Anti dll3 pe

The antibodies used for flow cytometry were: mouse IgG2b-FITC, goat IgG-PE, anti-Jagged1-FITC, anti-Dll3-PE (all from R&D System, Minneapolis, MN, USA), mouse IgG2a-PE, mouse IgG1κ-PE, mouse IgG1-Alexa Fluor 488, anti-Notch1-PE, anti-Notch2-PE, anti-Notch3-PE, anti-Notch4-PE, anti-Dll1-PE, anti-Dll4, (all from Biolegend, San Diego, CA, USA) (DAKO). For blast cell identification, we used anti-CD45-VioBlue, anti-CD45-APC-Vio770, anti-CD34-PerCP, and anti-CD117-APC (Miltenyi Biotec, Germany).

The antibodies used for FACS analysis were: mouse IgG2b-FITC, goat IgG-PE, anti-Jagged1-FITC, anti-Dll3-PE (all from R&D System, Minneapolis, MN), mouse IgG2a-PE, mouse IgG1κ-PE, mouse IgG1-Alexa Fluor 488,anti-Notch1-PE, anti-Notch2-PE, anti-Notch3-PE, anti-Notch4-PE, anti-Dll1-PE, anti-Dll4, anti-Bax-Alexa Fluor 488 (all from Biolegend, San Diego, CA) and rabbit anti-Bcl-2-FITC (DAKO). For leukemia cell identification we used anti-CD45-VioBlue, anti-CD45-APC-Vio770, anti-CD34-PerCP and anti-CD117-APC (all from MiltenyiBiotec, Germany). The antibodies employed for western blot analysis anti-Notch2, anti-Notch4 were from Santa Cruz (Biotechnology, Dallas, TX), anti-GAPDH and HRP conjugated secondary antibodies against mouse, rabbit or goat were from Sigma Aldrich. All the other antibodies used for Western blot were from Cell Signalling. Neutralizing antibodies,all used at a final concentration of 5 μg/ml, were: anti-Notch1, anti-Notch3,anti-Jagged1, anti-Jagged2, anti-Dll1 and anti-Dll4 (R&D Systems); anti-Notch-4 (Santa Cruz Biotechnology); anti-Dll3 (CST, Boston, MA). Recombinant human Jagged-1 and Jagged-2 were from R&D System. GSI-IX (DAPT) was purchased from Stemgent (Cambridge, MA) GSI-XII and SAHM1 were from Merck Millipore (Darmstadt, Germany). Cytarabine (Ara-C), Etoposide (Eto) and Idarubicin (Ida) were provided by Pharmacy Unit of the University Hospital of Verona.