Figure 6.

Role of AVEN in non-attachment growth. A. Sphere formation assays were performed 48 hours after transfection of MCF7 cells with esiRNA targeting AVEN. Sphere counting was performed as in Figure 2. B. MCF7 cells were transfected with empty pcDNA3.1 vector or a plasmid coding for full length AVEN, in combination or not with pre-miR30a oligos. Western blots were performed for the different conditions to test for efficiency of overexpression. Beta-tubulin was used as housekeeping control. C. The same conditions used in (B) were tested in a new sphere formation assay under non-attachment conditions. P values under 0.05 (two-tailed student t test) are represented with an asterisk (*). The sphere formation plots show the average and standard deviation of 8 independent non-attachment wells.