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. 2021 Oct 13;12:5989. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26295-8

Fig. 6. Nur77-LBD is insufficient to mediate celastrol-induced mitophagy.

Fig. 6

a–d Representative images showing colocalization of Nur77 or mutants with p62, mitochondria, and lysosome in HeLa cells after celastrol treatment. The blue arrow indicates line profiles of fluorescence intensities including Pearson’s correlation coefficients shown in b and d. A two-tailed unpaired Student’s t-test was used for statistical analysis, and data were presented as mean values ± SEM (n = 20 biologically independent samples). Dotted box: higher magnification of indicated region. Scale bar, 10 μm. e Mutating K536 in Nur77 inhibits celastrol-induced interaction between p62 and LC3. HeLa cells transfected with the indicated expression plasmids were treated with or without 2 μM celastrol and 20 ng/mL TNFα. Interaction of Flag-p62 with GFP-LC3 was examined by co-IP assay. f Characterization of domain requirement of Nur77 for promoting celastrol-induced p62 interaction with LC3. HeLa cells transfected with the indicated Flag-p62, GFP-LC3, and GFP-Nur77 or mutant were treated with celastrol and TNFα for 1 h and analyzed for Flag-p62 interaction with GFP-LC3 by co-IP assay. Data represent at least three independent experiments. Source data are provided as Source Data file.