Figure 2
Titrations of in-house recombinant proteins trigger canonical TGFβ-1 signalling pathways at the expected levels. (a) Levels of SMAD phosphorylation for commercial mature TGFβ-1 (blue) and in-house heated LTGFβ-1 (gold). (b) Titration of LAP against a fixed amount of mature TGFβ-1 (10 pM). Data were fitted to a four-parameter logistic regression (4PL) to determine the EC50 and IC50 values. (a) The EC50 values were 23.2 and 3.46 pM for in-house heated LTGFβ-1 and commercial TGFβ-1, respectively. (b) The IC50 for LAP was 5.7 pM (0.57 molar ratio). |