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. 2022 Jan 27;12:1443. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-05161-7

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Induction of autophagy and Integrated Stress Response in HEK293T subject to hypoxia. Cells were cultured and either kept in normoxic conditions (NOR) or exposed to hypoxia (HYP) for 16 h in DMEM EV-free serum media. (a) Small EV release. Quantitation of small EVs by NTA measurement of vesicles in the supernatant of the 10,000×g centrifugation of the conditioned media. Graph shows the amount of EVs corrected by total protein content in cellular lysates. Graphs are mean ± SEM of n = 3 experiments, each measured in triplicate. Statistical analysis: Two tailed t-test, where *indicates p < 0.05. (b, c) Analysis of autophagy and ER stress/integrated stress response (ISR) markers. Cellular lysates were obtained from cells following 16 h of NOR/HYP exposure. Samples were resolved in SDS-PAGE and immunoblotted with specific antibodies against phospho-p70S6K at the Thr389 residue, p62, or phospho-eIF2α with β-tubulin used as loading control. (b) Representative blot and (c) Quantification of all the immunoblots carried out in Image J (NIH). Graphs show the mean ± SEM of N = 3. Statistical analysis: Two tailed t-test, where ***indicates p < 0.001.