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. 2017 Mar 13;6(3):e300. doi: 10.1038/oncsis.2017.3

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Overexpression of FAM83A activates multiple CSC-associated signaling pathways. (a) Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) plot showing the positive correlations between high FAM83A expression and TGF-β/Smad and Wnt/β-catenin pathway gene signatures (KARAKAS_TGFB1_SIGNALING; KARLSSON_TGFB_TARGETS_UP; TRACTOME_SIGNALING_BY WNT; LABBE_TARGETSOF TGFB1_AND_WNT3A_UP) in published TCGA data sets (n=178). (b) Relative luciferase activity of TGF-β reporter and TOP/FOP reporter genes. (c) Western blotting (WB) analysis of p-Smad3 (Ser423/425) and nuclear β-catenin in the indicated cells; α-tubulin was used as the loading control. (d) WB of p-Smad3 and nuclear β-catenin expression in ten freshly isolated pancreatic cancer tissues; α-tubulin was used as the loading control. (e) Histograms (right) of the mean number of spheres formed by FAM83A-transduced cells treated with a TGF-β inhibitor and/or β-catenin inhibitor. Each bar represents the mean±s.d. of three independent experiments; *P<0.05.