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Experimental Procedures
CNBr mapping was performed on immunoprecipitated pleckstrin which was gel-purified by
SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. A gel slice containing the phosphopleckstrin was mixed with
50 mM ammonium carbonate (pH 8.5), 0.1% SDS, 1% mercaptoethanol. Pleckstrin contained in
the eluate was passed through glass wool, trichloroacetic acid-precipitated, washed twice with a 50:50
mixture of cold ethanol:ether, and then vacuum-dried. The sample was resuspended in 30 µl
of 50 mg/ml CNBr in 70% formic acid and incubated at room temperature for 1 h. At this point,
the digest was lyophilized with 1 ml of distilled water and again vacuum-dried. When noted, the
CNBr fragments were further digested by incubating them overnight in the dark at room temperature
in 30 µl of 10 mg/ml iodosobenzoate (IBZO) in 80% acetic acid with 4 M guanidine HCl(26).
All samples were then lyophilized with 1 ml of distilled water, vacuum-dried an additional three
times, and fractionated on a Tricine gel(27).
--S. Abrams et al., "Protein Kinase C Regulates Pleckstrin by Phosphorylation of Sites Adjacent to the N-terminal Pleckstrin Homology Domain," Journal of Biological Chemistry
