Cells were homogenized in RIPA buffer as described17 (link). Nuclear and cytoplasmic extracts were isolated by centrifugation and hypotonic lysis as described18 (link). Antibodies for analyses included: RON (SC-322), Androgen Receptor, (SC-815), Axl (SC-1096), Gas6 (SC-1935), and Tubulin (SC-5286) from Santa Cruz Biotechnology; Src (2110S), phosphor-Src y416 (2101S), Akt (4691S), phosphor-Akt s473 (4060S), phospho-Axl y702 (5724S) and LAMIN A/C (4777S) from Cell Signaling Technologies; phospho-RON y1238/y1239 (AF1947, R&D); ACTIN (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Clone C4). Peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibodies (Jackson Laboratories) were applied, and membranes were developed using Pierce ECL2 Western Blotting substrate (ThermoFisher Scientific). Membranes were stripped using Restore Western Blot Stripping Buffer (ThermoFisher Scientific) before re-probing. The Proteome Profiler Mouse Phospho-RTK Array Kit (ARY014, R&D) was used on whole tumor lysates and performed according to manufacturer’s instructions.