Figure 1

Daily oscillation of PLCβ4 protein in the liver of mice housed in (A) a 12 hr light:12 hr dark photoperiod (Light:Dark) or in (B) constant darkness (Dark:Dark). Representative Western blots probed with anti-PLCβ4 antibody are shown. Each lane was loaded with 75 μg of total protein from a single mouse sacrificed at the specified time point denoted at the top of each lane. Blots were stripped and re-probed for mitogen activating peptide kinase (MAPK) to control for loading error. PLCβ4 relative optical density values were normalized to those of MAPK for each lane and then to the peak time-point for each blot. Normalized data represent mean ± SE of 3 mice at each time point. Cosinor-fitted curves have been drawn. The black bars at the bottom of each graph represent the period of darkness.