Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Extracellular Vesicles from Senescent Tumor Cells Are Necessary and Sufficient to Drive Paracrine Senescence
doi: 10.64898/2026.03.25.713920
Figure Lengend Snippet: (a) Representative images of cell morphology and SA-β-Gal staining of proliferative (A549-C) and senescent (A549-S) A549 cells (scale, 100 μm; scale in zoomed area, 200 μm). Quantification of the staining. (b) Heatmap representation of RNA-seq analysis of A549-C and A549-S. (c) UMAP showing group clustering. (d) Volcano plot of differentially expressed genes. (e) Dot plot analysis of differentially expressed pathways. Red dots represent upregulated pathways, and blue dots represent downregulated pathways. (f) Schematic representation of proliferative (CM-C) and senescent (CM-S) A549 CM treatment over proliferative A549 cells. (g) Representative images of cell morphology and SA-β-Gal staining, large scale, 200 μm, short scale, 100 μm. (h) Cell size measurement. (i) Cell counting. (j) Quantification of SA-β-Gal positive cells using X-gal substrate. (k) Quantification of SA-β-Gal positive cells using C 12 FDG substrate. (l) RT-qPCR analysis of CDKN1A . GAPDH was used as housekeeping gene. (m) Schematic representation of proliferative (CM-C) and senescent (CM-S) A549 CM over proliferative MCF7. (n) Representative images of cell morphology and SA-β-Gal staining, large scale, 200 μm, short scale, 100 μm. (o) Quantification of SA-β-Gal positive cells using X-gal substrate. (p) RT-qPCR analysis of CDKN1A . GAPDH was used as housekeeping gene. (q) RT-qPCR analysis of SERPINE1 . GAPDH was used as housekeeping gene. Significance was calculated using Student’s t-test showing the exact p-value. Less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant (n= 3).
Article Snippet: Membranes were blocked with 5% milk solution and incubated with primary antibodies for GAPDH (sc-32233, Santa Cruz Biotechnology 1:1000), β-Actin (sc-8432, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, 1:1000), Vinculin (sc-76314, Santa Cruz Biotechnology 1:2000), RAB27A (#69295, Cell Signaling Technology, 1:1000), p53 (sc-6243, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, 1:1000), and p21 (#2947, Cell Signaling Technology, 1:1000), overnight at 4 °C.
Techniques: Staining, RNA Sequencing, Cell Counting, Quantitative RT-PCR