Small RNAseq of human breast cancer cell line MDA-MB-231 transfected with antisense oligonucleotide 1537S (ASO-1537S), compared to control oligonucleotide (ASO-C) and untreated cells
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ABSTRACT: Proliferation of tumor cells transfected with ASO-1537S is inhibited compared to controls. The aim of the experiment is to determine changes in microRNA expression profiles with treatment, compared to controls, using 3 biological replicates for each condicition.
Project description:Proliferation of tumor cells transfected with ASO-1537S is inhibited compared to controls. The aim of the experiment is to determine changes in microRNA expression profiles with treatment, compared to controls.
Project description:Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) play a critical role in modulating the immunoediting features in certain malignancies like triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). Nevertheless, much is still unknown concerning the specific responses of tumors when challenged by lymphocyte infiltration. Based on this void, we conducted a immuno-phenotype comparison using mRNA sequencing between the TNBC cell line MDA-MB-231 and the luminal breast cancer cell line MCF7 after both were co-cultured with activated human T-cells. We found that, though the cytokine-induced immune signature of the two cell lines was similar, MDA-MD-231 cells were able to transcribe IDO1 at a significantly higher level than MCF7 cells. Though no differences occurred in upstream JAK/STAT1 signaling or IDO1 mRNA stability between the two cell lines, stimulation with IFNγ was able to differentially induce IDO protein expression and enzymatic activity in ER- cell lines compared to ER+ cell lines. Further experiments show that 5-aza-deoxycytidine treatment was able to reverse suppression of IDO1 expression in MCF7 cells, suggesting DNA methylation as a potential determinant in IDO1 induction. By analyzing TCGA breast cancer datasets, we discovered subtype-specific mRNA and promoter methylation differences in IDO1, with TNBC/basal subtypes exhibiting lower methylation/higher expression and ER+/luminal subtypes exhibiting higher methylation/lower expression. We confirmed this trend of IDO1 methylation by bisulfite pyrosequencing breast cancer cell lines and an independent cohort of primary breast tumors. Taken together, these findings suggest that IDO1 methylation regulates anti-immune responses in breast cancer subtypes and could be used as a predictive biomarker for IDO inhibitor-based immunotherapy. To determine the immunomodulatory effects of cytokines secreted by activated human T-cells on breast cancer cells, we performed RNAseq analysis in MCF7 and MDA-MB-231 cells, after co-culturing them with normal PBMCs activated with anti-CD3/CD28 antibodies in a contact-independent manner. MDA-MB-231 or MCF7 cells were co-cultured with PBMCs alone or the conditioned-media or a combination of both for 24 hrs, and then total RNA was harvest for RNA-seq analysis.
Project description:RNA extraction and microarray analysis total RNA from immortalized normal mammary epithelial cells (184A1, MCF-12A), breast cancer cells (MDA-MB-231, MCF-7, MDA-MB-468, SK-BR-3), BCSC (MDA-MB-231SC, MCF-7SC, XM322, XM607). MDA-MB-231SC and MCF-7SC originating from breast cancer cell lines; XM322 and XM607 derived from clinical specimens which had been described in previous submission (E-MTAB-5057). The miRNA profiling was performed using Agilent miRNA array. Microarray experiments were conducted according to the manufacturer's instructions. To select the differentially expressed genes, we used threshold values of ≥ 2 and ≤ −2-fold change and a Benjamini-Hochberg corrected p value of 0.05. The data was Log2 transformed and median centered by genes using the Adjust Data function of Cluster 3.0 software then further analyzed with hierarchical clustering with average linkage (genes which value more than 100 were evaluated).
