Fig. 3. L. major infection triggers deglycosylation of host ATP7A.
A Immunoblot of ATP7A at 3 h and 12 h time points after 1 μg/ml tunicamycin treatment of J774A.1 macrophages. GAPDH is used as a housekeeping control. B Immunoblot of ATP7A after infecting J774A.1 macrophages with L. major promastigotes for 3 h compared to 12 h of 1 μg/ml tunicamycin treatment. GAPDH is used as loading control. C Immunoblot of ATP7A after treatment with PNGase for 1 h. GAPDH is used as housekeeping protein. D Illustration depicting the proposed modulation of ATP7A via the manipulation of its upstream regulators by the L.major pathogen. Illustration is prepared in Inkscape 1.2.2. Previously created elements include Proteasome- Proteasome by CristofferSevilla is licensed under CC BY 4.0 / modified, Promastigote - Leishmania promastigote form by CristofferSevilla is licensed under CC BY 4.0 /modified, Amastigote - Leishmania amastigote form by CristofferSevilla is licensed under CC BY 4.0 /modified.