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. 2017 Dec 14;6:401. doi: 10.1038/s41389-017-0003-9

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

High levels of MKP1 correlate with GSCs differentiation. a Analysis of the MKP1 mRNA expression levels in GSC lines grown in stem medium compared to differentiation conditions (n = 3). b MKP1 mRNA expression by RNA-seq analysis in G26 and NS-1 cells at 8, 32, and 64-day time course of BMP treatment after GF withdrawal (GF). Error bars denote SD of four independent experiments. c Frequency of MKP1 promoter methylation after BMP4 continous treatment at the indicated time points. d mRNA expression of MKP1 was analyzed in U87 and GNS166 lines under increasing 5-AZA concentrations. e Analysis of MKP1 mRNA expression levels in U251 cells with knockdown of SOX2 (shSOX2) or SOX9 (shSOX9) related to the control (pLKO) condition (n = 3). qRT-PCR data are normalized to GAPDH expression. f MKP1 levels in U87 cells with SOX2 or SOX9 overexpression compared to control cells (n = 3). g Association analysis of MKP1 with SOX2 and SOX9 in the human glioblastoma TCGA cohort from R2: Genomics Analysis and Visualization Platform http://r2.amc.nl. The analysis showed a negative correlation between MKP1 and SOX2 (R −0.207, p value 1.3e−06), and MKP1 and SOX9 (R −0.169, p value 1.7e−04)