Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Synthetic essentiality of TRAIL/TNFSF10 in VHL-deficient renal cell carcinoma
doi: 10.1101/2025.05.29.621197
Figure Lengend Snippet: TRAIL is a HIF2α target and a candidate synthetic essential gene. A. Venn diagram between HIF2α-upregulated genes (logFC(Ctrl/sgEPAS1) > 1.5, FDR < 0.05) and DepMap preferentially essential genes (gene effect < 0, Z-score < -1) in 786O. B. Bubble plot of the 57 overlapped genes. The bubbles’ size and color reflect the false discovery rate (FDR) and Z-score, respectively. TRAIL has lowest Z-score and is highlighted. C. Relative mRNA expression of EPAS1 and TNFSF10 in control and HIF2α-knockout 786O sublines (n=3), measured with qRT-PCR. D. Immunoblotting of HIF2α and TRAIL in control and HIF2α-knockout 786O sublines. E. Relative mRNA expression of TNFSF10 in normal (n=161) and tumor tissues (n=532) of TCGA KIRC patient’s cohort. F. TRAIL protein expression in normal (n=84) and tumor tissues (n=110) of CPTAC KIRC patient’s cohort. G. Scatter plot of TNFSF10 and EPAS1 levels in the TCGA KIRC cohort. Spearman correlation coefficient ρ and P value are marked. H. HIF2α and input ChIP-Seq signals in the TNFSF10 locus with the promoter region chr3:172,242,513 - 172,243,623 highlighted in the red box. I. ChIP-qPCR result for IgG and anti-HIF2α at the TNFSF10 promoter (n=3). In C and I , data represent mean ± SEM. Unpaired t-test for C and I , Mann-Whitney test for E and F , **P<0.01, ***P<0.001, ****P<0.0001.
Article Snippet: Primary antibodies included: TRAIL (Cell Signaling Technology, #3219), HIF2α (Cell Signaling Technology, #59973), p38 (Cell Signaling Technology, #9212), Phospho-p38 MAPK (Thr180/Tyr182) (Cell Signaling Technology, #4511), RB (Cell Signaling Technology, #9309), Phospho-RB (Ser780)(Cell Signaling Technology, #8180), cyclin D1(Cell Signaling Technology,#2978P), cyclin D3 (Cell Signaling Technology, #2936), cyclin E1 (Cell Signaling Technology,#4219), E2F1 (Novus Biologicals, #NBP2-37474), Phospho-IκBα (Cell Signaling Technology, #2859), IκBα (Cell Signaling Technology, #4814), phospho-NF-κB p65 (Ser536) (Cell Signaling Technology, #3033), p-ERK (Cell Signaling Technology, #4370P), ERK (Cell Signaling Technology, #4695). β-actin (Santa Cruz, #sc-47778), Vinculin (Sigma-Aldrich, #05-386).
Techniques: Expressing, Control, Knock-Out, Quantitative RT-PCR, Western Blot, ChIP-sequencing, ChIP-qPCR, MANN-WHITNEY