Analyses of BTK (pY223)/ITK (pY180) expression by Human and Mouse Cells.
Left Panel - Flow cytometric analysis of BTK (pY223) expressed by human Ramos cells. Serum-starved cells from the human Ramos (Burkitt's lymphoma, ATCC CRL-1596) cell line were either not stimulated (dashed line histogram) or stimulated (solid line histogram) with Goat F(ab')2 Anti-Human IgM (Southern Biotech, Cat. No. 2022-14) at 37°C for 3 minutes. Cells were fixed in BD Cytofix™ Buffer (Cat. No. 554655; 37°C for 10 min) and permeabilized in BD Phosflow™ Perm Buffer III (Cat. No. 558050) on ice (30 min). Cells were then stained with BD Phosflow™ Alexa Fluor® 647 Mouse Anti-Btk (pY223)/Itk (pY180) antibody (Cat. No. 564846). Histograms showing BTK (pY223) expression were derived from gated events with the forward and side light-scatter characteristics of intact cells using a BD™ LSR II Flow Cytometer System.
Right Panel - Flow cytometric analysis of BTK (pY223) expressed by mouse A20 cells. Cells from the mouse A20 (B lymphoma, ATCC TIB-208) cell line were either not stimulated (dashed line histogram) or were stimulated (solid line histogram) with Rabbit Anti-Mouse IgM (H+L) (Jackson, Cat. No. 315-005-003) at 37˚C for 3 minutes. The cells were fixed, permeabilized, stained, and analyzed for BTK (pY223) expression by flow cytometry as described above.