ABSTRACT: Transcription profiling by array of human lymphoblast cells from a patient with Freidriech's ataxia after treatment with pyrrole-imidazole polyamides
Project description:Transcription profiling of ATM (Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated) +/+ (Control), ATM +/- (AT Carrier) and ATM -/- (AT patient) human lymphoblastoid cell lines exposed to 5 Gy IR at 0, 4 and 24 hours to identify expression phenotypes in Ataxia Telangiectasia carriers and patients
Project description:Disease-specific induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells have been used for a model to analyze pathogenesis of the disease. We generated iPS cells derived from a fibroblastic cell line of ataxia telangiectasia (AT-iPS cells). In analysis of AT-iPS cells, the human wild-type iPS cell line (MRC5-iPS) was generated and cultured in the same conditions as the diseased iPS cell lines. It is an ideal control cell line for the disease and patient-specific iPS cell lines. Because MRC5-iPS cells exhibited considerable chromosomal abnormalities in vitro, we performed a structural alteration analysis by using a SNP genotyping array for MRC5-iPS cell line, Tic, at passage 15, passage 30, and passage 37.
Project description:Lymphoblast cells from a patient with Freidriech's Ataxia were incubated with pyrrole-imidazole polyamides targeted to the GAA triplet repeat in the intron 1. The polyamides were shown in cell culture to increase levels of endogenous frataxin mRNA. A normal sibling derived lymphoblast cell line was used as a control. Keywords: human lymphoblast cells
Project description:We identified a synthetic siRNA (B11) that improves the growth of primary human fibroblasts derived from Friedreich ataxia (FA) patient. A control siRNA, in which one base pair of B11 is mutated (Mut1), was associated with a partial loss of phenotype. This experiment compares the transcriptome of primary FA fibroblasts transfected with B11 siRNA versus the transcriptome of FA cells transfected with Mut1.
Project description:Background & Aims: Loss of ataxia-telangiectasia mutated, occurring in patients with multiple primary malignancies, including pancreatic cancer, is associated with poor prognosis. This study investigated the detailed molecular mechanism through which ataxia-telangiectasia mutated expression affects the prognosis of pancreatic-cancer patients Methods: Ataxia-telangiectasia mutated and phosphorylated ataxia-telangiectasia mutated levels in pancreatic-cancer patients who underwent surgical resection were analyzed using immunohistochemistry staining. RNA sequencing was performed on ataxia-telangiectasia mutated-knockdown pancreatic-cancer cells to elucidate the mechanism underlying the involvement of ataxia-telangiectasia mutated in pancreatic cancer. Results: Immunohistochemical analysis showed that 15.3% and 27.8% of clinical samples had low levels of ataxia-telangiectasia mutated and phosphorylated ataxia-telangiectasia mutated, respectively. Low phosphorylated ataxia-telangiectasia mutated expression substantially reduced overall and disease-free survival in pancreatic-cancer patients. Loss of ataxia-telangiectasia mutated promoted MET and NTN1 over-expression via hypoxia-inducible factor-1α, thereby enhancing pancreatic-cancer cell proliferation and migration. Conclusions: These results demonstrate that the loss of ataxia-telangiectasia mutated activates downstream proto-oncogenes, inhibits apoptosis, and promotes tumor growth; moreover, loss of phosphorylated ataxia-telangiectasia mutated leads to poor prognosis in pancreatic-cancer patients. Thus, ataxia-telangiectasia mutated may serve as a potential molecular marker to monitor patient prognosis and as a potential target for pancreatic cancer therapy