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Memerald lifeact

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MEmerald-Lifeact is a fluorescent protein construct that can be used to visualize actin filaments in live cells. It consists of the Lifeact peptide fused to the mEmerald fluorescent protein.

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Fluorescently Tagged Podosome Proteins

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Human myo1e and myo1f constructs tagged with EGFP have been previously described (Barger et al., 2019 (link)). mEmerald-Lifeact was a gift from Michael Davidson (Addgene #54148). Cofilin-EGFP was a gift from James Bamburg (Addgene #50859). Chicken regulatory light chain (RLC) tagged with EGFP was a gift from Klaus Hahn. WASP tagged with myc was a gift from Dianne Cox, and was subcloned into a pUB-Halo-C1 vector. CMV-GFP-NMHCII-A was a gift from Robert Adelstein (Addgene #11347). ARP3-mCherry (Addgene #27682) and mCherry-cortactin (Addgene #27676) were gifts from Christien Merrifield that were subcloned into EGFP-C1 and mEmerald-C1, respectively. Chicken paxillin was a gift from Chris Turner, which was subcloned into mScarlet-i-C1. Chicken vinculin was a gift from Kenneth Yamada (Addgene #50513) and subcloned into pUB-mEmerald-C1. Immunohistochemical staining to determine localization of select podosome-related proteins in relation to the actin teeth did not produce good results, which may be due to the adhesive and porous nature of the IgG-functionalized DAAMPs. As an alternative, we transfected the RAW macrophages with fluorescently tagged proteins. All transfections were accomplished by electroporation (Neon) using the manufacturer’s instructions.
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Fluorescent Myosin Constructs in Cells

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Human myosin 1e and truncated constructs tagged with EGFP have been previously described78 (link). Human myosin 1f (NM_012335.3) cDNA from the Mammalian Gene Consortium was amplified and cloned into pEGFP-C1 (Clontech). Both myosins were also cloned into mEmerald-C1 and tdTomato-C1 (gifts from Michael Davidson; Addgene plasmids #53975 and 54653) and mScarlet-C1. The following constructs were purchased from Addgene: EGFP-PLCδ-PH, EGFP-AKT-PH, and EGFP-PKCδ-C1 (gifts from Tobias Meyer, plasmids #211789, 21218, and 21216), mScarlet-PM (gift from Dorus Gadella, #98821), EGFP-VAMP3 (a gift from Thierry Galli, #42310), Ruby-Lifeact, mEGFP-Lifeact, mEmerald-Lifeact and EGFP-actin (gifts from Michael Davidson, #54674, #54610, #54148, and #56421). EGFP-FcγRIIA was a gift from Sergio Grinstein (Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto, ON), and EGFP-TAPP1 was a gift from Aaron Marshall (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB). YFP-myo1c and EGFP-myo1g were gifts from Matt Tyska (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN) that were cloned into mEmerald-C1. All primers used for construct generation are listed in Supplementary Table 1.
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Fluorescence Imaging of Podosome Proteins

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Human myo1e and myo1f constructs tagged with EGFP, mEmerald-C1, or mScarlet-C1 have been previously described 12 . mEmerald-Lifeact was a gift from Michael Davidson (Addgene #54148). Chicken regulatory light chain (RLC) tagged with EGFP was a gift from Klaus Hahn. WASP tagged with myc was a gift from Dianne Cox, and was subcloned into pUB-Halo-C1 vector.
CMV-GFP-NMHCII-A was a gift from Robert Adelstein (Addgene #11347). ARP3-mCherry (Addgene #27682) and mCherry-cortactin (Addgene #27676) were gifts from Christien Merrifield that were subcloned into EGFP-C1 and mEmerald-C1, respectively. Chicken paxillin was a gift from Chris Turner, which was subcloned into mScarlet-i-C1. Chicken vinculin was a gift from Kenneth Yamada (Addgene #50513) and subcloned into pUB-mEmerald-C1.
Immunohistochemical staining to determine localization of select podosome-related proteins in relation to the actin teeth did not produce good results, which may be due to the adhesive and porous nature of the IgG-functionalized DAAMPs. As an alternative, we transfected the RAW macrophages with fluorescently tagged proteins. All transfections were accomplished by electroporation (Neon) using the manufacturer's instructions.
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Fluorescent Protein Transfection Protocol

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FusionRed-F-tractin has been previously described [3 (link)]. EGFP-F-tractin (no. 58473), mEmerald (no. 53975), LifeAct-mEmerald (no. 54148), mScarlet-I (no. 85044), and LifeAct-mScarlet-I (no. 85054) were obtained from Addgene (Watertown, MA). 1 μg of plasmid was used to transfect 750,000 cells in each well of a 6-well plate using Lipofectamine 2000 (5 μL; Thermo Fisher Scientific) in OptiMEM (400 μL; Thermo Fisher Scientific). After 30 min at room temperature, plasmid in Lipofectamine 2000/OptiMEM was then incubated with cells in complete media (2 mL) overnight.
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Transfection of LifeAct-mEmerald and GCaMP6s

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LifeAct-mEmerald (no. 54148) and GCaMP6s (no. 40753) were obtained from Addgene (Watertown, MA). Eevee-ROCK was kindly provided by Dr. Michiyuki Matsuda (Kyoto University). 1 μg of plasmid was used to transfect 750,000 cells in each well of a 6-well plate using Lipofectamine 2000 (5 μL; Thermo Fisher) in OptiMEM (400 μL; Thermo Fisher). After 20 min at room temperature, plasmid in Lipofectamine 2000/OptiMEM was then incubated with cells in complete media (2 mL) overnight.
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