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. 2018 Sep 3;8:13146. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31567-3

Figure 9.

Figure 9

WP DUB inhibitor also decreases AR protein and has little effect in non-cancer cells. (a) Western blot analysis showed that WP (2.5 and 5 but not 1 μM; 16 h) decreased AR protein and increased cl-PARP (cP), poly-Ub in LNCaP. Loading control (prot). Blot images were cropped for clarity of the presentation. (b) Trypan blue assay showed that WP (W; 5 μM, 24 h) only slightly increased cell death in non-cancer RWPE-1 (RW) prostate epithelial cells compared to vehicle control (C) (P = 0.006) but greatly increased cell death in PC3 (P = 4 × 10−9). (c) DUB assay showed that WP (W; 5 μM, 24 h) did not inhibit DUB activity in RW but greatly inhibited DUB activity in PC3 (P = 0.002). In (b,c), n = 4–6, 2 independent experiments.