Transcription profiling by array of TMPAP viral stable transfected LNCaP cells
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ABSTRACT: To determine the effects produced by the overexpression of transmembrane prostatic acid phosphatase (TMPAP) in viral stable transfected LNCaP cells.
Project description:MicroRNA (miRNA/miR) miR526b and miR655 overexpressed tumor cell-free secretions promote breast cancer phenotypes in the tumor microenvironment (TME). However, the mechanisms of miRNA regulating TME have never been investigated. With mass spectrometry analysis of MCF7-miRNA-overexpressed versus miRNA-low MCF7-Mock tumor cell secretomes, we identified 34 novel secretory proteins coded by eight genes YWHAB, TXNDC12, MYL6B, SFN, FN1, PSMB6, PRDX4, and PEA15 those are differentially regulated. We used bioinformatic tools and systems biology approaches to identify these markers’ role in breast cancer. Gene ontology analysis showed that the top functions are related to apoptosis, oxidative stress, membrane transport, and motility, supporting miRNA-induced phenotypes. These secretory markers expression is high in breast tumors, and a strong positive correlation exists between upregulated markers’ mRNA expressions with miRNA cluster expression in luminal A breast tumors. Gene expression of secretome markers is higher in tumor tissues compared to normal samples, and immunohistochemistry data supported gene expression data. Moreover, both up and downregulated marker expressions are associated with breast cancer patient survival. miRNA regulates these marker protein expressions by targeting transcription factors of these genes. Premature miRNA (pri-miR526b and pri-miR655) are established breast cancer blood biomarkers. Here we report novel secretory markers upregulated by miR526b and miR655 (YWHAB, MYL6B, PSMB6, and PEA15) are significantly upregulated in breast cancer patients’ plasma, and are potential breast cancer biomarkers.
Project description:Studies of gene expression profiles using the whole genomewide microarray analysis in LNCaP cells (AR+, p53wt) when treated with 5nM testosterone and 100nM 1,25(OH)2D3 alone or in combination. Comparisons between each treatment groups provide evidence for the crosstalk between VDR and AR mediated signaling events at the transcriptional levels, which may have significant clinical impact in patient care. Three independent experiments were carried out in LNCaP cells, which were treated with ethanol control (no exogenous androgen), 5nM testosterone, 100nM 1,25(OH)2D3, and the combination of testosterone and 1,25(OH)2D3. Total RNA was extracted from cell lysates using QIAGEN midiRNeasy kit after 48h of treatment. The samples were run on 12 chips such that each chip measures the expression levels of 24,000 genes from Homo sapiens with 60-mer probe pairs, with three-fold redundancy.
Project description:Pluripotency can be induced in murine and human fibroblast by transduction of four transcription factors (Oct4, Sox2, Klf4 and c-Myc). Previously we reported that two factors (Oct4 and Klf4) are sufficient for reprogramming adult mouse neural stem cells (NSCs) to a pluripotent state. However, although NSCs endogenously express the factors Sox2, c-Myc, and Klf4, our previous report does not elucidate why exogenous expression of either Klf4 or c-Myc is still required for reprogramming. Here we report that exogenous expression of Oct4 is sufficient to generate one-factor induced pluripotent stem (1F iPS) cells without any oncogenic factors, such as c-Myc and Klf4, from mouse adult NSCs, which endogenously express Sox2, c-Myc, and Klf4, and also intermediate reprogramming markers alkaline phosphatase (AP), stage-specific embryonic antigen-1 (SSEA-1). These results extend our previous report proposing that somatic cells can be reprogrammed to a pluripotent state with a reducing number of reprogramming factors when the complementing factors are endogenously expressed in the somatic cells. Experiment Overall Design: 10 hybridizations in total. Experiment Overall Design: NSC-derived iPS cells by one-factor (Oct4) in triplicate: Experiment Overall Design: - NSC_1F_iPS_1 Experiment Overall Design: - NSC_1F_iPS_2 Experiment Overall Design: - NSC_1F_iPS_3 Experiment Overall Design: One-factor (Oct4) iPS cell-derived NSC in triplicate: Experiment Overall Design: - 1F_iPS_NSC_1 Experiment Overall Design: - 1F_iPS_NSC_2 Experiment Overall Design: - 1F_iPS_NSC_3 Experiment Overall Design: Neural stem cell (NSC) derived from brain of OG2/Rosa26 mice: Experiment Overall Design: - NSC_1 Experiment Overall Design: - NSC_2 Experiment Overall Design: - NSC_3 Experiment Overall Design: - NSC_4
Project description:Here we report the genome-wide set of factors bound by NKX3.1 or control IgG in human prostate cancer cells (LNCaP). Examination of NKX3.1 binding in LNCaP prostate cancer cells
