An equal amount of proteins from whole-cell lysates were separated by 4–12% SDS-PAGE and were transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane. Blots were blocked for 1 h with 5% non-fat dry milk and then incubated over night with the following primary antibodies: anti-CA-IX (R&D), anti-N-cadherin, anti-β-catenin and anti-Vimentin (CST-9782), anti-pro-Caspase-3, anti-Cleaved-Caspase-3, anti-AKT (CST-9272), anti-pAKT (CST-9271), anti-ERK (CST-9102), anti-pERK (CST-9101), anti-MMP-2 (CST-33437), anti-CD44 (Abcam), anti-GADPH (G8795) and anti-Actin (A4700). After washing with 0.1% Tween-20 in PBS, the filters were incubated with their respective secondary antibodies for 1 h and analyzed using the ECL system. Densitometric analyses were performed on at least two different expositions to assure the linearity of each acquisition using ImageJ software (v1.46r) [23 (link)].
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