Journal: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Article Title: BCAT1 Associates with DNA Repair Proteins KU70 and KU80 and Contributes to Regulate DNA Repair in T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (T-ALL)
doi: 10.3390/ijms252413571
Figure Lengend Snippet: BCAT1–depletion induces a dysfunctional DNA damage response following etoposide treatment. ( A ) Schematic representations of the plasmids encoding full-length (WT) and truncation mutants of XRCC6 (top). vWA: von Willebrand A domain; SAP: SAF-A/B, Acinus, and PIAS domain. HEK 293T cells stably expressing epitope-tagged BCAT1 were transfected with the indicated plasmid. Cell lysates were subjected to IP with anti-FLAG beads followed by immunoblot analysis with the indicated antibodies. The arrows indicate expected positions of the respective proteins, and asterisks (*) indicate non–specific bands. ( B ) Schematic representations of the plasmids encoding full-length (WT) and truncation mutants of BCAT1 (top). N: Branched–chain amino acid aminotransferase-like N-terminal domain; AT–IV: aminotransferase class IV domain; C: Branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase-like C–terminal domain. HEK 293T cells were transfected with HA–tagged XRCC6 and the indicated BCAT1 mutant plasmids. Cell lysates were subjected to IP with anti-HA beads followed by immunoblot analysis with the indicated antibodies. The arrows indicate expected positions of the respective proteins, and asterisks (*) indicate non-specific bands. ( C – E ) CCRF–CEM T-ALL cells transduced with shCTRL or sh BCAT1 were treated with 1 µM etoposide for the indicated time. Subsequently, whole cell lysates were collected and analyzed by immunoblotting for proteins implicated in ( C , D ) the activation of the DNA damage response (pDNA-PKcs, pATM, pCHK1, pCHK2, pTP53); ( E ) DNA damage (γH2AX) and apoptosis (cleaved PARP-1). Total DNA–PKcs and ATM are shown as loading controls ( C ). Total CHK2, total TP53, and GADPH are shown as loading controls ( D , E ). Phospho-protein/protein ratios are shown (top) in each panel. A graphical representation of the phospho-protein/protein ratios is also shown for selected proteins (right panels).
Article Snippet: Antibodies against tubulin (TU-02; sc-8035), c-myc (9E10; sc-40), and p53 (DO-1; sc-126) were from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Dallas, TX, USA); antibodies recognizing FLAG epitope (#14793), BCAT1 (#88785), KU-80 (#2180), KU-70 (#4588), phosphorylated H2AX (pS139; #9718), phosphorylated DNA-PKcs (pS2056; #68716), total DNA-PKcs (#12311), phosphorylated ATM (pS1981; #5883), total ATM (#2873), phosphorylated CHK1 (pS345; #2348), phosphorylated CHK2 (pT68; #2197), total CHK2 (#6334), phosphorylated TP53 (pS15; #12571), and GADPH (#5174) were from Cell Signaling Technology (Danvers, MA, USA).
Techniques: Stable Transfection, Expressing, Transfection, Plasmid Preparation, Western Blot, Mutagenesis, Transduction, Activation Assay