Journal: Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
Article Title: GRP75 triggers white adipose tissue browning to promote cancer-associated cachexia
doi: 10.1038/s41392-024-01950-w
Figure Lengend Snippet: GRP75 is essential for adipocyte browning. a Five most representative subcellular localization analyses of 63 overlapping proteins. b Representative IHC images and the staining scores of GRP75 (top) in 63 pairs of patient tumours (T) and matched adjacent normal tissues (N). Scale bar, 200 μm. c Kaplan‒Meier survival analysis of patients with ESCC stratified by GRP75 expression ( n = 107; P < 0.001, log-rank test). d Immunoblots of GRP75 in EVs derived from mouse colon cancer cells (MC38 and C26), ESCC cells (YES2 and KYSE150) and other cachexia-inducing tumour cells (HepG2, LLC, AsPC-1, and BxPC3). e MtDNA copy number was detected in differentiated 3T3-L1 adipocytes treated with NC-EVs or GRP75-EVs. f Oxygen consumption rate (OCR) in primary adipocytes treated by GRP75-EVs or GRP75-EVs with si-UCP1. Primary adipocytes treated with NC-EVs are shown as a negative control. Left: plot of the time course OCR normalized to the protein concentration. Right: calculated respiration levels of basal and proton leaked respiration. g Quantitation of intracellular TG contents in adipocytes treated as described in f . h Immunoblots of GRP75 and UCP1 in differentiated 3T3-L1 adipocytes treated as described in f . i Schematic diagram of in vivo subcutaneous injection of PBS, KYSE150 cells with stable GRP75 overexpression (LV-Flag-GRP75) or negative lentiviral vectors (LV-Control) in six-week-old BALB/c-nude mice ( n = 6 per group). j NBWs of the PBS, LV-Control and LV-Flag-GRP75 groups. k Ratios of iWAT, eWAT, and iBAT to NBW in the three groups. l Representative H&E-stained images of iWAT from the three groups. Scale bar, 50 μm. Quantified adipocyte sizes are shown on the right side. m , n Oxygen consumption volume and heat production of the LV-Control and LV-Flag-GRP75 groups in the metabolic cage housed at 22°C ( n = 6 per group). o Rectal temperatures of the PBS, LV-Control and LV-Flag-GRP75 groups. p Representative IHC images of UCP1 and GRP75 staining in iWAT from the three groups. Scale bar, 50 μm. The magnified image labelled with a red rectangle is shown on the upper right side. Scale bar, 25 μm. q Immunoblotting of GRP75 and UCP1 protein in iWAT from three groups ( n = 4; representative of four biological replicates per group). The data are presented as the mean ± SEM. The exact P values were tested with one-way ANOVA in ( j – l , o ) and unpaired two-tailed Student’s t test in ( m and n )
Article Snippet: Mouse IL-6 (abs520004) and TNF-α (abs520010) ELISA kits were purchased from Absin Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China); mouse GRP75 ELISA kits (NBP2-76446) were obtained from Novus Biologicals (USA); and human GRP75 ELISA kits (ELH-HSPA9-A) were obtained from Raybiotech, Inc. (USA).
Techniques: Staining, Expressing, Western Blot, Derivative Assay, Negative Control, Protein Concentration, Quantitation Assay, In Vivo, Injection, Over Expression, Control, Two Tailed Test