Figure 3.

BAP31-Deficient Fibroblasts Have Abnormal Morphology

(A) Immunohistochemistry performed on fibroblasts of two control individuals (C1 and C2), individual III.2 from family 1 (F1-III.2), individual IV.1 from family 2 (F2-IV.1), and individual III.1 from family 3 (F3-III.1) with an antibody against CALR (1:200, Stressgen ADI-SPA-600-F) (left panels) or HSPA5 (1:200, Abcam ab151269) (right panels). These images reveal the abnormal size and shape of BAP31-deficient fibroblasts compared with control fibroblasts. Cells were stained with DAPI for visualization of nuclear DNA. Scale bars represent 25 μm.

(B) Quantification of the area and perimeter of control and affected individuals’ fibroblasts immunolabeled with CALR and shown in (A) demonstrates the statistically different values (^∗p < 0.0001, Student’s t test) between the fibroblasts of the two control individuals and the three affected individuals. For each fibroblast, a region of interest delineated with ImageJ software defined the cell boundaries. The program measured the area and the perimeter expressed in square micrometers and micrometers, respectively. We measured the morphometric parameters of randomly selected fibroblasts (104 cells were analyzed for C1, 103 for C2, 80 for individual F1-III.2, 82 for individual F2-IV.1, and 60 for individual F3-III.1). Error bars represent the SEM.