Project description:MDA-MB-231 cell line with relatively high DOT1L levels was treated with two potent, selective inhibitors of the DOT1L histone methyl transferase. These compounds can inhibit cells migration and invasion and induce differentiation. Here we provide expression profiling data of cells treated with two DOT1L inhibitors [1] [2], DOT1L siRNA (siDOT1L) or control. MDA-MB-231 cells were treated with 1uM compound [1], 5uM compound [1], 2uM compound [2], 10 uM compound [2] (DOT1L inhibitors) or control (0.1% DMSO) for 14 days, or siDOT1L for 7 days. For each unique condition, 2 biological replicates were generated for expression profiling. Compound [1]: EPZ004777 (in Diagle et al., 2011) Compound [2]: Compound 55 (in Anglin et al., 2012)
Project description:Bone metastases is a common severe complication for breast cancer. We previously showed that conditioned medium (CM) from osteocytes stimulated with oscillatory fluid flow, mimicking bone mechanical loading during routine physical activities, reduced breast cancer cell extravasation across endothelial monolayers. Endothelial cells are situated at an ideal location to mediate signals between osteocytes in the bone matrix and metastasizing cancer cells in the blood vessels. Therefore, we used RNA sequencing to show that CM from endothelial cells conditioned in CM from flow-stimulated osteocytes significantly altered gene expression in bone-metastatic breast cancer cells. This This provides insights into the capability of bone-loading activity in preventing bone metastases.
Project description:Pyrrole-imidazole polyamides (PIPs) have been shown to inhibit gene expression by interrupting the DNA-protein interface. Human Ectopic viral integration site 1 (EVI1) is an oncogenic transcription factor which plays a key role in many aggressive forms of cancer. We have developed a novel pyrroleM-bM-^@M-^Simidazole polyamide, PIP1 targeting the REL/ELK1 binding site in the EVI1 minimal promoter that can significantly repress the expression of EVI1 in MDA-MB-231 cells. Whole-transcriptome analysis revealed that a fraction of EVI1-driven genes were modulated by PIP1. Global expression changes in MDA-MB-231 cells were evaluated after treating the cells with PIP1 and DMSO for 48 hours. The vehicle DMSO is used as a negative control. Each condition is performed in technical replicates.
Project description:Oct4, a key transcription factor for maintaining the pluripotency and self-renewal of stem cells has been reported previously. It also plays an important role in tumor proliferation and apoptosis, but the role of Oct4 been in tumor metastasis is still not very clear. Here, we found that ectopic expression of Oct4 in breast cancer cells can inhibit their migration and invasion. Detailed examinations revealed that Oct4 up-regulates expression of E-cadherin, indicative of its inhibitory role in epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). RNA-sequence assay showed that Oct4 down-regulates expression of Rnd1. As an atypical Rho protein, Rnd1 can affect cytoskeleton rearrangement and regulate cadherin-based cell-cell adhesion by antagonizing the typical Rho protein, RhoA. Ectopic expression of Rnd1 in MDA-MB-231 cells changes cell morphology which influences cell adhesion and increases migration. It is reported that EMT is accompanied by cytoskeleton remodeling, we hypothesized that Rnd1 may play a role in regulating EMT. Over-expression of Rnd1 can partly rescue the inhibitory effects induced by Oct4, not only migration and invasion, but also in E-cadherin level and cellular morphology. Furthermore, silencing of Rnd1 can up-regulate the expression of E-cadherin in MDA-MB-231 cells. These results present evidence that ectopic expression of Oct4 increases E-cadherin and inhibits metastasis, effects which may be related to Rnd1 associated cell-cell adhesion in breast cancer cells. Examination of mRNA profiles in MDA-MB-231 cells with OCT4 overexpressing
Project description:We used microarray gene expression analyses to search for epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT)-related genes that exhibited the greatest differences in expression in the MZF-1 fragment vector-transfected cells relative to the empty vector-transfected cells. Of the 22,203 genes analyzed in both cell lines, 1209 genes had a two-fold increase and 1557 genes had a two-fold decrease in Hs578T-M(S3) cells (P<0.05), and 1272 genes increased and 1494 genes decreased by a similar amount in MDA-MB-231-M(V4) cells. Combined, 821 of the same genes from both cell lines were up-regulated, and 931 of the same genes from both cell lines were down-regulated. The biological functions of these affected genes were diverse and included 11 EMT-related genes (ITGA5, SERPINE1 GNGI1, SEAP1, TIMP1, FN1, TMEFF1, SNAI2, VIM, CALD1 and MSN) which were down-regulated, and 5 MET-related genes (CDH1, TSPAN13, OCLN, KRT19 and DSP) which were up-regulated. To understand functions of MZF-1/Elk-1 heterodimers, we transfected the binding site-derived peptide to the cells to interrupt heterodimer formation, their DNA binding activity, PKCα expression, cell migration and tumorigenicity were decreased, and the mesenchymal-epithelial transition (MET) was present.
