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. 2022 Jul 7;41(33):3979–3990. doi: 10.1038/s41388-022-02386-8

Fig. 2. CircME1 promotes sunitinib resistance of ccRCC cells in vitro and in vivo.

Fig. 2

A CircME1 was silenced in Caki-1-R cells by two different shRNAs, and the silencing efficiency was determined by qPCR. B CCK8 assay showing that the growth of Caki-1-R cells was suppressed by circME1 knockdown upon sunitinib treatment. C Soft agar colony formation assay showing that circME1 knockdown not only inhibited sunitinib resistance with sunitinib treatment (2 µM), but also repressed proliferation and colony formation without sunitinib treatment. D, E Knockdown of circME1 significantly suppressed the growth and sunitinib resistance of xenograft in vivo. Nude mice with orthotopic tumor were treated with sunitinib (40 mg/kg) or vehicle. The representative bioluminescence images of orthotopic tumors (left panel) and the corresponding statistical analyses (right panel) are shown in D. Other images are shown in Supplementary Fig. S1. The images of gross tumors (upper panel) and the final tumor weights (lower panel) are shown in E. ns not significant, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.