“…Briefly, exogenous myc-AMPKα1 was immunoprecipitated using anti-myc-tag antibody (9B11, Cell Signaling Technology, Beverly, MA), exogenous R6 was immunoprecipitated using anti-FLAG-tag antibody (F3165, Sigma), and endogenous AMPK was immunoprecipitated using a combination of AMPKα1 and AMPKα2 antibodies raised in sheep (kindly provided by Prof. dr. G. Hardie), followed by incubation with protein G-Sepharose beads (GE Healthcare). Western blot analysis was carried out using the following primary antibodies: myc-tag, tAMPKα, AMPKβ1, AMPKβ2, phospho-AMPK-T172 (all from Cell Signaling Technology, Beverly, MA), FLAG-tag (F3165, Sigma), R6 (AP13440a, Abgent), and phospho-AMPKβ2-T148 (22). R6 was detected using FLAG-tag (F3165, Sigma), unless otherwise stated.…”