Fig. 4.
SerRS directly interacts with Shelterin POT1. a Immunofluorescent staining to show the colocalization of SerRS (green) and POT1 (red) in the nucleus of HeLa VST cells. Scale bars represent 5 μm. b Flag-tagged SerRS (Flag-SerRS) and V5-tagged POT1 (V5-POT1) vectors were transfected into HeLa cells, and immunoprecipitation (IP) was performed with the indicated antibodies. Cell lysates and immunoprecipitated proteins were analyzed by immunoblotting (IB) with the indicated antibodies. c HeLa VST cell lysates were immunoprecipitated with a POT1 antibody or a nonspecific IgG and analyzed by immunoblotting with the indicated antibodies. d A GST tag was fused with full length (FL) SerRS or the tRNA-binding domain (TBD), catalytic domain (CD) and unique to SerRS domain (UNE-S) of SerRS (upper panel). The GST-fused SerRS proteins were used to pull down purified His6-tagged POT1, and they were analyzed by immunoblot with anti-His6 antibody and anti-GST antibody (lower panel). e GST pull-down assays showed the direct interaction between SerRS and different domains of POT1. Full-length (FL) POT1 and its domains were fused with GST at the N-terminus to pull down purified His6-tagged SerRS. OB1, OB2 and OB3 stand for oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide DNA-binding domains 1, 2, and 3; HJR stands for Holliday junction resolvase-like domains