Figure 5From: C/EBPbeta-2 confers EGF-independent growth and disrupts the normal acinar architecture of human mammary epithelial cellsExogenous LIP is lost in growing MCF10A cultures. Cell extracts were prepared from uninfected MCF10A cells (lane 1), GFP positive cells sorted by flow cytometry (lanes 2, 3, & 4) infected with either LZRS-GFP virus (lane 2) or LZRS-HisLIP-IRES-GFP virus (lanes 3 & 4). The sorted cells were placed in culture and allowed to expand. Extracts were analyzed from cell samples collected at 7 days (lane 4) or 21 days (lanes 2,3) post sort. Cell extracts were also prepared from a floating subculture of MCF10A cells infected with LZRS-His-C/EBPbeta-2-IRES-GFP (lane 5) 12 days after the C/EBPbeta-2/GFP overexpressing subculture was established. Western analyses of the extracts is shown probed with anti-T7 epitope tag antibody (A) or anti-C/EBPbeta C-terminal antibody (B).Back to article page