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. 2021 Sep 23;40(44):6235–6247. doi: 10.1038/s41388-021-02017-8

Fig. 1. ISG15 expression is associated with poor outcome in breast cancer patients with lymph-node metastasis.

Fig. 1

A Kaplan–Meier plot of disease-free survival of breast cancer patients (n = 2643) separated into two groups with high (blue) or low (red) mRNA expression levels of ISG15. B Kaplan-Meier plot of free disease survival of patients from A that are negative for tumour cells in lymph nodes (n = 740). C Kaplan-Meier plot of free disease survival of patients from A positive for tumour presence in lymph nodes (n = 1178). D Kaplan-Meier plot of disease-free survival association with mRNA levels of UBE2L6, separated into two groups with high (blue) or low (red) levels, in lymph node positive patients (n = 744) or lymph node negative patients (n = 350). As in D analysis of mRNA levels in lymph node positive and negative of the interferon coding genes IFNA1 (n = 600) (E) and IFNB1 (n = 744) (F). G WB analysis of the indicated representative clones to confirm the knockout, cells were treated for 48 h with either vehicle or IFNb1a 250 pM to boost the protein levels of the different ISGylation-related proteins.