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. 2021 Aug 16;4:974. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02498-z

Fig. 5. LONP1 helps solubilize newly imported proteins.

Fig. 5

Immunoblot analysis of transiently expressed mitochondria-targeted Mt-DsRed2 and cytosol-targeted AcGFP in LONP1-depleted cells. HeLa cells were retransfected 3 d after the first siRNA transfection. Transfection of the pDsRed2-Mito and pAcGFP vectors was performed 2 d after the second siRNA transfection. Cells were collected every 3 h following plasmid transfection. Total, soluble (S) and insoluble (I) proteins from cells were prepared as described in the Methods and in Fig. 1b. a Immunoblot analysis of total proteins from the cells. b Immunoblot analysis of soluble (S) and insoluble (I) proteins from the cells. c The protein solubility of Mt-DsRed2 was quantified as the percentage of soluble proteins in the sum of soluble and insoluble proteins (n = 3).