FIGURE 3 from Maternal Embryonic Leucine Zipper Kinase is Associated with Metastasis in Triple-negative Breast Cancer
Year: 2023
Type: other
Abstract: Inhibitory effect of MELK-In-17 on anchorage-independent growth, motility, CSC properties, and EMT transition in TNBC cells. A–D, MELK-In-17 inhibited anchorage-independent growth (A), suppressed migration and invasion (B), reduced mammosphere formation (C), and reduced CD44+/CD24− and ALDH1+ CSC subpopulations (D) in TNBC cells. In A, the anchorage-independent growth was determined using a soft-agar assay at week 3 following treatment. In B, cells were pretreated with MELK-In-17 for 2 hours and then assayed for migration and invasion in the presence of MELK-In-17. In C, cells were seeded for mammosphere formation and the next day treated with MELK-In-17. In D, cells were treated with MELK-In-17 for 48 hours and then subjected to flow cytometry analysis. E, Western blot analysis of the effects of treatment with MELK-In-17 on the expression of EMT markers. α-Tubulin was used as a loading control. Band intensity of proteins is normalized to that of α-Tubulin. In A–C, data are presented as mean ± SD. *, P < 0.05; **, P < 0.01; ***, P < 0.001; ****, P < 0.0001.
Authors: Xuemei Xie, Gaurav B. Chauhan, Ramakrishna Edupuganti, Takahiro Kogawa, Jihyun Park, Moises Tacam, Alex W. Tan, Mohd Mughees, Fnu Vidhu, Diane D. Liu, Juliana M. Taliaferro, Mary Kathryn Pitner, Luke S. Browning, Ju-Hyeon Lee, François Bertucci, Yu Shen, Jian Wang, Naoto T. Ueno, Savitri Krishnamurthy, Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, Debu Tripathy, Steven J. Van Laere, Geoffrey Bartholomeusz, Kevin N. Dalby, Chandra Bartholomeusz
Language: English
Topic: Cancer Cells and Metastasis
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4381381238