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Supporting Information Riemer et al. 10.1073/pnas.0900742106 SI Text Target Sequences for siRNA Directed Against ERFAD mRNA (5–3). #1: TCG AGC TAG CTA CGA ATC CAA #2: CAG GAC GAC AAT GAC AAC TTT #3: CCC GCT GAT TCG AGC TAG CTA #4: CAA GGC TAA CGC CGA GTT CAA Control: AAT TCT CCG AAC GTG TCA CGT AMS Modification. The in vivo redox state of the PDI-family members TMX3 and ERp57 was determined using 4-acetamido- 4-maleimidylstilbene-2,2-disulfonic acid (AMS) to alkylate free thiols (1, 2). The redox state in vivo was trapped by alkylation of free thiols with 20 mM N-ethylmaleimide (NEM), and the cells were lysed in 80 mM TrisHCl containing 100 mM NaCl, 2 mM EDTA, and 2% (wt/vol) SDS. The lysate was denatured by boiling for 2 min. Tris[2-carboxyethyl]phosphine (TCEP) was added (10 mM) to break existing disulfide bonds, which were then alkylated by the addition of 25 mM AMS (Molecular Probes) for 1 h at room temperature. By this assay, proteins containing disulfide bonds will be modified with AMS which results in a slower migration on SDS/PAGE. mPEG-mal Modification of PDI and ERdj5. The in vivo redox state of PDI was determined as described in ref. 2. Cells grown in six-well plates were overnight pulse labeled, subjected to in situ NEM- alkylation and lysed in buffer containing SDS and denatured for 60 min at 97 °C. Subsequently, NEM was added to a final concentration of 20 mM, and the mixture was incubated at room temperature for 1 h. Then, an immunoprecipitation with anti- PDI was performed and proteins were released from the beads by boiling in 50 L 80 mM TrisHCl, pH 7.0, 2% SDS. Forty microliters of the resulting supernatant was transferred to a tube containing 2 L of 200 mM TCEP (10 mM final concentration) and incubated for 15 min at room temperature to reduce active-site disulfides. Thus, reduced cysteine residues were then alkylated for 1 h at room temperature in 15 mM mPEG-mal. Excess mPEG-mal was removed by methanol/chloroform pro- tein precipitation. Using this procedure, in vivo-oxidized cys- teine residues will be modified with mPEG-mal, which in turn will result in decreased gel mobility. The in vivo redox state of ERdj5 was determined as follows: HEK293 cells were pulsed with [ 35 S]methionine (Perkin–Elmer) for 16 h, washed with cold PBS, covered with 10% TCA, and incubated on ice for 15 min. The precipitated cell material was then scraped from the culture dish with a rubber policeman, pelleted at 20,000 g at 4 °C for 15 min and the pellet covered with a solution containing 58 mM TrisHCl, pH 7, 27% dimethyl sulfoxide, 7.3% glycerol, 1.5% SDS, 15 mM methoxy polyethyl- ene glycol-maleimide 5000 (mPEG-mal, Laysan Bio) 0.2 mM phenylmethylsulfonylfluoride, and 0.1% bromcresol purple. Af- ter neutralization of the supernatant by dropwise addition of 1 M Tris/Cl, pH 8, until the solution turned purple, the pellet was solubilized using a microsonicator equipped with a 0.5 mm sonotrode (Hielscher Ultrasound Technology) followed by in- cubation at room temperature for 1 h. Ten sample volumes of cold 30 mM TrisHCl, pH 8.1, 100 mM NaCl, 5 mM EDTA, and 2% Triton X-100 were then added, and the lysate processed for anti-ERdj5 immunoprecipitation. When performed in this manner, without the in situ NEM alkylation step and the TCEP incubation used in the case of PDI, but with direct TCA treatment, it is the in vivo-reduced cysteine residues that will become modified with mPEG-mal. Splicing of XBP1 mRNA. The splicing of XBP1 mRNA was analyzed as described in ref. 3. Appearance of the spliced product indicates induction of the Ire1 pathway of the unfolded protein response (UPR). Mass Spectrometry. SEL1L was identified from SDS/PAGE gel bands as follows: First, protein bands were excised and in gel digestion was performed as described in ref. 4. Then the peptide mixtures were analyzed on a linear ion trap mass spectrometer (LTQ, Thermo) interfaced with an electrospray ion source. Chromatographic separation of peptides was achieved on an Agilent Series 1100 LC system (Agilent Technologies), equipped with an 11-cm fused silica emitter, 100-m inner diameter (BGB Analytik), packed in-house with a Magic C18 AQ 5 m resin (Michrom BioResources). Peptides were loaded from a cooled (4 °C) Agilent auto sampler and separated with a linear gradient of acetonitrile/water, containing 0.15% formic acid, with a flow rate of 0.95 L/min. Peptide mixtures were separated with a gradient from 5 to 30% acetonitrile in 90 min. For each peptide sample a standard data-dependent acquisition method on the three most intense ions per MS scan was used and a threshold of 10,000 ion counts was used for triggering an MS/MS attempt. Data Analysis. The MS/MS data were searched against the human National Cancer Institute nonredundant database from 18.12.2004 using the Comet algorithm (5). For the in silico digest of the protein database trypsin was defined as protease, cleaving after K and R (if followed by P the cleavage was not allowed). Two missed cleavages and one nontryptic terminus were allowed for the peptides, which had a maximum mass of 6,000 Da. The precursor ion tolerance was set to 3 Da and fragment ion tolerance was set to 0.5 Da. Finally, search results obtained by the Comet algorithm were analyzed by the transproteomic pipeline (6, 7). Plasmids and Primers. For plasmids and primers see Table S1. The Redox State of ERdj5. The ERdj5 in vivo redox state has not previously been investigated. Interestingly, the vast majority of ERdj5 is oxidized at steady state (Fig. S4H). We also show that the ERdj5 redox state is seemingly not affected by the knock- down of ERFAD, although this were perhaps to be expected based on the detected interaction between the two proteins. However, because ERdj5 contains four thioredoxin-like do- mains with active-site CXXC motifs, the protein can—in addi- tion to the completely oxidized and reduced states—exist in a variety of semioxidized forms where the redox state of the various domains differ. As observed for PDI, where the two semioxidized forms migrate differently despite both having one active site oxidized and the other reduced (2), these many redox forms likely run differently by SDS/PAGE. Although the re- duced and oxidized forms clearly appear in the control lanes, we detected only very weakly one semioxidized form (Fig. S4H, lanes 3 and 4; arrowheads). Still, there might be even lower levels of other semioxidized forms present in the cell that we do not detect. This assay therefore does not provide sufficient infor- mation to state anything definite about a potential change in the redox state of ERdj5 upon down-regulation of ERFAD. At present we can only conclude that no change occurs to signifi- cantly lower the level of the fully oxidized state. This does not rule out that ERFAD could control the redox state of one particular active site (and not the remaining three). The inves- Riemer et al. www.pnas.org/cgi/content/short/0900742106 1 of 10

