Journal: Metallomics : integrated biometal science
Article Title: Knockdown of copper-transporting ATPase 1 (Atp7a) impairs iron flux in fully-differentiated rat (IEC-6) and human (Caco-2) intestinal epithelial cells.
doi: 10.1039/c6mt00126b
Figure Lengend Snippet: Fig. 5 Atp7a KD causes transcriptional and posttranscriptional effects on the expression of iron transport-related genes. Total RNA, including mRNA and heteronuclear RNA (hnRNA), was harvested from fully-differentiated Ctrl or Atp7a KD IEC-6 cells and then gene expression levels were quantified by qRT- PCR (panels A, C and E). To quantify mRNA half-lives, cells were treated with actinomycin D (ActD) for 0, 6, 12 or 24 hours prior to cell harvest and then qRT-PCR was performed with gene-specific primers (panels B, D and F). Line fits were performed for data points for each gene and cell population. The mRNA half-life for each transcript is indicated with an ‘‘x’’, which has been placed at the approximate position where the starting mRNA levels were reduced by 50% (actual times [t1/2] are indicated as insets in each panel). Values are means SDs. Data were analyzed by One-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post hoc analysis. Labeled means without a common letter differ (p o 0.05) (A and C). ****p o 0.0001, as compared to other groups (E). n = 6 (mRNA and hnRNA quantification) or n = 3 (mRNA decay) independent experiments with 3 technical replicates per experiment.
Article Snippet: Cell culture and development of Atp7a knockdown cell lines Rat intestinal epithelial (IEC-6) cells (American Type Culture Collection [ATCC]; Manassas, VA; #CRL-1592) were cultured in DMEM (Corning; New York, NY) with 10% FBS (Sigma; St. Louis, MO), 10 U mL 1 insulin and 100 U mL 1 penicillin/ streptomycin (Corning) at 37 1C in a 5% CO2/95% O2 atmosphere.
Techniques: Expressing, Gene Expression, Quantitative RT-PCR, Labeling