Figure 1

SPOP expression in gastric cancer. (A) The representative photos of SPOP expression in gastric cancer tissues and adjacent gastric tissues by using immunohistochemical staining (DAB staining, scale bar, 40 μm). Magnified local images reflecting detailed information were shown on the bottom. (B, C) SPOP expression was plotted using the immunochemical scores as described in the Methods. B, plot of SPOP scores in each gastric carcinoma and adjacent tissues. C, scores of SPOP expression are shown as box plots. The horizontal lines represent the median. The bottom and top edges of the boxes represent the 25th and 75th percentiles, respectively. And the vertical bars represent the range of the data. n = 88. (D) Representative immunoblotting of SPOP protein in gastric cancer samples. C refers to gastric cancer tissue and A refers to paired adjacent non-tumor gastric tissue from the same patient.