Total cellular proteins were extracted as described (Sabbir et al., 2010 (link)). The cell lysate was pre-cleared and immunoprecipitated using anti-Dlc1 and anti-Myh9 antibodies as described (Sabbir et al., 2012 (link)). The western blots were immunoblotted with anti-GFP (ab-290), anti-Myh9 (Sc-98978, Santa Cruz Biotechnology (SCBT) Dallas, TX; ARP48072_P050, Aviva Systems Biology, San Diego, CA), anti-phospho-Myh9-Ser-1943 (CST-5026, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA), anti-Plectin (sc-33649, SCBT) and anti-Spectrin, antibodies (Sc-32931,SCBT) and visualized. Immuno-blots were scanned using a Storm 840 PhosphorImager scanner and quantified by densitometry using ImageQuant software (version 1.2; both from Molecular Dynamics, Sunnyvale, CA).
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