Journal: Stem Cell Reports
Article Title: Niclosamide induces miR-148a to inhibit PXR and sensitize colon cancer stem cells to chemotherapy
doi: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2022.02.005
Figure Lengend Snippet: Overexpression of miR-148a represses the CSC phenotype in vitro (A) Quantification of the CD44v6-PE-positive population in CPP1 (n = 6) and HT29 (n = 4) cells transfected with miR-148a-3p ( miR-148a ) or mirVana microRNA Mimic Negative Control #1 (miCTRL) mimics. Percentage of CPP1 CD44v6-PE-positive cells is indicated in inset boxes for a representative experiment (left panel). (B) Representative pictures of tumorspheres (left panels) and percentage (right panels) of sphere-forming cells of patient-derived CPP1 and HT29 colon cancer cells transfected with miR-148a-3p or miCTRL mimics. Individual replicate values (n = 10 per experiment) are plotted, as well as the mean ± SEM (n = 3). (C and D) Percentage of ALDH-positive cells (% of ALDHred, data are expressed as mean ± SEM, n = 6) (C) and representative pictures of tumorspheres (upper panels) and percentage (lower panel; data are expressed as mean ± SEM, n = 3 with 12 individual replicate values per experiment) (D) of sphere-forming cells in HT29 cells stably overexpressing miR-148a ( miR-148a /copGFP) or empty sequence (CTRL/copGFP) transfected either with a miR-148a-insensitive PXR coding sequence ( PXR ) or the pcDNA3 empty vector (Mock). (E) RT-qPCR analyses of PXR target gene ( FGF19 , ALDH1A1 , CYP3A4 ) mRNA expression in HT29 cells stably overexpressing miR-148a /copGFP or CTRL/copGFP transfected either with a miR-148a -insensitive PXR coding sequence ( PXR ) or the pcDNA3 empty vector (Mock). Data are expressed as mean ± SEM (n = 3). ∗ p < 0.05, ∗∗ p < 0.005, ∗∗∗ p < 0.001.
Article Snippet: CD44-allophycocyanin (APC) (559,942; BD Pharmingen), CD44v6-APC (clone REA706, 130-111-238; Macs Miltenyi), or CD44v6-phycoerythrin (PE) (FAB3660P; R&D) antibodies (1/100) were incubated with 100,000 cells in PBS containing 5% FBS for 20 min at 4°C.
Techniques: Over Expression, In Vitro, Transfection, Negative Control, Derivative Assay, Stable Transfection, Sequencing, Plasmid Preparation, Quantitative RT-PCR, Expressing