pegfp n1 rack1 plasmid (Addgene inc)
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Pegfp N1 Rack1 Plasmid, supplied by Addgene inc, used in various techniques. Bioz Stars score: 93/100, based on 10 PubMed citations. ZERO BIAS - scores, article reviews, protocol conditions and more
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1) Product Images from "Trans-kingdom coupling of redox signaling to environmental cell stress responses through multiphase partitioning"
Article Title: Trans-kingdom coupling of redox signaling to environmental cell stress responses through multiphase partitioning
Journal: bioRxiv
doi: 10.1101/2025.05.09.653213
Figure Legend Snippet: (A) Relative Expression of IL-8 in Caco2-BBE cells with and without Nox1 inhibitor in response to IL-1β. (B) Relative Expression of IL-8 in Caco2-BBE cells with and without Nox1 inhibitor in response to damage and pathogen associated molecules. (C) Relative Expression of IL-8 in NOX1 -/- and WT mouse colonoids in response to IL-1β. (D) Schematic showing the experimental outline for generation of colonoids and the redox-proteomics (E) Scatter plot showing the results of the proteomics screen with differentially oxidized cysteine residues of proteins in NOX1 -/- and WT organoids in the X and Y axis. The significantly altered candidates are highlighted in blue. (F) Scatter plot showing the redox-modified cysteine residues from the proteomics screen. Cysteines from GNB2L1 (RACK1) are highlighted in oranges. (G) Ribbon and space filling model of crystal structure of RACK1 showing the relative positions of the different cysteines. (H) H/L ratios of the individual cysteines of RACK1 in both WT and NOX1 -/- . (I) Conservation plot of RACK1 from lower eukaryotes to human. Values represent the conservation score from multiple sequence alignment. Data are presented as mean ± SEM. Statistical significance was determined using two-tailed unpaired Student’s t tests in (A) and (B); ns, not significant; *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001
Techniques Used: Expressing, Modification, Sequencing, Two Tailed Test
Figure Legend Snippet: (A) Biotin switch immunoprecipitation and immunoblot with anti-RACK1 showing increased proportion of oxidized RACK1 following IL-1β (10 ng/μL) in WT versus NOX1 knockout colonic epithelial cells. (B) NF-κB activity in HEK cells expressing scrambled vector (EV), or knockdown of RACK1 (siRNA) following IL-1β (10 ng/μL). ***p < 0.001
Techniques Used: Immunoprecipitation, Western Blot, Knock-Out, Activity Assay, Expressing, Plasmid Preparation, Knockdown
Figure Legend Snippet: (A) NF-κB activity in HEK cells stimulated with IL-1β (10 ng/μL) or with control stimulation with pretreatment with either media, NAC (5mM) or 1mM Rotenone (1mM). (B) NF-κB activity in HEK cells transfected with RACK1-WT, one of the cysteine mutants or empty vector (ev) stimulated with IL-1β (10 ng/ml) or with control. (C) NF-κB activity in HEK transfected with RACK1-WT, C286A mutant or empty vector (ev)with varying dose of IL-1β. (D) p65 immunofluorescence staining in empty vector, RACK1-WT or RACK1-C286A transfected HEK cells either with mock or IL-1β (10 ng/ml) stimulation for 30 minutes. Nuclei was stained using Hoescht stain. (F) Quantification of immunofluorescence image from (D). (G) Western blot graph showing relative p65 phosphorylation in HEK293T expressing either empty vector (ev) (H) Time series of co-immunoprecipitation of IKKα with overexpressed wtRACK1 in HEK293T following IL-1β (10 ng/μL) stimulation. (I) Co-immunoprecipitation of IKKα with RACK1 in HEK293T expressing empty vector (ev), wt or cysteine mutants RACK1 following IL-1β (10 ng/μL,1h) stimulation. (J) NF-κB activity in HEK cells expressing empty vector (ev), wt or cysteine mutants RACK1 stimulated with TNFα, LPS or unstimulated. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001
Techniques Used: Activity Assay, Control, Transfection, Plasmid Preparation, Mutagenesis, Immunofluorescence, Staining, Western Blot, Phospho-proteomics, Expressing, Immunoprecipitation
Figure Legend Snippet: (A) Representative fluorescence image showing RACK1 condensates in HCT-8 cells expressing RACK1-GFP and stimulated with IL-1β (10 ng/μL) or with 17-AAG (10 µM) but not in untreated cells. (B) Representative fluorescence image showing time course of RACK1 condensate formation in HCT-8 cells expressing RACK1-GFP stimulated with IL-1β (10 ng/μL). (C) Fluorescence recovery after after photobleaching (FRAP) time course of RACK1-GFP condensates after IL-1β (10 ng/μL) stimulation(orange) and unstimulated cytosolic RACK1-GFP(black). The solid line represents the mean and the dash line represents the error bounds defined by the standard deviation. (D) Representative fluorescence image showing colocalization of RACK1-GFP and INAVA-mcherry in HCT-8 cells upon stimulation with IL-1β (10 ng/μL) or with 17-AAG (10 