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. 2020 Feb 21;10:3163. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-59991-4

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Iron handling in P19 cells under various conditions of extracellular iron supplementation. Cells were cultured either in non-supplemented medium (−Fe) or iron-supplemented medium (+Fe) for at least 5–7 days before iron supplementation withdrawal and an additional 1 (1h-Fe), 2 (2h-Fe), 4 (4h-Fe) or 24 (24h-Fe) hours of culture in non-supplemented medium. (a) Total cellular iron content was measured by ICP-MS and normalized to total amount of protein. Data are the mean ± SEM (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001): −Fe, n = 4; +Fe, n = 9; 1h-Fe, n = 3; 2h-Fe, n = 3; 4h-Fe, n = 3; 24h-Fe, n = 20. (b) Protein lysates from P19 cells were examined by western blot, probed with α-FPN 1 (top panel) and α-GAPDH (bottom panel). Approximate MW is indicated in the left margin. Full-length blots are presented in Supplementary Fig. S1. (c) Similar immunoblots were also probed with α-TfRc (top panel) and α-GAPDH (bottom panel). (d) The signal intensity of each TfRc band was normalized to the corresponding GAPDH band, revealing little or no change in the level of TfRc. Full-length blots are presented in Supplementary Fig. S2.