Frozen cell pellets were dissolved in Laemmlie-buffer (60 mM Tris-HCl, 10% glycerol, 2% SDS, 10% β-mercaptoethanol, 0.01% bromophenol blue; pH 6.8) (10 µl buffer per 100,000 cells) and subjected to sonication (3–5 s on ice with a
UP50H sonicator equipped with an MS1 sonotrode) (Hielscher, Teltow, Germany). Samples were then heated to 89°C for 3 min, spun for 5 min at room temperature and the supernatants used for standard SDS-PAGE with 12% gels. Wet blotting was carried out in Mini Trans-Blot modules (Bio-Rad Laboratories) using nitrocellulose membranes and blotting buffer (20% v/v methanol, 25 mM Tris-HCl, 192 mM glycine, pH 8.6). The following antibodies were used for target detection:
anti-ERK1/2 (Cell Signaling Technology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; no. 9102),
anti-ERK1/2 (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Heidelberg, Germany; sc-94),
anti-phospho-ERK1/2 (Cell Signaling Technology; no. 9101), anti-tubulin (Biozol, Eching, Germany; BZL03568). The secondary antibodies were from Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories (Newmarket, UK):
anti-rat-HRP (112-036-062),
anti-rabbit HRP (111-036-045). A freshly made solution of luminol (2.5 mM), p-coumaric acid (0.2 mM) and H
2O
2 (0.01%) in 100 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.8) was used for chemiluminescent detection [29] (
link).
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