Tropism, Cytotoxicity, and Inflammatory Properties of Two Envelope Genes of Murine Leukemia Virus Type-Endogenous Retroviruses of C57BL/6J Mice
Figure 5
Effects of ENVOV1 and ENVOV2 polypeptides on expression of inflammatory mediators. (a) and (b) The effects of the ENVOV1 or ENVOV2 polypeptide in RAW264.7 on the expression of various inflammatory mediators are presented. Differential modulation potentials for inflammatory mediators were observed between ENVOV1 and ENVOV2 polypeptides. The densitometric value of each inflammatory mediator was normalized to -actin, and a graph was formulated. Three different forms of negative control were included in this experiment: no DNA, pcDNA4 (blank pcDNA4/HisMax plasmid), and GR11 (similar insert size as ENVOV1 and ENVOV2: mouse glucocorticoid receptor in pcDNA4/HisMax). The assay was performed in triplicate. * and ** indicate statistical significance (*; **).