Fig. 4. Autophagy deregulation in DSD and TGCT-leukocytes samples.
(a) Heat map of GO selection of autophagy-specific proteins from entire proteome mass spectrometry data. qRT-PCR analysis of autophagy markers LC3 and P63 in individuals with DSD (b, c) and TGCT (d, e). Immunoblotting for LC3 and P62 proteins for controls (f), Swyer and Swyer-GCT (g), CAIS and CAIS-GCT (h), Turner (i), Klinefelter (j). Quantification of the ratio of LC3-II to LC3-I (k) and P62 relative protein levels normalized to α-actinin (l) in DSD-individuals. Immunoblotting of autophagy markers for TGCT group (m) and quantification (n, o). Unpaired t test was used for statistical analysis, p values are indicated.