Research Paper Volume 12, Issue 23 pp 24345—24356

Figure 2. Effect of α3β1 or α5β1 on in vitro invasion (A) and the level of MMP-2 collagenase (B) in SK-Mel-147 cells. (A) and the level of MMP-2 collagenase (B) in SK-Mel-147 cells. (A) The cells were transduced with the control or α3/α5 shRNA vectors, applied on matrigel and treated as described in Materials and Methods. The number of migrated cells transduced with the control vector was taken as 100%. Results of four independent experiments are shown (M ± SEM). (B) Cell lysate proteins were run on SDS-PAGE and western-blotted as described in Materials and Methods. The blots were probed with 1:300 dilution of MMP-2 antibodies and treated as described in Materials and Methods. Shown are representative blots. Numbers below the bands indicate the ratio (%) protein level in integrin shRNA transfected cells compared to control shRNA transfected cells normalized against β-actin. Results of three independent experiments are shown (M ± SEM). *ρ < 0.05, **non-significant.