Journal: Molecular Medicine Reports
Article Title: MicroRNA-218 and microRNA-520a inhibit cell proliferation by downregulating E2F2 in hepatocellular carcinoma
doi: 10.3892/mmr.2015.3516
Figure Lengend Snippet: E2F2 is a direct target of miR-218. (A) Predicted binding sites for the seed sequences of miR-218 and miR-520a in the E2F2 3′-UTR and the sites of target mutagenesis are presented. (B) A dual luciferase assay was conducted in order to confirm the direct regulation of miR-218 on the E2F2 3′-UTR. miR-218 and miR-520a regulate E2F2 expression at the (C) mRNA and (D) protein levels in Huh7 and MHCC-97H cells. Values are presented as the mean ± standard deviation (n=3). * P<0.05, ** P<0.01, vs. NC. miR-218, microRNA-218; UTR, untranslated region; NC, negative control; Wt, wild-type; mt, mutant.
Article Snippet: Following blocking with 5% skimmed milk, the membranes were incubated with rabbit anti-human E2F2 polyclonal antibody (1:200; sc-632; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA, USA) overnight at 4°C.
Techniques: Binding Assay, Mutagenesis, Luciferase, Expressing, Standard Deviation, Negative Control