Fig. 4. Active RAB31 interacts with the SPFH domain of FLOTs and drives MVE membrane budding to form ILVs via the Flotillin domain of FLOTs.
a, b Western blotting analyses of whole-cell lysates (WCLs) and immunoprecipitates (IP) at their endogenous levels from NCI-H1975 cells using anti-FLOT1 antibody (a) or anti-FLOT2 antibody (b). c, d Western blotting analyses of WCL and IP from HEK-293T cells co-expressing the indicated plasmids. e Immunofluorescence of erlin1-HA, erlin2-HA, prohibitin1-HA or prohibitin2-HA (green) with Flag-RAB31Q65L (red) in HeLa cells stably expression Flag-RAB31Q65L and transiently expressing the indicated plasmids under serum starvation (SS). f Immunofluorescence of stomatin-HA or STOML3-HA (red) and Flag-RAB31Q65L (magenta) with CD63-GFP (green) in HeLa cells stably expression Flag-RAB31Q65L and transiently expressing the indicated plasmids under SS. g Immunofluorescence of FLOT1-HA, FLOT2-HA or stomatin-HA and Flag-RAB31Q65L (magenta) with CD63-GFP (green) in the indicated stable HeLa cells transiently expressing the indicated plasmids under SS. h Immunofluorescence of FLOT1-SPFH-HA, FLOT2-SPFH-HA, FLOT1-flotillin-HA, or FLOT2-flotillin-HA (red) and Flag-RAB31Q65L (magenta) with CD63-GFP (green) in the indicated stable HeLa cells transiently expressing the indicated plasmids under SS. i Immunofluorescence of Sto-flotillin1-HA (red) chimeras and Flag-RAB31Q65L (magenta) with CD63-GFP (green) in the indicated stable HeLa cells transiently expressing the indicated plasmids under SS. j Western blotting analyses of the concentrated conditional media from the indicated stable HeLa cells stably re-introduced with the indicated plasmids. Scale bars, 10 μm.