Journal: Frontiers in Immunology
Article Title: Loss of Diacylglycerol Kinase α Enhances Macrophage Responsiveness
doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.722469
Figure Lengend Snippet: Increased expression of macrophage activation markers in Dgka -/- BMDM following LPS or IL4 stimulation. (A) WT and Dgka -/- BMDMs were treated with 500ng/mL LPS or 2ng/mL IL-4 for 24h and assessed by qPCR for changes in Nos2 and Arg1 expression, respectively. (B) Immunoblot depicting protein expression of iNOS in lysates of LPS treated WT and Dgka -/- BMDMs (left) and arginase expression of IL-4 treated BMDMs. Quantification of band intensity normalized to PBS treated WT mice (not shown) are indicated in text below bands. (C) Summary plot depicting quantification of immunoblot band intensity of two independent experiments as in (B) for n = 6 per group. (D) WT and Dgka -/- BMDMs treated with LPS and IL-4 were assessed by qPCR for expression of SOCS1 and SOCS3. In (A–D) samples were normalized to the PBS treated WT control. (E) immunoblot of WT and Dgka -/- BMDM whole cell lysates with anti-DGKα antibody. Each data point represents an individual mouse for n = 3 per group. Error bars: SD. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, ****p < 0.0001; ns, not significant; Two-way ANOVA with Tukey post-hoc test.
Article Snippet: Primary antibodies used were specific to F4/80 (Novus Biologicals, #NB800-404), Iba1 (Novus Biologicals, #NB100-1028), and DGKα (Bioss Antibodies, #BS-14294R).
Techniques: Expressing, Activation Assay, Western Blot