Whole mount cryosections were prepared for immunofluorescence microscopy as previously described (Ridky et al., 2010 (
link)). In short, slides were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde or −20°C methanol, permeabilized as required and blocked with 10% horse serum/PBS, followed by incubation with primary antibodies and secondary antibodies conjugated to fluorophores. Slides were mounted with
Prolong Gold Antifade Reagent with DAPI (Life Technologies, Grand Island, NY). The primary antibodies used in this study were
keratin-5,
keratin-10,
loricrin, and
filaggrin (Covance, Conshohocken, PA),
Collagen VII (Millipore, Billerica, MA),
involucrin (Sigma, St. Louis, MO), phospho-S6 (235/236), phospho-S6 (240/244), cleaved caspase-3, cleaved caspase-8, LC3A (Cell Signaling, Danvers, MA), p-PKC∂1 (Cell Signaling, Danvers, MA), TFAM (gift from C. Cameron, Penn State University),
cytochrome c (BD Pharmingen, San Diego, CA), TRF2 (R & D Systems, Minneapolis, MN) and ki67 (ThermoScientific, Fremont, CA).
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