Project description:Genome-wide 10k SNP profiling of FOXM1B-transduced N/TERT and primary normal human epidermal keratinocytes (NHEK). The aim of this study was to study the cancer initiation role of UVB and FOXM1B upregulation in NHEK. Upregulation of FOXM1B alone (without UVB) was found to directly induce genomic instability in the form of copy number aberration (CNA) and low levels of loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in primary NHEK. The FOXM1B-induced CNA was found to be retained and accumulated in subsequent cell culture passages. UVB-exposure resulted in significant chromosomal LOH and CNA in N/TERT cells expressing FOXM1B but not in EGFP-expressing cells. This indicates that UVB corroborated with FOXM1B to recruit LOH and CNA which may predispose cell to malignant transformation. Collectively, these results indicate that aberrant upregulation of FOXM1B in skin keratinocytes following UVB exposure may be an early mechanism whereby cells acquire genomic changes required for oncogenesis. Keywords: Genome-wide SNP profiling for loss of heterozygosity (LOH) and copy number aberration (CNA), FOXM1, UVB, Keratinocytes, Basal cell carcinoma, genomic instability, carcinogenesis, squamous cell carcinoma.
Project description:Genome-wide 10k SNP profiling of FOXM1B-transduced N/TERT and primary normal human epidermal keratinocytes (NHEK). The aim of this study was to study the cancer initiation role of UVB and FOXM1B upregulation in NHEK. Upregulation of FOXM1B alone (without UVB) was found to directly induce genomic instability in the form of copy number aberration (CNA) and low levels of loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in primary NHEK. The FOXM1B-induced CNA was found to be retained and accumulated in subsequent cell culture passages. UVB-exposure resulted in significant chromosomal LOH and CNA in N/TERT cells expressing FOXM1B but not in EGFP-expressing cells. This indicates that UVB corroborated with FOXM1B to recruit LOH and CNA which may predispose cell to malignant transformation. Collectively, these results indicate that aberrant upregulation of FOXM1B in skin keratinocytes following UVB exposure may be an early mechanism whereby cells acquire genomic changes required for oncogenesis. Keywords: Genome-wide SNP profiling for loss of heterozygosity (LOH) and copy number aberration (CNA), FOXM1, UVB, Keratinocytes, Basal cell carcinoma, genomic instability, carcinogenesis, squamous cell carcinoma. 1) Three individual normal primary NHEK cultures were retrovirally transduced (with either EGFP or EGFP-FOXM1B) and left to grow for 4 days prior to SNP array analysis. 2) EGFP or EGFP-FOXM1B-tansduced NHEK cells were harvested at passage 1, 2 and 3 for SNP array analysis to investigate if genomic instability is maintained and accumulated in subsequent passages. 3) N/TERT cells transduced with either EGFP or EFOX were UVB-irradiated and left to grow for 50 days in culture prior to SNP array analysis.
Project description:Genome-wide SNP profilling for loss of heterozygosity (LOH) during FOXM1B-induced malignant transformation in a human premalignant oral keratinocyte line SVpgC2a. Keywords: oral cancer, keratinocytes, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, FOXM1, genomic instability, SNP array, loss of heterozygosity, malignant transformation
Project description:Aberrant upregulation of a single oncogene FOXM1 in primary normal human oral epithelial cells orchestrated a cancer-like methylome landscape This study have identified a unique FOXM1-induced epigenetic signature which may have potentials as biomarkers for early oral cancer screening, diagnostic and/or therapeutic interventions Comparisons of primary human normal oral keratinocytes transduced with either EGFP (control) or FOXM1B and a head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cell line SCC15
Project description:Autologous epidermal cultures can permanently restore a functional epidermis on severely burned patients. Transgenic epidermal grafts do so also in genetic skin diseases as Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa. Clinical success strictly requires an adequate number of epidermal stem cells, detected as holoclone-forming cells. To date, such cells can be only partially distinguished from the other transient amplifying clonogenic keratinocytes and cannot be prospectively isolated. Here we show that genome-wide single-cell transcriptome analysis performed on primary human epidermal keratinocyte cultures identified categories of genes clearly distinguishing the different clonal types, unveiled that holoclone-forming cells are enriched in genes regulating cell cycle, DNA repair (including telomerase), chromosome segregation and spindle organization, confirmed that human epidermal keratinocytes are hierarchically organized along a continuous, mainly linear trajectory showing that stem cells sequentially generate progenitors producing terminally differentiated cells and uncovered the role of FOXM1 as a YAP-dependent key regulator of normal and adhesion-defective epidermal stem cells.
Project description:Autologous epidermal cultures can permanently restore a functional epidermis on severely burned patients. Transgenic epidermal grafts do so also in genetic skin diseases as Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa. Clinical success strictly requires an adequate number of epidermal stem cells, detected as holoclone-forming cells. To date, such cells can be only partially distinguished from the other transient amplifying clonogenic keratinocytes and cannot be prospectively isolated. Here we show that genome-wide single-cell transcriptome analysis performed on primary human epidermal keratinocyte cultures identified categories of genes clearly distinguishing the different clonal types, unveiled that holoclone-forming cells are enriched in genes regulating cell cycle, DNA repair (including telomerase), chromosome segregation and spindle organization, confirmed that human epidermal keratinocytes are hierarchically organized along a continuous, mainly linear trajectory showing that stem cells sequentially generate progenitors producing terminally differentiated cells and uncovered the role of FOXM1 as a YAP-dependent key regulator of normal and adhesion-defective epidermal stem cells.