Figure 2. Western blot analysis of IP3 Receptor using anti- IP3 Receptor antibody (PB9225). Electrophoresis was performed on a 5-20% SDS-PAGE gel at 70V (Stacking gel) / 90V (Resolving gel) for 2-3 hours. The sample well of each lane was loaded with 50ug of sample under reducing conditions. Lane 1: human SHG-44 whole cell lysates,. Lane 2: rat brain tissue lysates, . Lane 3: mouse brain tissue lysates, . After Electrophoresis, proteins were transferred to a Nitrocellulose membrane at 150mA for 50-90 minutes. Blocked the membrane with 5% Non-fat Milk/ TBS for 1.5 hour at RT. The membrane was incubated with rabbit anti- IP3 Receptor antigen affinity purified polyclonal antibody (Catalog # PB9225) at 0.5 ug/mL overnight at 4°C, then washed with TBS-0.1%Tween 3 times with 5 minutes each and probed with a goat anti-rabbit IgG-HRP secondary antibody at a dilution of 1:10000 for 1.5 hour at RT. The signal is developed using an Enhanced Chemiluminescent detection (ECL) kit (Catalog # EK1002) with Tanon 5200 system. A specific band was detected for IP3 Receptor at approximately 315KD. The expected band size for IP3 Receptor is at 315KD.

Figure 3. IHC analysis of IP3 receptor using anti-IP3 receptor antibody (PB9225). IP3 receptor was detected in paraffin-embedded section of Mouse Brain Tissue. Heat mediated antigen retrieval was performed in citrate buffer (pH6, epitope retrieval solution) for 20 mins. The tissue section was blocked with 10% goat serum. The tissue section was then incubated with 1ug/ml rabbit anti-IP3 receptor Antibody (PB9225) overnight at 4°C. Biotinylated goat anti-rabbit IgG was used as secondary antibody and incubated for 30 minutes at 37°C. The tissue section was developed using Strepavidin-Biotin-Complex (SABC)(Catalog # SA1022) with DAB as the chromogen.