Fig. 2: Effects of Parkin ablation on autophagy and apoptosis protein markers in livers following CCl4 challenge.

Representative immunoblots and quantitative histogram of the autophagy markers (a) Parkin, (b) Atg5, (c) Atg7, (d) p62, and (e) LC3BII/I and the cell death-related proteins (h) Bax, (i) Bcl2, (j) Caspase3, (k) cytosolic Cytochrome C, and (l) mitochondrial Cytochrome C in the liver tissues from WT and Parkin-/- mice injected with CCl4 or oil for 4 weeks. GAPDH, α-tubulin or COX IV was used as the loading control (n = 6-9/group). (f) Representative DAPI/TUNEL staining images of mouse livers. (g) Quantified TUNEL-positive nuclei (n = 4-5/group). Mean ± SEM, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001 and **** p < 0.0001 between the indicated groups.