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. 2018 Nov 8;8:16579. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-34938-y

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Phosphoarray analysis of signaling responses to sequential treatments. (A) HCA7 cells were subjected to different regimens containing 10 μg/ml cetuximab and/or 50 μM oxaliplatin: (1) control medium for 24 hours (white), (2) control medium for 24 hours followed by oxaliplatin for 1 hour (black), (3) cetuximab for 24 hours followed by oxaliplatin for 1 hour (red), or (4) oxaliplatin for 24 hours followed by cetuximab for 1 hour (green). Phosphorylation profiles were analyzed using Proteome Profiler Human Phospho-Kinase Array Kit and quantified by densitometry. Mean +/− range is shown for four selected proteins. All results are shown in Suppl. Fig. 3. (B) HCA7 cells were subjected to different regimens containing or not 10 μg/ml cetuximab and/or 50 μM oxaliplatin as indicated in the figure. The expression or phosphorylation of selected proteins was analyzed by Western blotting. Full-length blots are presented in Supplementary Fig. 8. (C) Apoptosis of HCA7 cells was analyzed by annexin V staining after treating the cells first with or without 200 μM of the STAT3 inhibitor S31-201 for 8 hours followed by 18 hour treatment with or without 10 μg/ml cetuximab. Mean +/− SD is shown for three independent experiments. *P < 0.05.