Figure 7.
Apoptosis in melanoma cells with overexpression or knockdown of angiopoietin-like 4 (ANGPTL4) and/or aldolase A (ALDOA) under normal culture conditions. WM-115 cells: TUNEL assays were performed in control cells, cells stably transfected with empty pcDNA3 vector, cells overexpressing ANGPTL4, cells stably expressing ALDOA-shRNA, and cells overexpressing ANGPTL4 plus stably expressing ALDOA-shRNA. WM-266-4 cells: TUNEL assays were performed in control cells, cells stably transduced with scramble control shRNA, cells stably expressing ANGPTL4-shRNA, cells overexpressing ALDOA, and cells stably expressing ANGPTL4-shRNA plus overexpressing ALDOA. The cells were maintained under normal culture conditions for 8 h. The cell apoptosis rate at 8 h was expressed as the fold-change to that of WM-115 control cells (designated as 1).