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. 2020 Nov 20;11(11):995. doi: 10.1038/s41419-020-03205-2

Fig. 5. ASB16-AS1 associates with RNA-binding protein HuR and regulates protein levels of HuR.

Fig. 5

a Identification of proteins that associate with ASB16-AS1. Biotinylated ASB16-AS1 or biotinylated antisense ASB16-AS1 was incubated with SW-13 cell extracts and RNA pull-down was performed to identify the proteins that associate with ASB16-AS1. The lanes were excised and analyzed by mass spectrometry. The arrow indicates the potential protein that specifically associates with ASB16-AS1. b HuR protein binds with ASB16-AS1. Biotinylated ASB16-AS1 or its antisense sequence was incubated with SW-13 cell extracts and RNA pull-down following western blot was performed to detect the association of HuR with ASB16-AS1. GAPDH served as negative control. c RIP assays to verify the association between ASB16-AS1 and HuR protein. HuR antibody was incubated with SW-13 cell extracts and qRT-PCR was performed to test the relative amount of ASB16-AS1 associates with HuR protein. IgG was served as negative control. *P < 0.05 versus IgG group. d HuR protein binds with fragment 2 of ASB16-AS1. Biotinylated full length ASB16-AS1 or truncated ASB16-AS1 fragment was incubated with cell extracts from SW-13 cells and RNA pull-down following western blot was performed using HuR antibody. Biotinylated antisense ASB16-AS1 was used as control. e, f Knockdown of ASB16-AS1 elevated HuR protein levels. ASB16-AS1 siRNAs were transfected into SW-13 cells, HuR mRNA levels was tested by qRT-PCR (e) and protein levels were tested by western blot (f). g, h Enhanced expression of ASB16-AS1 reduces the expression of HuR protein. ASB16-AS1 overexpression plasmid was transfected into SW-13 cells, HuR mRNA and protein levels were tested by qRT-PCR and western blot, respectively. pcDNA3.1 served as control. The experiments were performed in triplicate. The data are represented as mean ± SEM from three independent experiments.