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. 2024 Jan 29;43(5):754–779. doi: 10.1038/s44318-024-00036-1

Figure 7. OPTN monobodies inhibit OPTN assembly at the mitophagy-contact sites.

Figure 7

(A) NDP52 KO HeLa cells expressing Parkin, GFP alone, or GFP-tagged monobodies (MonoB) were treated with or without valinomycin (val) and bafilomycin (baf) for 1.5 h. The cells were immunostained with anti-OPTN and TOMM20 antibodies. Bars, 10 μm. (B) The cells in (A) were analyzed by immunoblotting (IB). The light blue and orange arrowheads indicate unmodified and ubiquitinated protein bands, respectively. (C) The levels of pTBK1 and pOPTN in (B) were quantified. The protein levels in cells without MonoB after 1 h val and baf treatment were set to 100. Error bars represent mean ± s.d. of three independent experiments. n.s. not significant, ***P < 0.001 by two-tailed Dunnett’s test. (D) Proposed model of TBK1 activation during PINK1/Parkin-mediated mitophagy. Source data are available online for this figure.