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  • Supporting InformationRiemer et al. 10.1073/pnas.0900742106SI TextTarget Sequences for siRNA Directed Against ERFAD mRNA (5�–3�).

    #1: TCG AGC TAG CTA CGA ATC CAA#2: CAG GAC GAC AAT GAC AAC TTT#3: CCC GCT GAT TCG AGC TAG CTA#4: CAA GGC TAA CGC CGA GTT CAAControl: AAT TCT CCG AAC GTG TCA CGT

    AMS Modification. The in vivo redox state of the PDI-familymembers TMX3 and ERp57 was determined using 4-acetamido-4-maleimidylstilbene-2,2-disulfonic acid (AMS) to alkylate freethiols (1, 2). The redox state in vivo was trapped by alkylation offree thiols with 20 mM N-ethylmaleimide (NEM), and the cellswere lysed in 80 mM Tris�HCl containing 100 mM NaCl, 2 mMEDTA, and 2% (wt/vol) SDS. The lysate was denatured byboiling for 2 min. Tris[2-carboxyethyl]phosphine (TCEP) wasadded (10 mM) to break existing disulfide bonds, which werethen alkylated by the addition of 25 mM AMS (MolecularProbes) for 1 h at room temperature. By this assay, proteinscontaining disulfide bonds will be modified with AMS whichresults in a slower migration on SDS/PAGE.

