Immunofluorescence (IF) was described previously (47 (
link)). After transfection, cells grown on coverslips were fixed in 2% formaldehyde for 15 min, washed 2 times with phosphate buffered saline (PBS) and permeabilized with PBS-Triton X-100 (0.1%). Cells were washed with PBS and with PBS plus (PBS with 0.5% bovine serum albumin (BSA), 0.15% glycine), followed by primary antibody incubation overnight at 4°C. Cells on coverslips were washed with PBS plus for 4 times and were incubated with secondary antibody. After washing with PBS plus and PBS DNA was stained with
DAPI or
Hoechst (Thermo Fisher Scientific) for 5 min followed by washing with PBS. Cover slips were mounted in Vectashield (Agar Scientific).
Mouse anti-v5 primary antibody (Invitrogen) at a 1:10 000 dilution, Rabbit anti-DDX6 primary antibody (Novus) at 1:1000, Alexa 594 anti-mouse (Invitrogen) secondary antibody was diluted as 1:1500, Alexa 633 anti-rabbit (Invitrogen) secondary antibody was diluted as 1:1000. Images were taken by a Leica
sp8 confocal microscope and edited by Fiji.
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