SCs were washed twice with cold PBS and incubated in a lysis buffer (
RIPA, BioTeke, Beijing, China) containing 1 mmol/L protease inhibitor
PMSF (Sigma, St. Louis, MO, USA) and
phosphatase inhibitors (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) on ice, followed by centrifugation at 12,000 g and 4°C for 15 min. Protein concentration was determined using a
Micro BCA Protein Assay Kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Rockford, USA). Protein samples (15 μg) were loaded onto a 10% polyacrylamide gel and transferred onto PVDF membranes using semidry methodology, as previously described [36 (
link)]. Membranes were probed using specific antibodies:
anti-FAK (#3285),
anti-phospho-FAK (Tyr397; #8556),
anti-paxillin (#3283),
anti-phospho-paxillin (Tyr118; #2541),
anti-Akt (#9272) or
anti-phospho-Akt (Ser473; #9271), which were purchased from Cell Signaling Technology (Beverly, MA, USA). Anti-β-actin (AP0060), anti-rabbit IgG (BS13278) and anti-mouse IgG (BS30503) were obtained from Bioworld Technology (Louis Park, MN, USA). The proteins were visualized with the ECL-Plus Western blotting reagent in a
FluorChem M system (Cell BioSciences, San Leandro, CA, USA). Band density was analyzed by Image J (
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/).
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