Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: An extra-glycolytic function for hexokinase 2 as an RNA-binding protein regulating SOX10 mRNA translation in melanoma
doi: 10.1101/2024.08.13.607712
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) RIP experiment performed on A375 and A2058 melanoma cell lines (SD, n = 3 biological replicates). SOX10 mRNA was analysed in IgG and HK2 immunoprecipitated samples and expressed as percentage of the mRNA present in the input. GAPDH , TBP and ACT mRNAs were used as negative controls. p -values were calculated by ordinary two-way ANOVA with Dunnett’s multiple comparisons test (SD, n = 3 biological replicates) (**** p ≤ 0.0001). (B) In silico prediction of HK2- SOX10 mRNA interaction propensities using the CatRAPID algorithm. The highest interaction score observed between HK2 and the SOX10 mRNA is at the SOX10 5’UTR. Upper panel: HK2- SOX10 mRNA interaction profile. Lower panel: schematic representation of the SOX10 mRNA. (C) RIP experiment performed on A375 cells transfected with luciferase reporters containing the SOX10 5’UTR and 3’UTR sequences upstream of the Renilla reporter gene. An Empty reporter was used as control. Renilla mRNA was analyzed in IgG and HK2 immunoprecipitated samples and expressed as percentage of the mRNA present in the input. p -values were calculated by ordinary two-way ANOVA with Dunnett’s multiple comparisons test (SEM, n = 6 biological replicates) (* p ≤ 0.05). (D) Representative fluorescence images and quantification of RNA-proximity ligation assays (PLA) of HK2 protein and SOX10 mRNA in A375 cells transfected with siRNAs targeting SOX10 (siSOX10, orange) or control (siCTRL, grey) (n = 3 biological replicates). After 48h, cells were fixed, permeabilized, and incubated with anti-sense SOX10 5’UTR oligonucleotide probes and anti-HK2 antibody. Scale bar, 10 μm. HK2- SOX10 mRNA PLA signal (yellow), Phalloidin staining (green), and DAPI staining (blue). The significance for PLA values was derived from the Mann-Whitney statistical test (SD, ** p ≤ 0.01).
Article Snippet: To establish the stable overexpression of SOX10 (Myc-DDK tagged; OriGene, #RC203545L3V) in A375 and A2058 cell lines, cells were transduced with pLenti-C-Myc-DDK-P2A-Puro vector expressing SOX10 (NM_006941) ORF nucleotide sequence (OriGene, #RC203545L3V) according to manufacturer’s instructions.
Techniques: Immunoprecipitation, In Silico, Transfection, Luciferase, Control, Fluorescence, Ligation, Incubation, Staining, Derivative Assay, MANN-WHITNEY