Journal: The Journal of Neuroscience
Article Title: Glutamate Transporter Coupling to Na,K-ATPase
doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1081-09.2009
Figure Lengend Snippet: Expression of glutamate transporters and Na,K-ATPase and coimmunoprecipitation of GLAST and α2 Na,K-ATPase from α2β2GLAST-transfected HEK-293T cells. A, Western blot (WB) analysis of mock-transfected HEK-293T cells (Mock) showing expression of α1 andα3 Na,K-ATPase (100 kDa) and GLAST (monomer at 65 kDa) and the absence of α2 Na,K-ATPase and little or no GLT-1. Rat forebrain (FB) membranes were used as positive controls. B, Antibodies selective for α2 Na,K-ATPase and GLAST were used to immunoprecipitate the respective proteins from HEK-293T cells cotransfected with GLAST, α2, and β2 Na,K-ATPase cDNAs. The samples were analyzed by Western blots probed with GLAST (left) and α2 Na,K-ATPase-specific (right) antibodies. The α2 subunit of Na,K-ATPase (seen at 100 kDa) coimmunoprecipitated using the GLAST antibody, and, conversely, GLAST (dimer seen at 130 kDa) coimmunoprecipitated using the α2 Na,K-ATPase-specific antibody. SOL., Crude solubilized HEK-293T cells cotransfected with GLAST, α2, and β2 Na,K-ATPase; −AB, negative control excluding antibody in the immunoprecipitation step.
Article Snippet: The blots were then washed three times with wash buffer (0.01 m Tris-HCl, 0.15 m NaCl, and 0.2% Tween 20, pH 8.0) at room temperature, followed by incubation for 2 h with the primary antibodies as follows: anti-GLAST [1:1000, rabbit polyclonal (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) or 1:500, mouse monoclonal antibody (Novocastra Laboratories)], anti-GLT-1 [1:2000, rabbit polyclonal raised against the sequence N(556)GKSADCSVEEEPWKREK(573) of rat GLT-1 (Affinity BioReagents)], nonselective anti-α Na,K-ATPase (1:2000, mouse monoclonal; Affinity BioReagents), anti-α1 Na,K-ATPase (6F, 1:500, mouse monoclonal raised against N-terminal amino acids 27–55; University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA), anti-α2 Na,K-ATPase (1:2000, rabbit polyclonal; Millipore Bioscience Research Reagents), anti-α3 Na,K-ATPase (1:2000, mouse monoclonal clone XVIF9-G10; Affinity BioReagents), anti-β2 Na,K-ATPase (1:1000, mouse monoclonal clone 35; BD Biosciences), and anti-c- myc (1:1000, mouse monoclonal clone 9E10 raised against amino acids 408–437 of the leucine zipper region of human Myc; Millipore).
Techniques: Expressing, Transfection, Western Blot, Negative Control, Immunoprecipitation