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. 2022 Aug 27;13(8):739. doi: 10.1038/s41419-022-05191-z

Fig. 2. Hypoxia induces ferroptosis in human primary PTEC.

Fig. 2

A Left panel: fold changes (relative to normoxia) in cellular necrosis (% Annexin-V+ PI+ cells) for PTEC cultured under normoxic and hypoxic conditions. Bar graphs represent mean ± SEM. Symbols represent individual donor PTEC; n = 4. *P < 0.05, paired t test. Right panel: representative donor Annexin-V/PI dot plots of PTEC cultured under normoxic and hypoxic conditions. The percentage of Annexin-V+ PI+ necrotic cells for each dot plot are presented, with fold change (FC) value relative to normoxic PTEC also shown. B Left panel: fold changes (relative to normoxia) in GPX4 protein levels (as a ratio of loading control β-tubulin) for PTEC cultured under normoxic and hypoxic conditions. Bar graphs represent mean ± SEM. Symbols represent individual donor PTEC; n = 4. **P < 0.01, paired t test. Right panel: GPX4 western blot for PTEC cultured under normoxic and hypoxic conditions (15 µg total protein per lane). Representative images from one of four donor PTEC are presented; full and uncropped western blot available as Supplementary Material. C Left panel: fold changes (relative to normoxia) in 4-HNE levels (measured as mean corrected total cellular fluorescence (CTCF) of >60 cells per condition) for PTEC cultured under normoxic and hypoxic conditions. Bar graphs represent mean ± SEM. Symbols represent individual donor PTEC; n = 6. *P < 0.05, paired t test. Right panel: immunofluorescent labelling of representative PTEC cultured under normoxic and hypoxic conditions and stained for 4-HNE (green), β-tubulin (red) and DAPI (blue). 4-HNE positivity is highlighted with white arrows. Scale bars represent 20 µm. D Left panel: representative donor bar graph of cellular necrosis for PTEC cultured under normoxic (N) and hypoxic (H) conditions in the absence (-Fer-1; DMSO vehicle control) or presence of ferrostatin-1 (+Fer-1). Right panel: fold changes (relative to hypoxia/-Fer-1) in cellular necrosis (% Annexin-V+ PI+ cells) for hypoxic PTEC cultured in the absence or presence of ferrostatin-1. Bar graphs represent mean ± SEM. Symbols represent individual donor PTEC; n = 7. *P < 0.05, paired t test.