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. 2017 Dec 8;7:17233. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-17371-5

Figure 2.

Figure 2

HuR regulates GM-CSF mRNA by binding and stabilizing its 3′UTR in Th17 cells. (a) Schematic diagram of RIP analysis. (b) RIP analysis was performed to detect GM-CSF mRNA enrichment after IP using anti-HuR (3A2) or isotype–matched antibody (IgG1) from Th17 cell cytoplasmic extracts. IL-23R mRNA was assayed as a negative control. (c–e) Biotin pulldown was used to determine whether HuR directly binds to 3′UTR of GM-CSF mRNA. (c,d) Schematic diagrams of biotin probe corresponding to GM-CSF and 3′UTR and biotin-pull down assay, respectively. (e) HuR protein could be detected by Western blot in biotinylated transcripts spanning GM-CSF 3′UTR, but not in GM-CSF mRNA ORF biotinylated transcripts. GAPDH biotinylated transcripts were unreactive (e). One of two independent experiments is shown in (e). **p < 0.01.