Project description:We developed three different protein arrays to measure IgG autoantibodies associated with Connective Tissue Diseases (CTDs), Anti-Cytokine Antibodies (ACA), and anti-viral antibody responses in 147 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in three different centers.
Project description:To compare the cell signaling events between PC-3 cells and MDA-MB-468 cells, we performed a Reverse Phase of Protein Array (RPPA) profiling on 468 and PC-3 Cells that treated with DMSO, AZD5363, MS21 at 1µM for 24hr respectively.
Project description:β-cell specific Mettl14 knock-out mice display reduced N6-methyladenosine (m6A) levels and recapitulate human Type II diabetes (T2D) islet phenotype with early diabetes onset and mortality secondary to decreased β-cell proliferation and insulin degranulation. To gain insights into the role of m6A in regulating the IGF1/insulin -> AKT - > PDX1 pathway and to dissect the signaling networks modulating AKT phosphorylation, we subjected freshly isolated islets from control and Mettl14 knock-out mice to phospho-antibody microarrays.
Project description:Although an increased level of the prostate-specific antigen can be an indication for prostate cancer, other reasons often lead to a high rate of false positive results. Therefore, an additional serological screening of autoantibodies in patients’ sera could improve the detection of prostate cancer. We performed protein macroarray screening with sera from 49 prostate cancer patients, 70 patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia and 28 healthy controls and compared the autoimmune response in those groups. We were able to distinguish prostate cancer patients from normal controls with an accuracy of 83.2%, patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia from normal controls with an accuracy of 86.0% and prostate cancer patients from patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia with an accuracy of 70.3%. Combining seroreactivity pattern with a PSA level of higher than 4.0 ng/ml this classification could be improved to an accuracy of 84.1%. For selected proteins we were able to confirm the differential expression by using Lluminex on 84 samples. We provide a minimally invasive serological method to reduce false positive results in detection of prostate cancer and according to PSA screening to distinguish men with prostate cancer from men with benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Project description:The study objective was to find new biomarkers of treatment response and adverse events in patients receiving neoadjuvant therapy for locally advanced rectal cancer. Patients received neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) followed by chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and underwent treatment evaluation four weeks after CRT completion. Radical pelvic surgery was planned 2-4 weeks later. Patients were scored for treatment adverse events, according to Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 3.0, throughout the neoadjuvant treatment course, including at NACT and CRT completion. Treatment response was assessed by histologic ypTN staging and tumor regression grade (TRG) scoring, as well as progression-free survival (time from Inclusion date to Date of local relapse or Date of metastatic disease, whichever came first) recorded for five years after surgery.
Project description:The aim of the study was to determine the epitope targeted by 31E10/E7 mouse monoclonal antibody (mAb). mAb 31E10/E7 was diluted at 1:2000 and incubated on a non-commercial Protein Microarray platform printed with NHBA specific recombinant protein fragments and full length NHBA of different variants.
Project description:We measued IgG autoantibodies associated with Connective Tissue Diseases (CTDs) and Anti-Cytokine Antibodies (ACA) in idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease (iMCD) patients and healthy controls who received the BNT162b2 vaccine.
Project description:We measued IgG autoantibodies associated with Connective Tissue Diseases (CTDs) and Anti-Cytokine Antibodies (ACA) in idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease (iMCD) patients and healthy controls who received the BNT162b2 vaccine.
Project description:We measued IgG autoantibodies associated with Connective Tissue Diseases (CTDs) and Anti-Cytokine Antibodies (ACA) in idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease (iMCD) patients and healthy controls who received the BNT162b2 vaccine.
Project description:In this study we performed microarray-based molecular profiling of liver samples from Wistar rats exposed to genotoxic carcinogens (GC), nongenotoxic carcinogens (NGC) or non-hepatocarcinogens (NC) for up to 14 days. In contrast to previous toxicogenomics studies aimed at the inference of molecular signatures for assessing the potential and mode of compound carcinogenicity, we considered multi-level omics data. Besides evaluating the predictive power of signatures observed on individual biological levels, such as mRNA, miRNA and protein expression, we also introduced novel feature representations which capture putative molecular interactions or pathway alterations by integrating expression profiles across platforms interrogating different biological levels.