Fig. 5.
LC3 expression is inversely correlated with that of Snail and prognosis in TNBC. a Expression of LC3 and Snail in 13 TNBC tissue samples is detected using mmunohistochemistry (mean ± SD, magnification × 10, scale bars: 50 μm, *P < 0.05). b Expression of LC3, Snail, and E-cadherin in 13 TNBC tissue samples is detected using multicolor immune fluorescence (mean ± SD, magnification × 20, scale bars: 50 μm, magnification × 69.1, scale bars: 10 μm, *P < 0.05). c, d The prognostic values of the mRNA expression ratio of Snail/LC3 in TNBC patients are analyzed (Kaplan–Meier plotter). A higher Snail/LC3 mRNA expression ratio is associated with poorer distance metastasis free survival (P = 0.015) in the Gene-Chip Datasets (c) and poorer disease specific survival (P = 0.04), disease free interval (P = 0.029) and progression free interval (P = 0.027) in TCGA RNA-Seq datasets (d). The top quartile was used as the cutoff value