Fig. 3.
Rac1, the drug target of 6-TG, sustains rotavirus replication. (A) Western blot assay detected Rac1 in transduced Caco2 cells transduced lentiviral RNAi vectors against Rac1 (The ratio of Rac1/β-actin was expressed in arbitrary units). (B) Three (No. 9687, 9689 and 9690) out of five lentiviral shRNA vectors inhibited rotavirus genomic RNA (n = 6–10, means ± SEM, *P < 0.05, ***P < 0.001, Mann-Whitney test). (C) Western blot assay confirmed knockout of Rac1 in Rac1 knockout (−/−) MEF cells. (D) SA11 rotavirus replication was significantly attenuated in Rac1 knockout (−/−) MEF cells (n = 4, means ± SEM, *P < 0.05, Mann-Whitney test).