To investigate the effect of
GPR83 of MC3R signalling, we performed
in vitro assays in transiently transfected HEK293 cells maintained in Dulbecco’s modified eagle medium
(high glucose DMEM, GIBCO, 41965) supplemented with 10%
fetal bovine serum (GIBCO, 10270), 1% GlutaMAX
™ (100X) (GIBCO, 35050), and 100 units/mL
penicillin and 100 mg/mL
streptomycin (Sigma-Aldrich, P0781). Cells were incubated at 37°C in humidified air containing 5% CO2 and transfections were performed using
Lipofectamine 2000 (GIBCO, 11668) in serum-free
Opti-MEM I medium (GIBCO, 31985), according to the manufacturer’s protocols. The plasmids used encode the C-FLAG-tagged human
GPR83 WT (NM_016540.4) or N-FLAG-tagged human MC3R WT (NM_019888.3) ligated into
pcDNA3.1(+) (Invitrogen).
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