Journal: Small GTPases
Article Title: Rab22a regulates the establishment of epithelial polarity
doi: 10.1080/21541248.2020.1754104
Figure Lengend Snippet: Knockdown of Rab22a results in multi-lumen formation and overexpression of Rab22a rescues Rab14 knockout. (a) MDCK Rab22a shRNA cells were embedded in Matrigel on a chamber slide and fixed after 48 hours. Podocalyxin (PDCX, red) was labelled to identify the forming apical domains. DAPI labels the nucleus (blue). Knockdown of Rab22a results in the formation of multiple lumens. Scale bar, 10 μm (b) Quantification of single lumen formation. The average percent of cysts with single lumen was recorded for shRNA control (n = 1050) and Rab22 knockdown (n = 817) cysts, across three independent repetitions with four replicates per plating. Rescue of single lumen with Rab22a shRNA resistant plasmid in cysts. MDCK cells that were transduced with Rab22a shRNA were transfected with Rab22a plasmid that was engineered to be resistant to the shRNA. Single cells were embedded in Matrigel and grown for 24 hours and the formation of single lumen cysts was quantified. The average percent of cysts with single lumen was recorded for shRNA control (n = 513), Rab22a knockdown (n = 606) and Rab22a shRNA with resistant plasmid (n = 190) cysts, across two independent repetitions with four replicates per plating. Expression of the Rab22a shRNA resistant plasmid rescues single lumen formation. (c) Rescue of single lumen formation in Rab14 KD cells. Rab14 KD cells were transfected with Rab22a-WT-GFP and Rab22a-Q67 L-GRP and single lumen formation was quantified. The average percent of cysts with single lumen was recorded for shRNA control (n = 304), Rab14 shRNA (n = 483), Rab14 shRNA with Rab22a-WT-GFP (n = 125), and Rab14 shRNA with Rab22a-Q64 L-GFP (n = 149) cysts across two independent repetitions with four replicates per plating
Article Snippet: The following primary antibodies were used: mouse anti-podocalyxin was a gift from Dr. Karl Matlin (University of Chicago), rabbit anti-Rab22a (Abcam, EPR9486), rabbit anti-Rab14 (Sigma, R0656-200UL), mouse anti-Rab5 (BD Biosciences, 610,725), rabbit anti-Rab6 (Cell Signalling Technology, 9625), rabbit anti-Rab7 (Cell Signalling Technologies, 9367), rabbit anti-Rab11 (Cell Signalling Technology, 5589).
Techniques: Over Expression, Knock-Out, shRNA, Plasmid Preparation, Transduction, Transfection, Expressing