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Figure 2C Co-IP with HEK293T cells co-transfected with plasmids encoding Hwa-Flag and ZNRF3-HA or ZNRF3ΔRING. Lysates immunoprecipitated with anti-Flag were immunoblotted with HA and Flag antibodies. Blots are representative of 3 independent experiments. D Co-IP with HEK293T cells co-transfected with plasmids encoding Hwa-Flag and ZNRF3-HA or ZNRF3ΔRING. Lysates immunoprecipitated with anti-HA were immunoblotted with Flag and HA antibodies. Blots are representative of 3 independent experiments. E Colocalization of Hwa-Flag (red) and ZNRF3-HA (green) or ZNRF3ΔRING-HA (green) in Hela cells is indicated by yellow dots. Baf-A1, 50 nM, 12 hrs. Magnification: 100 ×; scale bar: 10 μm.
Figure 3B Whole mount in situ hybridization of Spemann organizer markers chrd, gsc, and xnr3 in gastrula embryos (stage 10.5). Oocytes were injected with AS or mRNAs as indicated, Dosage: znrf3 AS (3 ng AS4 + 3 ng AS9), znrf3 mRNA 100 pg, znrf3ΔRING mRNA 50 pg. embryos were obtained through Host transfer technology. Scale bars: 1 mm.E Relative levels of β-catenin (left) and Axin (right) in (D) normalized to GAPDH. n = 3 independent experiments, mean ± SEM, *p < 0.05, ***p < 0.005, ****p < 0.0001 by unpaired t test.H Whole mount in situ hybridization of Spemann organizer markers chrd and gsc in gastrula embryos (stage 10.5). Embryos were injected and obtained as descripted in (G). Scale bars: 1 mm.I Representative phenotypes of tailbud stage Xenopus leavis embryos injected with 500 pg mRNAs of ctrl (gfp mRNA), znrf3FL, and znrf3 truncations as indicated at 4-cell stage. Duplicated axes (red arrowhead). znrf3FL, full-length znrf3; znrf3ΔRING, znrf3 lacking the RING domain; znrf31-320, amino acids 1-320 of znrf3; znrf3320-606, amino acids 320-606 of znrf3; znrf3606-854, amino acids 606-854 of znrf3. Scale bars: 1 mm.
Figure 4B Hwa ubiquitination was analyzed under denaturing conditions. HEK293T cells co-transfected with wildtype His-HA-Ubiquitin (His-HA-Ub WT) or lysine-less mutant (K0), Hwa-Flag, and ZNRF3-Myc. The lysates were immunoblotted with Myc, Flag, and α-tub (α-tubulin). Lysates immunoprecipitated with anti-Flag were immunoblotted with HA and Flag antibodies. K0, all lysine sites on ubiquitin were mutated. Blots are representative of 3 independent experiments.D Screen of ZNRF3-mediated Hwa ubiquitination sites under denaturing conditions. HEK293T cells were co-transfected with His-HA-Ub, Hwa-Flag or Hwa10KR-Flag, and ZNRF3 or ZNRF3ΔRING. The lysate was immunoblotted with Myc, Flag, and α-tub (α-tubulin). Lysates immunoprecipitated with anti-Flag were immunoblotted with HA and Flag antibodies. Hwa10KR-Flag mutant, all lysine sites in Hwa sequence were replaced with arginine. Denaturing conditions: before immunoprecipitation, lysates were denatured by adding SDS to a final concentration at 1% and boiling at 95℃ for 15 min. Blots are representative of 3 independent experiments.
