“…Published procedures were used for the preparation of LD and DIGs (from 2.5 × 10 6 cells per incubation; Müller et al, 2002;2008a, d), determination of 5′-nucleotidase activity (Müller et al, 2008d), isoproterenol-induced lipolysis with enzymic determination of the glycerol released (with 1.0 × 10 6 cells in 1 ml of incubation volume; Müller et al, 2003), fatty acid esterification as the incorporation of [1-14 C]palmitate into total acylglycerols (Müller et al, in press), protein concentration using the BCA method (Pierce) with BSA as calibration standard and PC content of ADIP (Müller et al, 2009a), sodium dodecylsulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE; 4-12% Bis-TRIS precast gel, pH 6.4, 4-morpholineethanesulfonic acid [MES]-SDS running buffer) under reducing conditions (Müller et al, 2008a), extraction and precipitation of proteins from LD, DIGs and incubation medium under native conditions (Müller et al, 2009b) and treatment of ADIP, DIGs, LD or incubation medium with alkaline Na 2 CO 3 , NaCl, detergents, free and cholesterol-bound methylβ-cyclodextrin (m-βCD), (glycosyl)phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (G)PI-PLC from Bacillus cereus or NaNO 2 (0.25 M, adjusted with sodium acetate to pH 4.0, 3 h at 25°C) (Müller et al, 1997b(Müller et al, , 2002(Müller et al, , 2009a. Concentration-response curves were fitted using the GraphPad Prism 4.03 software (GraphPad Software Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA).…”