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. 2024 Mar 18;25(5):2278–2305. doi: 10.1038/s44319-024-00117-6

Figure 4. SorLA interacts with TNFα to regulate its subcellular distribution.

Figure 4

(A) Representative image of SorLA and TNFα immunostaining in BV2 microglial cells stimulated with PMA. Cells were counterstained with DAPI. Scale bar: 25 µm. (B) Results of colocalization analysis performed for SorLA and TNFα signals exemplified in (A) calculated as thresholded Manders coefficients (tM). n = 10 fields of view. (C) Co-immunoprecipitation (co-IP) of SorLA with GFP-tagged TNFα overexpressed in HEK293 cells after GFP-IP. GFP serves as a negative control. (D) Scheme of SorLA protein structure indicating its functional domains. VPS10P VPS10P domain, EGF/βP EGF-type repeat/β-propeller domain, CR complement-type repeat, FN3 fibronectin-type III domain. (E) TNFα preferentially binds the EGF/β-propeller SorLA mini-receptor. Co-immunoprecipitation (co-IP) of myc-tagged SorLA mini-receptors with TNFα-GFP overexpressed in HEK293 cells after GFP-IP. GFP serves as a negative control. (F) Ratios of myc signals in co-IP and input samples (IP/IN) calculated for each transfection variant as in (E). n = 3 biological replicates. (G) Immunostaining for TNFα and the markers of secretory vesicles (Vti1b) and recycling endosome (Rab11) in WT and SorLA-KO microglia. Cells were counterstained with DAPI. Representative images (left) and the results of colocalization analysis (right) calculated as thresholded Manders coefficients (tM) are shown. n = 55–64 cells. Scale bar, 25 µm. Data information: (B, F, G) Data are shown as mean ± SEM. **P  <  0.01; ***P  <  0.001 in one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s multiple comparisons test (compared to EGF/βP; F) or in unpaired two-tailed t test (G). No statistical analysis was performed for (B) as we did not intend to directly compare tM1 and tM2. Source data are available online for this figure.