The following reagents were used:
Matrigel (BD Bioscience),
DAPI/Antifade solution (CHEMICON International, Inc),
Cell Tracker Green CMFDA (Invitrogen, Tokyo, Japan),
Vybrant FAM caspase-3 and -7 assay kit (Molecular Probes),
MTT (3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2H-tetrazolium bromide (Sigma-Aldrich),
DAPI/Antifade solution (Millipore, Temecula, CA),
chloroquine (Tocris Bioscience), complete protease inhibitor cocktail (Roshe Diagnostics,Germany),
PMSF (Sigma-Aldrich). Molecular weight markers were from Thermo Scientific: 14.4–116.0 kDa (#26610) and 10–250 kDa (#26619).
Antibodies against human LC3A/B, MDM2, Bax and tubulin were from Abcam, p53 and Bcl-2 were from Sigma-Aldrich, and anti-RL2 was from BioSan-R (Novosibirsk, Russia). The secondary antibodies used in this study were HRP-conjugated goat anti-mouse and goat anti-rabbit (BioSan-R, Novosibirsk, Russia) or
FITC-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG (Sigma-Aldrich).
The recombinant analogue of lactaptin RL2 was obtained from
E.coli and purified as described previously [3] (
link). The 98% purity of the isolated protein was confirmed by RP-HPLC chromatography on C5 reverse phase column (
Discovery BIO Wide Pore C5, Sigma) in water (0.5% TFA)-acetonitil solvent system using
HPLC Station (Bio-RAD Laboratories) as well as by RP-HPLC on C18 (ProntosSIL) using Milichrom A-02 station (EcoNova, Russia).
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