Knock-down and over-expression in stably transfected NCI-H295R1-TR AAAS knock-down and over-expression cells was induced by 48 h treatment with doxycycline. Scr, scrambled shRNA. KD, knock-down. EV, empty vector (= pcDNA4/TO). OE, over-expression. Native, without paraquat treatment. PQ, paraquat treatment. n, minimum number of analysed cells per cell type. P-values: * P<0.05, *** P<0.001. Significant differences were measured with unpaired Student’s t-Test. Boxplot widths are proportional to the square root of the samples sizes. Whiskers indicate the range outside 1.5 times the inter-quartile range (IQR) above the upper quartile and below the lower quartile. Outliers were plotted as dots. The experiment was repeated twice.