Fig. 5. Neuronal survival pathways adversly affected by lncRNA-U1 overexpression.
a SytoxGreen assay indicated increased cell death in the Ad-U1 transduced neurons. b Immunoblotting showed autophagy activation as determined by increased LC3-II and decreased p62, when neurons expressed Ad-Tat or Ad-U1, in the absence or presence of bafilomycin A1 50 nM. c Immunoblotting showed increased apoptosis in neurons expressing the Ad-Tat or Ad-U1 for 72h. Apoptosis marker cleaved-caspase3 was significantly increased, while the anti-apoptotic markers Bcl2 and BAG3 decreased significantly.