature (lime green) between CHD8, MeCP2, CDKL5, FOXG1, and ACF.
Article Snippet: A C-terminal primary antibody raised against CHD8 (Cell Signaling Technologies #11891, 1:1000) was used to quantify CHD8 protein relative to the housekeeping protein GAPDH (Sigma, #G9545, 1:5000).
Techniques: Western Blot, Mass Spectrometry, Control, MANN-WHITNEY, Binding Assay, Phospho-proteomics, Quantitative Proteomics