Journal: Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
Article Title: The secreted inhibitor of invasive cell growth CREG1 is negatively regulated by cathepsin proteases
doi: 10.1007/s00018-020-03528-5
Figure Lengend Snippet: CREG1 changes upon Ctsb expression. a CREG1 abundance is increased in both co-cultures having Mϕ Ctsb −/− ; Ctsz −/− , as well as in the TIF of PyMT +/0 ; Ctsb −/− ; Ctsz −/− mice in MS proteomics studies. b Increased abundance is also observed by western blot using the CCM of co-cultures of tumor cell/macrophage deficient of both Ctsb and Ctsz and in co-cultures of wild-type tumor cells with Mϕ Ctsb −/− ; Ctsz −/− . c In the TIF, the abundance of CREG1 changes upon Ctsb expression. CREG1 is increased in the TIF of PyMT +/0 ; Ctsb −/− ; Ctsz +/+ mice, as well as in PyMT +/0 ; Ctsb −/− ; Ctsz −/− mice, but decreased in the TIF with the transgenic expression of human CTSB (Tg(CTSB) +/0 ). CCM cell-conditioned media, TIF tumor interstitial fluid, Mϕ macrophage, wt wild type, dKO deficient from both Ctsb and Ctsz
Article Snippet: After blocking of membranes with 4% non-fat milk in PBS-Tween, they were incubated with primary antibodies goat anti-mouse CREG1 (R&D systems, Minneapolis, MN, USA; AF1697), goat anti-mouse CTSB (R&D systems; BAF965), goat anti-human CTSB (R&D systems; AF953), goat anti-mouse CTSZ (R&D systems; BAF1033), or mouse anti-alpha-tubulin (Sigma-Aldrich; T9026) overnight at 4 °C.
Techniques: Expressing, Western Blot, Transgenic Assay