Journal: Journal of Biological Chemistry
Article Title: Transforming Growth Factor-β1 Stimulates Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor 164 via Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Kinase 3-p38α and p38δ Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase-dependent Pathway in Murine Mesangial Cells
doi: 10.1074/jbc.m403758200
Figure Lengend Snippet: FIG. 6. Inhibition of TGF-1-stimulated the VEGF164 isoform by dominant negative mutants of p38 and p38 in murine me- sangial cells. Wild-type mouse mesangial cells transfected with empty vector (pcDNA3.1), dominant negative mutant of p38 (p38 dnm), or dominant negative mutant of p38 (p38 dnm), were incubated in the absence () or in the presence () of exogenous TGF-1 (2 ng/ml) for 24 h. Total cell lysates were isolated and subjected to Western blot anal- yses using polyclonal anti-VEGF antibodies, as described under “Ex- perimental Procedures.” As loading controls, the same cell lysates were subjected to immunoblotting with mouse monoclonal anti--tubulin antibodies.
Article Snippet: VEGF (147) rabbit polyclonal antibodies and -tubulin antibodies were obtained from Santa Cruz Biotechnology.
Techniques: Inhibition, Dominant Negative Mutation, Transfection, Plasmid Preparation, Incubation, Isolation, Western Blot