The presence of wild-type p53 sensitizes cells towards avrainvillamide treatment. (a) Immunoblots showing p53, p21 and actin (loading control) expression levels in OCI-AML3 and MV4-11 cells treated with avrainvillamide (AVA; 0, 0.5 and 1.0 μM) for 24 h. (b) Flow cytometry analysis of p53 expression in OCI-AML3 and MV4-11 cells treated with DMSO (CTR) or 0.5 μM AVA for 24 h. Representative results from a single experiment are shown. US, unstained. (c) Flow cytometric median fluorescence intensity (MFI) quantification of p53 (unstained subtracted, n=3) in OCI-AML3 and MV4-11 cells. Results represent mean±S.E.M. (d) Molm-13 cells were transduced with empty vector (CTR) or shp53 then immunoblotted for p53 expression. Actin is shown as a loading control. (e) Flow cytometry analyses of p53 expression levels in non-irradiated and gamma-irradiated Molm-13 cells transduced with empty vector (CTR) or shp53. (f) Proliferation of Molm-13 cells following transduction with empty vector (CTR) or shp53 and treatment with AVA (0.01 (.01), 0.03 (.03), 0.1, 0.3 or 1 μM) for 24 h. Results represent mean±S.E.M. of the values relative to vehicle controls (n=4; *P<0.05). HEK293 cells were transfected with (g) NPM1wt-ECGFP or (h) NPMc+-ECGFP, and treated with DMSO (CTR) or AVA (0.5 μM) for 24 h or LMB (10 nM) for 3 h. Cells were fixed and analyzed by fluorescence microscopy. All transfection experiments were conducted at least three times; representative images are shown. Arrows indicate localization of NPM1wt and NPMc+ (DAPI indicates nuclei; scale bar, 10 μm)