Journal: Life Science Alliance
Article Title: Specific N-cadherin–dependent pathways drive human breast cancer dormancy in bone marrow
doi: 10.26508/lsa.202000969
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Representative image of Passage 3 mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), 400× magnification. (B) Flow cytometry represents BM-MSC characterization. Cells were labeled with anti–CD73-FITC, anti–CD29-PE, and anti–CD90-PerCP-Cy5.5. (C) Induced differentiation of BM-MSCs was performed by culturing the cells in maintenance media or differentiation media (osteogenic or adipogenic). After week 3, cells in the osteocytic media were counter stained with Von Kossa to assess calcium deposit. Representative images are shown for osteocytes (top) and adipocyte (bottom). (D) Whole-cell lysates from BM-MSCs or BM stromal cells were immunoprecipitated with anti-CDH2 or IgG (Antibody control) and then electrophorese on 12% SDS–PAGE. The proteins were transferred onto PVDF membrane for blotting with anti-Cx43. (E) Real time PCR for CDH2. The results were normalized for β-actin and then presented as the mean ± SD (n = 5) relative expression. (F) Western blot with extracts from BC cell subsets: Oct4a-GFP hi, med or lo . (G, H) Top panel: Western blot for CDH2 (F) and Cx43 (G) using whole-cell extracts from MDA-MB-231, transfected with shRNA (scramble, CDH2, or Cx43). Bottom panel: normalized band densities. (H, I, J) Dye transfer assay: M-Oct4-GFP/scramble-RFP, M-Oct4-GFP/CDH2-shRNA-RFP, and M-Oct4 GFP/Cx43-shRNA-RFP were co-cultured at 1:1 ratio with CMAC-blue–labeled BM-stroma (H) or BM-MSCs (I) in four well chamber slides. After 72 h, the cells were imaged for dye transfer. Negative control used co-cultures of M-Oct4-GFP/scramble-RFP and CMAC-blue–labeled stroma or MSCs in the presence of 300 µM 1-octanol. The white spots (white arrows) in the vehicle-treated M-Oct4-GFP/scramble-RFP indicate dye transfer. Inset: enlarged image depicts cells with dye transfer. The cells were imaged using EVOS FL2 Auto 2 at 200× magnification. (K, L) CDH2-shRNA and Cx43 shRNA MDA-MB-231 were infected with inducible lentiviral particle pLVX-CDH2/GS and pLVX-Cx43/GS, respectively. After overnight infection, the cells were induced with different concentrations of doxocycline: 0, 5, 10, 100, 500, and 1,000 ng/ml. After 24 h, proteins were isolated and Western blot performed for CDH2 and Cx43. The membranes were stripped and reprobed with anti–β-actin. Source data are available for this figure.
Article Snippet: Mouse anti-human CDK4 mAb (1/1,000 dilution), anti-human CDK6 mAb (1/1,000 dilution), mouse anti-human cyclin E mAb (1/1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-human cyclin D1 mAb (1/1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-human Cx43 (1/1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-human Vimentin (1/1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-human Slug (1/1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-human β-catenin (1/1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-human Zeb1 (1/1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-human caspase 3 (1/1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-human caspase 7 (1/1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-human MDR1 (1/1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-human E-cadherin (1/1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-human p38 (1/1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-human p-p38 (1/1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-human Erk1/2 (1/1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-human p-Erk1/2 (1/1,000 dilution), and normal anti-rabbit immunoglobulin G (IgG) were purchased from Cell Signaling Technology; rabbit polyclonal anti-human cyclin A (1/1,000 dilution), and goat anti-rabbit IgG-TR were purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology; rabbit polyclonal anti-human CDH2 (1/1,000 dilution), rabbit polyclonal anti-human Ki67 (1/200 dilution), and rabbit anti-human vinculin mAb (1/1,000 dilution) from Abcam; rabbit anti-human Twist (1/1,000 dilution), mouse anti-human pan-cytokeratin (1/200 dilution), and mouse anti-human β-actin (1/2,000 dilution) from Millipore Sigma; goat polyclonal anti-rabbit IgG-HRP (1/5,000 dilution), goat polyclonal anti-murine IgG-HRP (1/5,000 dilution), goat anti-rabbit IgG–Alexa Fluor 405 (1/500 dilution), goat anti-mouse IgG–Alexa Fluor 488 (1/500 dilution), goat anti-rabbit IgG-Alexa Fluor 610 (1/500 dilution), goat anti-mouse Alexa 647 IgG (1/500 dilution), rabbit anti-human HA tag (1/1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-human Flag tag (1/1,000 dilution), goat polyclonal anti-rabbit IgG-AP (1/500 dilution), rabbit anti-human GM130 (1/1,000 dilution), rabbit anti-human GRP78 (1/1,000 dilution), and CD14 + Dynabeads Flow kit from Thermo Fisher Scientific; HRP-mouse anti-rabbit IgG light chain–specific from Jackson Immuno Research, murine anti-CD206-PE (1/20 dilution), murine anti-HLA-DR-APC (1/20 dilution), murine anti-human CDH2-PE (1/20 dilution), FITC murine anti-human CD73 (1/20 dilution), PE murine anti-human CD29 (1/20 dilution), murine anti-human CD90 − perCp/Cyanine 5.5 (1/20 dilution) from BD Biosciences; and recombinant human M-CSF, and IL-4 from R & D Systems.
Techniques: Flow Cytometry, Labeling, Staining, Immunoprecipitation, SDS Page, Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Expressing, Western Blot, Transfection, shRNA, Cell Culture, Negative Control, Infection, Isolation