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. 2020 Feb 14;11:911. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14684-4

Fig. 4. Restoration of CASZ1b in ERMS induces cell differentiation.

Fig. 4

a FLAG tagged or 3xTy1 tagged CASZ1b is stably cloned into RD and SMS-CTR cells. CASZ1b expression is Tetracycline (Tet) or Doxycycline (Dox) inducible shown by western blot. b Restoration of CASZ1b in RD cells (Tet treatment) or SMS-CTR cells (Dox treatment) inhibits cell proliferation compared to control cells (Ctrl) shown by IncuCyte cell confluence assay. c Restoration of CASZ1b in RD cells increases expression of skeletal muscle differentiation markers MYOG and MHC protein shown by western blot. d Staining of SMS-CTRtetCASZ1b cells with Phalloidin (red) and DAPI (blue) shows that cells with restoration of CASZ1b (Dox + ), but not control (Dox-) form multinuclear cells (middle panel, red arrow). Bottom panel shows the enlarged image from the middle panel, and the arrow with the same color indicates these nuclei are in one cell. eh GSEA assays of RNA-seq data show the positive enrichment of MYOD signature genes and human skeletal muscle differentiation genes after the restoration of CASZ1b in SMS-CTR cells, and negative enrichment of Rb repressed genes and E2F target genes. Data represent mean ± SEM for technical triplicates, *p < 0.01. Two-sided Student’s t-test was used to calculate statistical difference. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.