Journal: Redox Biology
Article Title: Activation of the integrated stress response contributes to developmental delay and seizures caused by mitochondrial prolyl-tRNA synthetase (PARS2) deficiency
doi: 10.1016/j.redox.2025.103966
Figure Lengend Snippet: Genetic suppression of GCN2 reverses developmental delay and seizure phenotypes in dPARS2-deficient flies. (A) Western blot analysis of P-GCN2, GCN2 and P-PERK in protein extracts from control and elav- Gal4-driven dPARS2 knockdown fly heads. α-tubulin was used as a loading control. (B) Quantification of the Western blots shown in A. P-GCN2, N = 3; GCN2 and P-PERK, N = 4. ∗∗p < 0.01, ns, not significant. (C) Western blot analysis of P-eIF2α in protein extracts from control, elav -Gal4-driven dPARS2 knockdown, elav -Gal4-driven dPARS2 and GCN2 double knockdown, and elav -Gal4-driven GCN2 knockdown fly heads. α-actin was used as a loading control. (D) Quantification of the Western blots shown in C. N = 3. ∗p < 0.05, ∗∗p < 0.01. (E) Western blot analysis with anti-puromycin antibody and ponceau staining on protein extracts from control, elav -Gal4-driven dPARS2 knockdown, elav -Gal4-driven dPARS2 and GCN2 double knockdown fly heads. Flies were fed with puromycin. α-actin was used as the loading control. (F) Quantification of the Western blots shown in E. N = 3, ∗p < 0.05, ∗∗∗p < 0.001. (G) Images of control, elav -Gal4-driven dPARS2 knockdown and elav -Gal4-driven dPARS2 and GCN2 double knockdown flies at different developmental stages. Scale bars: 500 μm. (H) Graph showing pupariation rate of control, elav -Gal4-driven dPARS2 knockdown, elav -Gal4-driven dPARS2 and GCN2 double knockdown and elav -Gal4-driven GCN2 knockdown larvae. N = 3, n = 28–30. (I) Graph showing eclosion rate of control, elav -Gal4-driven dPARS2 knockdown, elav -Gal4-driven dPARS2 and GCN2 double knockdown, and elav -Gal4-driven GCN2 knockdown pupae. N = 3, n = 28–30. (J) Graph showing percentage of control, elav -Gal4-driven dPARS2 knockdown, elav -Gal4-driven dPARS2 and GCN2 double knockdown and elav -Gal4-driven GCN2 knockdown flies displaying Bang-sensitive paralytic phenotypes. N = 3, n = 10 sample. ∗∗∗∗p < 0.0001. (K) Graph showing the recovery time of control, elav -Gal4-driven dPARS2 knockdown, elav -Gal4-driven dPARS2 and GCN2 double knockdown and elav -Gal4-driven GCN2 knockdown flies from paralysis. n = 30. ∗∗∗∗p < 0.0001.
Article Snippet: Primary antibodies used were anti-MT-ND1 (Abcam, AB181848-1001), anti-MT- CO2 (Proteintech, 55070-1-AP), anti-MT-ATP8 (Proteintech, 26723-1-AP),anti-NDUFS1 (Proteintech, 12444-1-AP), anti-NDUFS3 (Abcam, ab14711), anti-UQCRFS1 (Abcam, ab14746), anti-ATP5A (Abcam, ab14748), anti-SDHB (Proteintech, 10620-1-AP), anti-Porin/VDAC (Abcam, ab14734), anti-P-eIF2α (Cell Signaling Technology, 3398), anti-eIF2α (Cell Signaling Technology, 2103), anti-P-PERK (ABclonal, AP0886), anti-PERK (ABclonal, A27664 ), anti-P-GCN2 (Abcam, ab75836), anti-GCN2 (ABclonal, A2307), anti-LDH (ThermoFisher, PA5-26531), anti-PARS2 (ABclonal, A16512), anti-His (yeasen, 30405ES50), anti-ATF4 (Abcam, ab1371), anti-Alpha actin (Proteintech, 23660-1-AP) and anti-Alpha tubulin (Proteintech, 66031-1-Ig).
Techniques: Western Blot, Control, Knockdown, Staining