Journal: Theranostics
Article Title: FGF19/SOCE/NFATc2 signaling circuit facilitates the self-renewal of liver cancer stem cells
doi: 10.7150/thno.56369
Figure Lengend Snippet: FGF19 signaling facilitates dephosphorylation and nuclear translocation of NFATc2 in non-LCSCs. ( A ) NFAT-RE luciferase activity was measured in FGF19 (100 ng/ml) treated Huh-7 and RFP/PLC/5 NCSCs transfected with si-NC, si-NFATc1, 2, 3, 4, respectively. ( B ) GSEA was performed to evaluate the role of NFATc2 in HCC using available data from TCGA. ( C ) Kaplan-Meier analysis of correlation between the NFATc2 expression and overall survival of HCC patients from TCGA (n=365). ( D and E ) Subcellular location of NFATc2 after FGF19 treatment: Huh-7 NCSCs were pre-treated with DMSO, BLU9931 (100 nM), 3-NC (20 µM), LY3214996 (2 µM), 3-NC (20 µM) + LY3214996 (2 µM), SKF96365 (5 µM), and FK506 (50 nM) for 2h, respectively; then treated with FGF19 (100 ng/ml) for 4h. ( D ) The levels of NFATc2 in cytosol and nucleus, and the phosphorylation level of NFATc2 were determined by WB, Lamin B served as a control of nuclear protein, and α-Tubulin was used as a control of cytoplasmic protein. ( E ) Subcellular location of NFATc2 (green) was detected by immunofluorescence (IF), and cell nucleus was labeled with DAPI (blue). Data are expressed as means ± SEM (n = 3). *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, NS represents no significant difference.
Article Snippet: The recombinant lentiviral plasmids containing human FGF19 or NFATc2, and shRNA-targeting FGF19 or NFATc2 were purchased from GeneCopoeia (Rockville, MD, USA).
Techniques: De-Phosphorylation Assay, Translocation Assay, Luciferase, Activity Assay, Transfection, Expressing, Phospho-proteomics, Control, Immunofluorescence, Labeling