“…Membranes were blocked in Blocker Casein in PBS (Thermo Scientific, Fisher). Primary antibodies were incubated overnight at 4˚C and were as follows: anti-AKT rabbit polyclonal (1:1000, Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA); anti-phospho-AKT (Ser473) rabbit monoclonal (1:1000, D7F10, Cell Signaling Technology); anti-b-actin mouse monoclonal (1:250, ACTBD11D7, Santa Cruz), as invariant control; b-catenin (1:1000, R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN); anti-insulin receptor-b rabbit polyclonal (1:250; C-19, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA); anti-insulin receptor isoform B (rabbit, 1:250) (provided by Giorgio Sesti, Universita Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy) (Sesti et al, 1994); anti-sucrase-isomaltase goat polyclonal (1:500, A-17, Santa Cruz); anti-zonula occludens-1 rabbit monoclonal (1:1000; #8193, Cell Signaling Technology). Secondary antibodies were incubated at room temperature for 2 hours and conjugated to Dylight800 (goat anti-rabbit IgG, goat anti-mouse IgG, donkey anti-goat IgG) or Dylight680 (goat anti-mouse) (1:20,000, Pierce, ThermoScientific Rockford, IL).…”