Journal: Annals of Translational Medicine
Article Title: Proscillaridin A induces mitochondrial damage and autophagy in pancreatic cancer and reduces the stability of SMAD4 in Panc-1 cells
doi: 10.21037/atm-22-1085
Figure Lengend Snippet: Relation between SMAD4 expression and sensitivity to Pro A of PC cells. (A) qPCR analysis of expression of indicated genes in PC cell lines. (B) Western blot analysis of SMAD4 protein in PC cell lines. (C) CCK-8 assay was used to determine the effects of SMAD4 on Pro A-induced cytotoxicity in PC cell lines. Each experiment was repeated three times. Error bars represent SEM. **, P<0.01; ***, P<0.001; ****, P<0.0001. PC, pancreatic cancer; Pro A, proscillaridin A; qPCR, quantitative polymerase chain reaction; CCK-8, cell counting kit-8; SEM, standard error of mean.
Article Snippet: The coding DNA for the short hairpin RNA (shRNA) precursor targeting SMAD4 was inserted into pLKO.1 (Addgene), and co-transfected with packaging plasmids psPAX2 and pMD2.G (Addgene) into HEK293T cells for production of recombinant lentivirus.
Techniques: Expressing, Western Blot, CCK-8 Assay, Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Cell Counting