Figure 4. Effects of siRNA knockdown of MMR pathway genes on the percentages of ATR-S428P positive cells.

(A) Representative images of ATR foci formed after vimentin and MSH2 knockdown in DIT7 cells. DAPI stained cells are shown on the left and ATR-S428P foci formed during convergent transcription are shown on the right (B) The percentages of cells positive for ATR-S428P staining were determined after knockdown of vimentin (30%), MSH2-1 (5%), MSH3-1 (3%) and MLH1 (4.5%). Data are the average of 1000 cells from each randomly selected field from 3 independent coverslips. Error bars represent standard deviations in each case. P values are indicated ★P<0.05, ★★P<0.01, ★★★P<0.001.