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Materials and Methods<br />

Materials<br />

All cell culture ware and scintillation cocktail (ScintiSafe) were purchased from<br />

Fisher Scientific (Norcross, GA). [1- 14 C] oleic acid and Western Lighting Plus<br />

Chemiluminescence Substrate were purchased from PerkinElmer Life Science (Boston,<br />

MA). Gene specific primers for real time quantitative (q) PCR and NUPAGE precast gels<br />

and buffers for SDS-PAGE were purchased from Invitrogen (Carlsbad, CA). Fetal bovine<br />

serum (FBS) was purchased from Cambrex/BioWhittaker (Walkersville, MD). Isomers<br />

of CLA (+ 98% pure) were purchased from Matreya (Pleasant Gap, PA). ADRP<br />

monoclonal antibody was purchased from Research Dignostics Inc (Flander, NJ).<br />

Perilipin and HSL antibodies were generous gifts from Dr. C. Londos and Dr. F. Kraemer,<br />

respectively. Antibodies of caveolin-1 and β-actin were purchased from Santa Cruz<br />

Biotechnology (Santa Cruz, CA). Rodamine red and fluorescein isothiocyanate-<br />

conjugated IgG were purchased from Jackson Immunoresearch (West Grove, GA).<br />

Rapamycin, pertussis toxin (PTX), Calphostin C, and protein phosphatase 2 (PP2), a c-<br />

SRC kinase inhibitor, were purchased from Calbiochem (La Jolla, CA). Total and<br />

phospho-specific antibodies used to measure translational control and U0126 and LY-<br />

294002 were obtained from Cell Signaling Technology (Beverly, MA). All the other<br />

chemicals and reagents were purchased from Sigma Chemical Co. (St. Louis, MO),<br />

unless otherwise stated.<br />

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