Project description:Neurotrophin receptors play a pivotal role in the biology and prognosis of neuroblastoma (NB). While expression of TrkA/NTRK1 confers a good prognosis to NB patients, expression of TrkB/NTRK2 is associated with unfavorable outcome. We have transfected the neurotrophin-receptor null cell line SY5Y with either full-length TrkA or TrkB and performed transcriptional profiling to analyse the effects of Trk-expression without activation and in a time course after activation.
Project description:To elucidate potential role of piRNAs in Neuroblastoma (NB), we performed the genome wide profiling in two human NB cell lines, IMR-32 and SH-SY-5Y by adopting high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) and unveil their possible functions in neoplastic pathways. The RNA sequencing results revealed both known and novel piRNAs in both the cell lines. We observed a total 630 annotated mature piRNAs, distributed across chromosomes and mitochondria which were mapped to various genomic locations such as introns, protein coding regions, repeats, pseudogenes, ncRNAs etc. This is the first study reporting the extensive catalogue of human NB piRNAs which will provide a useful resource to dissect complex neoplastic events that are possibly mediated by piRNAs in neuroblastoma. Moreover, these piRNAs could be used as probable small RNA biomarkers for the Neuroblastoma.
Project description:This Hi-C experiment was a part of a research which analyzed chromosomal structural aberrations in hematological malignancies. First, the author conducted comprehensive detection of fusion transcripts in RNA-seq data of DSMZ’s 99 cell lines, and then picked up cell lines with characteristic complex karyotype. NB-4 cell line is one of them, which shows characteristic fusion cluster in 8q24 region in the fusion detection step. This Hi-C experiment revealed amplifications of MYC, PVT1, and CCDC26 in 8q24 region. Additionally, several structural aberrations were found by scanning the whole genome.