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. 2020 Jul 13;28(1):123–138. doi: 10.1038/s41418-020-0587-z

Fig. 4. SEPN1 is a MAM-localized protein in nonmuscular and muscular cells.

Fig. 4

a Localization of a cMyc-SEPN1 in murine primary myotubes. Skeletal muscle cells were transfected with a plasmid expressing a cMyc-SEPN1 protein, which co-localized with calnexin (an ER marker), with the outer mitochondrial membrane protein TOM40 and with VDAC2 (a MAM marker). Scale bar is 10 µm. b Protein components of subcellular fractions prepared from muscle (gastrocnemius) and cells (HeLa) revealed by western blot analysis. SEPN1 presence was shown using a specific antibody. IP3R3 and PDI were used as ER markers, β-tubulin as a cytosolic marker, Sigma 1-R as a MAM marker, cytochrome C (Cyt c) as a mitochondrial marker. H homogenate, Mp pure mitochondria, ER endoplasmic reticulum, MAM mitochondria-associated membranes, C cytosol. c Co-localization of SEPN1-Flag (red) and Sigma 1-R-EGFP (a MAM marker, green) in C2C12 (right panel) and HeLa cells (left panel). The lower-right panel displays the merged image of the two stains. The lower-left panels display the SEPN1 signal overlaid with MAMs (MAM boundaries are highlighted in gray) in a rainbow lookup table (LUT). MAMs-SEPN1: Manders coefficient for SEPN1 staining was calculated as the proportion of SEPN1 signal overlapping with the Sigma 1-R marker.