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Figure 6

From: Proteolytic cleavage of pertussis toxin S1 subunit is not essential for its activity in mammalian cells

Figure 6

ADP-ribosylation assay of mutant PT constructs. (A) Autoradiogram of cellular ADP-ribosylation assay after treatment of CHO cells with the indicated PT protein. The upper radiolabeled band (approximately 41 kDa) corresponds presumably with Giα2 and Giα3, while the lower band is PT-independent endogenously labeled band often seen in this assay with CHO cell lysates [9]. (B) Graphed data showing the mean (n = 3) cellular activity of the 2 deletion constructs that are not processed (activity of wild type PT was set at 100%) and the in vitro ADP-ribosylation activity of the same proteins. (C) Autoradiogram of cellular ADP-ribosylation assay after treatment of CHO cells with the indicated PT protein, demonstrating the retention of activity of the replacement mutant PT constructs.

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