Figure 5.
MDIG promotes migration and invasion of HCC cells. (a) Stably overexpressed MDIG with lentiviral vector (pWPXL) promotes in vitro migration of MHCC-LM3, MHCC-97L and SK-Hep1 cells. Quantitative data are presented (original magnification: × 100). (b) Ectopic MDIG expression promotes in vitro invasion of MHCC-LM3, MHCC-97L and SK-Hep1 cells. Quantitative results are presented (original magnification: × 200). (c) Knockdown of MDIG (shMDIG-1, -2, -3) suppresses in vitro migration in Huh7 and MHCC-97H cells compared to negative control (NC) and blank cell control (MOCK). Quantitative results are shown (original magnification: × 100). (d) Knockdown of MDIG suppresses in vitro invasion of Huh7 and MHCC-97H cells. Quantitative data are shown (original magnification: × 200). The graph of (a), (b), (c) and (d) are shown as mean±s.d. of n=3 independent experiments. Unpaired Student’s t-tests were used for statistical analysis (*P<0.05, **P<0.01, ***P<0.001)