Journal: Cancer Medicine
Article Title: TYRO3 , AXL , MERTK and Their Ligands in Brain Metastases From Colorectal Cancers
doi: 10.1002/cam4.71869
Figure Lengend Snippet: TAM receptors and ligands' protein expression profile in in vitro models of CRC and orthotopic in vivo model of BM‐CRC. (A) RNAseq data from cell lines presented per cancer type in nTPM (normalized number of transcripts per million) from the Human Protein Atlas database. (B) RNAseq data per colorectal cancer cell line in nTPM from the Human Protein Atlas. (C–G) RNAseq data for PROS1 (C), GAS6 (D), TYRO3 (E), AXL (F), and MERTK (G) in CL40, HT29, LS1034, SW1463, BM‐SC‐CRC1, and BM‐SC‐CRC2 cells. (H–N) Nude mouse brains injected with BM‐SC‐CRC1/2 cells, perfused with 4% PFA, and cut with a microtome (40 μm slices). The control condition (H) is in the absence of a primary antibody showing a unique lesion formed after injection. The red frames correspond to the fields of the higher magnifications (scale bar: Whole brain 2 mm, cropped image 50 μm). Immunostaining for TYRO3 (I), MERTK (J), PROS1 (K) and GAS6 (L) receptors and their ligands (×20 objective, Olympus VS120 slide scanner). The frontier between the human tumor cells and the mouse brain tissue is drawn by a dotted line (*: mouse brain; scale bar: 50 μm). Immunostaining for AXL without (M) and without (N) primary antibody. Scale bar: 50 μm. Nuclei were counterstained in blue.
Article Snippet: The primary antibodies used in our assays were directed against TYRO3 (rabbit polyclonal; #NBP2‐23725; Novus, Bio‐Techne; dilution 1:2000), AXL (goat polyclonal; #AF154; R&D Systems, Bio‐Techne; 1:400), MERTK (rabbit polyclonal; #MKT‐121AP; FabGennix; 1:800), PROS1 (rabbit polyclonal; #A0384; Dako; 1:800), and GAS6 (rabbit polyclonal; generous gift from Dr. Michael Hall [ ]; 1:2000).
Techniques: Expressing, In Vitro, In Vivo, RNA sequencing, Injection, Control, Immunostaining