Figure 3.
Inhibition of deSUMOylation inhibits insulin secretion. (A) Western blot showing whole cell SUMOylation (above) and alpha-tubulin (below) levels in cells infected with control virus (1), SUMO-1GG virus (2), SUMO-1dGG virus (3) and SUMO-1QP virus (4). The image shows lanes cropped from a single Western blot, to exclude an irrelevant lane that was run as part of the same experiment. For the full blot, please see Supplementary Information. (B) GSIS in INS-1E cells infected with control or SUMO-1GG overexpressing virus, expressed as fold increase in insulin secretion. No significant differences were noted (n = 6). (C) GSIS in INS-1E cells infected with control or SUMO-1QP overexpressing virus, expressed as fold increase in insulin secretion. *p < 0.05, Student’s t-test (n = 6). Full, uncropped blots are shown in Supplementary Data. Data are presented +/− SEM.