Figure 5
Identification of a novel R. catesbeiana type I (RLK I) keratin fragment by 2D gel analysis. (A) 2D gel regions of the 340 mM cytosolic, microsomal, mitochondrial, and nuclear fractions show the increase of a protein spot at ~24 kDa and pI ~5 due to T3 treatment at 48 h. The corresponding gel region, stained with a phosphoprotein stain, is shown for the nuclear fraction revealing additional changes in the phosphoproteome. The white arrows indicate the spot identified as a novel type I keratin RLK I fragment in the T3 samples (see Table 1). In the phosphoprotein gel, the white arrow indicates a possible phosphorylated form of the keratin fragment. The gray arrows indicate an additional unidentified protein and phosphoproteins that are altered upon T3 treatment. Relative molecular weights of protein standards are indicated in kDa. (B) Spot density measurements (in arbitrary values) are graphed for the corresponding 2D gels on the left. The white bar represents the control while the gray bar represents the T3 treatment. Error bars represent the standard error of the mean from three independent controls and three independent T3 samples. Significance is indicated by an asterisk for p < 0.01 and by a black dot for p < 0.04 (ANOVA). The values adjacent to the gray bars represent the fold increase due to T3. In the nuclear fraction (k) represents the keratin spot, while (s1) represents an additional protein spot observed to be increased, and (s2) and (s3) represent two phosphoproteins that were increased due to T3 treatment. Spot density measurements were normalized between the gels with the β-actin protein spot.