Figure 3.
Group-I PAKs induce direct phosphorylation of HACE1. (a) In vitro [γ 32P]-ATP kinase assay using recombinant 6His-HACE1 and recombinant 6His-PAK1 analyzed by autoradiography and Coomassie Brilliant Blue (CBB) staining. (b) MCF12A and HUVEC protein lysates analyzed by immunoblot (IB) using anti-PAK1 and anti-PAK2 antibodies. IB: actin is used as a loading control. (c–e) Protein lysates from (c) HUVECs and (d,e) MCF12A cells transfected with siRNAs targeting (c,d) PAK2 or (e) PAK1 and plasmid expressing HA-HACE1 and myc-Rac1(Q61L) and analyzed by IB using the indicated antibodies. (f) Protein lysates from MCF12A cells transfected with HA-HACE1, either intoxicated with CNF1 for 16 hours or co-transfected with myc-Rac1(Q61L), and treated with FRAX597 at the indicated concentration for 16 hours before IB analysis. (g,h) Protein lysates from MCF12A cells transfected with HA-HACE1, myc-Rac1(Q61L) and GST-KID2 or Flag-PAK1K141A and analyzed by IB. IBs in (a–h) are cropped from the full-length blots shown in Supplemental Figure S11.