Journal: Cell Death & Disease
Article Title: ROR1-PI3K/AKT signaling drives adaptive resistance to cell cycle blockade in TP53 mutated ovarian cancer
doi: 10.1038/s41419-026-08501-x
Figure Lengend Snippet: a Box plots illustrating WEE1 and ROR1 expression (variance-stabilizing transformed, VST) in DECIDER tissue samples across treatment phases: diagnostic ( n = 158), post-NACT ( n = 69 ) , and relapse ( n = 31). Statistical comparisons between treatment phases were performed using a two-tailed Wilcoxon test, with asterisks indicating significance levels ( ****P < 0.0001, ***P < 0.001, **P < 0.01, *P < 0.05 ). b Immunoblot analysis of ROR1 in HGSOC cell lines, where β-actin was used as a loading control. c Immunoblot analysis of ROR1 and WEE1 in parental, control plasmid-transfected, and HA-tagged ROR1-plasmid transfected (ROR1 high ) JHOS2 and OVCAR8 cells. GAPDH served as a loading control. ROR1-HA indicates the HA-tag present in the plasmid. d ROR1 and WEE1 protein levels in doxycycline-induced shROR1 knockdown (KD) and parental cells. Protein expression was normalized to GAPDH and to untreated controls (set to 1). e Proliferation assay comparing parental, ROR1 high , and the ADA or PTX-res cells. The parental, ROR1 high and their ADA- or PTX-res counterparts were treated with increasing concentrations of ADA or PTX for 3 days. Significance was calculated using two-tailed Student’s t-test (* P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001), n = 3 or 4 replicates. f Proliferation assay comparing ROR1 knockdown (shROR1) and parental cells, and their respective ADA-res models. The parental, shROR1 and their ADA-res counterparts were treated with increasing concentrations of ADA for 3 days. Significance was calculated using two-tailed Student’s t-test (* P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001), n = 3 or 4 replicates. g Proliferation assay of JHOS2, Kuramochi, and Ovsaho parental and ADA lt-res cells treated with zilovertamab vedotin (Zilo-VT; 25 µg/mL), ADA (250 nM for JHOS2 and Ovsaho, 500 nM for Kuramochi), or their combination. Cell viability was measured after 3 days using the CTG assay. Data represent mean ± SD ( n = 3 or 4 replicates). Statistical significance was determined using two-tailed Student’s t-test (*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001 ).
Article Snippet: Protein in the lysates was quantified using Pierce 660 nm Protein Assay reagent and Nanodrop (Thermo Fisher Scientific), then mixed with 4X Laemmli sample buffer (#1610747, Bio-Rad Laboratories, California, USA) and β-mercaptoethanol, separated in SDS-PAGE with 4-20% gradient gels (Bio-Rad Laboratories), and transferred to 0.45 μm nitrocellulose membranes, followed by incubation with the following primary antibodies (all used 1:1,000 dilution, if not stated otherwise): β-tubulin (#2146, Cell Signaling Technology (CST), Danvers, MA, USA), β-actin (#4967, CST), caveolin 1 (#3267, CST), FoxO3a (#99199, CST), c-MYC (#13987, CST), AKT (#2920, CST), AKT-pSer473 (#4060, CST), E-cadherin (#14472S, CST), E-cadherin (#3195, CST), ERK1/2 (#4696, CST), ERK1/2-pThr202/Tyr204 (#9101, CST), GAPDH (#G8795, Sigma-Aldrich, Burlington, MA, USA or #AHP1628, Bio-Rad Laboratories), NF-kB p65 (#6956, CST), NF-kB p65-pSer536 (#3033, CST), STAT3 (#9139, CST), STAT3-pTyr705 (#9145, CST), STAT1 (#65917, CST), STAT1-pTyr701 (#88845, CST), PTK7 (#25618, CST), ROR1 (#16540, CST, 1:500), EGFR (#4267, CST), WEE1 (#13084, CST).
Techniques: Expressing, Transformation Assay, Diagnostic Assay, Two Tailed Test, Western Blot, Control, Plasmid Preparation, Transfection, Knockdown, Proliferation Assay, CTG Assay