Figure 1. Western blot analysis of Desmin using anti-Desmin antibody (M01948-3). Electrophoresis was performed on a 5-20% SDS-PAGE gel at 70V (Stacking gel) / 90V (Resolving gel) for 2-3 hours. The sample well of each lane was loaded with 50ug of sample under reducing conditions. Lane 1: rat heart tissue lysates Lane 2: rat skeletal muscle tissue lysates Lane 3: mouse heart tissue lysates Lane 4: mouse skeletal muscle tissue lysates Lane 5: human K562 whole cell lysates Lane 6: rat liver tissue lysates After Electrophoresis, proteins were transferred to a Nitrocellulose membrane at 150mA for 50-90 minutes. Blocked the membrane with 5% Non-fat Milk/ TBS for 1.5 hour at RT. The membrane was incubated with mouse anti-Desmin antigen affinity purified monoclonal antibody (Catalog # M01948-3) at 0.5 microg/mL overnight at 4°C, then washed with TBS-0.1%Tween 3 times with 5 minutes each and probed with a goat anti-mouse IgG-HRP secondary antibody at a dilution of 1:10000 for 1.5 hour at RT. The signal is developed using an Enhanced Chemiluminescent detection (ECL) kit (Catalog # EK1001) with Tanon 5200 system. A specific band was detected for Desmin at approximately 54KD. The expected band size for Desmin is at 54KD.