Journal: PLoS ONE
Article Title: Functional Interactions between BM88/Cend1, Ran-Binding Protein M and Dyrk1B Kinase Affect Cyclin D1 Levels and Cell Cycle Progression/Exit in Mouse Neuroblastoma Cells
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082172
Figure Lengend Snippet: ( a ) Neuro 2a cells were transiently single- and double-transfected with: Dyrk1B, pCAG-Cend1-IRES-GFP, RanBPM, RanBPM and Dyrk1B, RanBPM and pCAG-Cend1-IRES-GFP expression plasmids, as indicated. Cells were allowed 16 h for protein expression and were then induced to differentiate by treatment with 20 μM RA/ 2% FCS for 48 h after which they were fixed and immunofluorescently labeled for Dyrk1B, Cend1, RanBPM and the neuronal differentiation marker βIII-tubulin (Tuj1 antibody). Note that Cend1 is co-expressed with GFP (v, vi) which serves for visualization of Cend1-positive cells (vi, xviii). Scale bar: 40 μm. ( b ) Quantification of the mean neurite length in single and double-transfected cells (as indicated) as well as in non-transfected cells in each group. Different groups were compared by one-way ANOVA followed by Student's t-test. ***Student’s t-test: p<0.001, **: p<0.01, *: p<0.05, n= 3. Error bars represent SEM. #: represents statistically significant differences between transfected and non-transfected cells in the same group, while *: represents statistically significant differences among different groups.
Article Snippet: Other antibodies also used in this study were rabbit polyclonal antibodies against β-tubulin (sc-9104), α-actin and β-actin (sc-1615), mouse monoclonal antibody against βIII-tubulin (Tuj1; Covance, MMS-435P), mouse monoclonal antibody against green fluorescent protein (GFP) (Invitrogen), rabbit polyclonal against phospho-histone 3 (PH3) (Upstate) and goat polyclonal antibody against Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) (Santa Cruz, sc-20357).
Techniques: Transfection, Expressing, Labeling, Marker