Fig. 2

ADAM9 was involved in controlling VS primary cell proliferation. a Lentiviral mediated shRNA knock down of ADAM9. Green fluorescent ADAM9 knock down (left) and scrambled transfected control cells (right). One representative experiment of n = 4 is shown. b Proof of principle Western-blot of ADAM9 knock down, n = 1. γ-Tubulin served as loading control. Blots were cropped for better clarity. The full length blots are presented in Additional file 1, Fig. S2b. c Quantification of cell numbers after Merlin overexpression (Merlin) and ADAM9 knock down