Journal: PLoS ONE
Article Title: Role of SNX16 in the Dynamics of Tubulo-Cisternal Membrane Domains of Late Endosomes
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021771
Figure Lengend Snippet: A–B ) HeLa cells transfected with Venus-SNX16 were labeled with antibodies against LAMP1 and LBPA (A) or LAMP1 and CD63 (B), and analyzed by confocal microscopy. The distribution of Venus-SNX16 under low expression conditions, LAMP1, and LBPA (A) or Venus-SNX16, LAMP1, and CD63 (B) was quantified after 3D image reconstruction using Imaris software (error bars indicate STDEVA). The data are expressed as the percentage of LAMP1, which co-distributes with the indicated marker. C–D ) Untransfected BHK cells were homogenized and a post-nuclear supernatant (PNS) was prepared. The PNS was fractionated by floatation using a well-established step sucrose gradient . Early (EE) and late (LE) endosome fractions were collected and analyzed by SDS gel electrophoresis and western blotting with antibodies against LAMP1, SNX16 or RAB5, or by ELISA with antibodies against LBPA. In (C), the gels were loaded with equal amounts of protein (2.5 µg), as were the wells in the ELISA analysis (5 µg), to visualize enrichment of the corresponding markers in the fractions. RFU: relative fluorescence units. In (D), the gels were loaded with equal volume (1/3 of the total fraction) to visualize the yields of the corresponding markers in the fractions. In the LBPA analysis, yields were calculated from the quantification of the ELISA data (total RFU).
Article Snippet: We also used mouse monoclonal antibodies against transferrin receptor (Zymed Laboratories, South San Francisco, CA), rabbit polyclonal anti-EEA1 (Enzo Life Sciences, Plymouth Meeting, PA), mouse monoclonal anti-EEA1 (BD Biosciences, Franklin Lakes, NJ), mouse monoclonal anti-human LAMP1 (CD107a; BD Biosciences) and rabbit polyclonal anti-human LAMP1 (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA).
Techniques: Transfection, Labeling, Confocal Microscopy, Expressing, Software, Marker, SDS-Gel, Electrophoresis, Western Blot, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay, Fluorescence