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. 2022 Sep 21;221(10):e202111076. doi: 10.1083/jcb.202111076

Figure 4.

Figure 4.

The BBSome can shed from retrograde IFT trains at the TZ region to act as an ARL3 effector. (A) Immunoblots of sucrose density gradients of arl3-282; ARL3:HA:YFP-TG, arl3-282; ARL3Q70L:HA:YFP-TG, and arl3-282; ARL3T30N:HA:YFP-TG cilia probed with α-BBS1, α-BBS4, α-BBS5, α-BBS7, α-BBS8, and α-ARL3. (B) Immunoblots of α-YFP-captured proteins from HR-YFP (HA-YFP-expressing CC-125 cells), arl3-282; ARL3:HA:YFP-TG (in the presence of excessive GTPγS or GDP), arl3-282; ARL3Q70L:HA:YFP-TG, and arl3-282; ARL3T30N:HA:YFP-TG cilia probed for the IFT-B1 subunits IFT22 and IFT70 and the BBSome subunits BBS1, BBS4, BBS5, BBS7, and BBS8. HMEKN stands for the buffer used for solving cilia. Input was quantified with α-YFP by immunoblotting. A schematic representation of how a reservoir of the BBSome independent of IFT-B1 association exists in HMEKN buffer was shown on the right. (C) Bacterially expressed MBP, MBP-BBS1, MBP-BBS2, MBP-BBS4, MBP-BBS5, MBP-BBS7, MBP-BBS8, and MBP-BBS9 (left) were mixed with ARL3Q70L or ARL3T30N (second to the left) and complexes recovered on amylose beads were resolved by SDS-PAGE followed by Coomassie staining and immunoblotting with α-ARL3 (second to the right and right, respectively). A schematic representation of direct interactions of ARL3Q70L with BBS1 and BBS5 of the BBSome was shown (lower left). MW, molecular weight. Source data are available for this figure: SourceData F4.