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. 2017 Jun 15;8(35):57938–57947. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.18488

Figure 2. MELK knockdown increases FOXO1 and FOXO3 proteins.

Figure 2

A. FOXO1 and FOXO3 were increased at protein level in both HCT116-p53(+/+) and -p53(-/-) cells by siRNA-mediated MELK knockdown. B. FOXO1 and FOXO3 were also increased at transcriptional level in both HCT116-p53(+/+) and -p53(-/-) cells by siRNA-mediated MELK knockdown. The asterisk indicates p < 0.01 compared with the corresponding value of the siControl group. C. Using HCT116-p53(-/-) cells, chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) and qPCR were performed to quantify FOXO1- or FOXO3-bound DNA complex on the promoter region of p21 or GAPDH (negative control). The co-immunoprecipitated DNA of each antibody was normalized with that of normal IgG, and then its ratio of siMELK/siControl was calculated. The asterisk indicates p < 0.05 compared with the corresponding value of the GAPDH. D. NCI-H23 and TE4 harboring loss-of-function TP53 mutations showed the increase of FOXO1 and FOXO3 proteins after MELK knockdown.