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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 21.
Published in final edited form as: Oncogene. 2015 Nov 30;35(29):3817–3828. doi: 10.1038/onc.2015.452

Figure 1.

Figure 1

PAR1 is overexpressed in glioma tumor progenitor cells (TPCs) (a), Expression of PAR1 mRNA using real-time PCR, in freshly sorted glioma-derived A2B5+ TPCs (n = 12) relative to normal A2B5+ glial progenitor cells (GPCs) (n = 4) and unsorted cells (UNS) (n = 4), reveals that PAR1 mRNA was significantly upregulated at all stages of glioma development. (b–c) Relative quantification of PAR1 gene (b) and protein expression (c) using RT-PCR (b) and flow cytometry (c) detection in GBM-derived glioma-initiating cell lines (GICLs) established from unsorted or A2B5+ cells (*) maintained in serum-free media (SFM) supplemented with FGF, EGF (20 ng/ml) and PDGF (10 ng/ml) for less than 10 passages; and commercially available adherent GBM cells U87 and U251 (c) cultured in 10% serum culture conditions. Comparable quantities of cDNA were ensured by amplification of GAPDH (b). (d–f) Flow cytometry analysis of PAR1, A2B5 and CD133 expression in GBM-derived GICLs. Representative scatter plot of GICL8 stained with A2B5 (bottom right), PAR1 (upper left), both (upper right), or their corresponding isotype controls (bottom left) (D). Error bars indicate Means ± s.e.m.