Journal: ACS Chemical Neuroscience
Article Title: Doubly Constrained C-terminal of Roc (COR) Domain-Derived Peptides Inhibit Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2 (LRRK2) Dimerization
doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.3c00259
Figure Lengend Snippet: Doubly constrained peptides downregulate LRRK2 dimerization and LRRK2 kinase activity and do not cause microtubule mislocalization of LRRK2. (a) Mass photometry was applied to determine the molecular weight of LRRK2 to measure monomer and dimer species. Purified full-length LRRK2 was incubated with 7.5-fold excess of peptide for 30 min at 30 °C. The percentage of dimer for the different conditions is depicted. Full diagrams are provided in Figure S9 . * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01. (b) A proximity biotinylation assay was used to measure LRRK2 dimerization in cells. Both doubly constrained peptides downregulated dimerization by approximately 50%. Experiments were performed in triplicate; ns not significant, * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.005, **** p ≤ 0.0001. (c) Western blot analysis of Rab10 phosphorylation in A549 PPM1H knockout cells treated with different concentrations of doubly constrained peptides demonstrates downregulation of LRRK2 kinase activity as compared to the untreated control after incubation for 6 h. (d) Quantification of mean intensity of phospho-Rab10 signal normalized to GAPDH over total Rab10 signal normalized to GAPDH, with standard error of mean (SEM) for at least three independent experiments. An unpaired 2-tailed t test was performed; **** p ≤ 0.0001, ns not significant ( p > 0.05). (e) HEK293 cells were transfected with GFP–LRRK2 for 24 h and subsequently treated with DMSO, 1 μM MLi-2, or 2.5 μM ECOR or ECOR A12G peptide for 6 h at 37 °C. The cells were treated with media containing SiR-tubulin for tubulin staining and verapamil (a broad-spectrum efflux pump inhibitor). The cells treated with MLi-2 show skein-like filamentous structures that overlap with tubulin filaments stained by SiR-tubulin. Scale bar 10 μm. (f) A minimum of 500 transfected cells were quantified for skein-like structures for each condition as shown in panel c. The graph represents the average percentage of cells, and standard errors of the mean (SEM) for three independent experiments with at least two biological replicates are shown with p values: One-way ANOVA and Dunnett’s multiple comparisons test (DMSO as a control), **** p ≤ 0.0001, ns not significant ( p > 0.05).
Article Snippet: The membranes were blocked in nonfat milk and probed with Rab10 (phospho-T73) (Abcam; ab241060, Lot; GR327 4620-4), total Rab10 (Cell Signaling Technology; #4262S), and total GAPDH (14C10) (Cell Signaling Technology; #2118S) antibodies overnight at 4 °C, followed by incubation with HRP anti-rabbit secondary antibody, and developed using ECL.
Techniques: Activity Assay, Molecular Weight, Purification, Incubation, Cell Surface Biotinylation Assay, Western Blot, Knock-Out, Transfection, Staining