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From: Pyk2 uncouples metabotropic glutamate receptor G protein signaling but facilitates ERK1/2 activation

Figure 10

Effect of Pyk2-Y402F and Pyk2 overexpression on mGluR1a-mediated ERK1/2 Phosphorylation. A) Representative immunoblots showing, ERK1/2 phosphorylation, ERK/12 protein expression, Pyk2 (Y402) phosphorylation, Pyk2 protein expression and FLAG-mGluR1a expression in cells transfected with and without pCDNA3.1 plasmd cDNAs encoding Flag-mGluR1a (5 μg) with and with 1 μg of pcDNA3.1 plasmid cDNA expressing either wild-type HA-Pyk2 or HA-Pyk2-Y402F. Cells were treated in the absence or presence of 50 μM quisqualate at 37°C. B) Bar graph shows the densitometric analysis of ERK1/2 phosphorylation in cells either expressing FLAG-mGluR1a alone, HA-Pyk2 alone or expressing FLAG-mGluR1a in the presence of HA-Pyk2, HA-Pyk2-Y402F and HA-Pyk2-K457A and is expressed as the mean ± SD of 4-8 different experiments. *P <0.05 compared to basal ERK1/2 phosphorylation levels in mGluR1a expressing cells.

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