Project description:Type II germ cell tumors (GCTs) are with more than 90% the most common neoplasia in young men of age 14 - 45 years. It is generally accepted that GCTs arise from a common precursor lesion, called germ cell neoplasia in situ (GCNIS), eventually developing into seminomas or non-seminomas. The non-seminomatous stem-cell like embryonal carcinomas (EC) can further differentiate into teratomas (TE), yolk sac tumors (YST), or choriocarcinomas (CC). Orchiectomy followed by chemo- or radiotherapy is a widely used procedure in the treatment of type II GCTs, leading to high cure rates of up to 90%. Nevertheless, about 10 - 15% of patients with progressive disease relapse as a result of drug resistance and are condemned for a poor prognosis and a short survival of only a few months. Cluster of differentiation 24 (CD24) is a small, mucin-like glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchored membrane molecule that functions both, in signal transduction and as an adhesion molecule. This glycoprotein is mainly expressed on the surface of hematopoietic, neural, muscular, and epithelial cells. Moreover, CD24 has been implicated in tumor metastasis, as fucosylated CD24 interacts with P- and E-selectin, allowing invasion of tumor cells to distal sites. High expression or amplifications of CD24 has been described in a variety of solid malignancies, such as non-small cell lung carcinoma, gliomas, breast cancer, retinoblastoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, renal cell carcinoma, cervical carcinoma, prostate cancer, urothelial carcinoma, pineal parenchymal tumors, and ovarian cancer. In this study, we investigated the putative function of CD24 and its interaction partners in (cisplatin-resistant) GCT cell lines by generating CD24-deficient EC cells by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing. Changes in the proteome between CD24-deficient cells and parental cells were measured by liquid-chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LS-MS).
Project description:Type II testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) are the most prevalent tumors in young men. Patients suffering from cisplatin resistant TGCTs are facing very poor prognosis demanding novel therapeutic options. Neddylation is a known posttranslational modification mediating many important biological processes including tumorigenesis. Overactivation of neddylation pathway promotes carcinogenesis and tumor progression in various entities by inducing proteasomal degradation of tumor suppressors (e.g., p21, p27). We used a genome-scale CRISPR/Cas9 activation screen to identify cisplatin resistance factors. TGCT cell lines were treated with the neddylation inhibitor (MLN4924)/cisplatin/combination and investigated for changes in viability (XTT assay), apoptosis/cell cycle (flow cytometry) as well as in the transcriptome (3’mRNA sequencing). NAE1 overexpression was detected in cisplatin resistant colonies from the CRISPR screen. Inhibition of neddylation using MLN4924 increased cisplatin cytotoxicity in TGCT cell lines and sensitized cisplatin resistant cells towards cisplatin. Apoptosis, G2/M-phase cell cycle arrest, gH2A.X/P27 accumulation and mesoderm/endoderm differentiation was observed in TGCT cells while fibroblast cells were unaffected. We identified overactivation of neddylation as a factor for cisplatin resistance in TGCTs and highlighted the additive effect of NAE1 inhibition by MLN4924 in combination with cisplatin as a novel treatment option for TGCTs.
Project description:To determine the signaling networks that are dysregulated in platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, gene expression data were obtained from, and compared between, the ovarian cancer cell line, A2780, and its cisplatin-resistant derivative, A2780cis. Gene expression data from a cisplatin-sensitive ovarian cancer cell line (A2780) were collected and compared to gene expression data from a cisplatin-resistant cell line (A2780cis). 6 independent experiments were completed for both the sensitive and resistant cell lines.
Project description:Type II testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) are the most prevalent tumors in young men. Patients suffering from cisplatin resistant TGCTs are facing very poor prognosis demanding novel therapeutic options. Neddylation is a known posttranslational modification mediating many important biological processes including tumorigenesis. Overactivation of neddylation pathway promotes carcinogenesis and tumor progression in various entities by inducing proteasomal degradation of tumor suppressors (e.g., p21, p27). We used a genome-scale CRISPR/Cas9 activation screen to identify cisplatin resistance factors. TGCT cell lines were treated with the neddylation inhibitor (MLN4924)/cisplatin/combination and investigated for changes in viability (XTT assay), apoptosis/cell cycle (flow cytometry) as well as in the transcriptome (3’mRNA sequencing). NAE1 overexpression was detected in cisplatin resistant colonies from the CRISPR screen. Inhibition of neddylation using MLN4924 increased cisplatin cytotoxicity in TGCT cell lines and sensitized cisplatin resistant cells towards cisplatin. Apoptosis, G2/M-phase cell cycle arrest, gH2A.X/P27 accumulation and mesoderm/endoderm differentiation was observed in TGCT cells while fibroblast cells were unaffected. We identified overactivation of neddylation as a factor for cisplatin resistance in TGCTs and highlighted the additive effect of NAE1 inhibition by MLN4924 in combination with cisplatin as a novel treatment option for TGCTs.
Project description:To clarify the mechanism of cisplatin resistance in testicular germ cell tumor (TGCT), cisplatin-resistant TGCT cells (N8R and G9R) were generated from parental NEC8 cells (N8P) and TGCT patient-derived cells (TGCT-PDC)(G9P), respectively, by culture in medium containing cisplatin. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression underlying cisplatin resistance and identified up- and down-regulated genes during this process.
Project description:We report the application of methyl-binding protein sequencing (MBD-seq) to global identify aberrant methylation between cisplatin sensitive and resistant ovarian cancer cell lines Detection of aberrant methylation states between cisplatin sensitive and resistant cell lines
Project description:Testicular germ cell tumors (GCTs) are the most common malignant solid neoplasms in men between the age of 15 and 40 with an increasing incidence seen over the last four decades. Histologically, type II GCT are divided into seminomas (SEM) and non-seminomatous GCT (NSGCT) according to the WHO. NSGCT comprise distinct subentities, e.g. embry-onal carcinomas (EC), yolk sac tumors, choriocarcinomas and teratomas (TER). The distinction between SEM and NSGCT is important because of varying treatment approaches, treatment responses and patients’ prognosis. The treatment of GCTs primarily comprises a radical inguinal orchiectomy of the affected testis. Subsequent cisplatin-based combination chemotherapy is required in metastatic GCTs. The introduction of cisplatin-based com-bination chemotherapy has led to cure rates of up to 90% even in metastatic disease stages. Teratomas are of particular interest, as they are uniformly cisplatin-resistant and sur-gery is the only successful therapy. The number of patients with recurring disease that finally fail several lines of platinum-based chemotherapy is about 3-5% of all GCT patients and about 15% of patients with primary metastatic disease, but they have an exceptionally poor prognosis with a life-expectancy of only a few months. In this study, we compared cisplatin-resistant and cisplatin-sensitive cell lineages of pluripotent NTERA-2 and NCCIT as well as the nullipotent 2102EP cells (with NCCIT deriving from a TP53 mutated mixed mediastinal GCT) by high-resolution mass spectrometric analy-sis (MS) combined with stable isotope labelling with amino acids in cell culture (SILAC). The NTERA-2 and NCCIT cell lines represent EC, which can develop in all other types of NSGCT. Both cell lines represent a very well-studied in vitro model for NSGCTs.