Journal: FEBS Open Bio
Article Title: Characterization of WAC interactions with R2TP and TTT chaperone complexes linking glucose and glutamine availability to mTORC1 activity
doi: 10.1002/2211-5463.70085
Figure Lengend Snippet: Analysis of gene and protein levels for WAC, mTORC1, R2TP, and TTT across cancer types. Gene (A) and protein (B) levels of the subunits of the mTOR‐WAC‐RUVBL1‐RUVBL2‐TTT complex in 10 cancer types with CPTAC tumor samples from LinkedOmics. Z‐scores are shown to represent normalized expression levels, with red indicating relatively high expression and blue indicating relatively low expression. The number of cancer types showing a positive correlation in gene (C) and protein (D) levels between subunits of the mTOR‐WAC‐RUVBL1‐RUVBL2‐TTT complex across 10 cancer types. The number within each box indicates the number of cancer types with a positive correlation out of the 10 tested. A positive correlation is defined as a Pearson correlation coefficient > 0.2 with a P ‐value < 0.01. (E) Distribution of WAC protein expression in tumor samples versus matched normal samples across cancer types (where normal samples are available). Statistically significant differences between tumor and normal conditions were assessed using the two‐sided Wilcoxon rank sum test. Units in the Y axis correspond to protein expression levels in LinkedOmics, provided as log₂‐transformed MS1 intensities, which represent relative protein abundances measured via mass spectrometry and normalized for comparative analyses. (F) Differences in protein levels of the components of the WAC‐RUVBL1‐RUVBL2‐TTT complex between tumor and adjacent normal tissue (NAT) across cancer types. Red indicates higher expression in tumors compared to normal samples, while blue indicates higher expression in normal samples compared to tumors. Statistically significant differences were assessed using the two‐sided Wilcoxon rank sum test. The meta P ‐value represents pan‐cancer significance when all samples are analyzed together using the two‐sided Wilcoxon rank sum test. * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001. BRCA, breast invasive carcinoma; CCRCC, clear cell renal cell carcinoma; COAD, colon adenocarcinoma; GBM, glioblastoma; HNSCC, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma; LSCC, lung squamous cell carcinoma; LUAD, lung adenocarcinoma; OV, ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma; PDAC, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; UCEC, uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma.
Article Snippet: Primary antibodies used in western blotting with dilutions were as follows: monoclonal Anti‐FLAG M2 antibody (Sigma‐Aldrich, F1804, 1 : 2000), HA (Abcam #1091591; 1 : 1000), mLST8_GBL 86B8 (Cell Signaling #3274; 1 : 1000), mTOR (7C10, Cell signaling #2972; 1 : 1000), RagA/B D8B5 (Cell Signaling #4357; 1 : 1000), RAPTOR (24C12) (Cell signaling, #2280; 1 : 1000), S6 ribosomal protein (Cell Signaling #2217; 1 : 1000), p‐S6 ribosomal protein (Ser240/244) (Cell Signaling #2215; 1 : 1000), TELO2 (15975‐1‐AP, Proteintech, Rosemont, IL, USA; 1 : 1000), TTI1 (A303‐451A, Bionova Scientific; 1 : 1000), TTI2 (A303‐476A, Bionova Scientific, Fremont, CA, USA; 1 : 500), RPAP3 (Invitrogen #PA5‐58335; 1 : 500), RUVBL1 (Cell signaling #12300; 1 : 500), RUVBL2 (Cell signaling #8959; 1 : 500), PIH1D1 (Invitrogen PA5‐61482, 1 : 500).
Techniques: Expressing, Transformation Assay, Mass Spectrometry