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Fig. 4. Activated MAP-kinase levels in wild-type and sur-6(sv30) mutant
backgrounds. Western blots were performed using L4 animals. Membranes were
probed with MAPK-YT antibody (Sigma) specific for dually phosphorylated MAP
kinase, then stripped and reprobed with K23 antibody (Santa Cruz
Biotechnology) which detects total MAP kinase for use as a loading control.
Experiments were carried out in triplicate. (A) One representative western
blot is shown. The mpk-1/map-kinase gene produces a 45 kDa
soma-specific isoform in larvae (M. H. Lee and T. Schedl, personal
communication). MAPK-YT reactive bands were absent in mek-2(h294lf)
animals (Ohmachi et al.,
2002). lin-45(ku112) animals were included as a positive
control for reduced MPK-1 ERK phosphorylation. (B) Quantitation of three
independent western blots was carried out using a BioRad GS670 imaging
densitometer. Bands visualized by the K23 antibody were used as the loading
control for the normalization of intensities of the bands visualized by the
use of MAPK-YT.