    mPEG-mal Modification of PDI and ERdj5. The in vivo redox state ofPDI was determined as described in ref. 2. Cells grown in six-wellplates were overnight pulse labeled, subjected to in situ NEM-alkylation and lysed in buffer containing SDS and denatured for60 min at 97 °C. Subsequently, NEM was added to a finalconcentration of 20 mM, and the mixture was incubated at roomtemperature for 1 h. Then, an immunoprecipitation with anti-PDI was performed and proteins were released from the beadsby boiling in 50 �L 80 mM Tris�HCl, pH 7.0, 2% SDS. Fortymicroliters of the resulting supernatant was transferred to a tubecontaining 2 �L of 200 mM TCEP (�10 mM final concentration)and incubated for 15 min at room temperature to reduceactive-site disulfides. Thus, reduced cysteine residues were thenalkylated for 1 h at room temperature in 15 mM mPEG-mal.Excess mPEG-mal was removed by methanol/chloroform pro-tein precipitation. Using this procedure, in vivo-oxidized cys-teine residues will be modified with mPEG-mal, which in turnwill result in decreased gel mobility.

    The in vivo redox state of ERdj5 was determined as follows:HEK293 cells were pulsed with [35S]methionine (Perkin–Elmer)for 16 h, washed with cold PBS, covered with 10% TCA, andincubated on ice for 15 min. The precipitated cell material wasthen scraped from the culture dish with a rubber policeman,pelleted at 20,000 � g at 4 °C for 15 min and the pellet coveredwith a solution containing 58 mM Tris�HCl, pH 7, 27% dimethylsulfoxide, 7.3% glycerol, 1.5% SDS, 15 mM methoxy polyethyl-ene glycol-maleimide 5000 (mPEG-mal, Laysan Bio) 0.2 mMphenylmethylsulfonylf luoride, and 0.1% bromcresol purple. Af-ter neutralization of the supernatant by dropwise addition of 1M Tris/Cl, pH 8, until the solution turned purple, the pellet wassolubilized using a microsonicator equipped with a 0.5 mmsonotrode (Hielscher Ultrasound Technology) followed by in-cubation at room temperature for 1 h. Ten sample volumes ofcold 30 mM Tris�HCl, pH 8.1, 100 mM NaCl, 5 mM EDTA, and2% Triton X-100 were then added, and the lysate processed foranti-ERdj5 immunoprecipitation.

    When performed in this manner, without the in situ NEMalkylation step and the TCEP incubation used in the case of PDI,but with direct TCA treatment, it is the in vivo-reduced cysteineresidues that will become modified with mPEG-mal.

    Splicing of XBP1 mRNA. The splicing of XBP1 mRNA was analyzedas described in ref. 3. Appearance of the spliced productindicates induction of the Ire1 pathway of the unfolded proteinresponse (UPR).

    Mass Spectrometry. SEL1L was identified from SDS/PAGE gelbands as follows: First, protein bands were excised and in geldigestion was performed as described in ref. 4. Then the peptidemixtures were analyzed on a linear ion trap mass spectrometer(LTQ, Thermo) interfaced with an electrospray ion source.Chromatographic separation of peptides was achieved on anAgilent Series 1100 LC system (Agilent Technologies), equippedwith an 11-cm fused silica emitter, 100-�m inner diameter (BGBAnalytik), packed in-house with a Magic C18 AQ 5 �m resin(Michrom BioResources). Peptides were loaded from a cooled(4 °C) Agilent auto sampler and separated with a linear gradientof acetonitrile/water, containing 0.15% formic acid, with a flowrate of 0.95 �L/min. Peptide mixtures were separated with agradient from 5 to 30% acetonitrile in 90 min. For each peptidesample a standard data-dependent acquisition method on thethree most intense ions per MS scan was used and a threshold of10,000 ion counts was used for triggering an MS/MS attempt.

