Figure 1. Western blot analysis of TMS1/ASC/PYCARD using anti-TMS1/ASC/PYCARD antibody (A00362-4). 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 30 ug of sample under reducing conditions. Lane 1: rat lung tissue lysates, Lane 2: rat spleen tissue lysates, Lane 3: rat thymus tissue lysates, Lane 4: rat heart tissue lysates, Lane 5: mouse lung tissue lysates, Lane 6: mouse spleen tissue lysates, Lane 7: mouse thymus tissue lysates, Lane 8: mouse heart tissue lysates. After electrophoresis, proteins were transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane at 150 mA for 50-90 minutes. Blocked the membrane with 5% non-fat milk/TBS for 1.5 hour at RT. The membrane was incubated with rabbit anti-TMS1/ASC/PYCARD antigen affinity purified polyclonal antibody (Catalog # A00362-4) 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-rabbit IgG-HRP secondary antibody at a dilution of 1:5000 for 1.5 hour at RT. The signal is developed using an Enhanced Chemiluminescent detection (ECL) kit (Catalog # EK1002) with Tanon 5200 system. A specific band was detected for TMS1/ASC/PYCARD at approximately 22-25 kDa. The expected band size for TMS1/ASC/PYCARD is at 21 kDa.