Figure 5A Western blot analysis of Hwa in HEK293T cells co-transfected with Hwa-Flag, and ZNRF3-HA (5 μg) or ZNRF3ΔRING (2.5 μg). Lysate was immunoblotted with Flag, HA, and GAPDH antibodies. Blots are representative of 3 independent experiments. B Densitometry analysis of Hwa bands from the western blot in (A) for corresponding lanes normalized to GAPDH. n = 3 independent experiments, mean ± SEM, ns p > 0.05, **p < 0.01 by unpaired t test. C Western blot analysis of Hwa in HEK293T cells co-transfected with Hwa-Flag and ZNRF3-HA. Cells were treated with or without Baf-A1 (50 nM) or MG132 (20 μM) for about 12 hours. Lysates were immunoblotted with Flag, HA, and α-tub (α-tubulin) antibodies. Blots are representative of 3 independent experiments. D Densitometry analysis of Hwa bands from the western blot in (C) for corresponding lanes normalized to α-tubulin. n = 3 independent experiments, mean ± SEM, ns p > 0.05, **p < 0.01, ****p < 0.0001 by unpaired t test. F Colocalization by immunofluorescence of Hwa (green signals) with lysosome (LAMP1, red signals) in Hela cells. Cells were co-transfected with Hwa-Flag, and ZNRF3-HA or ZNRF3ΔRING-HA. Magnification, 100 ×; scale bars: 10 μm.I Surface biotinylation and streptavidin pulldown of Hwa-Myc-Flag. HEK293T cells were co-transfected with Hwa-MF (Hwa-Myc-Flag), and ZNRF3-Myc or ZNRF3ΔRING-Myc. Lysate was immunoblotted with Myc, Flag, and GAPDH antibodies. Lysates immunoprecipitated with anti-Flag (2nd elution) were immunoblotted with Flag and HA antibodies.
Figure 6C Whole mount in situ hybridization of Spemann organizer markers chrd and gsc in gastrula embryos. Embryos were obtained as descripted in (B). Scale bars: 1mm.E Western blot analysis of Hwa or Hwa10KR in embryos at blastula stage. 1-cell stage embryos were co-injected with hwa (100 pg) or hwa10KR (100 pg) and znrf3 (1 ng) or znrf3ΔRING (100 pg) as indicated. Lysates were immunoblotted with HA, Flag, and α-tub (α-tubulin).
f1(a) Nuclear localization of HLH-30 was visualized by fluorescence microscopy in day 1 adult wild-type (WT) (upper panel) and glp-1(e2141) (lower panel) animals expressing HLH-30::GFP raised at the non-permissive temperature (25°C). Inserts show enlarged intestinal cells. Graph shows percentage of animals with HLH-30 in the nuclei of intestinal cells (four biological replicates, ~50 animals each, mean±s.d., **P0.01, Student's t-test). Magnification × 100; scale bar, 100 μm.(b) Expression of hlh-30 and putative autophagy-related and lysosomal target genes was measured by quantitative PCR (qPCR) in day 1 adult WT and glp-1(e2141) animals raised at 25°C (mean±s.d. of three biological replicates, *P0.05, **P0.01, Student's t-test).(c) Expression of hlh-30 and putative autophagy-related and lysosomal target genes was measured by qPCR in day 1 adult glp-1(e2141) and glp-1(e2141); hlh-30(tm1978) animals raised at 25°C (mean±s.d. of three biological replicates, *P0.05, **P0.01, Student's t-test). ctsa* is a cathepsin A orthologue (cosmid C08H9.1 (ref. 30)). See Supplementary Fig. 1 for qPCR analyses of hlh-30(tm1978) (control for c) and WT and glp-1(e2141) animals fed bacteria expressing hlh-30 dsRNA.(d,e) GFP::LGG-1 punctae were quantified in (d) hypodermal seam cells or (e) proximal intestinal cells of L3 larvae of WT and glp-1(e2141) animals. Animals were fed bacteria expressing control or hlh-30 dsRNA for two generations at 20 °C. Eggs were then transferred to plates seeded with the appropriate dsRNA-expressing bacteria at 25 °C and analysed at the L3 larval stage (mean±s.e.m. of ~300 seam cells and ~25 intestines, **P0.01, Student's t-test).(f,g) glp-1(e2141) animals expressing (f) LMP-1::GFP or (g) SQST-1::GFP were raised at the non-permissive temperature (25°C) and fed bacteria expressing control or hlh-30 dsRNA from hatching. Micrographs of the posterior intestine were taken on day 1 of adulthood, and LMP-1::GFP fluorescence (mean±s.d. of ~10 animals, **P0.01, Student's t-test) and SQST-1::GFP foci (mean±s.d. of ~30 animals, **P0.01, Student's t-test) were quantified. Experiments were performed at least three times with similar results. See Supplementary Fig. S2a,c for images of whole animals and Supplementary Fig. S2b,d for replicates. Magnification, × 200; scale bar, 100 μm.
