Journal: Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences: CMLS
Article Title: The HBV large envelope protein initiates virion assembly by recruiting capsids at membrane rich domains related to late endosome
doi: 10.1007/s00018-025-05574-3
Figure Lengend Snippet: Co-localization of core-LHBs with markers of intracellular compartments. Huh-7 Cells were co-transfected with plasmids expressing core and LHBs. After 72 h, cells were fixed, permeabilized and immunostained. (A) In the green channel, images were obtained by immunofluorescence using anti-endosomal markers targeting endogenous proteins or using anti-HA for TSG101 or using aquamarine signal of LC3-Aquamarine protein in cyan. In yellow, the human anti-HBc polyclonal antibody targeting core, and in the magenta, the goat anti-HBs monoclonal antibody (Fitzgerald 70HG15) or rabbit anti-pre S1 R271 targeting LHBs protein. DAPI nuclear staining is shown in blue in the merge panel. The scale bars in white correspond to 10 µm. (B and C) The bar graphs show the mean values of the Pearson’s correlation coefficient (PCC) from 15–20 cells. The PCC was calculated independently for the green (or cyan) and yellow channels (B), or the green (or cyan) and magenta channels (C) for each cell. (D) After 72 h, cells transfected with core/core-mCherry (90/10) plasmids, or LHBs/ mCherry-LHBs (95/5) plasmids were washed and incubated with green lysoTracker in Leibovitz’s L-15 medium at 37 °C for 30 min. Images show the acidified vesicles staining in green, with core (upper panels) or LHBs (lower panels) in red. Cell periphery and nucleus are shown by orange dotted line. The scale bars in white correspond to 10 µm. (E) The mean values of the PCC of 20—25 cells are shown. In all cases scatter dots represent each cell analyzed from two independent experiments. The bars represent the mean values and the error bars the ± SD of the PCC. Representative images are shown
Article Snippet: The following primary antibodies were used: (i) a human anti-HBc polyclonal antibody at a 1:2000 dilution as described [ ], (ii) a mouse anti-HBs monoclonal antibody (1:2000, 70HG15, Biosynth), (iii) a rabbit polyclonal anti-GFP antibody (1:4000, ab6556, Abcam), (iv) a mouse Monoclonal anti-mCherry antibody [1C51] (1:4000, ab125096, Abcam), (v) and a rabbit polyclonal β-beta Actin antibody (1:4000, ab8227, Abcam).
Techniques: Transfection, Expressing, Immunofluorescence, Staining, Incubation