Journal: The Journal of Cell Biology
Article Title: Involvement of Phospholipase Cγ1 in Mouse Egg Activation Induced by a Truncated Form of the C-kit Tyrosine Kinase Present in Spermatozoa
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Figure Lengend Snippet: Expression of PLCγ1 in MII-arrested mouse eggs, and schematic representation of the bacterial fusion proteins containing different PLCγ1 domains. In the schematic representation of PLCγ1 on the top of this figure, brackets identify the regions of PLCγ1 recognized by the two antibodies used for microinjection experiments shown in Table . PH , pleckstrin homology domain; Ca 2 + , EF-hand domain (calcium binding motif); X and Y , split catalytic domain; P and H , split pleckstrin homology domain; SH2 and SH3 , src-homology domains; C2 , Ca 2+ -dependent lipid binding domain. ( A ) Western blot from extracts of COS cells transfected with a PLCγ1 expression vector (50 μg), and from extracts of 50 mouse eggs, probed with the anti-PLCγ1bd antibody, described in the Materials and Methods section, and used for the microinjection experiments shown in Table . ( B ) Bacterial fusion proteins containing different PLCγ1 domains used for the experiments shown in Table . The Coomassie blue staining of a 10% SDS-PAGE gel loaded with affinity-purified GST fusion proteins is shown on the right: lane 1 , GST; lane 2 , GST-PLCγ1-SH2SH2SH3; lane 3 , GST-PLCγ1-SH2SH2; lane 4 , GST-PLCγ1-SH3.
Article Snippet: Plasmid DNAs encoding for GST fusion proteins of bovine PLCγ1 SH2–SH2 and human PLCγ1 SH3 (see Fig. ) in pGEX2T′6 were a kind gift from S. Courtneidge (Sugen, Inc., Redwood City, CA).
Techniques: Expressing, Microinjection, Binding Assay, Western Blot, Transfection, Plasmid Preparation, Staining, SDS Page, Affinity Purification