Journal: Nature Communications
Article Title: Developing nanobodies as allosteric molecular chaperones of glucocerebrosidase function
doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-60134-4
Figure Lengend Snippet: A Nb10 and Nb16 are able to significantly improve in vitro N370S GCase enzymatic activity. Isofagomine (IFG) was used as a negative control ( n = 6 replicates in three independent experiments, data represented as mean ± SEM, statistical analysis was performed using an Ordinary One Way Anova multiple comparison test); B GCase activity assay in gut lysates from h N370S GBA1 −/− mice incubated with Nb1, Nb4, Nb9, Nb10, and Nb16 showed that Nb10 and Nb16 are able to significantly improve in vitro N370S GCase enzymatic activity. ( n = 4 tissue per genotype, each tested in 3 independent experiments in 3 technical replicates, data represented as histograms showing the average value for the technical replicates for each experiment in each biological sample, statistical analysis was performed using an Ordinary One Way Anova multiple comparison test, DF Nbs = 5, DF residual = 55, F value = 4.926). C Co-expression of the N370S GCase mutant and the ER-Nb4 and ER-Nb9 in GBA1 KD cells induced an increase in the lysosomal N370S GCase activity of about 60–70%, as compared to ER-Mock transfected cells, while no effects were observed for ER-Nb1 and ER-Nb16 ( n = 8 for ER-Mock, n = 4 for ER-Nb1, Nb4, Nb9, n = 5 for ER-Nb16 replicates in three independent experiments, data represented as violin plots, an Ordinary One Way Anova test with multiple comparisons, after Shapiro–Wilk Normality test was used for the statistical analysis Df Nbs = 4, Df Residual 24, F = 14.96). D Co-expression of N370S GCase mutant and the lysosomal-targeted Nb16 in GBA1 KD cells significantly increased the lysosomal N370S GCase activity, as compared to lysosomes-Mock transfected cells, while Nb1, Nb4, and Nb9 did not affect lysosomal N370S GCase activity when targeted to the lysosome ( n = 11 for lyso-Mock, n = 4 for lyso-Nb1, Nb4, Nb9, n = 5 for lyso Nb16 replicates in three independent experiments, data represented as violin plots, a Kruskal–Wallis test with multiple comparisons, after Shapiro–Wilk Normality test was used for the statistical analysis). Source data are deposited as Source Data files on Zenodo. GCase glucocerebrosidase, Nb nanobody, PFB-FDGlu 5-(Pentafluorobenzoylamino)Fluorescein Di-β-D-Glucopyranoside.
Article Snippet: Gba1 −/− h N370S mice were purchased from the Jackson Laboratories ( https://www.jax.org/strain/032791 ).
Techniques: In Vitro, Activity Assay, Negative Control, Comparison, Incubation, Expressing, Mutagenesis, Transfection