Journal: Viruses
Article Title: CAPG Is Required for Ebola Virus Infection by Controlling Virus Egress from Infected Cells
doi: 10.3390/v14091903
Figure Lengend Snippet: Suppression of CAPG impairs EBOV infection. ( A ) CAPG knockdown (KD) was confirmed by immunoblot assay. Four siRNA targeting different regions of human CAPG were transfected into Hela cells at 40 nM. After 48 h, cells were challenged with virus and a replicate set were lysed for protein expression analysis by immunoblot (a representative blot is shown). β-actin was used as a loading control. Band intensity from triplicate samples was calculated using ImageJ, and normalized to the β-actin loading control. ( B ) Yield of infectious particles in the supernatant was measured by counting GP positive foci on VeroE6 cells. Cells were inoculated with the supernatant from wild-type EBOV-infected cells by limiting dilution. At 48 h after inoculation, cells were fixed and stained with anti-GP antibody and foci counted. ( C ) siRNA treated cells were challenged with GFP-EBOV with representative images shown from 48 hpi. Infected cells expressing GFP (green) and nuclei stained with Hoechst 33342 (blue) are visible. Scale bar = 500 µm. ( D ) Count of GFP-positive cells. The numbers of GFP-positive cells and the nuclei in each image were counted by CellProfiler software and infection efficiency was calculated by dividing the number of GFP-positive cells by that of the nuclei. ( E ) CAPG expression in each knockout (KO) and KD clones was detected by immunoblot. β-actin was used as a loading control. WT Hela = parental WT Hela cells and clones are indicated. ( F ) Time-course analysis of virus spread for each clone. At each indicated time point after infection with WT-EBOV, the cells were fixed and stained with anti-GP antibody. The number of GP-positive cells were counted by CellProfiler software, then normalized to that of the nuclei count in the same image. All data are means of three independent experiments +/− SDs. One-way ANOVA with Dunnett’s multiple comparisons test was used for statistical analysis relative to non-targeting siRNA treated control samples or the CRISPR clone control. *, p < 0.05; **, p < 0.01; ***, p < 0.001; ****, p < 0.0001.
Article Snippet: Rabbit polyclonal anti-CAPG antibody (10194-1-AP) was from Proteintech (Rosemont, IL, USA).
Techniques: Infection, Knockdown, Western Blot, Transfection, Virus, Expressing, Control, Staining, Software, Knock-Out, Clone Assay, CRISPR