Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Article Title: Molecular transitions from papillomavirus infection to cervical precancer and cancer: Role of stromal estrogen receptor signaling
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1509322112
Figure Lengend Snippet: Expression of genes encoding ribosomal proteins and mitochondrial electron transport chain complexes I, III, IV, and V is reduced at the transition from CIN3 to cancer. (A) Twenty-four small and 35 large ribosomal subunit proteins (∼70% of all ribosomal proteins) are expressed at statistically significant reduced levels in cancers compared with precancerous CIN3 lesions. Histograms show measurements in cancers by all 177 Affymetrix microarray probe sets for ribosomal protein-encoding genes, normalized to levels measured in CIN3s. (B) Green dots in the five complexes of the mitochondrial electron transport chain indicate proteins with reduced gene expression in cancers. Box plots (Tukey) show the average distribution of gene expression of all differentially expressed ETC complex I, III, IV, and V components (median levels are in red).
Article Snippet: An additional cryosection from each of 16 normal specimens, 13 CIN1/CIN2 specimens, 23 CIN3 specimens, and 16 cancer specimens was used to independently validate the Affymetrix microarray-based mRNA profiling data by RTQ-PCR.
Techniques: Expressing, Microarray