f2(a) Nuclear localization of HLH-30 was quantified in day 1 adult animals expressing HLH-30::GFP. Animals were fed bacteria expressing control or tor dsRNA from hatching and raised at 20 °C (three biological replicates, ~50 animals each, mean±s.d., **P0.01, Student's t-test).b,c) Expression of putative autophagy-related and lysosomal target genes was measured by quantitative PCR in day 1 (b) WT (N2) and (c) hlh-30(tm1978) animals fed bacteria expressing control or tor dsRNA from hatching (20 °C). Data are mean±s.d. of biological triplicates. *P0.05, **P0.01; Student's t-test. csta* is a cathepsin A orthologue (cosmid C08H9.1 (ref. 30)).(d) Lifespan analysis of WT animals and hlh-30(tm1978) mutants fed bacteria expressing control or tor dsRNA from day 1 of adulthood was carried out at 20 °C. See Supplementary Table S3 for details of lifespan analyses and replicate experiments.
f3Lifespan analyses of (a) WT (N2) and (b) germline-less glp-1(e2141) animals raised at the non-permissive temperature (25 °C) and fed bacteria expressing control or hlh-30 dsRNA from day 1 of adulthood were carried out at 20 °C. Lifespan analyses of (c) dietary-restricted eat-2(ad1116) mutants, (d) insulin/IGF-1 receptor daf-2(e1370) mutants, (e) mitochondrial respiration clk-1(e2519) mutants and (f) mRNA translation rsks-1(sv31) mutants, fed bacteria expressing control or hlh-30 dsRNA from day 1 of adulthood (c,d,f) or larval L4 stage (e), were carried out at 20 °C. See Supplementary Table S2 for details of lifespan analyses including at least three independent experiments.
f4(a) Nuclear localization of HLH-30 was quantified in day 1 adult WT, eat-2, daf-2, clk-1 and rsks-1 mutants (mean±s.d. of four biological replicates, ~50 animals each, **P0.01, analysis of variance).(b) Expression of hlh-30 was measured by quantitative PCR (qPCR) in day 1 adult WT (N2), eat-2(ad1116) (dietary restriction, DR), daf-2(e1370) (insulin/IGF-1 signaling), clk-1(e2519) (mitochondrial respiration) and rsks-1(sv31) (mRNA translation) animals (mean±s.d. of three biological replicates, *P0.05, Student's t-test).(c) Lifespan analysis of WT and transgenic animals overexpressing HLH-30::GFP, and raised and maintained on OP50 was carried out at 20 °C. See Supplementary Table S7 for details of lifespan analyses and replicate experiments.(d) GFP::LGG-1 punctae were quantified in hypodermal seam cells of WT animals or animals overexpressing HLH-30 (n>300, ±s.e.m., **P0.01, Student's t-test). The increase in GFP::LGG-1 punctae observed in animals overexpressing HLH-30 could be reversed by atg-18 RNAi treatment (data not shown).(e) TFEB expression was measured by qPCR in the livers of 4.5-month-old female (F) and male (M) mice fed AL or subjected to DR for 5.5 weeks starting at 3 months of age (mean±s.e.m. of ~20 mice per group, *P0.05, Student's t-test).(f) TFEB protein was detected by western blotting of nuclear fractions from the livers of five female and five male mice fed AL or subjected to DR. Actin was included as a loading control, see Supplementary Fig. S8 for additional controls. (g) TFEB protein levels in Fig. 4f were quantified by densitometry and normalized to actin (mean±s.d., *P0.05, Student's t-test).
