Research Paper Volume 14, Issue 2 pp 961—974

Figure 5. TEAD2 negatively regulates ferroptosis in HCC. (A) The protein levels of TEAD2 in normal liver cell line HHL-5 and HCC cell lines PVTT, QGY, Huh7, MHCC97H, 7404 and 7721. (B–C) Knockout of TEAD2 in Huh7 and MHCC97H cells was confirmed by Western blot. (D) Knocked down of TEAD2 (siTEAD2-1) promoted the cell death induced by erastin and RSL3 in Huh7 and MHCC97H cells. The cells were treated with erastin (10 μM) or RSL3 (10 μM) with or without ferrostatin-1 (5 μM), ZVAD-FMK (10 μM) and necrostatin-1 (5 μM) for 24 h. They were tested by a CCK-8 kit. (E–F) The expression levels of TEAD2 impacted on the Fe²⁺ and MDA accumulation in erastin or RSL3-treated Huh7 and MHCC97H cells. The cells were treated with erastin (10 μM) or RSL3 (10 μM) for 24 h. Subsequently, the intracellular Fe²⁺ and MDA were assayed. Data was represented with mean ± SD (n = 3). ^*p < 0.05; ^**p < 0.01.