Exon Level Expression Profiling: a Novel Unbiased Transcriptome
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ABSTRACT: Transcriptome analysis of mRNA samples from NCI/ADR-RES ovarian cancer cells treted with actinomycin D Emergent cancer drug resistance and further metastasis mainly attribute to altered expression levels and functional activities of multiple genes of cancer cells under chemotherapy. In response to challenge with anticancer drugs, enhanced ceramide glycosylation catalyzed by glucosylceramide synthase (GCS) confers drug resistance and enrichment with cancer stem cells. p53 mutations, which gain function in tumor progression, are prevalently extant in ovarian cancers. Via integrated gene expression assessments, we characterized GCS-responsive genes in ovarian cancer cells treated with dactinomycin. NCI/ADR-RES cells dominantly expressed a p53 mutant (7 aa de-leted in exon-5) and displayed anti-apoptosis; however, silencing GCS expression ren-dered these cells sensitive to dactinomycin-induced apoptosis. Microarray analyses of NCI/ADR-RES and its GCS transfected sublines found that elevated GCS expression or ceramide glycosylation associated to altered expression of 41 genes, notably coding for ABCB1, FGF2, ALDH1A3, apolipoprotein E, laminin 2, chemokine ligands, and IL6, with cellular resistance to induced apoptosis and enrichment with cancer stem cells, promoting cancer progression. These findings were further corroborated through in-tegrated genomic analyses of ovarian cancer from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and cancer resistance to platinum-based chemotherapy. Altogether, our present study indicates that altered ceramide glycosylation can modulate expression of these GCS-responsive genes and alter cancer cell attributes under chemotherapy.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE294904 | GEO | 2025/04/30
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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