Journal: Frontiers in Oncology
Article Title: Integrin VLA-5 and FAK are Good Targets to Improve Treatment Response in the Philadelphia Chromosome Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
doi: 10.3389/fonc.2014.00112
Figure Lengend Snippet: Knocking down integrin α5 delayed the engraftment of Ph+ leukemia cells in immunodeficient NOD/SCID mice . (A) Real-time QPCR assay showed that we had successfully knocked down the expression level of the integrin α5 knocking in clone 10. The cycle threshold (Ct) of the target gene (integrin α5) was normalized to the chosen reference gene GAPHD. Relative quantification, R = 2 −(ΔCt sample − ΔCt control) . Result shows the fold change normalized to SUP-LUC2 cells. (B) Western blot showed a reduced protein expression level of integrin α5 in clone 10. (C) Flow cytometry showed reduced mean fluorescent intensity of integrin α5 in clone 10. (D) Representative figures showed bioluminescent imaging at 2 weeks, and 5–8 weeks post leukemia cells inoculation. (E) Animal total body bioluminescence was quantified to compare with control. **The levels of bioluminescence became most significantly different 2 months post inoculation between the α5 knock-down group and control group [mean (SD) radiance vs. control, 5.3 (0.1) vs. 2.1 (0.2) × 10 6 p/s/cm 2 /sr, p < 0.01 at 2 months, n = 3.].
Article Snippet: In order to select stable clones expressing the shRNA to knock-down integrin α5 gene expression via puromycin dihydrochloride (sc-108071, Santa Cruz) selection, a titration of puromycin concentrations from 0 to 2.5 μg/ml were used to incubate SUP-LUC2 cells for culture over 2 weeks.
Techniques: Expressing, Quantitative Proteomics, Control, Western Blot, Flow Cytometry, Imaging, Knockdown