Figure 5.
Effects of D609 on trafficking and degradation of HER2 receptor molecules in SKBr3 cells. (a) CLSM analyses of SKBr3 cells, incubated for the indicated time intervals with the PC-PLC inhibitor D609 (50 μg/mL) and then fixed and stained with the α-HER2 mAb W6/100 (red) and α-Rab5B Ab (green, panels a through d) or α-Lamp 2 Ab (green, panels e through h). Nuclei were stained with DAPI (blue). Scale bars, 8 μm. (b) Western blot analyses of total lysates of SKBr3 cells either untreated or incubated with D609 for 6 and 24 hours. The blots were incubated with α-HER2 or α-PC-PLC Abs. Actin was used as quantitative loading control. Experiments shown in panels a and b were independently repeated 3 and 4 times, respectively.