I have been treating cardiomyocytes with various amounts of doxorubicin (between 250nM-2uM) and running my cell lysates (20ug protein in RIPA with protease /phosphatase/deacetylase inhibitors) on SDS-PAGE. I noticed that my lanes have slightly different migration patterns. When I probe with an antibody I will have slight differences in size for the bands in each lane. They do not appear to directly correlate with the concentration of dox the cells were treated with- rather they are up down up down between each lane.
This has now happened on several different cell preparations and it has never happened in any of my other cell preps. It also seems to have a bigger effect on small proteins. Has anyone had this happen before?
Thanks,
Jenn