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Isolation and expression profiling of circulating tumor cells in breast cancer patients

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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Vasu Punj

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-45965 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Expression profiling of circulating tumor cells in metastatic breast cancer.

Lang Julie E JE Scott Janet H JH Wolf Denise M DM Novak Petr P Punj Vasu V Magbanua Mark Jesus M MJ Zhu Weizhu W Mineyev Neal N Haqq Christopher M CM Crothers Julia R JR Esserman Laura J LJ Tripathy Debasish D van 't Veer Laura L Park John W JW

Breast cancer research and treatment 20141129 1

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are prognostic in all stages of breast cancer. However, since they are extremely rare, little is known about the molecular nature of these cells. We report a novel strategy for the isolation and expression profiling of pure populations of CTCs derived from peripheral blood. We developed a method to isolate CTCs based on immunomagnetic capture followed by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (IE/FACS). After assay validation using the BT474 cell line spiked into bloo ...[more]

PMID: 25432738

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Project description:CCAAT/enhancer binding protein beta (C/EBPb) is a member of a family of highly conserved transcription factors that regulates numerous genes involved in proliferation and differentiation in a variety of tissues. C/EBPb is deregulated in human breast cancer and germline deletion of this gene results in multiple defects in mammary gland development. We hypothesized that C/EBPb regulates mammary stem cell self-renewal, maintenance and/or differentiation through the regulation of multiple target genes that coordinate mammary gland development. Utilizing both a germline knockout mouse model and a conditional knockout strategy, we demonstrated that mammosphere formation was significantly decreased in C/EBPb-deficient mammary epithelial cells (MECs). The ability of C/EBPb-deleted MECs to regenerate the mammary gland in vivo was severely impaired when transplanted at limiting dilution. Furthermore, serial transplantation of C/EBPb-null mammary tissue resulted in decreased outgrowth potential when compared to wildtype, and an early senescence phenotype. Flow cytometric analysis revealed that C/EBPb-null MECs contain a lower frequency of repopulating stem cells accompanied by an increase in committed, differentiated luminal cells as compared to wildtype. Microarray analysis of stem/progenitor cell populations was performed and revealed an alteration in cell fate specification in C/EBPb-null glands, exemplified by the aberrant expression of basal markers in the luminal cell compartment. Collectively, our studies demonstrate that C/EBPb is a critical regulator of mammary stem cell differentiation, and an important determinant of luminal cell fate specification. Experiment Overall Design: To identify potential signaling pathways regulated by C/EBPb in stem/progenitor cells, microarray analysis was performed on two stem/progenitor cell subpopulations. For this analysis, subpopulations defined by LIN-CD24+CD29hi and LIN-CD24hiCD29lo were FACS sorted from wildtype and germline C/EBPb-/- glands, and RNA was isolated from each group.

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Isolation and expression profiling of circulating tumor cells in breast cancer patients

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Expression profiling of circulating tumor cells in metastatic breast cancer.

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