Figure 4.
NIPA1 promotes traffic of BMPRII to a lysosomal compartment in neuronal cells. (A and B) Wild-type NSC34 cells (A) or NSC34 cells stably expressing NIPA1-GFP (B) were transiently transfected with myc-BMPRII and labelled with the lysosomal marker Lamp1. Note the appearance of strong co-localization between BMPRII and Lamp1 in the NIPA1-GFP-expressing cell. Arrows indicate selected individual vesicles that show co-localization. (C) Count of vesicles doubly positive for myc-BMPRII and Lamp1 in wild-type NSC34 cells (32 cells) or stably expressing NIPA1-GFP (35 cells). Note the increase in the number of puncta showing co-localization between Lamp1 and myc-BMPRII in the NIPA1-stable cells. Error bars: SEM. P-value was calculated using unpaired t-test.