    Data Analysis. The MS/MS data were searched against the humanNational Cancer Institute nonredundant database from18.12.2004 using the Comet algorithm (5). For the in silico digestof the protein database trypsin was defined as protease, cleavingafter K and R (if followed by P the cleavage was not allowed).Two missed cleavages and one nontryptic terminus were allowedfor the peptides, which had a maximum mass of 6,000 Da. Theprecursor ion tolerance was set to 3 Da and fragment iontolerance was set to 0.5 Da. Finally, search results obtained bythe Comet algorithm were analyzed by the transproteomicpipeline (6, 7).

    Plasmids and Primers. For plasmids and primers see Table S1.

    The Redox State of ERdj5. The ERdj5 in vivo redox state has notpreviously been investigated. Interestingly, the vast majority ofERdj5 is oxidized at steady state (Fig. S4H). We also show thatthe ERdj5 redox state is seemingly not affected by the knock-down of ERFAD, although this were perhaps to be expectedbased on the detected interaction between the two proteins.However, because ERdj5 contains four thioredoxin-like do-mains with active-site CXXC motifs, the protein can—in addi-tion to the completely oxidized and reduced states—exist in avariety of semioxidized forms where the redox state of thevarious domains differ. As observed for PDI, where the twosemioxidized forms migrate differently despite both having oneactive site oxidized and the other reduced (2), these many redoxforms likely run differently by SDS/PAGE. Although the re-duced and oxidized forms clearly appear in the control lanes, wedetected only very weakly one semioxidized form (Fig. S4H,lanes 3 and 4; arrowheads). Still, there might be even lower levelsof other semioxidized forms present in the cell that we do notdetect. This assay therefore does not provide sufficient infor-mation to state anything definite about a potential change in theredox state of ERdj5 upon down-regulation of ERFAD. Atpresent we can only conclude that no change occurs to signifi-cantly lower the level of the fully oxidized state. This does notrule out that ERFAD could control the redox state of oneparticular active site (and not the remaining three). The inves-

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  • tigation of this possibility would require mutants with active-sitecysteines changed to Ser or Ala in three of four thioredoxin-like

    domains. These four mutants should then be tested as potentialsubstrates for ERFAD.

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    2. Appenzeller-Herzog C, Ellgaard L (2008) In vivo reduction-oxidation state of proteindisulfide isomerase: The two active sites independently occur in the reduced andoxidized forms. Antioxid Redox Signal 10:55–64.

    3. Yoshida H, Matsui T, Yamamoto A, Okada T, Mori K (2001) XBP1 mRNA is induced byATF6 and spliced by IRE1 in response to ER stress to produce a highly active transcriptionfactor. Cell 107:881–891.

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    6. Keller A, Nesvizhskii AI, Kolker E, Aebersold R (2002) Empirical statistical model toestimate the accuracy of peptide identifications made by MS/MS and database search.Anal Chem 74:5383–5392.

    7. Nesvizhskii AI, Keller A, Kolker E, Aebersold R (2003) A statistical model for identifyingproteins by tandem mass spectrometry. Anal Chem 75:4646–4658.

    8. Mezghrani A, et al. (2001) Manipulation of oxidative protein folding and PDI redoxstate in mammalian cells. EMBO J 20:6288–6296.

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    Fig. S1. Additional basic characterization of ERFAD. (A) Expression levels of ERFAD in HEK293, A11, and 3B2B cells. Cell lysates were adjusted to the same proteinconcentration and blotted with anti-ERFAD and anti-actin. (B) The complete Western blot analysis of Fig. 1E is shown. *, background band, corresponds to thebackground band labeled on ERFAD blots throughout the manuscript. (C) Immunofluorescence microscopy of ERFAD-HA in VERO cells. Cells were cotransfectedwith pcDNA3/ERFAD-HA and a plasmid encoding the ER marker GFP-KDEL (Center, green), fixed, and stained with anti-HA (Left, red). A merged image is shownin the Right.

