Antibodies against KLF4 (sc‐166238), DACH1 (sc‐398706), ABCB5 (sc‐517210), and SOX2 (sc‐365823) were purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (CA, USA). Antibodies against ALDH1A1 (36671S), pan AKT (4685S), AKT pT308 (13038S), EGFR (4267S), EGFR pY1068 (3777S), Ki‐67 (9449S), RARα (62294), and
H3K27ac (8173) were purchased from Cell Signaling Technology (MA, USA). Antibodies against CD133 (18470‐1‐AP) and
CD44 (15675‐1‐AP) were purchased from Proteintech (Wuhan, China).
Antibodies against GAPDH were purchased from Sigma–Aldrich (Shanghai, China). The antibody against ERK1/2 pT202/Y304 (AF1015) was purchased from Affinity Biosciences (Jiangsu, China). The antibody against MERTK (AF1015) was purchased from Thermo Fisher Scientific (MA, USA).
DACH1 siRNA (sc‐77089),
ABCB5 siRNA (sc‐89856),
MERTK siRNA (sc‐37127),
KLF4 siRNA (sc‐35480),
SOX2 siRNA (sc‐38408),
EGF siRNA (sc‐39416), and
ALDH1A1 siRNA (sc‐41442) were purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (CA, USA). K
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7 (207802), 2‐hydroxyethyl agarose (A9045), NAC (A7250), DCFH‐DA (287810), A37 (531726000), Tyrphostin AG 1478 (T4182), RA (R2625), and 3dGRO Basal Medium (S3077A) were purchased from Sigma–Aldrich (MA, USA).
Complete Protease Cocktail was purchased from Roche.
Doxycycline was purchased from Selleckchem (MA, USA).
Ge X., Li M., Song G., Zhang Z., Yin J., Ge Z., Shi Z., Liu L., Jiang B., Qian X, & Shen H. (2022). Chromium (VI)‐induced ALDH1A1/EGF axis promotes lung cancer progression. Clinical and Translational Medicine, 12(12), e1136.