Journal: Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
Article Title: Perillaldehyde synergizes with ferroptosis inducers to promote ferroptotic cell death in gastric cancer
doi: 10.3389/fcell.2025.1598520
Figure Lengend Snippet: PAH induces oxidative stress while activating the P62-Keap1-Nrf2 pathway (A) AGS cells were treated with 200 μmol/L PAH for 24 h, and RNA sequencing volcano plot showed significantly differentially expressed genes. Differential genes are screened according to the threshold set by | log2(FoldChange) | and p -adj (<0.05). Blue indicates genes with downregulated expression, and red indicates genes with upregulated expression. (B) Inter-sample clustering heatmap for RNA sequencing. Green indicates low gene expression, red indicates high gene expression, and the connecting lines represent clustering results. (C) KEGG functional enrichment analysis of AGS cells treated with PAH, the results with p .adjust <0.05 and the top 20 gene numbers are selected for display. The size of the dots indicates the number of differential genes enriched in this pathway, the redder the dot color is, the more significant it is. (D) Compared with the control group, the results of Reactome pathway enrichment analysis of differential genes in AGS cells treated with PAH. The redder the dot color, the more significant it is. (E) AGS and HGC27 cells were treated with different concentrations of PAH for 24 h. Measurement of Nrf2 protein nuclear localization by laser confocal microscopy. Scale bar: 50 μm. (F,G) HGC27 and AGS cells were treated with corresponding concentration gradient PAH for 24 h. Western blotting was used to detect the protein expression of P62, Keap1, Nrf2, HMOX1 and NQO1 ( n = 3) and ImageJ software was used to quantify the protein band (Data are expressed as mean ± SD; *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, ****p < 0.0001, significantly different from the control group).
Article Snippet: The cells were then incubated overnight with a primary antibody against Nrf2 (R1312-8; HUABIO), followed by incubation with a fluorescent secondary antibody (E-AB-1005; Elabscience).
Techniques: RNA Sequencing, Expressing, Gene Expression, Functional Assay, Control, Confocal Microscopy, Concentration Assay, Western Blot, Software