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. 2023 Apr 12;616(7958):764–773. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05927-7

Extended Data Fig. 12. Astrocyte subcompartment card 2: end foot.

Extended Data Fig. 12

a. BioID2 that is targeted with Aqp4-BioID2 biotinylates proteins at the astrocyte end foot. b. Label-free based quantification comparison of significant proteins (Log2FC > 1 and FDR < 0.05 versus GFP controls) detected in the cytosolic Astro BioID2 and end foot Astro Aqp4-BioID2 reveal end foot enriched proteins. Top half of the volcano plot shows 577 unique Aqp4-BioID2 proteins when compared to cytosol. The top four most abundant proteins for Aqp4-BioID2 are shown. Lower half of volcano plot shows comparison of 228 proteins that were common in both cytosolic BioID2 and Aqp4-BioID2. The five highest enriched proteins for Aqp4-BioID2 (Log2FC > 2) are shown. Magenta label shows protein that was validated with immunohistochemistry in panel d. c. Heat map shows the rank-rank hypergeometric overlap (RRHO) of the RNA and protein rank for the 635 endfoot proteins. Each pixel represents the significance of overlap between the two datasets in –log10(P-value). Red pixels represent highly significant overlap. Color scale denotes the range of P-values at the negative log10 scale (bin size = 100). d. IHC analysis of PAICS protein in tdTomato and Lck-GFP labeled astrocytes shows co-localization within the astrocyte territory. Scale bar represents 20 μm. e. Co-localization analysis using Pearson’s r co-efficient shows high co-localization between Aqp4-GFP and PAICS. The mean and SEM are shown (n = 8 tdTomato+ cells from 4 mice; Two-tailed paired t-test). f. Scale-free STRING analysis protein-protein association map of the top 100 unique and enriched biotinylated proteins identified in the astrocyte endfoot with Astro Aqp4-BioID2 . Node size represents the enrichment of each protein vs the GFP control (log2(BioID2/GFP)). Edges represent putative interactions from the STRING database. Bar graphs show the functional enrichment analysis of the 635 proteins using “Biological process”, “Cellular component”, and “Molecular function” terms from Enrichr. The image of the astrocyte subcompartments in panel a was created using BioRender (https://www.biorender.com/).