Figure 5

Hes6 regulates the transcription of other pro-neural factors. The transcription of Hes6 was silenced by siRNA technology using two different duplexes in both C4-2 (dark blue bars) and C4-2b (green bars) cells. Data is represented as fold change as comnpared with the parental LNCaP cell line (light blue bars with asterisk). No effect was observed when the scrambled RNA was used. Other transcripts such as Ascl1, Nts, NeuroD1 and Ngn2 were also affected by Hes6 knockdown, however no effect was observed when the Hes1 transcript was analyzed. As previously reported the levels of pro-neural transcription factors in the C4-2 and C4-2b lines are significantly elevated versus the LNCaP cell-line with only Hes1 levels largely unchanged.