Cell pellets were snap frozen in dry ice–ethanol baths. Lysates were prepared using a
Fastprep cell homogenizer (MP Biomedicals). Immunoprecipitations were performed as previously described (Gould et al., 1991 (
link)) in NP-40 buffer for native lysates. Protein samples were resolved by SDS-PAGE and transferred to PVDF membrane (
Immobilon P; EMD Millipore). Anti-HA (12CA5), anti-Flag (M2; Sigma-Aldrich),
anti-GFP (Roche), anti-Cdc15 serum (Roberts-Galbraith et al., 2009 (
link)), or anti-PSTAIRE (Cdc2; Sigma-Aldrich) were used in immunoprecipitations and/or as primary antibodies in immunoblotting. Secondary antibodies were conjugated to
IRDye680LT or
IRDye800 (LI-COR Biosciences). Blotted proteins were detected via
Odyssey (LI-COR Biosciences).
Purification of Efr3-TAP and subsequent identification of interacting proteins by mass spectrometry were performed as previously described (Gould et al., 2004 (
link); Chen et al., 2013 (
link); Elmore et al., 2014 (
link)) with the following changes: a newer version of Scaffold (
Scaffold v4.4.1.1; Proteome Software) was used, and the minimum peptide identification probability was changed to 95.0%.
All ANOVA statistical analyses used Tukey’s post hoc analysis.
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