
Figure 5. Adjudin-mediated junction restructuring leads to changes in Rab4A-catenin
interactions in the testis. (A) Autoradiograms corresponding to
different immunoblots showing an increase in Rab4A–
-catenin and
Rab4A–ß-catenin coimmunoprecipitation following Adjudin
administration. Immunoprecipitation was performed with anti-Rab4A antibody,
whereas immunoblotting was performed using antibodies listed to the right of
each immunoblot. As a control, anti-Rab4A antibody was used for
immunoprecipitation, followed by immunoblotting with the same antibody
(A, top panel), and these results were similar to those shown in
Figure 4A. IgG served as an
indicator of equal protein processing and loading onto gels (A, bottom
panel). (B) Densitometric scanning results from at least 3 independent
experiments. Each
-/ß-catenin data point was first normalized
against its corresponding Rab4A data point, followed by a second round of
normalizations against testis at 0 hours (control). The control was
arbitrarily set at 1. *Significantly different from testis at 0
hours by analysis of variance, P < .05; **Significantly
different from testis at 0 hours, P < .01; ns, not significantly
different from testis at 0 hours; IP, immunoprecipitation.