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. 2021 May 12;12:2743. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22733-9

Fig. 4. Quantitative Alpha protein-protein interaction assay to determine the interaction of IN, CTD, and the mutants with INI1 and INI1183-304.

Fig. 4

a Interaction of GST-CTD with His6-SUMO-INI1183-304. A titration curve was generated with increasing concentrations of His6-SUMO-INI1183-304 with two different fixed concentration of GST-CTD and the interactions were detected as Alpha Score. The KD values were determined by nonlinear regression analysis using specific binding with Hill slope analysis in GraphPad Prism. Data from one representative experiment is depicted. b, c Effect of salt on the interactions of GST-CTD either with His6-SUMO-INI1183-304 or biotinylated(Bio)-TAR RNA (n = 3 independent experiments). The interaction was tested using fixed concentrations of GST-CTD (0.75 μM) and increasing concentrations of His6-SUMO-INI1183-304 (or Bio-TAR RNA) in two different NaCl conditions (100 and 500 mM); d, e Inhibition of GST-CTD interaction with His6-SUMO-INI1183-304 or Bio-TAR RNA (n = 6 independent experiments). Interactions were set up between GST-CTD (0.186 μM) with His6-SUMO-INI1183-304 (0.094 μM), or GST-CTD (0.03 μM) with Bio-TAR RNA (0.1 μM) and increasing concentration of the third component (indicated in the X-axis) was added to the reaction. The IC50 values were determined by fitting the data to a four-parameter dose-response curve using GraphPad prism. fh Interaction of GST-CTD and its substitution mutants with INI1183-304 and TAR RNA (n = 3 independent experiments). Representative Coomassie gel (from one out of three independent experiments) showing equal loading of the wild type and mutant proteins for the binding assays (f) and uncropped gels are provided in the source data. Interaction of GST-CTD and mutants with INI1183-304 (g), and with biotinylated-TAR RNA (h). The graphs represent the % of the interaction of mutants as compared to that of wild type (WT) IN set at 100%. For both panels (g) and (h), WT and mutants are represented in different colors as indicated in the key provided next to the bar graphs. In all panels, except in a, graphs represent Mean ± SEM. In all panels the pink cartoon Rpt1 represents INI1183-304, blue cartoon CTD, IN-CTD, and red stem-loop, TAR RNA.