Fig. 1.

GM2AP is not detected in the patient's cultured fibroblasts by Western blot.

Either 40 or 50 μg of total protein extracted from cultured fibroblasts of the patient or normal healthy controls (N = 2) were resolved on SDS PAGE gels, transferred to nitrocellulose membrane and hybridized with anti-GM2AP antibody. A mature ~ 20 kDa GM2AP band was detected in control fibroblasts but not in the patient's fibroblasts. The two bands detected in the protein extract of Cos7 cells transfected with a plasmid encoding GM2AP correspond to the mature ~ 20 kDa protein and its ~ 22 kDa precursor. α-Tubulin was used as a loading control.