Nuclear extracts were prepared from livers of rats subjected to 48 hr fasting (F) or 48 hr fasting followed by 6 hr refeeding (R). Immunoprecipitations were carried out with agarose beads conjugated with the indicated antibody as described in Materials and methods. After centrifugation, the beads were washed and boiled in SDS loading buffer to elute the proteins. Aliquots of the input (30% of total) and eluates from the immunoprecipitations (100% of eluated fraction) were subjected to SDS-PAGE and immunoblotted with the indicated antibodies as follows: 2 µg/ml of polyclonal anti-LXRα, a 1:1000 dilution of polyclonal anti-C/EBPβ, 1 µg/ml of polyclonal anti-BHLHE40, 1 µg/ml of monoclonal anti-SREBP-1, or a 1:1000 dilution of monoclonal anti-CREB. Proteins were detected with the LI-COR Odessy Infrared Imaging System using a 1:5000 dilution of anti-rabbit IgG conjugated to horseradish peroxidase.