Journal: Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Article Title: Fluorescence-Based Real-Time Analysis of Osteoclast Development

doi: 10.3389/fcell.2021.657935

Figure Lengend Snippet: Effect of Lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) in the FRAMCO1.1 and FRAMCO1.2 assays. (A–F) Time course of changes in total (tdTomato + eGFP) fluorescent area (A,D) , green (eGFP-positive) fluorescent area (B,E) or in the green area as percentage of the total fluorescent area (C,F) in the absence or presence of 400 μM lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) as detected in Ctsk-Cre/mTmG (FRAMCO1.1, A–C ) or Ctsk-Cre + mTmG (FRAMCO1.2, D–F ) osteoclast cultures. (G–I) Dose-response curves of the FRAMCO1.1 and FRAMCO1.2 assays showing total fluorescent area (G) , green (eGFP-positive) fluorescent area (H) and the latter as percentage of the former (I) on Day 5 in the presence of the indicated LPC-concentrations. Values in (G–I) are shown as percentage of the controls not treated with LPC. Mean and SEM of six independent experiments is shown.

Article Snippet: For inhibitor studies, 12:0 lysophosphatidylcholine (1-lauroyl-2-hydroxy-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine, referred to as LPC) was obtained from Avanti ® , dissolved in sterile water and added to the cultures at the indicated final concentrations.

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Journal: The Journal of biological chemistry

Article Title: Nerve growth factor-stimulated B-Raf catalytic activity is refractory to inhibition by cAMP-dependent protein kinase.

doi: 10.1074/jbc.274.19.13193

Figure Lengend Snippet: FIG. 3. The catalytic activity of B-Rafcat is inhibited by co- transfection of PKAcat in PC12 cells. A, a plasmid encoding B- Rafcat-GST was expressed in PC12 cells in the absence (2PKA) or presence (1PKA) of co-transfected PKAcat. MEK kinase activity of the glutathione-Sepharose-purified proteins was determined as described in Fig. 2. An anti-B-Raf immunoblot analysis of the samples used for the MEK kinase assay indicates that an equal amount of B-Rafcat-GST fusion protein was present in each reaction. B, a histogram summariz- ing the inhibitory effect of PKAcat on B-Rafcat activity in transfected PC12 cells from four independent experiments. The error bar indicates the standard deviation of the mean.

Article Snippet: PC12 B-Raf was immunopurified from NGF-stimulated PC12 cells by incubating 100 mg of total cell lysate protein with 2 mg of anti-B-Raf IgG (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) and 30 ml of a 1:1 slurry of protein G Plus-Agarose (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) at 4 °C for 1 h. The immune complex was washed as described above.

Techniques: Activity Assay, Cotransfection, Plasmid Preparation, Transfection, Purification, Western Blot, Kinase Assay, Standard Deviation

Journal: The Journal of biological chemistry

Article Title: Nerve growth factor-stimulated B-Raf catalytic activity is refractory to inhibition by cAMP-dependent protein kinase.

doi: 10.1074/jbc.274.19.13193

Figure Lengend Snippet: FIG. 4. Activated B-Raf is not inhibited by PKA in vitro. A, activated B-Raf was immunoprecipitated from NGF-stimulated PC12 cells and incubated in the absence (2PKA) or presence (1PKA) of PKA in vitro. Raf-1 was isolated from immature Xenopus oocytes, activated with purified PKC, and subsequently treated in the presence or absence of PKA. MEK kinase activity of the B-Raf and Raf-1 proteins was measured as described in the legend to Fig. 2. In this experiment, B-Raf was activated by NGF to levels 4-fold higher than the activity of B-Raf in unstimulated PC12 cells. Raf-1 was activated by PKC 12.9-fold higher than the level of Raf-1 in immature Xenopus oocytes. KN-MEK, kinase-negative MEK. B, histograms summarizing the inhibitory effect of PKA on NGF-stimulated B-Raf activity and PKC-stimulated Raf-1 activity from three independent experiments. The error bars indicate the standard errors of the mean.

Article Snippet: PC12 B-Raf was immunopurified from NGF-stimulated PC12 cells by incubating 100 mg of total cell lysate protein with 2 mg of anti-B-Raf IgG (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) and 30 ml of a 1:1 slurry of protein G Plus-Agarose (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) at 4 °C for 1 h. The immune complex was washed as described above.

Techniques: In Vitro, Immunoprecipitation, Incubation, Isolation, Purification, Activity Assay

Journal: The Journal of biological chemistry

Article Title: Nerve growth factor-stimulated B-Raf catalytic activity is refractory to inhibition by cAMP-dependent protein kinase.

doi: 10.1074/jbc.274.19.13193

Figure Lengend Snippet: FIG. 5. Full-length B-Raf is activated by co-expressed PKAcat in PC12 cells. Full-length B-Raf-GST was expressed in PC12 cells in the absence (2PKA) or presence (1PKA) of co-transfected PKAcat. A, B-Raf immunoblot analysis of glutathione-Sepharose affinity-purified lysates performed in the absence of bacterially expressed kinase-nega- tive MEK. B, MEK kinase activity of glutathione-Sepharose-purified proteins was measured as described in the legend to Fig. 2. The histo- gram summarizes the stimulatory effect of PKAcat on B-Raf-GST from three independent experiments. The error bar indicates the standard error of the mean.

Article Snippet: PC12 B-Raf was immunopurified from NGF-stimulated PC12 cells by incubating 100 mg of total cell lysate protein with 2 mg of anti-B-Raf IgG (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) and 30 ml of a 1:1 slurry of protein G Plus-Agarose (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) at 4 °C for 1 h. The immune complex was washed as described above.

Techniques: Transfection, Western Blot, Affinity Purification, Activity Assay, Purification