Journal: Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.)

Article Title: PIK3CA mutant cervical cancer is selectively suppressed by PI3Kα inhibition (Alpelisib/BYL-719 and Inavolisib/GDC-0077) and cooperates with HPV directed T cell therapy

doi: 10.1016/j.neo.2026.101305

Figure Lengend Snippet: Impact of BYL-719 on the expression of target proteins in cervical cancer cell lines. ( A, B) CaSki cells treated with BYL-719 show reduced levels of PD-L1, YAP1, EGFR, CTGF, Integrin, and HPV16 E7. In Panel B cells were treated with 5uM BYL-719, washed at 24 h and place in 0, 1 or 5uM drug. (exposure time, 2 min). (C) BYL-719-treated ME180 cells show decreased levels of PD-L1 and CTGF. (D) SNU-17 cells also show reduced levels of these proteins after treatment (exposure time, 5 min). (E) SiHa ( PIK3CA WT) shows no reduction ofHPV16 E7 after treatment with BYL-719 (exposure time, 3 min). (F) Cell proliferation plot of SNU-17 cells treated with BYL-719. (G) SiHa cells treated with BYL719. *=P < 0.05, **=P < 0.01, ***=P < 0.001.

Article Snippet: CC cell lines, including CaSki (ATCC Cat# CRM-CRL-1550_Ca Ski, RRID: CVCL_1100), SiHa (ATCC Cat# HTB-35_SiHa, RRID: CVCL_0032), and ME180 (ATCC Cat# HTB-33_ME-180, RRID: CVCL_1401), C33A (ATCC CRM-HTB-31, RRID:CVCL_1094) were obtained from ATCC.

Techniques: Expressing

Journal: PLOS One

Article Title: Poldip2 deficiency attenuates lung disease severity in a mouse model of COVID-19

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0348065

Figure Lengend Snippet: Male and female hACE2/Poldip2 mice were infected with SARS-CoV-2 by nasal inoculation. Lungs were collected 7 days later for RNA preparation. Viral loads were measured by RT-qPCR using primer pairs and TaqMan probes specific for the viral gene N (A) or subgenomic E (sgE) RNA (B). Bars represent means ± SEM of data from n = 5-7 animals. Groups were compared using two-tailed Mann-Whitney tests: **P < 0.01.

Article Snippet: Reverse transcription was performed using Protoscript II reverse transcriptase (M0368, New England Biolabs) with random primers. cDNA was amplified with 2X Forget-Me-Not EvaGreen qPCR Master Mix with Low ROX (31045, Biotium) and primers against mouse TNFα, IL-1β, IL-6, MCP1, CXCL1, IFN-γ, Poldip2 and human ACE2 ( ).

Techniques: Infection, Quantitative RT-PCR, Two Tailed Test, MANN-WHITNEY

Journal: PLOS One

Article Title: Poldip2 deficiency attenuates lung disease severity in a mouse model of COVID-19

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0348065

Figure Lengend Snippet: Male and female hACE2/Poldip2 mice were euthanized 7 days after intranasal administration of PBS or SARS-CoV-2. Bronchoalveloar lavage (BAL) fluid was collected before harvesting lungs for RNA extraction as in Figure 3. mRNAs were measured by RT-qPCR in lung tissue (A) and protein ELISAs were carried out in BAL (B). Bars represent means ± SEM of data from n = 4-17 animals. Basal protein levels in +/ + PBS were 40 ± 20 pg/ml (MCP1) and 111 ± 31 pg/ml (CXCL1). Data were analyzed using 2-way ANOVA: ns, not significant; ** P < 0.01; *** P < 0.001.

Article Snippet: Reverse transcription was performed using Protoscript II reverse transcriptase (M0368, New England Biolabs) with random primers. cDNA was amplified with 2X Forget-Me-Not EvaGreen qPCR Master Mix with Low ROX (31045, Biotium) and primers against mouse TNFα, IL-1β, IL-6, MCP1, CXCL1, IFN-γ, Poldip2 and human ACE2 ( ).

Techniques: RNA Extraction, Quantitative RT-PCR