Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: The Hippo Signaling Pathway Regulates Corneal Endothelial Regeneration
doi: 10.64898/2025.12.30.697046
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Diagram showing the experimental design. Rabbits central and peripheral CECs were taken for RNA sequencing separately on day 7 after injury. (B) Volcano plot of the significant DEGs between the central and peripheral CECs. (C) The KEGG enrichment of DEGs in (B). (D) The core proteins of the top 100 PPIs. (E) The top 10 of KEGG enrichment for genes related to the top 100 of PPIs in (D). (F) The heatmap of downstream genes of the Hippo pathway. (G, H) Western blot analysis of p-YAP, YAP, p-MST1/2, MST1/2, p-LATS1/2, LATS1/2 and β-actin, the protein levels were quantified by densitometry (n=3). (I) Representative immunofluorescence images of YAP and the ratio of nuclear YAP to cytoplasm YAP, five cells were randomly selected for measurement and averaged in each sample (n = 3). *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, error bars, mean ± SEM. Scale bars represent 10 µm in (I). Nuc, nucleus; Cyt, cytoplasm.
Article Snippet: The equal amount of protein was resolved by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotted with primary antibodies for YAP1 (Abclonal, A19134), phospho-YAP1-S127 (Abcam, ab186735), LATS1/2 (Proteintech, 17049-1-AP), phospho-LATS1/2 (Thr1079) (Proteintech, 28998-1-AP), MST1/2 (Proteintech, 22245-1-AP), phospho-MST1 (Thr183)/MST2 (Thr180) (Proteintech, 80093-1-RR), MOB1 (Proteintech, 11669-1-AP), phospho-MOB1 (Thr12) (Proteintech, 29027-1-AP) and β-actin (Abcam, 8226).
Techniques: RNA Sequencing, Western Blot, Immunofluorescence