Journal: Stem cell research & therapy
Article Title: Restoration of NOX4 signalling reverses endothelial colony-forming cell angiogenic dysfunction associated with experimental and clinical diabetes.
doi: 10.1186/s13287-025-04393-4
Figure Lengend Snippet: Fig. 6 Clinical diabetes induces dysregulation of CB-ECFC angiogenic pathways linked with downstream NOX4-dependent pro-angiogenic signalling. CB-ECFCs were isolated from healthy and gestational diabetic donors and subjected to RNA sequencing prior to (A) IPA network generation, node colour represents predicted gene activation (orange) and inhibition (blue). B, C Proteome Profiler™ analysis of pooled lysates (triplicates from 5 clones) from diabetic CB-ECFCs subjected to electroporation for introduction of either empty vector (EV; pcDNA4/TO/myc-His A) or NOX4 overexpression (OE; pcDNA4/TO/NOX4-myc-His A) construct for detection of protein phosphorylation. Differential expression between groups presented as a heat map indicating largely decreased (red) phosphorylation (OE versus EV). D–G Protein expression of endoglin, E2F1 and SERPINE1 by Western blotting with normalisation to ACTB as loading control; n = 8/9, combined data from 3 different clones. Representative cropped blots shown from one healthy and one diabetic clone. Full-length blots/gels are presented in Supplementary Figure. Data are mean ± SEM; **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, paired Student’s t-test
Article Snippet: Proteome profiler arrays (R&D Systems) specific for protein phosphorylation (Human phospho-kinase proteome profiler array, ARY003C) or linked with angiogenesis (Human angiogenesis proteome profiler array; ARY007) were run according to manufacturer’s instructions.
Techniques: Isolation, RNA Sequencing, Activation Assay, Inhibition, Clone Assay, Electroporation, Plasmid Preparation, Over Expression, Construct, Phospho-proteomics, Quantitative Proteomics, Expressing, Western Blot, Control