Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Inhibition of NF-κB signaling pathway in astrocytes facilitates amyloid-β clearance by kallikrein-related peptidase 7
doi: 10.1101/2025.03.02.641088
Figure Lengend Snippet: a Schematic representation of the establishment of luciferase constructs (Empty and h238 WT) and H4 stable cell lines. b, c Luciferase activity of H4 h238 WT treated with 100 µM NMDA, 100 µM L-glutamate (n=4, Dunnett’s test, p Ctrl vs NMDA =0.0038, p Ctrl vs L-Glu =0.0057) (b) , and 30 µM memantine (n=5, Student’s t -test, p=0.0003) (c) , respectively. d Schematic representation of luciferase constructs containing a deletion mutant and a motif mutant of the κB motif in the 238-bp KLK7 promoter region (h238 ΔκB motif and h238 mut-κB motif). e Luciferase activity of each luciferase construct transiently expressed in H4 cells (n=4, Dunnett’s test, p h238 WT vs h238 ΔκB motif =0.0432, p h238 WT vs h238 mut-κB motif =0.0318). f, g Luciferase activity of H4 h238 ΔκB motif (n=4, Dunnett’s test, p Ctrl vs NMDA =0.4847, p Ctrl vs L-Glu =0.3969) (f) and H4 h238 mut-κB motif (n=4, Dunnett’s test, p Ctrl vs NMDA =0.3716, p Ctrl vs L-Glu =0.5012) (g) treated with 100 µM NMDA or 100 µM L-glutamate. h, i Luciferase activity of H4 h238 ΔκB motif (n=5, Student’s t -test, p=0.8164) (h) and H4 h238 mut-κB motif (n=5, Student’s t -test, p=0.5011) (i) treated with 30 µM memantine. All data are shown as mean±SEM. *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001; n.s., non-significant.
Article Snippet: For transient expression of the luciferase constructs in H4 cells, Lipofectamine ® LTX Reagent & PlusTM Reagent (Thermo Fisher Scientific, catalog #15338100) was used following the manufacturer’s protocol.
Techniques: Luciferase, Construct, Stable Transfection, Activity Assay, Mutagenesis