Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: A pharmacological modality to sequester homomeric proteins
doi: 10.1101/2025.03.05.641597
Figure Lengend Snippet: a. Chemical structures of Keap1-targeting PINCHs. EC 50 values for the active compounds are shown in parentheses. b. WB of EL229’s effect on Keap1 in OCI-AML2 cells’ soluble and insoluble phases; 20 h treatment. Full gels are shown in Fig. S10. c. WB analysis of additional active Keap1-targeting PINCHs in OCI-AML2 cells; 20 h. d. EL133 affects Keap1 in the soluble and insoluble OCI-AML2 cell phases, in a time- and dose-dependent manner. e. WB band quantification and calculated EC 50 values from n=3 independent experiments. f. Immunostaining of U2OS cells following treatment with 250nM Bardoxolone (left) or 250nM EL133 (right). Keap1 is colored in Magenta; DAPI staining in Cyan. g. Quantification of Keap1 ‘puncta’ in the two treatments shows a significant difference in volume ( p <0.0001, two-tailed Mann-Whitney test, n=129 cells analysed in 2 independent experiments, additional images are shown in Fig. S7). Error-bars show 95% confidence interval. h. Immunostaining of U2OS cells following a 20 hour treatment with 2.5 μM BODIPY-conjugated PINCH EL256, and its structure. Keap1 is colored in Magenta; DAPI staining in Cyan. i. Global proteomics analysis of OCI-AML2 cells soluble lysate, showing significant downregulation of Keap1 following treatment with EL133 (2.5 μM; 20 h), compared to DMSO. The dotted lines mark a 1.75-fold reduction in protein level (vertical) and p =0.05 significance (horizontal). j. rt-PCR analysis of NQO1 expression after a 20h treatment of OCI-AML2 cells with DMSO, EL133 or BDX at 250 nM, followed by washing of the cells (representative results following two independent experimental replicates with two technical replicates each). Error-bars show the standard deviation. k. Lattice light-sheet microscope live imaging of U2OS cells, immediately following treatment with 2.5 μM EL256. Time post-treatment is indicated in hr:min.
Article Snippet: Incubation with primary antibodies (mouse anti-BCL-6 (sc-7388, Santa Cruz, 1:500, overnight at 4 °C), mouse anti-Keap1 (sc-365626, Santa Cruz, 1:500, overnight at 4 °C), rabbit anti-c-Myc (#5605, Cell Signaling, 1:1000, overnight at 4°C), rabbit anti-p62 (ab155686, Abcam, 1:1000, overnight at 4 °C) and mouse anti-beta-actin (#3700, Cell Signaling, 1:1000, 1 h at room temperature) was performed, then the membranes were washed and incubated with an HRP-conjugated secondary antibody (mouse #7076/rabbit #7074, Cell Signaling) at room temperature for 1 hour.
Techniques: Immunostaining, Staining, Two Tailed Test, MANN-WHITNEY, Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction, Expressing, Standard Deviation, Microscopy, Imaging