Figure 1.
E2F1 is highly expressed in both NSCLC tissues and cells
(A) Heatmap of the expression of highly expressed genes in the NSCLC-related microarray GEO: GSE74706. (B) Venn map of the intersection of upregulated genes of in the GEO: GSE74706 microarray, human transcription factors from Cistrome, and disease-related genes from GeneCards. (C) The interaction genes of EZH2 and E2F1 predicted by GeneMANIA. (D) Boxplot of E2F1 expression in NSCLC and normal tissues in the GEO: GSE74706 microarray. (E) Boxplot of E2F1 expression in lung adenocarcinoma tissues and adjacent normal tissues retrieved from TCGA database. (F) qRT-PCR measurement of the expression of E2F1 in NSCLC cell lines (A549, NCI-H1299, NCI-H23, NCI-H460) and human lung epithelial cell line 16HBE. (G) Western blot measurement of the expression of E2F1 in NSCLC cell lines (A549, NCI-H1299, NCI-H23, NCI-H460) and human lung epithelial cell line 16HBE. ∗p < 0.05 versus data regarding 16HBE cells. One-way ANOVA with Tukey’s post hoc test was applied for comparison among multiple datasets. Each experiment was conducted in triplicates.