Additional file 2: Supplemental Fig. 2. (a) Western blot indicated that no AGO2 protein was detected in the precipitates of RNA pull-down. (b) No significant change in PEBP1 mRNA expression was determined after circPOLR2A knockdown or overexpression. (c, d, e) Bioinformatics analysis of the CPTAC database suggested that PEBP1 protein levels were associated with cRCC tumor size (c), pathologic T stage (d) and Fuhrman grade (e) in the cRCC cohort. (f) Kaplan-Meier method and log-rank test confirmed that the PEBP1 protein level was a favorable prognostic factor in the cRCC cohort from CPTAC database