Cells in culture were starved for 16 h in D-MEM/0.1% FBS and treated as follows: 10 or 40 ng/ml PMA plus 1 μg/ml ionomycin (Iono) for 15-30 minutes; 50 nM of Calphostin C for 30-60 min followed or not by PMA/Iono 30 min; 5 or 10 μM LY294002 for 1 h; 10, 25 or 50 μM PD98059 for 1 h; 1 or 10 μM SB20358 for 30 min; 50 ng/ml KT5720 for 30 min; or DMSO (solvent); and 10 nM IGF-1 (Millipore Co. Billerica, MA, USA) (Luo et al., 2005 (link)) or water (IGF-1 solvent) for 1 h. The amount of DMSO used was never higher than 0.1%. After treatment, cells were washed and used for isolation of nuclear extracts.