Immunoprecipitation was performed as described in a previous study [20 (link)]. MCF-7 total cell lysates were precleared with rabbit IgG for 2 h and subsequently immunoprecipitated with an anti-ER alpha antibody (SC8005, Santa Cruz, 1:200) overnight, while rabbit IgG (Santa Cruz, 1:200) was used as the negative control. The bound proteins were analyzed by immunoblotting with an anti-TRIM3 antibody (HAP043396, Sigma, 1:2000). For the overexpression experiment, HEK293 cells were transfected with 5 μg of GFP-TRIM3 (full-length or domain deletion mutants) and ER alpha plasmid (full-length or domain deletion mutants) in 10 cm dishes. Cell lysates were precleared with IgG and subsequently incubated with an anti-GFP (ab290, Abcam, 1:200) antibody, while rabbit IgG was used as the negative control. The bound proteins were analyzed by western blotting.
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