Ion levels of BORIS in MDA-MB-468, MCF-7 and BCM1 cells by RT-PCR and gel electrophoresis. As expected, we found a similar expression profile of BORIS mRNA (Figure 2) to that detected by quantitative real-time PCR (Table 1). However, gel electrophoresis and quantitative real time showed no and low expression levels of BORIS in MCF-7 cells, respectively, but the tendency was similar. The additional
L line BCM1, the expression of both genes is opposite: no levels of MAGE-A1 [2^(Ct) 1.07] and high levelsof BORIS [2^(Ct) 24.39]. We transiently transfected expression plasmid encoding BORIS into both cell lines, with negligible transcript levels of MAGE-A1, and quantified endogenous MAGE-A1 mRNA by RT (reverse transcription)-PCR and gel electrophoresis. As depicted in Figure 1, BORIS was able to
Istone modifications at the promoter of MAGE-ABesides DNA methylation, histone modifications also have an impact on promoter activity. In general, acetylation of N-terminal histone tails is a dominant signal for active chromatin facilitating the binding of components of the basal transcription machinery and transcription factors [26]. Histone methylation can be either an active or repressive signa
Activate the MAGE-A1 promoter and to which extent, we compared its influence with the stimulatory effect of 5-aza-CdR and/or TSA on MAGE-A1 transcription in cancer cell line settings. For our current investigations, we chose 3 breast cancer cell lines: MDA-MB-468, MCF-7 and BCM1 because of their different levels of MAGE-A1 and BORIS transcripts. As shown in Table 1 and measured by quantitative rea
Upregulate MAGE-A1 expression in this cell line. BORIS-specific shRNA reduced the BORIS mRNA expression nearly completely in presence and absence of scramble shRNA (Figure 3D, p = 0.0001). Likewise, the downregulation of MAGE-A1 expression by BORIS-specific shRNA was more prominent in MCF-7 cells than in MDA-MB-468 cells. As measured by quantitative real time PCR, BORIS-specific shRNA reduced the
Nhibitor TSA or after transient transfection of these cells with an expression plasmid encoding for BORIS were separated on an agarose gel. The bar chart shows the relative changes in mRNA expression levels of MAGE-A1 in MCF-7 cells by quantitative real-time PCR. The significant p-values are shown (C). H2O lane serves as a negative control. The housekeeping gene -Actin was selected as an internal
Ontrol. At 48 or 72 hour post-transfection, we quantified the changes in the BORISSchwarzenbach et al. BMC Cancer 2014, 14:796 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/14/Page 7 ofAMAGE-A1 429 bp _ ?Actin 202 bp _MCF-BMAGE-A1 429 bp _ ?Actin 202 bp _BCMMAGE-A1 mRNA Expression ( )C80000 60000 40000 20000 2000 1500 1000 500MCF-p=0.p=0.p=0.001 p=0.basalAZATSAAZA + TSABorisFigure 1 Comparison of the MAG
Ontrol. At 48 or 72 hour post-transfection, we quantified the changes in the BORISSchwarzenbach et al. BMC Cancer 2014, 14:796 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/14/Page 7 ofAMAGE-A1 429 bp _ ?Actin 202 bp _MCF-BMAGE-A1 429 bp _ ?Actin 202 bp _BCMMAGE-A1 mRNA Expression ( )C80000 60000 40000 20000 2000 1500 1000 500MCF-p=0.p=0.p=0.001 p=0.basalAZATSAAZA + TSABorisFigure 1 Comparison of the MAG