Journal: Molecular biology reports
Article Title: Protein kinase C iota (PKCι) and pVHL are both needed for lysosomal degradation of α5 integrin in renal carcinoma cells.
doi: 10.1007/s11033-025-10272-1
Figure Lengend Snippet: Fig. 4 Cycloheximide and bafilomycin assays reveal that pVHL-mediated down- regulation of α5 integrin levels requires lysosomal degrada- tion. (A) Parental 786-O cells (VHL-) and those with reintro- duced VHLp19 (VHL+) were incubated with cycloheximide (100 µg/ml for various time points and then a western blot for α5 integrin was performed, with an α-tubulin western blot as a loading control. Band intensities were divided by their corresponding α-tubulin band intensities (from the same lane) and presented as a percent, with the first lane set to 100%. (B) Similar analysis was performed as in (A) with 786-O cell lines with pVHL reintroduced (VHL+) containing sgRNA targeting LacZ (as a control) or PKCι (PKCι 1 and PKCι 2). (C) 786-O cell lines used in (A) and (B) were incubated with vehicle or bafilomycin (10 nM) overnight and a western blot for α5 integrin was performed, with an α-tubulin western blot performed as a loading control. Note that in (A), (B), and (C), the α-tubulin western blots were performed by reblotting the membranes in the top panel. (D) Cells with reintroduced VHLp19 (VHL+) were incu- bated with DMSO (vehicle) or bafilomycin (10 nM) overnight before ZO-1 immunostaining, as previously described. Images were taken at 1000× magnifica- tion
Article Snippet: LentiCRISPRv2 plasmid was digested with BsmBI restriction enzyme and ligated with annealed sgRNA oligonucleotides as described in the Target Guide Sequence Cloning Protocol found at the Addgene website provided. sgRNA sequences targeting PKCι were TGT CTC GAA CCT CAT TGC AA (exon 2, antisense strand) and TCC AAG CCA AGC GTT TCA AC (exon 5, sense strand), hereafter named PKCι sgRNA 1 and 2, respectively. sgRNA sequence targeting PKCζ was CCA TCC ATC CCA TCG ATA AC (exon 9, antisense strand).
Techniques: Incubation, Western Blot, Control, Immunostaining