Fig 1.
ERAP suppresses non-genomic signaling by the crosstalk between E2 and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1). (a) Luciferase assays showing the inhibitory effect of ERAP on the estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) transcriptional activity of MCF-7 cells by 10 nM E2 and 50 ng/mL IGF-1. These data represent the mean ± SD of three independent experiments (***P < 0.001). (b) The inhibitory effects of ERAP on the interactions of ERα with IGF-1Rβ and PI3K in the presence of E2 and IGF-1. (c–f) The inhibitory effects of ERAP on Akt (c, d), MAPK (c, d), and multiple ERα phosphorylations (e, f) induced by E2 and IGF-1 stimulation in MCF-7 (c, e) and BT-474 (d, f) cells. The data are expressed as the fold increase over untreated cells at 0 h. The above all blot were cropped, and the full-length blots are included in Supplementary Figure S4.