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
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
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
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
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
E experiments, we chose, therefore, MCF-7 cells, because they do not express MAGE-A1 mRNA (Table 1). Based on the usually low transfection efficiency we sorted the transfected MCF-7 cells from untransfected cells by FACS and observed a transfection efficiency of about 10 . Subsequently, sodium bisulfite mapping showed a demethylation of the MAGE-A1 promoter of approximately 56 (range from 44 to 6