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. 2015 Dec 10;10(12):e0143993. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143993

Fig 6. Expression of β-integrin subunits in human breast cancer cell lines.

Fig 6

The expression of, αVβ3-, β1-, β3-, and β5- integrin in MDA-MB-468, MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 cells was studied by confocal immunofluorescence (αVβ3) (a) or western blotting(β1-, β3-, β5-) (b), respectively, as described in Figs 3 and 5. Only MDA-MB-231 cells showed expression of (αV)β3-integrin, in partial colocalization with actin stress fibers in a fibroblast-like pattern. All breast cancer cell lines studied expressed β1-, and β5- integrin subunits (b), albeit in different quantities.