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. 2017 Jun 21;7:3945. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-04233-3

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Effect of chlorophyllin sodium copper salt and bonaphton on binding of Keap1 to Nrf2. To clarify that (A) chlorophyllin sodium copper salt, and (B) bonaphton disrupt the interaction between Keap1 and Nrf2 by an alternative experiment other than FCS, we performed co-immunoprecipitation assay for the verification of disruption of Keap1 interaction by these compounds. BioEase-tagged Nrf2 was successfully immunoprecipitated by Halo-tagged Keap1, using Halo-antibody. Both of the compounds induced consistent decrease in binding between the two proteins, although protein-protein interaction between Keap1 and Nrf2 was not decreased by sulforaphane that does not disrupt interaction between Keap1 and Nrf2. This result indicated that these compounds inhibited the Keap1-Nrf2 protein-protein interactions directly. Experiments were repeated three times with consistent results, and a representative blot is shown. Full-length blots are presented in Supplementary Fig. S3.