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Liang Fang, Rita Garuti, Bo-Young Kim, James B. Wade, Paul A. Welling
Published in Volume 119, Issue 11
J Clin Invest. 2009; 119(11):3278–3289 doi:10.1172/JCI37950
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ROMK preferentially interacts with ARH.

(A) Illustration of the pull-down assay. Recombinant His-tagged PTB-CLASPs (ARH, Dab2, Gulp, and Numb) were bound to Ni-NTA beads and tested for interaction with GST fusion proteins of either the ROMK C terminus or the LRP C terminus. H5, His-tag. (B) GST fusions of the WT ROMK1 C terminus (ROMK-C) (amino acids 349–391), LRP C terminus (LRP-C), and His-tagged PTB proteins were purified to homogeneity for the binding assay. Shown are purified proteins from E. coli–expressing indicated GST protein or His-tag CLASP, which had been resolved by SDS-PAGE and visualized by Coomassie Brilliant Blue staining and compared with vector-only–transfected E. coli (E. coli, BL21). (C) Binding assay. After incubation of GST proteins with each of indicated PTB-CLASPs, specifically bound protein (GST alone, GST ROMK C terminus [GST-ROMK-C], and GST LRP C terminus [GST-LRP-C] proteins) was assessed by immunoblot with anti-GST antibodies and compared with input GST (middle row) and HIS-tagged proteins (bottom row). GST-ROMK-C preferentially bound to ARH, while GST-LRP-C bound all the PTB-CLASPs. As observed before (23), GST-LRP-C migrates as doublet due to partial proteolysis. (D and E) ARH interacts with ROMK in an NPXF signal–dependent manner. Binding of ARH with GST, GST-ROMK-C, and a mutant GST-ROMK-C, bearing an alanine replacement of the N375PNF sequence (-NPNF). (E) Quantification of binding. n = 3; *P < 0.001.