Figure 5.
Islet cell differentiation and characterization in PANC-1 cells using PJ34 mediated PARP1 inhibition. (a) Phase contrast microscopic images of PANC-1 cells treated with PARP1 inhibitor PJ34 at day 0, 3rd and 10th. Graph show quantification of cell aggregation or clusters generated per field of image from PANC-1 cells with PJ34 treatment at 10 days of treatment. (b) Immunoblot profiling for PARP1 protein following PJ34 inhibition at short and long-term exposure. (c) Phase contrast microscopic images of PANC-1 cells differentiated with control (SFM), activin-A, and activin-A with PJ34 in combination at day 10th of differentiation process. Color brightfield images show presence of brick-red insulin staining after differentiation using dithizone (DTZ) stain. (d) Quantification for islet-like clusters generated per field of image from PANC-1 cells in control, activin-A and activin-A with PJ34 treatment after 10 days of differentiation. (e) Immunocytochemical characterization of generated clustered from PANC-1 cells followed activin-a and PJ34 treatment for insulin (green) to confirm β cell differentiation. Graph show quantification for mean fluorescence intensity for human insulin production in differentiated cells. Data represented as mean ± sem, p-value show significance at 95% confidence interval using two-way anova analysis compared to activin-A differentiated cells (n = 3). (f) Quantification and modelling for presence of insulin in activin-a differentiated cells with and without PJ34 using 2-dimensional mean fluorescent intensity dot plot representation extracted from immunostained images with Axio-vision Zen 10 software, Zeiss, Canada, where insulin stays on Y-axis and dapi is marked on x-axis.
