Journal: Cancer research
Article Title: Metastasis Suppressors NME1 and NME2 Promote Dynamin 2 Oligomerization and Regulate Tumor Cell Endocytosis, Motility and Metastasis.
doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-19-0492
Figure Lengend Snippet: A Vector and NME transfected MDA-MB-231T cells stably transfected with scrambled or shDNM2, described in the legend to Figure 3, were assessed for motility in Boyden chambers as described in the legend to Figure 4. B Representative photographs of the Boyden chamber membrane underside showing migrated tumor cells. C Migration in scratch assays of the same cells, as described in the legend to Figure 4. D Representative photographs of the scratch invaded. E 7.5 × 105 MDA-MB-231T cells expressing vector and NME1 overexpression with or without DNM2 knockdown (Vector-scr, Vector-shDNM2, NME1-scr, NME1-shDNM2) were injected into the lateral tail vein of athymic nude mice (each group, n=11). At 9 weeks post-injection, the mice were sacrificed, and the lungs were fixed in Bouin’s solution followed by H&E staining. A representative image of each group is presented with arrows pointing to metastases. F All metastases in the lung sections were counted and presented as scatter plot showing median with interquartile range. Each dot represents a single mouse. All in vitro experiments shown are representative of (motility n=4 and migration n=3) replicates and statistical significance was calculated by a 1-way ANOVA (* P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001, **** P < 0.001). For metastasis 1-way ANOVA (nonparametric) test was performed comparing median across all the groups with P < 0.05 considered significant (*).
Article Snippet: Gene silencing DNM2 targeting shRNAs were purchased from GeneCopoeia (Stable selection marker: Hygromycin and Reporter gene: mcherry). shRNAs were transfected into MDA-MB-231T- vector and NME1 overexpressing cells and were selected using Hygromycin.
Techniques: Plasmid Preparation, Transfection, Stable Transfection, Migration, Expressing, Over Expression, Injection, Staining, In Vitro