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. 2018 Sep 21;4:98. doi: 10.1038/s41420-018-0104-z

Fig. 2. Misoprostol alters the splicing of Bnip3.

Fig. 2

a RT-PCR for Bnip3-FL and Bnip3ΔExon3 in the heart of PND10 rat pups treated with misoprostol for 7 days. b RT-PCR for Bnip3 isoforms comparing expression patterns between human and mouse cell lines. c Bnip3 splicing diagram showing BNIP3ΔExon2 and Bnip3ΔExon3, indicating the differences in splicing between human and mouse. d Amino acid sequence alignment for human BNIP3ΔExon2 and mouse Bnip3ΔExon3. e Immunoblot showing that a commercially available antibody targeted to the amino-terminus (N-Terminus) of BNIP3 (CST #44060) can detect overexpressed HA-BNIP3-FL and HA-BNIP3ΔExon2. f Immunoblot demonstrating the specificity of our custom antibody targeted to the amino-terminus (N-Terminus) of BNIP3, where the antibody is able to detect overexpressed HA-BNIP3-FL (Human), Myc-Bnip3-FL (Mouse), and HA- Bnip3ΔExon3 (Mouse), but not HA-BNIP3ΔExon2 (Human). g Immunoblot demonstrating the specificity of si-BNIP3ΔExon3 (indicated as si-ΔEx3), shown using our custom antibody targeted to the amino-terminus (N-Terminus) of Bnip3. h H9c2 cells were exposed to 1% hypoxia for 24-h, with and without misoprostol treatment (10 μM). Extracts were western blotted as indicated. i Linear motif diagram for Bnip3-FL, human BNIP3ΔExon2, and mouse Bnip3ΔExon3. j Model of Mus Bnip3-FL indicating locations of the transmembrane (TM) domain, atypical BH3 domain (aBH3), and LC3-Interacting region (LIR) present on this isoform. k, l Comparison of Mus Bnip3ΔExon3 and human BNIP3ΔExon2, indicating the locations of the predicted ER domains, WH2 domains, nuclear localization sequence (NLS), and the Mus Bnip3ΔExon3 specific LC3-Interacting region (LIR)