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. 2016 May 16;7:11550. doi: 10.1038/ncomms11550

Figure 7. Rab11 mediates Megalin apical recycling in polarized MDCK cells.

Figure 7

(a) Confocal images of mMeg-MDCK cells polarized on glass-bottom chambers, transiently transfected with Ch-DN-Rab11, allowed to internalize 647-MαHA antibody for 90 min, washed and subsequently allowed to recycle for the indicated times in the presence of 488-GαM. Each panel displays Z view (top), confocal sections at the level of the apical PM (middle-top), supranuclear region (middle-bottom) and a supranuclear confocal section displaying the signal of Ch-DN-Rab11 (bottom). Arrows denote Ch-DN-Rab11-transfected mMeg-MDCK cells. (b) Co-localization quantification and fitted curves in Ch-DN-Rab11-transfected and untransfected mMeg-MDCK cells from the same sample, for the percentage of the 647-MαHA pixels co-localizing with the 488-GαM pixels, which informs the percentage of total mMeg-HA recycled to the PM at the indicated time points. Circles represent individual cells, the continuous lines represent average and CI95 and the dashed lines represent the fitted curves. (c,d) Polarized mMeg-MDCK cells were transiently transfected with GFP-DN-Rab4 and subjected to equivalent experiments to those in a and b. Scale bar, 10 μm.