To halt the culture, media was removed from the cells and lysis buffer (9 M urea, 1 mM sodium orthovanadate, 20 mM HEPES, 2.5 mM sodium pyrophosphate, 1 mM β-glycerophosphate, pH 8.0) was added to the cells. Lysates were prepared from the co-culture of CAF and SKOV3ip1 for 4 hours or the control cells with lysates of CAF alone and SKOV3ip1 alone mixed together. Lysates were sonicated at a 30 watt output with 2 bursts of 30 seconds each and cleared at 20,000×g for 15 minutes at 4°C. Lysates were reduced with 45 mM DTT for 20 minutes at 60°C, and alkylated with 100 mM iodoacetamide for 15 minutes at room temperature in the dark. Lysates were then diluted 4-fold with 20 mM HEPES buffer, pH 8.0 and digested with
TPCK-treated trypsin (Worthington, Lakewood, NJ) in a 1:1 (w/w)
trypsin:protein ratio overnight at room temperature. Tryptic peptides were acidified to pH 2.0 with 20% trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), cleared at 1,800×g for 5 minutes at room temperature, and desalted using
C18 Sep-Pak plus cartridges (Waters, Milford, MA). Eluents containing peptides were lyophilized for 48 hours to dryness. Peptide immunoprecipitation was performed using
p-Tyr-100 phosphotyrosine antibody beads (Cell Signaling Technology) as previously described (Helou et al., 2013 (
link)).
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