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. 2018 Aug 9;7(8):57. doi: 10.1038/s41389-018-0071-5

Fig. 7. LGR5 overexpressing induced morphological changes.

Fig. 7

Fig. 7

Morphology of SGC7901-LGR5 cells was evaluated by phase-contrast microscopy. Overexpression of LGR5 promotes cell morphological changes, acquiring fibroblast-like appearance with spindle shape (a, b). Forty-eight hours after transfection, the number of spindle shape cell of SGC7901-LGR5 is significantly more than that of SGC7901-shRNA-LGR5 and control groups. The number of spindle shape and round shape cells in SGC7901-LGR5 is more than that of SGC7901-shRNA-LGR5 and control groups. The SGC7901-LGR5 and SGC7901-shRNA-LGR5 were treated with C59 and Wnt3 to restore the cellular phenotypes. c, d Rhodamine phalloidin staining of actin filament in gastric adenocarcinoma cells SGC7901 and BGC823. Cells were grown to semi-confluency on poly-l-lysine/laminin, coated, fixed, and stained with rhodamine phalloidin as described in Methods. The actin stress fibers (red) were stained throughout the cells. The cell nuclei were counterstained with DAPI (blue). LGR5 overexpression and knockdown cells were also treated with C59 and Wnt3 to restore the cellular phenotypes. Images of close-ups on pseudopods were in the lower panel. Scale bar = 10 μm