Example 10
Lysis was performed using RIPA buffer (Thermo Scientific) supplemented with protease inhibitor cocktail (Roche). QuickStart Bradford protein assay (BioRad) was used to determine protein concentration with BSA as standard. Equal amounts of total protein were mixed with NuPAGE lithium dodecyl sulphate (LDS) and sample reducing buffer (Thermo Scientific), heated for 5 min at 95° C. and loaded into NuPAGE 10% or 12% Bis-Tris gels (Life Technologies) for electrophoresis. Separated proteins were transferred onto nitrocellulose membranes using iBlot 2 gel transfer device (Thermo Scientific). Blocking was performed with 5% milk or bovine serum albumin (BSA) in tris-buffered saline supplemented with 0.1% tween (TBST). AKT (4298S), ERK1/2 (4348S), p-AKT (9271S), and p-ERK (8544S) antibodies were from Cell Signaling Technology. RON antibody was made in-house and Actin-HRP (A3854) was from Sigma-Aldrich. Anti-rabbit (P0217) and anti-mouse (P0161) secondary antibodies were from Dako. The enhanced chemiluminescence (ECL) reagent used was SuperSignal West Dura Extended Duration Substrate (Thermo Scientific, #34076). Imaging and acquisition was performed with Licor Odyssey Fc and Image Studio (version 3.1).