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. 2019 Dec 10;8(12):73. doi: 10.1038/s41389-019-0182-7

Fig. 4. Binding of miRNAs to MACC1-AS1 promotes cell proliferation.

Fig. 4

a, b qRT-PCR and western blots indicate that cells overexpressing MACC1-AS1 increased the expression of PTN and c-Myc. **P<0.01 as determined by Student’s t test. c, d qRT-PCR indicate that levels of PTN and c-Myc mRNAs were slightly changed when overexpressing MACC1-AS1 lacking a putative miRNA-384 or miRNA-145 binding site, respectively. n.s: not significant. e HEK-293T cells were transfected with miRNA-384 or miRNA-145 siRNA alone (red colored) or co-transfected with siRNAs and vectors expressing MACC1-AS1. qRT-PCR indicating that the miR-384-5p-mediated PTN or miR-145-3p-mediated c-Myc mRNA reduction could be partially rescued by overexpression of MACC1-AS1. **P<0.01, *P<0.05 as determined by one-way ANOVA assays. f MTT assays demonstrate that cells expressing mutant MACC1-AS1 without a miR-384-5p or miR-145-3p binding site reduced cell proliferation, in contrast to the cells expressing MACC1-AS1. *P<0.05.