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    Ucts have been lysed in lysis buffer containing 0.five Nonidet-P40, protease inhibitor cocktail (Roche) and phosphatase inhibitor cocktails II and III (Sigma-Aldrich) in TBS (30 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.four), 150 mM NaCl) for 20 minutes at 4uC. Immediately after sedimentation of nuclei at ten,0006g for ten minutes, the protein concentration of the cleared lysates was determined by Bradford just Title Loaded From File before equal protein amounts have been transferred to StrepTactin-Superflow beads (IBA) and incubated for 1 hour before the resin was washed 3 times with wash buffer (TBS containing 0.1 NP-40, phosphatase inhibitor cocktail II and III). The protein complexes had been eluted by incubation for ten minutes in Strep-elution buffer (IBA). The eluted samples were combined just before concentration making use of 10 kDa cut-off VivaSpin 500 centrifugal devices (Sartorius Stedim Biotech) and pre-fractionation applying SDS-Page and in-gel tryptic cleavage as described elsewhere [64]. For SF-TAP evaluation, the constructs have been expressed and cells harvested as described above. The cleared supernatant was incubated for a single hour at 4uC with Strep-Tactin superflow (IBA). Subsequently, the resin was washed 3 instances in wash buffer. Protein baits were eluted with Strep-elution buffer. For the second purification step, eluates have been transferred to anti-Flag M2 agarose (Sigma-Aldrich) and incubated for one hour at 4uC. Beads were washed three occasions with wash buffer and proteins eluted with Flag peptide (200 mg/ml, Sigma-Aldrich) in TBS. Soon after purification, samples have been precipitated with chloroform and methanol and subjected to in-solution tryptic cleavage as described before [64].Fluorescence recovery following photobleachingEarly adult worms had been immobilised with 0.1 mm polystyrene microspheres (Polysciences) on a ten agarose pad and covered having a coverslip. Experiments were performed on a Nikon Eclipse Ti microscope fitted having a 10061.4NA Program APO VC objective (Nikon), a 50 mW 488 nm laser, and CSU-X1 spinning disk unit (Yokogawa). Samples were excited making use of the 488 nm laser at 50 and pictures were recorded working with a charge-coupled device camera (iXon EM-CCD, Andor Technologies) controlled by Andor Technologies iQ two.6 application. Samples had been imaged pre-bleach, then bleached making use of a single pulse on the 488 nm laser at one hundred using a dwell time of one hundred ms. Images have been recorded instantly post-bleach, at 15 s, 30 s, 60 s, 120 s, 180 s, 240 s, 360 s, 480 s, and 600 s for intraciliary FRAP experiments, and post-bleach at 15 s, 30 s, 60 s, 120 s, 180 s, 240 s, 300 s, 600 s, 900 s, and 1200 s for periciliary membrane (PCM) and cilium compartment FRAP experiments. For intraciliary FRAP experiments EM achieve was set to 6; for compartment FRAP experiments the EM gain was set to 20, with an exposure time of 50 ms in all experiments. Photos have been imported into ImageJ and converted into a stack. Photobleached and non-photobleached regions from the cilium have been chosen and intensity measured at each timepoint. Right after background subtraction, ratios of bleached:non-bleached regions have been calculated. Ratios were normalised to pre-bleach ratio. Curves have been fitted and half-time recovery calculated usingPLOS Genetics | http://www.plosgenetics.orgMass spectrometry and information analysisLC-MS/MS analysis was performed on an Ultimate3000 RSLCnano HPLC method (Thermo Fisher Scientific) coupled to a LTQ Orbitrap Velos mass spectrometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific) by a nano spray ion source.