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in HFF monolayers. Toxoplasma Multi-Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Complex Immunouorescence assays For labeling, HFFs grown on cover-slips infected with parasites were treated as described previously with the following modifications. Coverslips were incubated for 1 h with the primary antibodies anti-Myc, antiHA or anti-TgQRS rabbit polyclonal antibodies, followed by the secondary antibodies goat anti-mouse IgG or goat anti-rabbit IgG coupled with either Alexa Fluor 568 or Alexa Fluor 488 dye at a 1:1,000 dilution. Toxoplasma anti-TgSUMO labels parasite nucleus. Immunoprecipitation of recombinantly tagged MARS subunits Cell-free extracts containing FLAG-tagged proteins were prepared as follows: extracellular parasites from twenty 500 cm2 flasks were lysed in 7 mL of BC100 buffer with the addition of a protease inhibitor cocktail using a Dounce homogenizer. The lysate was centrifuged twice at 21,000 g for 10 min at 4uC. The supernatant was then incubated with 200 mL anti-FLAG M2 affinity gel for 1 hour. Beads were then washed with 5 column volumes washing buffer, followed by 5 CV of washing buffer with 500 mM KCl and finally another 5 CV of low-salt wash PubMed ID:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19630074 buffer, DM 1 site before bound polypeptides were eluted with two CV of wash buffer containing 250 mg/mL FLAG peptide. to plate surface area. Following size-exclusion chromatographic separations, eluted fractions were separated by SDS-PAGE and then electro-blotted onto polyvinylidene fluoride membrane with the XCell IITM Blot Module as per the instructions. Membranes were then probed with a 1:4000 dilution of the anti-TgQRS antiserum or a 1:1000 dilution of an anti-FLAG antibody. The blots were developed with the SuperSignal West Pico Chemiluminescent Substrate kit and imaged on the C-DiGit Blot Scanner. The anti-Tg-QRS rabbit polyclonal antibodies PubMed ID:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19631915 were raised against recombinant E. coli derived Tg-QRS protein by Eurogentec following their Speedy 28-day protocol and the final bleed was used for blotting. Electron Microscopy Immunoprecipitation eluents of YRS-HA-FLAG, from 17 500 cm2 flasks using 0.4 ml anti-FLAG resin, were concentrated to 100 ml by ultrafiltration with a 10 kDa MWCO centrifugal unit. Samples were then diluted by 1:5 in 25 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.5, 150 mM NaCl before application of 3.5 ml onto copper electron microscope grids coated with a plasma-treated thin carbon support films. Staining was accomplished with 2% uranyl acetate solution using the droplet method and electron micrographs were recorded by a Gatan ORIUS 2.7 k62.7 k CCD camera at a nominal magnification of 25 000 times using a JEOL 1200 EX II microscope operating at 100 kV. Particle images were manually selected and windowed from 50 micrographs using SIGNATURE. Rotational averages were calculated in EMAN1 following pre-centring and the radial profile was plotted from the resulting total average in ImageJ. Iterative reference-free averaging in EMAN was used to generate the representative average of a manually selected sub-set of images and iterative reference-free classification produced the class averages for heterogeneity assessment. Size-exclusion chromatography Immunoprecipitation eluates were concentrated to,100 ml by ultra-filtration with a 10 kDA molecular weight cut-off filter before loading onto a Superdex 200 10/300 GL column using the AKTA Purifier system. Separations were carried out in 25 mM Tris pH 7.5, 150 mM KCl, 10% glycerol, 10 mM MgCl2 at 4uC with a flow rate of 0.5 mL/min and fractions were collected every minut