Complex and Multidimensional Lipid Raft Alterations in a Murine Model of Alzheimer's Disease
Figure 2
Quantification of detergent-resistant lipid rafts. (a) The pictorial panel depicts an image of iodixanol-separated detergent resistant membrane fractions (centered on red arrow), captured using a Nikon 3200 digital camera. The line diagram indicates the direction of collection of centrifugal fractions 1–10, and the associated Western blot for flotillin-1 demonstrates its enrichment in the raft fractions. (b) Captured Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPG) images were converted to a Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) version and imported to Image Gauge (v4.2) software and the specific area of interest (red box), that is, the detergent-resistant, flotillin-1-rich lipid raft band was quantified into absorbance units minus background absorbance per square pixel area ((AU-B)/px2) values. (c) Representative set of male 8-month-old control (1) and 3xTgAD (2) mice detergent-resistant membranes isolated from plasma membrane fractions separated using an Iodixanol gradient. The associated histogram depicts mean ± s.e. (standard error) mean detergent-resistant membrane intensity ((AU-B)/px2) from at least three separate control and 3xTgAD mice (, nonpaired, two-tailed -test). (d) Representative set of male 16-month-old control (1) and 3xTgAD (2) mice detergent resistant membranes isolated from plasma membrane fractions separated using an Iodixanol gradient. The associated histogram depicts mean ± s.e. (standard error) mean detergent resistant membrane intensity ((AU-B)/px2) from at least three separate C57-BL6 and 3xTgAD mice (, non-paired, two-tailed -test). (e) Representative flotillin-1 Western blot for the lipid raft fraction series for 3xTgAD (red outline) or control (C57-BL6: blue outline) mice. The associated histogram depicts mean ± s.e. (standard error) mean fraction 2 flotillin expression intensity ((AU-B)/px2) from at least three separate C57-BL6 and 3xTgAD mice (, non-paired, two-tailed -test).
