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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 11.
Published in final edited form as: Diabetes. 2016 Feb 11;65(5):1434–1446. doi: 10.2337/db15-1276

Table 1.

Knockdown of Ppp2r2a reduced PPP2R2A and AKT protein levels, insulin stimulated AKT phosphorylation

Cell line Relative protein levels PPP2R2A (%) P-value Relative protein levels AKT (%) P-value Phosphorylation normalized to tubulin P-value
saline vs insulin
P-value
control saline vs saline
Direction of effect on basal P P-value
control insulin vs insulin
Direction for stimulation
saline insulin
control Hepa 100±24 100±24.5 pAKT(thr308) 2.31±0.76 10.78±1.3 <0.0001
siRNA1 1-6 17.55±3.9 <0.0001 42.68±10.6 <0.0001 3.51±0.51 6.44±1.78 0.003 0.009 0.0007
siRNA3 17.8±5.6 <0.0001 34.90±12.3 <0.0001 4.35±0.51 4.84±0.49 ns 0.0002 <0.0001

control Hepa pAKT(ser473) 7.23±0.89 27.74±3.49 <0.0001
siRNA1 1-6 4.83±1.35 17.31±4.70 <0.0001 0.004 0.001
siRNA3 8.73±1.04 17.81±1.94 <0.0001 0.02 0.0001

control C2C12 100±37.5 100±30.3 pAKT(thr308) 1.19±0.25 8.26±2.58 <0.0001
siRNA1 27.33±6.7 <0.0001 82.19±6.8 0.06 4.45±0.63 6.03±1.31 0.02 <0.0001 ns
siRNA3 35.78±20.3 <0.0001 73.22±18.3 0.01 4.10±0.87 5.06±2.09 ns <0.0001 0.03

control C2C12 pAKT(ser473) 5.06±2.11 36.83±11.8 <0.0001
siRNA1 7.54±1.44 25.40±2.94 <0.0001 0.03 0.04
siRNA3 8.25±0.87 19.24±6.99 0.003 0.006 0.01

control 3T3-L1 100±18.4 104±14.6 pAKT(thr308) 0.53±0.19 1.98±0.26 <0.0001
siRNA1 64.63±17.3 <0.0001 77.08±12.3 <0.0001 1.00±0.12 1.62±0.91 ns 0.0006 ns
siRNA3 65.26±11.4 <0.0001 72.31±8.1 <0.0001 0.79±0.27 1.50±0.86 ns ns ns

control 3T3-L1 pAKT(ser473) 0.61±0.03 2.45±0.39 <0.0001
siRNA1 1.99±0.51 2.45±0.38 ns <0.0001 ns
siRNA3 1.10±0.22 2.25±0.48 0.0003 0.0003 ns