Table 2. In vitro digestion of NMDA-R associated proteins by resident calpain-1 in isolated NR1 immunoprecipitates.
Resident calpain-1 substrates | ||||
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Conditions | HSP90 | NR2B | 160 kD nNOS | 130 kD nNOS |
Control | 100 ± 6 | 100 ± 8 | 80 ± 6 | 22 ± 6 |
Vehicle | 100 ± 8 | 100 ± 8 | 86 ± 5 | 18 ± 7 |
CaCl2 (1 mM) | 80 ± 8 | 27 ± 8 | 32 ± 7 | 58 ± 8 |
CaCl2 (1mM) + CI-1 (1 μM) | 100 ± 5 | 96 ± 8 | 79 ± 7 | 24 ± 6 |
SK-N-BE cells were lysed and the deoxycholate-soluble cell fraction was prepared, as described in Methods. The samples were submitted to immunoprecipitation using anti-NR1 antibody. The immunoprecipitated material was left untreated (Control) or incubated in the indicated conditions for 30 min at 37°C and then analyzed by immunoblotting for the listed proteins. The data shown are the quantification of the immunoreactive signals expressed as arbitrary units (means ± SD of five different experiments).