Journal: Scientific Reports
Article Title: Triptolide induces apoptosis of glioma cells by inhibiting NF-κB activation during oxidative stress
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-80856-7
Figure Lengend Snippet: Network pharmacological analysis and molecular docking. ( A )Triptolide and Neuroglioma cross targets. ( B ) KEGG pathway enrichment analysis of 8 cross targets. ( C ) GO enrichment analysis of 8 cross targets. ( D ) Triptolide-Intersection target protein-Signal transduction pathway network diagram. The pink color represents Triptolide, the blue-purple color represents 8 Intersection target proteins, and the inverted triangle symbolizes the Signal transduction pathway. The font size of the nodes indicates their degree value, a larger font size signifies a higher degree value, indicating greater importance of the node in the network and its closer association with Triptolide. ( E ) Enhanced 3D and 2D visualizations of molecular docking interactions between TP and CD14, Bcl-2, PLAU, PTGS2. ( F ) p-NF-κB, JNK and p38-MAPK in U251 cells were detected by immunofluorescence. ( G ) Quantitative analysis of p-NF-κB, JNK and p38-MAPK expression levels. (** P < 0.01) (Scale bar: 20 μm) ( n = 3).
Article Snippet: The cells were then incubated with primary antibodies against BCL2-Associated X (Bax), B-cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2), p-nuclear factor kappa-B (p-NF-κB), c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK), p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38-MAPK), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), and interleukin-10 (IL-10) at 4℃ for 24 h. Next, the cells were incubated with a fluorescent secondary antibody (1:1000) (Thermo, Shanghai, China) for 1 h. The nuclei were then stained with 4’,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) for 5 min, and fluorescence images were obtained by fluorescence scanning microscopy (MIDI:3Dhistech, Panoramic, Hungary) for analysis using Image J.
Techniques: Transduction, Immunofluorescence, Expressing