µM). (E) Pearson correlation of coefficient to quantify colocalization between RACK1-GFP and INAVA-mcherry in HCT-8 cells upon stimulation with IL-1β (10 ng/μL) or with 17-AAG (10 µM). (F) Representative Co-immunoprecipitation blots showing interaction between RACK1 and GFP at two different timepoints in unstimulated or when stimulated with IL-1β (10 ng/μL) or with 17-AAG (10 µM) (G) Quantification of (F). (H) Representative fluorescence image of Caco-2 cells, untreated or stimulated with IL-1β (10 ng/μL) and/or Nox1 inhibitor for 1 hour and stained with DCP-Rho1(10 μM). (K) Representative ratiometric fluorescence image of HCT-8 cells overexpressing RACK1-mcherry. The intensity is the ratio of fluorescence signals excited by 488 nm and 405 nm lasers. (L) Quantification of intensity ratio described in (K) as a function of time. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001
Techniques Used: Fluorescence, Expressing, Standard Deviation, Immunoprecipitation, Staining
Figure Legend Snippet: (A) PDB structure of RACK1 almost no unstructured regions (B) PDB structure of INAVA as predicted by Alphafold showing large regions of highly unstructured regions and low -residue model confidence score. (C) Predicted Disorder score of RACK1 with and without changes in redox state of amino acids in protein.( , ) (D) Predicted Disorder score of INAVA with and without changes in redox state of amino acids in protein. Representative immunofluorescence image of HCT-8 overexpressing wt RACK1-mcherry and stained with G3BP and stimulated with 17AAG (10 µM) (E) and (F) IL-1β (10 ng/μL). (G) Pearson correlation coefficient showing colocalization of G3BP and Rack1. (E) shows a representative example with a cell with high colocalization and (F) represents a cell with low colocalization.
Techniques Used: Residue, Immunofluorescence, Staining
Figure Legend Snippet: (A) Evolutionary distance of different eukaryotic RACK1 (B) Sequence alignment of 7WD domains of human RACK1. (C) RACK1 homologs across diverse kingdoms as a sunburst plot. (D) Sequence alignment of different bacterial homologs (E) WD7 sequence alignment between human and Entamoeba histolytica RACK1 showing conserved cysteine.
Techniques Used: Sequencing
Figure Legend Snippet: (A) Multiple Sequence alignment of amino acids proximal to cysteine 286 in eukaryotes. (B) Representative immunofluorescence image of fission yeast cells expressing Flag-cpc2 and treated with either 10% ethanol or media control for 10 minutes. (C) Quantification of number of puncta per cell in control and ethanol treated yeast. (D) Multiple sequence alignment of the amino acids proximal to cysteine 286 in human RACK1 against bacterial homologs. (E) Representative ratiometric fluorescence image of E. coli expressing bacterial analog of RACK1 tagged to Hyper3. (F) Quantification of intensity ratio of E. coli expressing bacterial analog of RACK1 tagged to Hyper3 when treated with either 10% ethanol or media control. (G) Representative fluorescence image of E. coli expressing human RACK1 protein tagged with GFP treated with either 10% ethanol or media control for 10 minutes. (H) Quantification of normalized coefficient of variance in GFP signal as a measure of heterogeneity of RACK1 signal in the cytosol. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001
Techniques Used: Sequencing, Immunofluorescence, Expressing, Control, Fluorescence
Figure Legend Snippet: (A) String network analysis of redox-proteomics screen colored by manually selected subset of significant functional module. (B) Representative flow cytometry data showing intensity of puromycin incorporation in HCT-8 cells expressing either Rack-1 WT mCherry (top) or Rack-1 Call mCherry (bottom) treated with 17-AAG (10 µM, 10 minutes, orange curve) or untreated (blue). (C) Puromycin incorporation in HCT-8 cells expressing either Rack-1 WT mCherry or Rack-1 Call mCherry treated with 17-AAG (10 µM, 10 minutes) normalized to untreated. (D) NF-κB activity in HEK cells overexpressing empty vector, RACK1-WT or RACK1-C all stimulated with LPS (10 mg/ml). (E) Representative fluorescence image showing IRF3 translocation in HEK cells overexpressing empty vector, RACK1-WT or RACK1-Call stimulated with poly I:C (10µg/ml) (F) IP10 production following infection of HEK293T cells overexpressing empty vector, RACK1-WT, RACK1-C286A or RACK1-Call mutant with SeV (MOI = 1, 1h) (G) Representative ratiometric fluorescence image of Human duodenal organoids transfected with Rack1-Hyper3 and exposed to E. coli strains—pathogenic EPEC O127:H6, non-pathogenic, or uninfected. Quantification of number of puncta formed (H) and Mean Puncta Intensity (I) per transfected organoid. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001
Techniques Used: Functional Assay, Flow Cytometry, Expressing, Activity Assay, Plasmid Preparation, Fluorescence, Translocation Assay, Infection, Mutagenesis, Transfection
