Project description:RNA expression patterns of breast cell lines were compared with a breast cell line mixed reference. Gene expression profiles of 52 individual breast cell lines relative to a breast cell line reference mix containing equal amounts of 10 breast cell lines.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of breast cell lines comparing breast cell line mixed reference with individual breast cell lines. Goal was to characterize breast cell line subtypes.
Project description:56 breast cancer cell lines were profiled to identify patterns of gene expression associated with subtype and response to therapeutic compounds.
Project description:We analysed aquired chemotherapeutic resistance of two different triple negative breast cancer cell lines BT-549 (Doxorubicin resistance) and MDA-MB-468 (5-Fluorouracil) by comparing the proteome of the parental cell line with the resistant cell line.
Project description:We studied genes, that are differentially expressed between malignant and normal breast tissue, to find weak spots for anti-cancer therapy development. RNA sequencing of three cell lines was performed: MCF-7 (epithelial breast cancer cell line), BCC (primary breast tumour cell line) and MCF-10A (epithelial breast cell line).
Project description:<p>Sample collection can significantly affect measurements of relative lipid concentrations in cell line panels, hiding intrinsic biological properties of interest between cell lines. Most quality control steps in lipidomic data analysis focus on controlling technical variation. Correcting for the total amount of biological material remains an additional challenge for cell line panels. Here, we investigated how we can normalize lipidomic data acquired from multiple cell lines to correct for differences in sample biomass.</p><p>We studied how commonly used data normalization and transformation steps during analysis influenced the resulting lipid data distributions. We compared normalization by biological properties such as cell count or total protein concentration, to statistical and data-based approaches, such as median, mean or probabilistic quotient-based normalization and used intraclass correlation to estimate how similarity between replicates changed after normalization.</p><p>Normalizing lipidomic data by cell count improved similarity between replicates, but only for a study with cell lines with similar morphological phenotypes. For cell line panels with multiple morphologies collected over a longer time, neither cell count nor protein concentration was sufficient to increase the similarity of lipid abundances between replicates of the same cell line. Data-based normalizations increased these similarities, but also created artifacts in the data caused by a bias towards the large and variable lipid class of triglycerides. This artifact was reduced by normalizing for the abundance of only structural lipids. We conclude that there is a delicate balance between improving the similarity between replicates and avoiding artifacts in lipidomic data and emphasize the importance of an appropriate normalization strategy in studying biological phenomena using lipidomics.</p><p><br></p><p>__________________________________________</p><p><br></p><p>Rewiring of lipid metabolism is a hallmark of cancer, supporting tumor growth, survival, and therapy resistance. However, lipid metabolic heterogeneity in breast cancer remains poorly understood. In this study, we systematically profiled the lipidome of 52 breast cancer cell lines using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry to uncover lipidomic signatures associated with tumor subtype, proliferation, and epithelial-to-mesenchymal (EMT) state. A total of 806 lipid species were identified and quantified across 21 lipid classes. The main lipidomic heterogeneity was associated with the EMT state, with lower sphingolipid, phosphatidylinositol and phosphatidylethanolamine levels and higher cholesterol ester levels in aggressive mesenchymal-like cell lines compared to epithelial-like cell lines. In addition, cell lines with higher proliferation rates had lower levels of sphingomyelins and polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) side chains in phospholipids. Next, changes in the lipidome over time were analyzed for three fast-proliferating mesenchymal-like cell lines MDA-MB-231, Hs578T, and HCC38. Triglycerides decreased over time, leading to a reduction in lipid droplet levels, and especially PUFA-containing triglycerides and -phospholipids decreased during proliferation. These findings underscore the role of EMT in metabolic plasticity and highlight proliferation-associated lipid dependencies that may be exploited for therapeutic intervention. In conclusion, our study reveals that EMT-driven metabolic reprogramming is a key factor in lipid heterogeneity in breast cancer, providing new insights into tumor lipid metabolism and potential metabolic vulnerabilities.</p>
Project description:Expression profiling of 29 untreated breast cancer cell lines using Agilent 4x44K V1 (G4112F) dual color oligonucleotide microarrays The primary study objective was to establish a research resource for comparative transcriptomic analysis of a series of commercially available breast cancer cell lines representative of diverse histopathologic and molecular subtypes, generated on the Agilent oligonucleotide platform. A specific study objective was to perform a comparative transcriptional analysis of three cell lines established from a patient with triple negative metaplastic inflammatory breast cancer developed by Drs. Felding Habermann and Smider at the Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA. Cancer Res 2011;71(24 Suppl):Abstract nr PD03-07. Commercial cell lines were cultured in replete media using manufacturer-recommended conditions and harvested during exponential growth phase using TRIzol Reagent. Total RNA was prepared from each cell line and a pooled reference was generated containing an equimolar concentration of RNA from all cell lines. Individual cell lines were differentially labeled relative to the reference pool and hybridized to Agilent Commercial V1 4x44K oligonucleotide microarrays.