Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Targeting tRNA-Arg-TCT-4-1 suppresses cancer cell growth and tumorigenesis
doi: 10.64898/2026.02.19.706891
Figure Lengend Snippet: A) Schematic of shArg targeting sequence on tRNA-Arg-TCT-4-1. B) Northern blot showing relative tRNA-Arg-TCT-4-1 levels. Arg-TCT-4-1 lane is an overexpression construct used as a control. C) Changes in tRNA abundance upon shArg treatment. Orange circles represent tRNA-Arg-TCT isodecoders 1,2,3 and 5. D) mCherry/acGFP1 ratios measured by flow cytometry between mCherry-Hmga2-WT (5 of 12 AGA codons) and mCherry-Hmga2-MUT (0 of 12 AGA codons) reporters. Data are mean ± SD. n = 2. p values from two-way ANOVA with Šídák correction. ∗ p < 0.05 and ∗∗ p < 0.01. E) Images of 3D soft agar colony formation assays in LNZ308 cells treated with shGFP or shArg. F ) Quantification of colonies from (E). n=5, Error bars: Mean ± S.D. P values from Two-way ANOVA with posthoc Bonferroni correction. ns: not significant; ****p < 0.0001. G) In vivo tumor formation of LNZ308 cells (n = 5 or 6; error bars denote mean ± SEM). ∗∗∗∗ p < 0.0001. Two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Bonferroni correction. H) Tumor weight from (G). Error bars denote mean ± SD. p value from paired Student’s t test. I) Changes in protein abundance between shArg (heavy) expressing cells and shGFP (light) control cells measured by SILAC-based proteomics; n = 3, moderated t-test. J) Codon enrichment (gene input/global genome average) of genes in cluster 2 (from ). P-value from Fisher’s Exact Test with Benjamini–Hochberg FDR correction. K) Gene Ontology enrichment analysis using downregulated proteins in cluster 2 (from ) upon tRNA-Arg-TCT-4-1 inhibition. p<0.05, FC≤1.2.
Article Snippet: Human glioblastoma LNZ308 cells (male) (CRL11543) were purchased from ATCC.
Techniques: Sequencing, Northern Blot, Over Expression, Construct, Control, Flow Cytometry, In Vivo, Quantitative Proteomics, Expressing, Multiplex sample analysis, Inhibition