Figure 1J, Ridge graph comparisons of cyclin expression across the U5-hNSC defined cell cycle phases. The x-axis is relative expression of the cyclin, and the y-axis is counts of cells per phase. The cell cycle phase with the peak expression is denoted by an arrowhead at the top of the plot.
Figure 4C, Number of putative stem-like cells in each ccAF cell cycle phase, and distribution of absolute gene expression across ccAF cell cycle phases for the genes used to identify putative stem-like cells in Bhaduri et al., 2020.D, Putative stem-like cells and expression of the genes used to identify the putative stem-like cells projected onto Neftel et al., 2019. Expression of genes are overlaid as the color of each cell (white = 0, dark blue = max expression). Quadrants are broken up by dashed grey lines: OPC = upper left; NPC = upper right; AC = lower left; and MES = lower right. Percentages of gene expression greater than 0 are shown in the corners of the plot.
Figure 5C, Violin plot showing PLP1 expression across all cell types from Darmanis et al., 2017. Data are log 10-transformed before plotting. Expression of PLP1 in single cells is much higher in oligodendrocytes (Oligo) than in Neural G0 or oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPC). D, Violin plot showing GFAP expression across all cell types from Darmanis et al., 2017. Data are log 10-transformed before plotting. Expression of GFAP in single cells is more highly expressed in Neural G0 relative to all other cell types. E, Violin plot showing AQP4 expression across all cell types from Darmanis et al., 2017. Data are log 10-transformed before plotting. Neural G0 expression of AQP4 in single cells is similar to astrocytes but has a lower median expression and lower upper limit.
Figure 6B, Representative contour maps of flow cytometry for FUCCI following the loss of NF2, PTPN14, TAOK1, CREBBP, and TP53.D, G0/G1 and S/G2/M transit times using time-lapse microscopy and FUCCI. Differences in G0/G1 are statistically significant with p<0.001 for targeted U5-NSCs and p=0.0006 for GSC-131 compared to NTC.
Figure 1A) Ten-fold serial dilutions from overnight cultures of wild-type and cdc14-1 cells dropped and grown on solid rich media or media containing MMS at 25, 28, 30 or 33ºC. Note that cdc14-1 cells exhibit growth sensitivity to MMS at 28ºC and 30ºC compared to wild-type cells.B) Ten-fold serial dilution from mid-log phase cultures of wild-type and cdc14-1 cells grown on solid rich media or media containing mock DMSO (as non-treated control), 4NQO, HU, phleomycin and benomyl at 30ºC. Note that cdc14-1 cells present a market sensitivity to all DNA damaged agents tested.C) Left panel: Schematic representation showing relevant genomic structure of the strain used to assess intra-chromosomal repair. The location of a MAT specific probe and the restriction endonuclease cleavage sites used for Southern blot analysis to detect repair product formation are indicated. Arrow depicts the localization of the double-strand break. Right panel: Physical analysis of intra-chromosomal repair in wild-type and cdc14-1 cultures at the semipermisive temperature. After DSB formation by the expression of the HO, glucose was added to repress it, thus allowing repair with HM donor sequences. Genomic DNA was digested with StyI, separated on agarose gel and blotted. Blots were hybridized with a probe corresponding to the MATa-distal sequence. A second probe for the actin gene was used to control the amount of genomic DNA loaded at each time-point. Immunoblot analysis of Rad53 during mating type switching experiments is shown. Coomassie blue staining is depicted as loading control. Graphs show quantification of gene conversion (GC) leading to the re-establishment of MATa or switching to MAT and DSB formation. The data was normalized with the actin loading control. Graphs show the mean ± S.D. from three independent experiments. Replicates were averaged and statistical significance of differences assessed by a 2-tailed unpaired Student t test.
