Figure 4.
The effect of RhoGDI on the interaction between N-WASP and VirG in Xenopus egg extracts. (A) Cy2-labeled recombinant N-WASP (at 75 nM) was added to the egg extracts without (a, c, e, and g) or with (b, d, f, and h) RhoGDI (at 400 nM). a and b, DAPI-labeled bacteria; c and d, Cy2-labeled N-WASP; e and f, TMR-actin. The yellow color in the combined image shown in g and h indicates the colocalization between N-WASP (green) and actin (red). The images were observed 10 min after mixing bacteria with extracts. (B) Quantitation of N-WASP intensity, bacterial motility, and F-actin intensity without or with RhoGDI (at 400 nM). White bars, N-WASP intensities; black bars, bacterial speeds; gray bars, F-actin intensities. All activities are normalized to untreated extracts. Error bars represent SEM from three separate experiments. Bar, 10 μm.