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. 2021 Jan 18;7:16. doi: 10.1038/s41420-020-00393-w

Fig. 7. Inhibition of AURKB activity triggered apoptosis and senescence during early and late SMG development.

Fig. 7

A Cleaved caspase 3 (brown) immunolabelling bud cells undergoing apoptosis as a final fate following AURKB blockade for 24 h during early (E13.5+24h) and late (E16.5+24h) development, scale bar = 10 µm. B, C X-Gal assay performed on the SMG explants 24 h post DMSO or Barasertib treatments, shows significant accumulation of SA-βgal in the glands treated with the AURKB inhibitor (dotted outlines), analysed by Student’s t test (*P ≤ 0.05, n = 3 pairs). D Immunolabelling with p21 (brown staining; red arrows), 24 h post AURKB loss during early (E13.5+24h) and late (E16.5+24h) embryonic development. E Fold change of senescence-related genes: p21 was transcriptionally upregulated in both time points tested, p53 and p16 were only upregulated in the mature explants (E16.5+24h). Number of pooled glands ≥ 9 in E13.5+24h group and ≥3 in E16.5+24h obtained from three different experiments for each group. Gene expression was normalised to Gapdh and to corresponding experiment control groups and analysed by unpaired Student’s t test (*P ≤ 0.05, **P ≤ 0.01).