Figure 3.
Effects of ABHD5 silencing on the migration and invasion of LNCaP cells. (A) Expression level of ABHD5, E-Cadherin, Snail and β-actin proteins in shControl and shABHD5 cells. (B) Enhanced cell scattering of shABHD5 cells. shControl and shABHD5 cells were seeded at low density and grown for 2 weeks. Cell colonies (>100 cells/colony) were analyzed under the microscope and sorted into the following groups according to morphology: gathered (G), cells attached to each other tightly; scattered (S), cells scattered but attached loosely; highly scattered (HS), cells detached from each other. Percentages of colonies from each group are plotted in the left panel. Data are presented as mean ± SEM (n = 3) of experiments performed in triplicate. Two-tailed t-test, ***P < 0.001. Representative images of cell colonies are shown on the right. (C) Enhanced cell invasion of shABHD5 cells. A representative image of Transwell invasion assay is shown for each group, respectively, (left panels). Numbers of invasive cell are plotted on the right. Data are presented as mean ± SEM (n = 3) of experiments performed in triplicate. Two-tailed t-test, **P < 0.01.