All drugs used in this study were dissolved in DMSO, diluted into culture medium and the medium sterile filtered prior to use. The LRRK2 kinase inhibitors LRRK2-In1 and GSK2578215A were from Merck and R&D Systems, respectively. The Rab7 GTPase inhibitor, CID 1067700 (Agola et al., 2012 (link)) was from EMD Millipore. The NAADP antagonist trans-Ned-19 was synthesised as described previously (Naylor et al., 2009). Ned-K is an analogue of Ned-19 in which the fluoride has been replaced with a cyano group. Its synthesis will be described elsewhere. Both Ned-19 and Ned-K were kind gifts from A. Ganesan (School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, UK), Raj Gossain (School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, UK) and Sean M. Davidson (Hatter Institute, UCL, UK). The PIKfyve inhibitor, YM-201636 was from Cambridge Bioscience. BAPTA-AM and EGTA-AM were from Sigma.
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