Journal: Journal of Molecular Endocrinology
Article Title: CD82 gene suppression in endometrial stromal cells leads to increase of the cell invasiveness in the endometriotic milieu
doi: 10.1530/jme-10-0165
Figure Lengend Snippet: Figure 5 CD82 inhibits the invasion of ESCs by downregulating CCL2 secretion and CCR2 expression via MAPK and integrinb1 signal pathway. (a) CD82 upregulates TIMP1 and TIMP2 expression, downregulates integrinb1 and integrinanb3 expression in ESCs, but has no influence on MMP2 and MMP9 expression. In this study, MMP2, MMP9, TIMP1, TIMP2, integrinb1, and integrinanb3 are shown in red and actin is shown in green. (b) After the silence, ESCs were treated with U0126 or anti-integrinb1 neutralizing antibody for another 24 h, and then the CCL2 secretion and CCR2 expression were detected by ELISA and in-cell Western, respectively, and the invasion of ESCs (d) by invasion assay. The results show that U0126 or anti-integrinb1 neutralizing antibody can abolish completely the increase of CCL2 secretion, CCR2 expression and invasion of ESCs induced by CD82 silence. CCR2 (green) and actin (red). (c) We treated CD82-silenced ESCs with U0126 or anti-integrinb1 neutralizing antibody for another 24 h, or anti-CCL2 neutralizing antibody or RS102895 for another 48h, and then TIMP1 and TIMP2 expression were evaluated by in-cell Western. TIMP1 and TIMP2 (red) and actin (green). The CCL2 level was calculated as the ratio of the secretion of CCL2 in supernatant by ELISA to the protein concentration of total cells. The cell invasiveness was calculated as the ratio of the cells migrated to the lower chamber to the protein concentration of total cells. Results were highly reproducible in three independent experiments. In this study, control, the non-targeting siRNA oligonucleotides; silence, CD82 is knocked down. Error bars depict the S.E.M. *P!0.05 and **P!0.01 compared with the negative control. ##P!0.01 compared with CD82 silence.
Article Snippet: The resolved protein was transferred onto polyvinylidene difluoride membranes (Bio-Rad), and incubated with a 1:500 dilution of mouse anti-human CD82 monoclonal antibody (SC-15572, Santa Cruz Biotechnology) and a 1:1000 dilution of mouse antihuman b-actin monoclonal antibody (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) in PBS containing 0.05% Tween-20 and 5% FCS respectively.
Techniques: Expressing, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay, In-Cell ELISA, Invasion Assay, Protein Concentration, Control, Negative Control