Project description:Androgens drive the onset and progression of prostate cancer (PCa) by modulating androgen receptor (AR) transcriptional activity. Although several microarray-based studies have identified androgen-regulated genes, here we identify in-parallel global androgen-dependent changes in both gene and alternative mRNA isoform expression by exon-level analyses of the LNCaP transcriptome. While genome-wide gene expression changes correlated well with previously-published studies, we additionally uncovered a subset of 226 novel androgen-regulated genes. Gene expression pathway analysis of this subset revealed gene clusters associated with, and including the tyrosine kinase LYN, as well as components of the mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) pathway, which is commonly dysregulated in cancer. We also identified 1279 putative androgen-regulated alternative events, of which 325 (~25%) mapped to known alternative splicing events or alternative first/last exons. We selected 30 androgen-dependent alternative events for RT-PCR validation, including mRNAs derived from genes encoding tumour suppressors and cell cycle regulators. Of seven positively-validating events (~23%), five events involved transcripts derived from known AR gene targets. In particular, we found a novel androgen-dependent mRNA isoform derived from an alternative internal promoter within the TSC2 tumour suppressor gene, which is predicted to encode a protein lacking an interaction domain required for mTOR inhibition. We confirmed that expression of the alternative TSC2 mRNA isoform was directly regulated by androgens. Furthermore, by chromatin immunoprecipitation, we observed recruitment of AR to the alternative promoter region at early timepoints following androgen stimulation, which correlated with expression of alternative transcripts. Together, our data suggest that alternative mRNA isoform expression might mediate the cellular response to androgens, and may have roles in clinical PCa. Total 8 samples were analysed. 4 control (LNCaP cells grown in RPMI-1640 media with charcoal-stripped 10% FBS devoid of steroids) and 4 treatment (LNCaP cells grown in media devoid of steroid, and subsequently treated with 10nM R1881 synthetic androgen analogue for 24 hours).
Project description:The transcription factor Snail has been proposed to mediate epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and confer mesenchymal invasive phenotype to epithelial cancer cells To analyze the molecular effects of ectopic Snail expression on an epithelial breast cancer cell line, gene expression profiles of MCF-7 cells transfected to overexpress Snail-6SA variant (MCF-7-Snail) and MCF-7 cells transfected with control plasmid (MCF-7-control) were compared. Development of the cell lines has been previously reported by Zhou et al. (PMID: 15448698). Dataset includes 3 replicate cultures of MCF-7-Snail cells and 3 replicate cultures of MCF-7-control cells
Project description:Reprogramming of somatic cells is a valuable tool to understand the mechanisms of regaining pluripotency and further opens up the possibility to generate patient-specific pluripotent stem cells. Reprogramming of mouse and human somatic cells into pluripotent stem cells, designated as induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, has been possible with the expression of the transcription factor quartet Oct4, Sox2, c-Myc, and Klf4. Considering that ectopic expression of c-Myc causes tumourigenicity in offspring and retroviruses themselves can cause insertional mutagenesis, the generation of iPS cells with a minimal number of factors may hasten the clinical application of this approach. Here, we show that adult mouse neural stem cells (NSCs) express higher endogenous levels of Sox2 and c-Myc than ES cells and that exogenous Oct4 together with either Klf4 or c-Myc are sufficient to generate iPS cells from NSCs. These two-factor (2F) iPS cells are similar to embryonic stem cells at the molecular level, contribute to development of the germline, and form chimeras. We propose that, in inducing pluripotency, the number of reprogramming factors can be reduced when using somatic cells that endogenously express appropriate levels of complementing factors. Experiment Overall Design: 8 hybridizations in total. Experiment Overall Design: NSC derived iPS cells by 2 factors (Oct4 and Klf4) in triplicate: Experiment Overall Design: - iPS cell_2F_1 Experiment Overall Design: - iPS cell_2F_2 Experiment Overall Design: - iPS cell_2F_3 Experiment Overall Design: Embryonic Stem cells (ESC) in triplicate: Experiment Overall Design: - ESC_1 Experiment Overall Design: - ESC_2 Experiment Overall Design: - ESC_3 Experiment Overall Design: NSC cultures in duplicates: Experiment Overall Design: - NSC_2 Experiment Overall Design: - NSC_3 Experiment Overall Design: NSC derived iPS cells by 4 factors (Oct4, Sox2, c-Myc and Klf4) in triplicate: Experiment Overall Design: - iPS cell_4F_1 Experiment Overall Design: - iPS cell_4F_2 Experiment Overall Design: - iPS cell_4F_3
Project description:To determine the potential mechanisms by which AID-elimination facilitate better J558 tumor rejection by P1CTL, we performed cDNA microarray analysis to compare AID-silenced J558 cells and their relative controls. Experiment Overall Design: The mouse Affymetrix Mouse Genechips 430-2.0 arrays were hybridized to RNA derived from control and AID-silenced J558 cells according to manufacturerâs directions. Two different pairs of cells (C4 vs AID 2.27 (a) and C5 vs AID 2.13 (b)) were used for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.