Journal: Nature Communications
Article Title: The ESCRT protein CHMP5 promotes T cell leukemia by enabling BRD4-p300-dependent transcription
doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-59504-9
Figure Lengend Snippet: a Western blot of fractionated CUTLL1, MOLT-3, SUPT1, and patient derived xenograft (PDX) T-ALL cells. W, whole cell; C, cytoplasmic; and N, nuclear lysates. Nuclear CHMP5 band intensities relative to the cytoplasmic band are indicated. Representative of 4 independent experiments. b , c Immunofluorescence images of CUTLL1 ( b ) and T-ALL PDX ( c ) stained with anti-CHMP5 primary antibody followed by a secondary AF647 antibody (Red) and DAPI for nuclear staining (blue). Images are representative of 6 samples (3 CUTLL1, 3 PDX) from 3 independent experiments. Scale bars indicate 10 µm. d Schematic representation of the full length (FL) and NLS truncation mutant (ΔNLS) constructs of murine CHMP5. Created in BioRender. Umphred-Wilson, K. (2025) https://BioRender.com/dzfs72l . e Western blot of fractionated CUTLL1 cells transduced with FLAG-tagged full-length CHMP5 (FL) or ΔNLS mutant encoding lentivirus. Representative of 6 experiments. f Quantification of the nuclear/cytoplasmic ratio of FL-CHMP5 and ΔNLS-CHMP5 determined by densitometry. Data points are biological replicates from n = 6 independent experiments. Student’s t test, two-tailed. g Western blot of fractionated CUTLL1 cells transduced with CHMP5-HA subjected to immunoprecipitation with isotype (IgG) or anti-HA antibodies. Representative of 3 experiments. h Western blot of fractionated CUTLL1 cells subjected to immunoprecipitation with IgG or anti-BRD4 antibodies. Representative of 3 experiments. i Western blot of fractionated PDX T-ALL cells subjected to immunoprecipitation with IgG or anti-BRD4 antibodies. Representative of 2 experiments. j Anti-FLAG immunoprecipitation of BRD4-FLAG and CHMP5-His recombinant proteins. Representative of 2 experiments. k Nuclear fractionation of CUTLL1 cells into soluble and chromatin-bound fractions. Representative of 2 independent experiments. l Schematic of the MYC gene locus indicating ChIP-qPCR primer binding: A, enhancer; B, promoter; C, NDME (NOTCH-dependent MYC enhancer); D, BDME (BRD4-dependent MYC enhancer). m ChIP-qPCR of anti-BRD4 and CHMP5-HA at the MYC locus normalized to isotype (IgG). Data are 2 technical replicates, representative of 3 independent experiments. n ChIP-qPCR of anti-BRD4 and CHMP5-HA normalized to IgG from CUTLL1 cells treated with vehicle (DMSO) or 500 nM of JQ1 for 18 h. Data are 2 technical replicates, representative of 2 independent experiments. o Venn-diagram of BRD4 bound genes (determined by ChIP-seq GSE51800 ) and DEGs between CT and KD CUTLL1 cells (Fig. ). The BRD4 ChIP-seq dataset are available in the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus database under accession code GSE51800 . p Pathway analysis of the overlapping BRD4-bound genes and DEGs between CT and KD CUTLL1 cells (CT, n = 3; KD, n = 3 samples each) in ( o ). p -value determined by Weighted Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and adjusted for multiple comparisons. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
Article Snippet: Note that in some samples the anti-CHMP5 polyclonal antibody (ThermoFisher Scientific, #PA5-63303) can detect the two h an CHMP5 isoform: the major 219 amino acid (UniProt: Q9NZZ3-1) and a smaller 171 amino acid (UniProt: Q9NZZ3-2) isoform.
Techniques: Western Blot, Derivative Assay, Immunofluorescence, Staining, Mutagenesis, Construct, Transduction, Two Tailed Test, Immunoprecipitation, Recombinant, Fractionation, ChIP-qPCR, Binding Assay, ChIP-sequencing, Gene Expression