Journal: Cancer Biology & Medicine
Article Title: L1CAM overexpression promotes tumor progression through recruitment of regulatory T cells in esophageal carcinoma
doi: 10.20892/j.issn.2095-3941.2020.0182
Figure Lengend Snippet: L1CAM promotes the recruitment of Tregs through CCL22 in vivo . (A) The correlation between FOXP3 and CCL22 in the ESCC TCGA database, n = 94. (B) The purity of CD4 + CD25 + CD127 - Tregs sorted from the peripheral blood of patients with ESCC, according to FACS. (C) The numbers of migrating Tregs obtained from ESCC patient blood samples was calculated for the shNC, shL1CAM, shL1CAM + recombinant protein CCL22 (100 ng/mL), shL1CAM + PBS, scramble, OE-L1CAM, OE-L1CAM + CCL22 antibody (500 ng/mL), and OE-L1CAM + IgG groups. (D) Flow chart of the in vivo experiments. (E) mRNA expression of FOXP3 and CCR4 in the indicated groups. (F) Percentage of CD4 + FOXP3 + Tregs and FOXP3 + CCR4 + Tregs recruited to tumor sites, as analyzed by flow cytometry. (G) Expression of FOXP3 in tumor tissues of different groups, determined by IHC (200×). (H) The expression of p-Akt, Akt, p-NF-κB, NF-κB, and CCL22 was detected by Western blot between shL1CAM and OE-L1CAM cells treated with or without p-Akt inhibitor (RF-04691502) and p-NF-κB inhibitor (QNZ). β-actin expression was used as a loading control. * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001.
Article Snippet: Tumor cells, anti-CCL22 neutralizing antibodies (500 ng/mL; R&D, MAB336) or CCL22 recombinant protein (100 ng/mL, BioLegend, 584902) was added to the lower chamber.
Techniques: In Vivo, Recombinant, Expressing, Flow Cytometry, Western Blot