Two-dimensionl electrophoresis is a powerful tool to analyze differential protein expression levels with or without 250 μg/mL SBE treatment according to previously described procedures [50 (link)] which have been both high sensitivity and efficacy. The cell lysate (180 μg) was applied to 18-cm IPG, pH 4–7 linear strip (GE Healthcare, Uppsala, Sweden) and separated on the IPGphor III System for the first dimension. The 2-DE was carried out on 10% acrylamide gels (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA) and the gels were visualized by silver staining. Protein spots were quantified using the Prodigy SameSpots software (Nonlinear Dynamics version 1, Newcastle, UK). More than 1.5-fold alterations at 95% confidence interval (p < 0.05) were considered statistically significant. All experiments were repeated three times to confirm reproducibility.
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