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. 2021 Mar 22;28(9):2555–2570. doi: 10.1038/s41418-021-00770-7

Fig. 6. Knockdown of TFEB abolished Wnt3a-dependent cell migration and matrigel invasion enhancement.

Fig. 6

a siRNA targeting TFEB or β-catenin but not Atg7 transfected HeLa cells exhibited impaired cancer cell migration compared with Wnt3a-CM treated cells. Quantification of cell migration ability was shown in the right panel. The statistical analyses represent average values of 3 different areas from a representative experiment. Scale bar, 100 μm. b Western blot analysis revealed that the protein expression of TFEB, β-catenin or ATG7 was reduced after the transfection with each siRNA. c TCGA gene expression data set of breast cancer patients show positive correlation between Axin2 and TFEB-mediated Wnt target gene (ANK2, NAV3, RUNDC3B) but not TFEB-mediated lysosomal gene (MCOLN1). The Correlation coefficients (r) in this figure were calculated by Pearman’s linear correlation. Two-tailed P value was used for analyzing statistical significance d Kaplan–Meier plot shows that high expression of TFEB-mediated Wnt target genes but not lysosomal gene is associated with poor prognosis of breast cancer patients.