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. 2020 Jul 2;10:10835. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-67783-z

Figure 3.

Figure 3

VDR agonist activity on viral protein and viral genome copy number. (AE) HEK293T/17 cells were mock or DENV 2 infected followed by treatment with 0.01% DMSO or 10 µM of VDR agonists (ZD-1, ZD-2, ZD-3, ZD-5 and ZD-6) at the indicated time points. Expression of DENV structural protein (E) and non-structural proteins (NS1, NS3 and NS5) was determined by western blot assay, using GAPDH as an internal control. White spaces separate different antibody probing. (F) In parallel, the supernatant were collected the level of the viral genome copy number determined by qRT-PCR. Viral genome copy number was calculated by comparing with tenfold serial dilution of a DENV NS1 standard control. p value; *< 0.05, **< 0.01, ***< 0.001 for significance. All experiments were performed independently in triplicate.