Repulsive Axon Guidance by Draxin Is Mediated by Protein Kinase B (Akt), Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3β (GSK-3β) and Microtubule-Associated Protein 1B
Fig 3
Draxin treatment of cortical neurons inhibits Akt activity and activates GSK-3β.
Immunoblot analyses of cortical neurons from newborn wild-type (A) or MAP1B-/- (B) mice cultured for 60 h, treated with draxin for the indicated times, lysed and probed using the indicated antibodies. The GSK-3β doublets represent the GSK-3β1 and GSK-3β2 isoforms [33].The relative levels of GSK-3β phosphorylated at Ser9 (P-GSK-3β) and Akt phosphorylated on Ser473 (P-Akt) were determined by normalizing the signals for the phosphorylated proteins to the corresponding signals for the total proteins in 3 independent experiments.