Fig. 6

A transient phase of NOTCH3-IC expression induces commitment to a MES phenotype. a Western blot analysis of transient NOTCH3-IC induction. Time of doxycycline (dox) induction is indicated above the blots. Induction was followed by doxycycline wash-out and all samples were harvested after T = 14 days. Immunoblots show NOTCH pathway proteins (JAG1, NOTCH1, and NOTCH3), MES-markers (FN1 and YAP1) and ADRN-markers (PHOX2A, PHOX2B, DBH, and GATA2). As a positive reference, a sample of continued NOTCH3-IC induction for T = 14 days was run on the same gel (right). β-actin was used as loading control. Source data are provided as a Source Data file. b Summed z-scores of mRNA signatures for MES and ADRN genesets. Non-induced control (−dox) cells are shown in dark blue. Persistent NOTCH3-IC induction of T = 7 and 14 days are shown in pink and red, respectively. A transient phase of NOTCH3-IC induction (T = 7 days + doxycycline, followed by T = 7 days - doxycycline wash-out) is shown in light blue. As a reference, various neuroblastoma cell lines are shown in gray dots and grouped by dashed lines according to MES and ADRN phenotypes (see ref. ¹). c, d mRNA analysis (z-score of expression) of C) NOTCH pathway genes and D) core transcription factors of MES and ADRN lineages. + and—indicate culture conditions with or without doxycycline, respectively. Time of doxycycline treatment is indicated in days. For color-coding of samples, see panel c