0.1 % sodium azide is added as preservative. For antibody re-suspending information check the tube lable. Antibodies will detect target protein in a few µg of a crude preparation loaded per well. If purified preparations of vacuolar and plasma membranes are used, one µg load per well should be sufficient.,Protein or membrane sample should be treated at 70°C for 10 min before loading on the gel. Antiboy will weakly react with PIP2;1 and theoretically with PIP2;3, however this protein is very scarcely expressed in plant tissues. The mRNA content is 1 % of that for PIP2;2, therefore reactivity to PIP2;3 is neglegible in our experiments. Triton X-100 should not be included in the protein extraction buffer, when cell organelles or membrane proteins must be separated from soluble proteins. Because, Triton X breaks membrane structure and solubilizes most membranes proteins. Furthermore, it should be noted that Triton X at high concentrations binds SDS and mask the detergent effect of SDS for SDS-PAGE. Also, micelles of Triton X behave as a large complex with molecular mass of 90 kDa at high concentrations in SDS-PAGE.
PIP2; 2 is the plasma membrane aquaporin.
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