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    Fig. S2. Establishment of ERFAD knockdown. (A) Knockdown of ERFAD with four different siRNAs. HEK293 cells were transfected using the calcium phosphatetransfection method with four different siRNAs directed against ERFAD (#1-#4; 1 �g per 35-mm dish) as well as a nonsilencing control siRNA (c; 1 �g per 35-mmdish). Cells were lysed 48 h after transfection and the lysates analyzed by Western blotting with antibodies against ERFAD and actin. A background band in theWestern blot against ERFAD is labeled with an *. The bar diagram shows the quantification of the experiment. (B) Transfection of nonsilencing siRNA (control)into HEK293 cells. As in A, except that HEK293 cells were transfected with different amounts of nonsilencing control siRNA. (C) Establishment of optimal siRNAconcentration and transfection time for ERFAD knockdown. As in A, except that HEK293 cells were only transfected with siRNAs#1 and #2, but in differentamounts as well as a nonsilencing control siRNA (c). In addition, cells were lysed 24, 48, and 72 h after transfection. The graphs show the quantification of theexperiments. Subsequently, we performed all experiments 72 h after transfection with 0.1 �g siRNA.

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    Fig. S3. Complete autoradiographs of the experiments shown in Fig. 2G.

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    Fig. S4. Knockdown of ERFAD neither significantly induces the UPR nor alters general ER redox homeostasis. (A) Effect of ERFAD knockdown on the splicingof XBP1 mRNA. Total RNA was isolated 72 h after transfection with siRNA #1 and control siRNA and reverse transcribed. A PCR with primers specific for XBP1was performed and analyzed on a 2% agarose gel. An incubation with DTT (2 mM for 1 h) served as positive control. (B) Effect of ERFAD knockdown on thephosphorylation state of PERK and eIF2�. HEK293 cells transfected with control siRNA or siRNA#1 were lysed and analyzed in Western blotting with the indicatedantibodies 72 h after transfection. DTT incubation (2 mM for 1 h) served as positive control. (C) Effect of ERFAD knockdown on BiP induction. As in B, except thatincubation with tunicamycin (2 �g/mL for 6 h) served as positive control and lysates of A11 cells expressing ERFAD-HA were included in the experiment. (D) Effectof ERFAD knockdown on steady state protein levels of p97, ERp57, PDI, TMX3, and actin. Samples were obtained as in B. (E) Effect of ERFAD knockdown on theredox state of the PDI-family members TMX3 and ERp57. HEK293 cells were transfected with ERFAD siRNA#1 and #2 and nonsilencing control siRNA (c).Seventy-two hours after transfection cells were in situ treated with NEM and lysed. Subsequently, disulfide bonds were reduced and AMS modified. The lysateswere analyzed by Western blotting with anti-TMX3, anti-ERp57, and anti-ERFAD. Notice that no significant change in the ratio of oxidized and reduced proteinoccurred as a results of ERFAD knockdown. (F) Effect of ERFAD knockdown on the redox state of PDI. HEK293 cells were transfected with the indicated siRNAs.Seventy-two hours after transfection, overnight pulse labeled cells were lysed after in situ modification with NEM to block free cysteines. Disulfide-bondedcysteines were reduced and then modified with mPEG-mal. Immunoprecipitates of PDI were separated by SDS/PAGE and analyzed by phosphorimaging. Notethat the ratio between the different redox forms of PDI did not change between the indicated siRNAs (lanes 2 and 3; arrowheads, semioxidized forms). Incubationof cells with 5 mM diamide and 10 mM DTT for 5 min served as controls for the oxidized and reduced proteins, respectively. The hairline indicates where a lanehas been removed from the autoradiograph. (H) Effect of ERFAD knockdown on the redox state of ERdj5. As (F) except that after overnight pulse labeling cellswere directly precipitated in TCA and modified with mPEG-mal before immunoprecipitation with anti-ERdj5 (see also SI Text). *, background band. (G) Theoxidative refolding of immunoglobuling J-chain after DTT washout is not affected by ERFAD knockdown. To probe the oxidative folding capacity of the ER uponERFAD knockdown, we used the Ig J-chain that has previously been used to assess the effect of Ero1 overexpression (8). HEK293 cells stably expressing myc-J-chainwere transfected with ERFAD siRNA#2 and nonsilencing control siRNA (c). Seventy-two hours after transfection the cells were pulse labeled for 5 min in thepresence of 5 mM DTT, washed twice at 4 °C, and chased at 37 °C for the indicated times before immunoprecipitation with anti-myc and SDS/PAGE undernonreducing conditions (8). The results showed that after DTT treatment the appearance of the oxidized J-chain monomer occurred with the same kinetics inthe absence and presence of ERFAD.

