Journal: The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Article Title: Hyaluronic Acid Receptor CD44 Deficiency Is Associated with Decreased C ryptococcus neoformans Brain Infection *
doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.353375
Figure Lengend Snippet: Effect of anti-CD44 and anti-RHAMM siRNA treatments on association of C. neoformans cells with mouse BMEC. A, mouse BMEC was treated with siRNA (20 pmol) individually or in combination for 5 h before the in vitro C. neoformans adhesion assay. C. neoformans CPS1 wild-type strain (B-4500FO2) and its isogenic cps1Δ deletion strain C559 were used in parallel. +, anti-CD44 siRNA and/or anti-RHAMM siRNA-treated sample as indicated at the bottom; −, control oligonucleotide (n = 4). In all treatments, the MBMEC without any siRNA treatment was taken as a control for comparison, and the statistical package GraphPad Prism 5 was used to quantify the readings. Significant differences with regard to the controls: *, p < 0.05; **, p < 0.01). B, as a control, a Western blot was used to show the CD44 and RHAMM protein levels after siRNA treatment.
Article Snippet: C , the MetaMorph program associated with the fluorescence microscope was used to scan images with 5–10 random fields from B , and then GraphPad Prism 5 was used to quantify the readings (**, p < 0.01). siRNA Treatment Anti-CD44 siRNA (sc-35534) and anti-RHAMM siRNA (sc-40182) were purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology, and a control oligonucleotide (sc-36869) was used in parallel.
Techniques: In Vitro, Cell Adhesion Assay, Control, Comparison, Western Blot