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Martin O. Bergo, Bryant J. Gavino, Christine Hong, Anne P. Beigneux, Martin McMahon, Patrick J. Casey, Stephen G. Young
Published in Volume 113, Issue 4
J Clin Invest. 2004; 113(4):539–550 doi:10.1172/JCI18829
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Inactivation of Icmt reverses B-Raf–induced transformation. (a) B-Raf-Icmtflx/flx and B-Raf-IcmtΔ/Δ fibroblasts were grown to confluence and then allowed to grow for an additional 6 days. The cells were then fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde and photographed (upper panel). An aliquot of the same cells was seeded in soft agar (lower panel). After 20 days, the colonies were stained, photographed, and analyzed as described in the Methods section. Similar results were obtained in three independent experiments. Transfection of fibroblasts with a retrovirus encoding wild-type B-Raf did not yield a transformed phenotype (not shown). (b) Western blot with a B-Raf–specific mAb (F-7; Santa Cruz Biotechnology Inc.) showing increased B-Raf expression in Icmtflx/flx fibroblasts transfected with the retrovirus encoding human B-RafV599E. The blot was stripped and incubated with an anti-Erk1/2 antibody as a loading control (lower panel).