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. 2018 Sep 7;8:13418. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31734-6

Figure 5.

Figure 5

USP4 targets TRAF6 through its USP domain. (A) HEK293T cells transfected with either HA-USP4 or a control vector for 48 h were lysed and immunoprecipitated with anti-HA agarose beads. This was followed by western blot analysis of eluted immunocomplexes with TRAF6. (B,D) HEK293T cells transfected with Flag-TRAF6, together with either HA-USP4, mutated HA-USP4 (CA) or an empty vector were collected 48 h post-transfection and immunoprecipitated with either anti-HA agarose beads (B) or anti-Flag agarose beads (D). (C) USP4 wild-type (WT) contains a DUSP domain and a C-terminal USP domain. N260 lacks the C-terminal USP domain, C261 lacks the DUSP domain. (E) Lysates from HEK293T cells co-transfected with Flag-TRAF6 and either full-length HA-USP4 (WT) or its truncated constructs (N or C), and then were subjected to immunoprecipitation with anti-Flag agarose beads followed by SDS-PAGE analysis with anti-HA-HRP antibody). The independent experiments were performed in triplicate. Please note the mutated HA-USP4 (CA) expression construct was generated using site-directed mutagenesis(G-C).