Journal: Nature Communications
Article Title: Vps11 and Vps18 of Vps-C membrane traffic complexes are E3 ubiquitin ligases and fine-tune signalling
doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09800-y
Figure Lengend Snippet: Regulation of ERα activity by Vps11/18 is independent of intracellular trafficking pathways. a ERα reporter gene assays with HEK293T cells overexpressing Vps11/18 in combination with wild-type (Wt) or K44A mutant (Mut) dynamin II (mean ± s.e.m. with n = 3 biologically independent experiments). b Assays as in a but with knock-downs with the indicated shRNA constructs (mean ± s.e.m. with n = 3 biologically independent experiments). c Transferrin uptake assays in HEK293T cells overexpressing Vps11/18 along with cyan fluorescent protein (CFP). Scale bar indicates 20 µm. d Transferrin uptake assays with immunostaining of EEA1 or LAMP1 in HEK293T cells overexpressing Vps11/18 and blue fluorescent protein (BFP). Scale bar indicates 20 µm. e Assays as in a with knock-downs of HRS or TSG101 (mean ± s.e.m. with n = 3 biologically independent experiments). f – i Assays as in a under the following conditions: treatments to inhibit (Wortmannin, 3-methyladenine (3-MA)) or to stimulate (serum starvation, rapamycin) autophagy ( f and g , respectively); knock-down of SQSTM1 ( h ); treatment with the EGFR inhibitor AG1478 ( i ) (mean ± s.e.m. with n ≥ 3 biologically independent experiments). j , k Immunoblots displaying PKA substrates and protein levels with or without FI ( j ) or phospho-ERK1/2 and ERK1/2 protein levels with or without FBS ( k ) in HEK293T cells overexpressing Vps11/18; FI, cocktail of forskolin and isobutylmethylxanthine to increase intracellular cAMP levels; FBS, fetal bovine serum. l Assays as in a with overexpression of the transcriptional coactivators SRC1 or CARM1 (mean ± s.e.m. with n = 3 biologically independent experiments). Asterisks indicate significant differences with the corresponding negative controls with p -values < 0.05. Statistical significance was determined with unpaired and two-sided Student’s t -tests. Source data are provided as a Source Data file
Article Snippet: The rabbit polyclonal antisera against ERα (HC-20, sc-543, discontinued) and p-ERα (Ser118, sc-12915-R, discontinued), the mouse monoclonal antibodies against ERK1/2 (C-9, sc-514302), p-ERK (E-4, sc-7383), Vps11 (S-38, sc-100893) and SUMO-2/3/4 (C-3, sc-393144), and the goat polyclonal anti-Vps16 (C-17, sc-86939, discontinued) were from Santa Cruz Biotechnologies (all diluted 1/200 for immunoblots); the rabbit polyclonal antisera against PELP1/MNAR (A300-180A) and BCAR/p130Cas (A301-667A) were from Bethyl Laboratories (all diluted 1/500 for immunoblots); the mouse monoclonal anti-GAPDH (6C5, ab8245) was from Abcam (diluted 1/30,000 for immunoblots); the mouse monoclonal anti-HA.11 (16B12, MMS-101P) was from Biolegend (for immunoprecipitations, 2 µg of antibody was used for 2 mg of proteins); the rabbit polyclonal antisera against Vps33A (PA545268), p-ERα (Ser167, PA537570) and p-ERα (Tyr537, PA537571), the mouse monoclonal antibody against Vps18 (4E9, MA522391) were from Thermo Fisher Scientific (all diluted 1/500 for immunoblots; for immunoprecipitations, 2 µg of anti-Vps18 antibody were used for 2 mg of proteins); the rabbit polyclonal antiserum against PKA substrates (P-(S/T), 9621), the rabbit monoclonal antibody against phospho-Src (Tyr416) (D49G4, 6943) (both diluted 1/500 for immunoblots), and the PTMScan Ubiquitin Remnant Motif (K-ε-GG) reagents were from Cell Signaling Technology; the rabbit polyclonal antiserum against PKA (06–903) was from Upstate (diluted 1/500 for immunoblots); the mouse monoclonal antibody against c-Src (GD11, 05–184) was from Millipore (diluted 1/500 for immunoblots); the rabbit polyclonal antiserum against SUMO-1 was from Alexis Biochemicals (BML-PW0505A, diluted 1/500 for immunoblots); the rabbit polyclonal antibody against human EEA1 (ALX-210–239) was from Enzo (diluted 1/100 for immunofluorescence), and the mouse monoclonal antibody against human LAMP1 (H4A3) was from BD PharMingen (diluted 1/100 for immunofluorescence).17β-estradiol (used at 100 nM), dexamethasone (used at 100 nM), progesterone (used at 100 nM), phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) (used at 1 µg/ml), cobalt (II) chloride (used at 100 µM), wortmannin (used at 1 µM), 3-methyladenine (used at 5 mM), rapamycin (used at 1 µM), forskolin (used at 10 µM), isobutylmethylxanthine (used at 100 µM), chloroquine (used at 50 µM), brefeldin A (used at 5 µg/ml) and AG1478 (used at 10 µM) were from Sigma-Aldrich; MG132 (used at 5 µM) was from Enzo Life Sciences.
Techniques: Activity Assay, Mutagenesis, shRNA, Construct, Immunostaining, Western Blot, Over Expression