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Additional file 2: of Neutrophil elastase cleaves epithelial cadherin in acutely injured lung epithelium
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posted on 2016-10-17, 05:00 authored by Rachel Boxio, Julien Wartelle, Béatrice Nawrocki-Raby, Brice Lagrange, Laurette Malleret, Timothee Hirche, Clifford Taggart, Yves Pacheco, Gilles Devouassoux, Abderrazzaq BentaherNE degrades cell-associated E-Cad. Confluent 16HBE cells were left untreated or treated with varying concentrations of purified NE (0, 2, 20, or 200 nM) for 6 h. Next, equal protein aliquots from cell lysates (10 μg) were subjected to SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting using antibodies raised against C-terminal parts of E-cad. A, Left panel. Anti-E-cad C-terminal antibody revealed a progressive decrease of E-cad that paralleled the increase of NE concentration. Right panel, densitometric analysis confirms decreased levels of E-cad. Data are mean values ± SD. *p < 0.05; Kruskall-Wallis test. Of note, anti-E-cad C-terminal antibody detected varying fragments. Immunoblotting for GAPDH, an internal control, was used as protein loading control of cell lysate proteins. Experiments were repeated three times. (TIFF 2703 kb)
