Fig. 3. The mRNA levels of AJ and TJ constituents in epithelial cells
overexpressing Snail. (A) Northern blotting of Eph4, Eph4-mSnail and NIH/3T3
cells. Snail completely shut down the transcription of E-cadherin,
claudin genes and occludin, but not of ZO-1 or
cytokeratin-18. As a control, the GAPDH gene was detected in equal
amounts in all samples. (B) Comparison of the mRNA levels of E-cadherin,
claudin-4, claudin-7, occludin, Snail and ZO-1 between mouse
epithelial cells (Eph4, MTD-1A and CSG1) and fibroblasts (NIH/3T3 and L).