A preparation containing the products of lysis of cells.
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-  Heating and methanol treatment will denature and precipitate the great majority of cytosolic proteins found in cell lysates.
 -  Cell lysates were prepared and subjected to Western blot analysis as previously described.
 -  This lag could explain the degradation observed in samples from crude lysates produced by these lysis methods even in the presence of RNase inhibitors.
 -  Negative control indicates lysates from an isogenic cell line not expressing GFP.
 -  The double-mutant lanes contain lysates from independently isolated cell lines.