Figure 2A) Left panel: Schematic diagram displaying relevant genomic structure of the strains used to measure inter-chromosomal DNA repair efficiency. The location of a MAT specific probe and the restriction endonuclease cleavage sites used for Southern blot analysis to detect repair product formation are indicated. Note that crossover and non-crossover product have different restriction fragment sizes that can be differentiated in a Southern blot assay. Arrow depicts the localization of the double-strand break. Right panel: Physical analysis of wild-type and cdc14-1 mutant strains carrying the inter-chromosomal gene conversion assay. Cells were grown overnight before adding galactose at semipermisive temperature to induce HO expression, thus producing a DSB on chromosome V. Samples were taken at different time-points, genomic DNA was extracted, digested with EcoRI and analysed by Southern blot. Blots were hybridized with a MATa-only DNA sequence and an actin probe was used as loading control. Asterisk denotes an overexposed film to visualize crossover formation. Immunoblot of Rad53 was performed as previously described. Coomassie staining is shown as a control for loading. Graphs show the mean ± S.D. of gene conversion, DSB induction and crossover vs non-crossover ratio from three independent experiments. All data was normalized using actin as loading control. Replicates were averaged and statistical significance of differences assessed by a 2-tailed unpaired Student t test.B) Left panel: Schematic representation depicting the genomic structure of the strains used to evaluate repair pathway choice. The location of a MAT specific probe and the restriction endonuclease cleavage sites used for Southern blot analysis to detect repair product formation are indicated. Note that the use of NHEJ or HR generates different product that can be recognized in Southern blots by the different disposition of the restriction sites for the endonucleases used. Arrow depicts the localization of the double-strand break. Right panel: Physical analysis of wild-type and cdc14-1 cells harbouring the repair pathway choice assay. Cells were grown overnight and HO induction was attained through addition of galactose for 1.5 hour at semipermisive temperature. After induction of the HO, glucose was added to repress the HO expression and samples were taken to analyse repair efficiency. DNA was extracted, digested with EcoRV, separated on agarose gels and blotted. Blots were hybridized with a probe corresponding to the MATa-only DNA sequence. A second probe to the HIS3gene was used to control the amount of genomic DNA loaded at each time-point. Graphs show quantification of mating type switching by gene conversion (HR), restoration of MATa (NHEJ) and the kinetics of the DSB induction. All data was normalized with the HIS3 gene. Graphs show the mean ± S.D. from three independent experiments. Replicates were averaged and statistical significance of differences assessed by a 2-tailed unpaired Student t test.
Figure 4A) Diagram showing the genomic background and the approximation used to measure DSB-SPB interaction. Cnm67-RFP and Ddc2-GFP were used as SPB and DSB markers respectively. D1: inter-SPB distance; D2: DSB distance to proximal SPB; D3: DSB distance to distal SPB. Graph represents the mean ± SD of D1, D2 and D3 distances from three independent experiments. At least 100 cells per experiment were scored using the maximum projection of three z-planes. P values were calculated using a 2-tailed unpaired Student t test. A representative picture of a wild-type strain depicting DSB-SPB interaction is shown. Scale bar: 3μm.B) Time-lapse experiments in living cells showing the efficiency of DSB-SPB interaction upon induction of a single DSB. Cnm67-CFP and Ddc2-RFP were used as SPB and DSB markers respectively. D1, D2 and D3 distances in wild-type and cdc14-1 cells were tracked using the maximum projection of three z-planes images at 15-seconds intervals over period of 7.5 minutes. A total of 32 time-lapses for each strain were measured. A representative picture is shown. Examples of cells defective in DSB-SPB interaction are marked with arrows. Scale bar: 3μm.C) An RFP-marked I-SceI recognition site is re-localized to the SPBs after expressing the endonuclease. Cells