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. 2021 Jun 1;11:11474. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-90822-2

Figure 7.

Figure 7

p62-mediated cleavage of TDP-43 is independent of caspases. NSC-34 cells were pre-treated with 20 μM caspase inhibitor, 5 μM calpain inhibitor or were left untreated for 1 h and then transfected with TDP-43-tdTomato and either EGFP or EGFP-p62. Cells were maintained in media containing the inhibitor for 48 h and then harvested for soluble and insoluble fractions. Western blot analyses for TDP-43 (anti-RFP), EGFP and α-tubulin were performed. TDP-43 bands were quantified using ImageJ and the amount of TDP-35-tdTomato fragment observed in the insoluble fraction of EGFP versus EGFP-p62 expressing cells was compared with SPSS.