Metabolomics,Unknown,Transcriptomics,Genomics,Proteomics

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MiRNA profiling of longitudinal ovarian cancer biopsies collected before and after platinum-based neo-adjuvant chemotherapy

ABSTRACT: In the last decades platinum-based neo-adjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) has been recognized as a reliable therapeutic strategy in patients with un-resectable advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). However, the molecular changes induced by NACT at miRNA level, and their prognostic role has not been clarified until now. In order to uncover miRNAs that are altered in EOC tumor which received NACT, we performed whole-miRNA analysis on 82 FIGO Stage IIIC-IV high-grade serous (HGS) tumors, whose samples had been collected at complete primary debulking (PDS) and at interval-debulking surgery (IDS) after fter 4 courses of NACT.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Luca Beltrame

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-3696 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Project description:Epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC) is an aggressive tumor often diagnosed at an advanced stage, when there is little prospect for cure. Despite some advances in surgical and chemotherapeutic strategies, only marginal improvements in patient outcome have been obtained. Hence, understanding the biological mechanisms underpinning EOC progression is critical for its treatment and to ameliorate patients survival. Recently, we reported that CD157 is expressed in EOC and controls tumor cell migration and invasion. Using stable overexpression and knockdown in OVCAR-3 and OV-90 ovarian cancer cell lines, we demonstrated that CD157 overexpression promotes morphological and functional changes, characterized by downregulation of epithelial marker and upregulation of mesenchymal ones. These are mediated at the transcriptional level by altering the expression of Snail and Zeb1 transcriptional repressors. The effects of CD157 overexpression on ovarian cancer phenotype translate into increased tumor cell motility and mesotelial invasion, while its knockdown significantly reduces the migratory potential, implying a direct correlation between CD157 expression levels and EOC aggressiveness. The analysis of the transcriptomic profiling highlighted 378 significantly differentially expressed genes, representing the signature of CD157-overexpressing EOC cells. The overall picture deduced from the analysis of these modulated transcripts indicated that high CD157 expression results in strengthening of a number of biological functions that favour tumor progression (including cell differentiation, cell motility and migration), and weakening of selected biological processes that hinder the tumor progression (such as apoptosis, cell death and response to stress). Collectively, these data support a causal role of CD157 in the control of ovarian cancer progression motivating the existence of a direct correlation between the expression levels of CD157 and the adverse clinical outcome in EOC patients, and suggest that CD157 may represent a valuable therapeutic target. Gene expression analysisi of control cell lines (OVCAR-3/mock and OV-90/mock) and testing cell lines (OVCAR-3/CD157 and OV-90/CD157), with two replicates, with dye swap, performed for each sample.

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MiRNA profiling of longitudinal ovarian cancer biopsies collected before and after platinum-based neo-adjuvant chemotherapy

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