Fig. 4.

NF-κB is indispensable for RARγ-driven E-cadherin reduction. a RARγ-driven E-cadherin reduction does not depend on proteasome pathway. Immunoblotting (left) or qPCR (right) analysis of the E-cadherin expression in RARγ-transfected Huh-7 cells treated with vehicle or 10 μM MG132. b, c RARγ regulates E-cadherin at transcriptional level. qPCR analysis of the E-cadherin expression in RARγ siRNA-transduced MHCC-97H and QGY-7703 cells (b) or RARγ-transfected MHCC-97H cells (c). d, e BMS-345541 inhibits RARγ-driven E-cadherin reduction. qPCR (d) or immunoblotting (e) analysis of the E-cadherin expression in RARγ-transfected Huh-7 cells treated with vehicle or 10 μM BMS-345541. f, g TNFα promotes RARγ-driven E-cadherin reduction. Immunoblotting analysis of the levels of E-cadherin expression in RARγ-transfected Huh-7 cells (f) or RARγ siRNA-transduced MHCC-97H cells (g) treated with vehicle or 20 nM TNFα. Statistical significance was determined by a two-tailed, unpaired Student's t-test. **p < 0.01. ns, no significance