harbouring a TetO array adjacent to the I-SceI site and a plasmid containing the endonuclease under the control of the galactose promoter were grown overnight in SC-Ade prior galactose induction. To check reproducibility with previous results a Rad52-CFP was used. Cnm67 was labelled with the GFP to be used as SPB reporter. D1, D2 and D3 distances were measured in wild-type and cdc14-1 mutants before and after endonuclease expression by using both TetI-RFP and Rad52-CFP foci using the maximum projection of nine z-planes images. Graphs represent the average of three independent experiments. P values were calculated using a 2-tailed unpaired Student t test. A representative picture of a wild-type strain depicting TetI-Rad52-SPB interaction is shown. Scale bar: 3μm.D) DSB-SPB tethering requires the N-terminus domain of Mps3. Cells expressing a wild-type Mps3, a mps3Δ2-64 and a mps3Δ75-150 fused to the RFP as the sole source of the protein were scored for their ability to enhance DSB-SPB tethering in both wild-type and cdc14-1 backgrounds. Ddc2-YFP was used as DSB reporter. Measurements were carried out using a maximum projection of nine z-planes images. Graphs represent the average distribution of D1, D2 and D3 of three independent experiments. At least 100 cells for each experiment were scored. P values were calculated using a 2-tailed unpaired Student t test.E) DSB-SPB interaction involves a proficient DNA damage checkpoint activation. D1, D2 and D3 distances were scored in wild-type, sml1Δ and sml1Δ rad53Δ backgrounds using Ddc2-GFP and Spc110-RFP as DSB and SPB markers respectively. Measurements were performed by using a maximum projection of nine z-planes images. Graphs denote the average distribution of D1, D2 and D3 from three independent experiments where at least 100 cells for each sample were scored. P values were calculated using a 2-tailed unpaired Student t test.
Figure 5A) Identification of Cdc14 phospho-targets during the DNA damage response by mass spectrometry analysis. Wild-type and cdc14-1 cells were grown overnight and blocked in G2/M by using nocodazole to avoid cell cycle-dependent changes in protein phosphorylation between both strains. After the block was attained, cells were transferred to 37ºC for 45 minutes to deplete Cdc14 activity prior HO induction by galactose addition for 4h. Differential phosphorylation of phospho-peptides detected between the wild-type and cdc14-1 were grouped into broad categories depending on the molecular function of the proteins. The table includes the DNA damage and checkpoint-related proteins with Cdc14-dependent hyper-phosphorylated status and the relative ratio between the wild-type and cdc14-1 during the DNA damage response. Red and blue indicate relative amount of the residue phosphorylation between both strains (Red, high; Blue, low).B) Cdc14 dephosphorylates Spc110 in response to a DSB. Spc110 was tagged with the 6HA epitope in wild-type, cdc14-1 and spc110S36-91A backgrounds. Cells were grown overnight in raffinose-containing media and supplemented with galactose to induce HO expression. Samples were collected at each time-point indicated. Proteins were TCA extracted, separated on Phos-Tag containing gels and blotted. Coomassie staining is shown as loading control.C) Lambda-phosphatase treatment of protein extracts in the absence of DNA damage reduces Spc110 phosphorylation levels to the same extent as samples taken during the DNA damage response. Cells were grown overnight in raffinose containing media (line 1) and incubated with galactose for 2.5 hours to induce HO expression (line 2). Extracts from raffinose-containing cultures were treated with mock (line 3) or λ-PPase (line 4). All samples were separated in a Phos-Tag containing gel and blotted. Coomassie staining is shown as loading control.D) The canonical FEAR pathway is required for Spc110 dephosphorylation during the DNA damage response. Spc110 was labelled with the 3HA tag in both wild-type and esp1-1 background strains. Cells were grown overnight in raffinose-containing media and supplemented with galactose to induce the HO expression. Samples were collected at each time-point indicated. Proteins were TCA extracted, separated on Phos-Tag containing gels and blotted. Coomassie staining is shown as a control for loading.