Example 5
20 μL of the pooled fractions from the sucrose gradient was mixed with 20 μL of 5× Annexin V binding buffer (Calbiochem) and made up to a final volume of 100 μL with water. 90 μL of the pooled fraction sample was incubated with 10 μL of Annexin V for 1 hour at room temperature with shaking at 800 rpm.
After washing 100 μl of Dynabeads® M-280 Streptavidin (Invitrogen) three times with 100 μl PBS, the reaction mix was added and incubated with shaking at 800 rpm for 30 mins. The beads were immobilised with a magnet and the supernatant or unbound fraction was removed. The beads were then washed four times with 100 μl PBS and the washes were removed each time after immobilizing the beads with a magnet.
The beads were boiled in 100 μl of a denaturing/reducing SDS-PAGE loading buffer to elute the remaining bound proteins. Equal volume of the unbound fraction, washes, eluted and bound fraction was resolved on 4-12% SDS-polyacrylamide gels. The gels were electroblotted onto a nitrocellulose membrane.
The membrane was probed with 1:50 dilution of mouse anti-human CD9 antibody. The secondary antibody was 1:1250 of HRP conjugated donkey anti-mouse IgG antibody. All antibodies were purchased from Santa Cruz.
The bound antibodies were visualized using HRP-enhanced chemiluminescent substrate (Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Waltham, Mass.) and exposure to an X-ray film.