Antibodies used in this study were: anti-LC3 (Thermo Scientific, Waltham, MA, PAI-16930, 1:500 dilution), anti-p62/SQSTM1 (Epitomics, Burlingame, CA, #3340-1, 1:3000 dilution), anti-HSP60 (Epitomics, #1724-1, 1:10000 dilution), anti-caspase-3 (Cell Signaling Technology, #9662, 1:1000 dilution), anti-caspase-9 (Cell Signaling Technology, #9502, 1:1000 dilution), anti-cytochrome c (Epitomics, #2119-1, 1:1000 dilution), anti-HSP60 (Epitomics, #1724-1, 1:3000 dilution), anti-GAPDH (Bioworld, Minneapolis, MN, MB001, 1:5000 dilution) and HRP-conjugated secondary antibodies (Multisciences, Hangzhou, China, GAR007 and GAM007, 1:5000 dilution).
The following reagents, 3-Methyladenine (3-MA, #M9281), chloroquine (CQ, #C6628), z-VAD-fmk (#V116) and trypan blue (#T6146) were all obtained from Sigma-Aldrich (Saint Louis, MO).