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    Ribophorin 332 –CHORibophorin 332 +CHO

    – –

    75 kDa

    50 kDa

    100 kDa

    37 kDa

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2’ 3’ 4’

    RIERFA

    D

    RIERFAD

    MG132

    +--

    Contrastenhanced

    > >

    +- +----

    A

    B

    Fig. S7. (A) RI332 coimmunoprecipitates with ERFAD from lysates of HEK293-RI332 cells. As in Fig. 3E, except that an additional contrast-enhanced image hasbeen included to better see the precipitated nonglycosylated form of RI332. In addition to the glycosylated form of RI332, a minor amount of a faster migratingform of the protein was observed (arrowhead). To determine the nature of this faster migrating band, we used zVAD-fmk to inhibit Png1 (9). The data showedthat RI332 appeared as three distinct bands, a glycosylated form (lanes 5 and 6, top RI332 band), a deglycosylated form (lanes 4 and 7, middle RI332 band), and anas yet unidentified form [lanes 6 and 7, bottom RI332 band (*)]. As judged by gel mobility, the lower band coprecipitating with ERFAD upon MG132 treatmentrepresented deglycosylated RI332. The finding that a minor fraction of deglycosylated RI332 precipitated with ERFAD and SEL1L suggests that RI332 becomesdeglycosylated by the cytosolic Png1 already while in the process of retrotranslocation. Similarly, the ERAD substrate US11 is deglycosylated before completedislocation while still bound to the ER membrane (10). (B) RI332 coimmunoprecipitates with SEL1L from lysates of HEK293-RI332 cells. HEK293-RI332 cells were [35S]pulse-labeled for 5 h in the presence of 5 �M MG132. Anti-SEL1L immunoprecipitates were either analyzed directly (lane 1) or reimmunoprecipitated withanti-SEL1L (lane 2/2�) or anti-ribophorin (lane 3/3�). In lanes 4–7, SDS lysates from cells labeled in the presence or absence of 30 �M of zVAD-fmk (�MG132) wereimmunoprecipitated with anti-ribophorin with or without subsequent PNGaseF digest to allow the assignment of the three different forms of RI332 (RI332�CHO,RI332-CHO and *). The arrowhead indicates the minor fraction of deglycosylated RI332 (RI332-CHO) interacting with SEL1L.

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  • Table 1. Plasmids and primers

    Plasmid Primer (5�–3�) Restriction site

    pcDNA3/ forward: aggcagctgcggccgcaggatgggcctctccgc NotIERFAD-HA reverse: gctctagattagagctcctctttggttcgagcgtagtctgggacgtcgtatgggtagttgctatcgacggactgagc XbaIpcDNA5-FRT/ Partial digest of pcDNA3/ERFAD-HA with ApaI (there are two additional ApaI-cleavage sites in ERFAD) NotIERFAD-HA ApaIpcDNA3/ forward: agcggatccaggatgggcctctccgc BamHIERFAD-His-FLAG reverse:

    ataagaatgcggccgcttacagttcttccttggttcgcttatcgtcgtcatccttgtaatcatgatgatgatgatgatggttgctatcgacggactgagcNotI

    pRSETminiT/ forward: tttggatcctcggtgcccccgcgc BamHIHis-ERFAD reverse: tctcccatggtcagagctcctctttgttgc NcoIpcDNA3/Koza forward: cgaggtaccaacattgtaatgacccaatctcc KpnIk-ERp44SS-HA-NS�LC reverse: cgatctagactaacactcattcctgttgaagc XbaI

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