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Marcelo Monte Mór Rangel1, Lucas Martins Chaible, Marcia Kazumi Nagamine, Gregory Mennecier, Bruno Cogliati, Krishna Duro de Oliveira, Heidge Fukumasu, Idércio Luiz Sinhorini, Lluis Maria Mir, Maria Lúcia Zaidan Dagli.
Abstract
Connexins are proteins that form gap junctions. Perturbations in the cell membrane reportedly promote changes in the expression profile of connexins. Electroporation promotes destabilization by applying electrical pulses, and this procedure is used in electrochemotherapy and gene therapy, among others. This in vitro work aimed to study the interference of electroporation on the expression profile of GJB2 (Cx26 gene) and Connexin 26 in melanoma cell line B16/BL6. The techniques of immunocytochemistry, Western blot, and real-time PCR were used. After electroporation, cells showed a transient decrease in GJB2 mRNA. The immunostaining of Cx26 showed no noticeable change after electroporation at different time points. However, Western blot showed a significant reduction in Cx26 30 min after electroporation. Our results showed that electroporation interferes transiently in the expression of Connexin 26 in melanoma and are consistent with the idea that electroporation is a process of intense stress that promotes cell homeostatic imbalance and results in disruption of cell physiological processes such as transcription and translation.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID： 25298064 DOI： 10.1007/s00232-014-9735-z
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Membr Biol ISSN： 0022-2631 Impact factor: 1.843