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. 2019 Jun 27;9:9339. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-45411-9

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Effects of ZNF518B expression on the level of EMT markers. DLD1 cells were treated with mixed ZNF518B siRNAs or with scrambled siRNA (control) for 48 and 72 h and the EMT markers were analysed. The levels of the SNAI1 (a) and CHD1 (b) genes were determined by RT-qPCR. (c) Western blots showing the level of ZNF518B (left) and N-cadherin and SNAIL (right) after 72 h of silencing ZNF518B. Histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC) or glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) were used as loading controls. Due to the different size of ZNF518B and of the EMT markers, the electrophoreses were carried out separately in 6% and 12% polyacrylamide gels, respectively. Ponceau-stained membranes were cropped according to the molecular weight of the corresponding proteins and the resulting strips were developed with the antibodies described under Materials and Methods. (d) ImageJ analysis of the western blots of panel c. Four grey values relative to the loading controls were measured in every case and averaged. Statistical analysis was carried out with the Mann-Whitney test. (*p < 0.05; ***p < 0.001).