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A) Representative images and quantification of A549, NCI-H1573, and CI-H1299 cells 3 days after cisplatin exposure stained for beta-galactosidase. Scale bar = 100 µm. Shown are the mean ± SD of three biological repeats. Statistical significance was determined by unpaired two-tailed Student’s t-test (****p<0.0001, ***p<0.001, **p<0.01). (
B) FACS analysis of beta-galactosidase activity levels (C
12FDG) versus ‘cell size’ (forward scatter [FSC]) and (
C) p21, p16 and at 3 days after cisplatin exposure. Shown are the mean ± SD of three biological repeats. Statistical significance was determined by unpaired two-tailed Student’s t-test (****p<0.0001, ***p<0.001, *p<0.05). (
D) Three biological repeat experiments of LeGO RGB colour-guided clonal cell tracking system were used to track clonal dynamics after cisplatin pulse treatment in each cell line. Cells were treated as per
Figure 1A, with clonal identification and quantification measured at 3 and 21 days post-cisplatin exposure using Image J/Fiji (42 days post-cisplatin exposure for NCI-H1573). For summary data, only colours that represented >0.1% of total population were scored.