Journal: Nature Communications
Article Title: Human ribonuclease 1 serves as a secretory ligand of ephrin A4 receptor and induces breast tumor initiation
doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23075-2
Figure Lengend Snippet: a , Prognostic correlation of survival analyses of breast cancer patients with high and low hRNase 1 levels. OS, overall survival; RFS, relapse-free survival; DMFS, distant-metastasis-free survival. HR, hazard ratio. b , c Prognostic correlation of the RFS with different grades ( b ) and lymph node statuses ( c ) of patients with breast cancer in the indicated groups with different hRNase 1 levels. LN, lymph node. d Top, plots of IHC scores of hRNase 1 level in breast tumor tissues (T; n = 31) vs normal tissues (N; n = 12) (Pantomics Inc., #BRC961). Bottom, representative images of IHC staining of hRNase 1 expression in normal and breast tumor tissues. Bar, 25 µm. * p = 0.0188. e Box plots of IHC scores of hRNase 1 level in breast tumor tissues subdivided into four molecular subtypes. Case numbers are shown in the parentheses. f ELISA of hRNase 1 levels in serum samples of breast tumor patients (T; n = 50) compared with noncancerous individuals (N; n = 24). * p = 0.0382. g , ELISA of hRNase 1 levels in breast tumor serum samples subdivided into three molecular subtypes. Case numbers are shown in the parentheses. h Box plots of ELISA of hRNase 1 expression in the conditioned medium (CM) of eight breast cancer cells and two normal cells. KPL4 cell line as an outlier. i Western blotting (WB) of hRNase 1 expression level secreted in breast cancer cells; the experiment was repeated a second time with similar results. * p = 0.0415. Survival data were analyzed using Kaplan-Meier Plotter (Probe: 201785_at) and p values were calculated by Log-rank test ( a – c ). Error bars represent mean ± SD ( f , g ). * p < 0.05, ns, not significant, two-tailed unpaired t test ( d , f , h ), ANOVA analysis ( e , g ). Box plots indicate minima (lower end of whisker), maxima (upper end of whisker), median (center), 25th percentile (bottom of box), and 75th percentile (top of box) ( d , e , h ) as well as outlier (single point) ( h ). Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
Article Snippet: Human breast tumor tissue array was obtained from Pantomics (#BRC961 or #BRC1021).
Techniques: Immunohistochemistry, Expressing, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay, Western Blot, Two Tailed Test, Whisker Assay