Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Ionic Regulation of Mechanosurveillance and Metastasis via the MRTFA/KCNMB1 Axis
doi: 10.64898/2026.01.13.699089
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Venn diagram and gene ontology analyses of the SRF independent genes that are exclusively upregulated by MRTFA Y238A in both AT-3 and E0771 cells to at least 2-fold or more. See Table S2 for full results. (B) Examples of statistically significant GSEA for MRTFA high/low breast cancer patient tumors from TCGA. (C) Examples of statistically significant GSEA for SRF high/low breast cancer patient tumors from TCGA. (D) Relative mRNA expression levels of MRTFA and MRTFB in shMRTFA/B and SRF in shSRF mouse cell lines. Data are shown as fold change calculated from 3 technical replicates per sample and normalized to GAPDH levels. Each graph is representative of 3 independent experiments. (E) Relative mRNA expression levels of MRTFA and MRTFB in shMRTFA/B and SRF in shSRF human cell lines. Data are shown as fold change calculated from 3 technical replicates per sample and normalized to GAPDH levels. Each graph is representative of 3 independent experiments. (F) Relative mRNA expression levels of canonical YAP target gene CCN2, which encodes connective tissue growth factor (CTGF), and KCNMB1 in AT-3 cells overexpressing wildtype YAP or hyperactive YAP 5SA mutant or treated for 24 hours with TGFβ inhibitor SB-505124. (G) KCNMB1 human and mouse genetic loci analyzed for SRF (purple tracks) binding by using University of California Santa Cruz Genome Browser data publicly available Chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing data. Each purple solid line under the ReMap density map indicates an independent dataset where SRF was found to be associated with the locus. In the Encode cCREs track, red solid boxes indicate promoter regions, orange and yellow solid boxes indicate proximal and distal enhancers, respectively, and blue tracks indicate CTCF only binding regions. (H) Chromatin immunoprecipitation-PCR from AT-3 cells using KCNMB1 primers and the indicated antibodies against SRF, MRTFA, histone H3 (as a positive control) and IgG (negative control). Water was used as input material as a negative control for the PCR reaction. Image is representative of 3 independent experiments. (I) Raw counts from bulk RNA-seq data for Myocd , Mrtfa , and Mrtfb genes in AT-3 and E0771 cells.
Article Snippet: To over express YAP (Addgene #33091) and its active mutant YAP 5SA (Addgene #33093) were cloned into pLVX-puro (Takara Bio Catalog No. #632164).
Techniques: Expressing, Mutagenesis, Binding Assay, ChIP-sequencing, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, Positive Control, Negative Control, RNA Sequencing