Figure 3.

Phosphorylation state of His-pro-uPAwt and His-prouPA138E/303E vs untagged pro-uPAwt in A431 stable clones. Subconfluent A431 cells, stably overexpressing His-pro-uPAwt (A) or His-pro-uPA138E/303E (B), have been metabolically labeled with either [35S]methionine or with [32P]phosphate for 18 h. The resulting conditioned medium was subjected to Ni-NTA chromatography to recover the histidine-tagged pro-uPAs. The Ni-NTA excluded proteins were incubated with 5B4 anti-uPA antibody to isolate untagged pro-uPAwt. Each sample, deriving from 0.5 × 106 cells, has been analyzed onto a 12.5% SDS-PAGE under reducing conditions.