Figure 9From: Farnesylation or geranylgeranylation? Efficient assays for testing protein prenylation in vitro and in vivoWestern blots and TLC scanning results for Rap2A with radioactive FPP in vivo. Western Blot and corresponding scans from TLC linear analyzer of wild-type HA-Rap2A-fusion protein (lane 1) and HA-Rap2A C180A (lane 2) immunoprecipitated from HeLa-cells, treated with lovastatin after transfection with the respective plasmid construct and exposed to 3H-FPP. There is significant incorporation of FPP into the wild-type protein (lane 1), but no signal is detected for the C180A mutant (lane 2), demonstrating the applicability of the approach for in vivo labeling experiments.Back to article page