Baculoviruses
carrying either
the reference or variant SLCO1B1 and sodium butyrate
(5 mM final concentration) were added to the HEK293 cells after the
cells were cultured for 24 h in T175 flasks. After 48 h of culturing,
the cells were pelleted by centrifugation (3000g,
15 min) and broken down using a Dounce tissue homogenizer and resuspended
in Tris-sucrose (TS) buffer (10 mM Tris-HEPES, 250 mM sucrose, pH
7.4) while being kept on ice. The cell homogenate was centrifuged
for 30 min (3220 g, 4 °C), separating the larger cellular organelles
and the nucleus in the pellet. The resulting supernatant was subsequently
separated into new tubes and centrifuged (21,000g, 4 °C, 99 min) again, resulting in a pellet containing the
crude cell membrane. The protein sample was suspended in TS buffer,
and the total protein concentration was quantified as previously described.
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