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. 2021 Sep 9;12:5248. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25523-5

Fig. 7. KRAS membrane anchoring rescues signaling and transformation defects in EFR3A-null cells.

Fig. 7

a–d Immunoblot analysis of (a) membrane fraction for myc-KRASG12V, myr-myc-KRASG12V, C-RAF, Na+/K+ ATPase, and GAPDH, and (b) phosphorylated (P) and total (T) ERK and AKT, and (c) an example of colony formation, as assessed by crystal violet staining, which is (d) plotted as mean ± SD of colony area, for human HEK-HT cells stably infected with a lentivirus encoding Cas9 encoding no sgRNA (vector) or sgEFR3A/B in the absence and presence of ectopic myc-KRASG12V or when targeted to the PM by an N-terminal myristoylation sequence (myr-myc-KRASG12V). INPUT levels of indicated proteins serve as loading controls. a, b Representative of 3 biological replicates. c, d Representative of 3 biological replicates tested in triplicate. Replicate experiments and full-length gels are provided in Supplementary Fig. 13. Significance values were calculated by one-sided student’s t test for (d): ***p < 0.001. Specific p values for (d) are 0.00027 (KRASG12VsgEFR3A/B) and 0.00022 (myr-KRASG12VsgEFR3A/B).