Journal: Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research : CR
Article Title: circCUL2 induces an inflammatory CAF phenotype in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma via the activation of the MyD88-dependent NF-κB signaling pathway
doi: 10.1186/s13046-021-02237-6
Figure Lengend Snippet: MyD88 is a direct downstream target gene of miR-203a-3p. A - B Colony formation and transwell assays of PANC-1 cells treated with conditioned medium from miR-203a-3p-silencing NFs or miR-203a-3p-overexpression CAFs. Scale bar: 100 μm. C - D ELISA assays detected IL6 level of conditioned medium from miR-203a-3p-silencing NFs or miR-203a-3p-overexpression CAFs. E Venn analysis of the potential downstream target genes of miR-203a-3p, predicted by miRTarbase, miRWalk and Tarbase. F - G qRT–PCR analysis of screened downstream target genes of miR-203a-3p in indicated NFs and CAFs. H Luciferase reporter assay was used to detect the luciferase activity of MyD88-Wild Type (MyD88-wt) and miR-203a-3p binding site mutated MyD88 (mYD88-mut) luciferase reporter cotransfected with miR-203a-3p mimic. N.S., no significant. I - J Western blotting analysis of MyD88, p65, pp65, IKBα and p-IKBα expression after overexpression of circCUL2 or silence of miR-203a-3p in NFs, or silence of circCUL2 or overexpression of miR-203a-3p in CAFs. GAPDH as a loading control. Data are expressed as the mean ± SD. ** p < 0.01 and *** p < 0.001
Article Snippet: The mice were randomly divided into three groups, which were injected with luc-PANC-1 or luc-MiaPaCa-2 incubated with conditioned medium from (1) NFs transduced with empty vector for 48 h, (2) NFs transduced with circCUL2 vector for 48 h, (3) NFs transduced with circCUL2 vector in the presence of IL6 neutralizing antibodies (50 ng/mL, MAB206, R&D) for 48 h. The mice were imaged with an In Vivo Imaging System (IVIS Lumina XR Series III) 30 days later.
Techniques: Over Expression, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay, Quantitative RT-PCR, Luciferase, Reporter Assay, Activity Assay, Binding Assay, Western Blot, Expressing, Control