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From: Up-regulation of the Hippo pathway effector TAZ renders lung adenocarcinoma cells harboring EGFR-T790M mutation resistant to gefitinib

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Effect of TAZ on the sensitivity of NSCLC cells to gefitinib. (A) Protein lysate extracted from PC9 cells expressing pEX2-TAZ were subjected to western blot by using anti-TAZ, anti-pAkt, anti-tAkt, anti-pERK and anti-tERK antibodies, respectively. (B) Overexpression of TAZ descreased gefitinib sensitivity in PC9 cells. Cells were transfected and then exposed to various doses of gefitinib for 48 h and viability was accessed by MTT assay as described in Methods. The inhibition rate was calculated according to the following formula: inhibition ratio (%) = [1- A490 (experimental group)/A490 (Control group)] × 100. (C) LY294002, as a inhibition of Akt signaling, abolished TAZ-driven descreased sensitivity to gefitinib of PC9 cell. (D) shRNAs against different regions of TAZ mRNA (shTAZ1 and shTAZ2) were expressed in PC9/GR cells. Expressions of TAZ, pAkt, tAkt, pERK and tERK were detected by western blot. (E) enhanced sensitivity of PC9/GR cells to gefitinib after TAZ knockdown. (F) Enhanced sensitivity to gefitinib after TAZ knockdown were detected in H1975 cells. Procedures and conditions for inhibition rate are described as in (B). Results are expressed as means ± SEM from three independent experiments (*P<0.05). Statistical analyses were carried out using Student’s t-test.

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