Project description:The transcription factor GATA3 is essential for luminal cell differentiation during mammary gland development and critical for formation of the luminal subtypes of breast cancer. Ectopic expression of GATA3 promoted global alterations of the transcriptome of basal triple-negative breast cancer cells resulting in molecular and cellular changes associated with a more differentiated, luminal tumor subtype and a concomitant reduction in primary tumor growth, lung metastasis, and macrophage recruitment at the metastatic site. Importantly, we demonstrate that the inhibition of metastases by GATA3 results from the suppression of lysyl oxidase (LOX) expression, a metastasis promoting matrix protein that affects cell proliferation, cross-linking of extracellular collagen types, and establishment of the metastatic niche. There are 2 samples sent in triplicates.
Project description:Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is histologically characterized by the absence of the hormone receptors estrogen and progesterone, in addition to having a negative immunostain for HER-2. The aggressiveness of this disease and lack of targeted therapeutic options for treatment is of high clinical importance. MicroRNAs are short 21- to 23 nucleotide endogenous non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression by binding to mRNA transcripts, resulting in either decreased protein translation or mRNA degradation. Dysregulated expression of miRNAs is now a hallmark of many human cancers. In order to identify a miRNA/mRNA interaction that is biologically relevant to the triple negative breast cancer genotype/phenotype, we initially conducted a miRNA profiling experiment to detect differentially expressed miRNAs in cell line models representing the triple negative (MDA-MB-231), ER+ (MCF7), and HER-2 overexpressed (SK-BR-3) histotypes. We identified human miR-34a expression as being >3-fold down (from its median expression value across all cell lines) in MDA-MB-231 cells, and identified AXL as a putative mRNA target using multiple miRNA/target prediction algorithms. The miR-34a/AXL interaction was functionally characterized through ectopic overexpression experiments with a miR-34a mimic. In reporter assays, miR-34a binds to the putative target site within the AXL 3’UTR to affect luciferase expression. We also observed degradation of AXL mRNA and decreased AXL protein levels, as well as cell signaling effects on AKT phosphorylation and phenotypic effects on cell migration. Finally, we present an inverse correlative trend in miR-34a and AXL expression for both cell line and patient tumor samples. Comparison of the changes in gene expression as a result of transfections with miR-34a mimic molecules (representing two different vendors; Qiagen and Dharmacon) in MDA-MB-231 cells. MDA-MB-231 cells were transfected in 6-well dishes (600,000 cells) with either AllStar negative control, Qmimic, or Dmimic at 10 nM final concentration using Lipofectamine™ 2000 (Invitrogen; Carlsbad, CA). All transfections were performed in triplicate. Forty-eight hours post-transfection, total RNA was isolated from each sample using Qiagen’s miRNeasy extraction kit (Qiagen; Germantown, MD). Total RNA samples were sent to the Laboratory of Molecular Technology (National Cancer Institute at Frederick; Frederick, MD), for processing on Affymetrix GeneChip Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 microarrays (Affymetrix; Santa Clara, CA). Expression values were normalized using Robust Multichip Averaging (RMA). Only gene probes (AllStar vs. Mimic) that passed a log2 1.5-fold change, p < 0.05 threshold using an Empirical Bayes moderated t statistics with a Benjamini-Hochberg correction for the false discovery rate were reported. All analyses were performed with Bioconductor packages AFFYGUI and LIMMA on a R environment.