Journal: Smart Medicine
Article Title: Magnetic Reprogramming of Macrophages Stimulates Phagocytosis of Breast Cancer Cells via a TRPC1‐STING Inflammatory Axis
doi: 10.1002/smmd.70038
Figure Lengend Snippet: PEMF (3 mT, 10 min) activates the STING pathway in RAW264.7 macrophages. (A) Representative western blots and (B) fold change quantification of phosphorylated (i) STAT1, (ii) NF‐κB (s536), (iii) NF‐κB (s468), (iv) IκB‐α, (v) IKK, (vi) TBK1 and (vii) IRF3 in a time‐course study after PEMF exposure. ( n = 3). (C) Representative western blot run on non‐reducing SDS‐PAGE and (D) fold change quantification of STING dimers normalized to STING monomer. ( n = 3). (E) Representative western blots and (F) fold change quantification of phosphorylated NF‐κB 4 h after PEMF exposure in cells pretreated with inhibitors of NLRP3 (0.5 μM MCC950), STING (2 μM C176), TBK1 (100 μM Amlexanox), and ROS (5 mM N‐acetylcysteine, NAC) for 1 h ( n = 5). (G) Representative western blots and (H) fold change quantification of (i) STING and (ii) phosphorylated NF‐κB 4 h post PEMF exposure. RAW264.7 macrophages were analyzed 24 h post‐transfection with non‐targeting dsiRNA (NC) or dsiRNA against STING ( n = 3). (I) Representative western blots and (J) fold change quantification of phosphorylated NF‐κB 4 h post PEMF exposure in wildtype and cGAS knock‐out RAW264.7 cells ( n = 3). (K) Representative western blots and (L) fold change quantification of phosphorylated (i) STING, (ii) IRF3, (iii) NF‐κB and (iv) TBK1 in a time‐course study after treatment with 20 μg/mL DMXAA and 10‐min PEMF (3 mT). PEMF exposure was administered immediately after DMXAA treatment ( n = 3). All phosphoprotein levels were normalized to total protein, except for phosphorylated STING and phosphorylated NF‐κB, which were normalized to the loading control. Residual antibody binding to the phosphorylated form of NF‐κB hindered the reprobing of total NF‐κB. Phosphorylated NF‐κB was normalized to the loading control, with total NF‐κB assessed on a separate gel. All samples were normalized to their time/drug matched 0 mT control except in (L) where samples were normalized to 0 mT at 0 h. Dots represent individual biological replicates. Data represent mean ± SEM. Statistical significance was determined by Student's unpaired t ‐test (D), one‐way (H (i)) or two‐way ANOVA (B, F, H (ii), J, L) with Šidák's post hoc test (* p ≤ 0.05, ** p ≤ 0.01, *** p ≤ 0.001 and ****, p ≤ 0.0001).
Article Snippet: AP‐18 (10 μM), RN‐9893 (1 μM), 5,6‐dimethylxanthenone‐4‐acetic acid (DMXAA) (20 μg/mL), C176 (2 μM), and Amlexanox (100 μM) were purchased from MedChemExpress.
Techniques: Western Blot, SDS Page, Transfection, Knock-Out, Control, Binding Assay