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. 2024 Oct 30;14:26051. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-77692-0

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Effect of mitochondrial inhibitors and C-terminus mutations on CRY stability. (A) Left Panel: prolonged (2 h) light exposure effectively degrades CRY proteins in S2 cells treated with vehicle (DMSO, EtOH) or rotenone (Rot), whereas complex III (Ant, Myx) and V (Oli) inhibitors block light-dependent CRY degradation. Right panel: compared to wildtype (wt) CRY, levels of C523S, E530Q, F534L and F534W mutant proteins are reduced, and light exposure further destabilizes C523S, F534L and F534W proteins. (B) Relative protein levels were quantified from more than 3 Western blots. Asterisk denotes significant difference between dark and light, by Student’s t-test, p < 0.05. (C) Complex III and V inhibitors do not block degradation of CRYm (m) proteins. Error bar denotes standard error of the mean, n > 3. Different letters above the bar denotes significant difference (one-way ANOVA, post hoc Tukey test, p < 0.05). Full-length blots are presented in Supplemental Figure S11.