× 106C. albicans for various times as described previously
16 . Next, the cells
were rinsed with cold HBSS containing protease and phosphatase inhibitors and
removed from the plate with a cell scraper. After collected the cells by
centrifugation, they were boiled in sample buffer. The lysates were separated by
SDS/PAGE, and the phosphorylated proteins were detected by immunoblotting with
phospho-specific antibodies, including anti-phospho-EphA2 (Cell signaling;
#6347), anti-phospho-Stat3 (Cell signaling; #9134),
anti-phospho-c-Fos (Cell signaling; #5348), anti-phospho-MEK1/2 (Cell
signaling; #9154), anti-phospho-p65 (Cell signaling; # 3033).
The blots were then stripped, and total protein levels and β-actin were
detected by immunoblotting with appropriate antibodies against EphA2 (Cell
signaling; #6997), EphB2 (Cell signaling; #83029), EphA4 (Santa
Cruz; sc-365503), Stat3 (Cell signaling; # 12640), c-Fos (Cell
signaling; # 4384), MEK1/2 (Cell signaling; # 9122), p65 (Cell
signaling; # 8242), and β-actin (Cell signaling # 3700).
The blots were developed using enhanced chemiluminescence and imaged with either
a FluorChem 8900 (Alpha Innotech) or C400 (Azure biosystems) digital imager.