Project description:Identification of genes that are involved in self-seeding by comparing gene expression profiles between parental MDA-MB-231 cells and seeder cells (MDA-231-S1a and S1b) 2 replicates from each sample (parental MDA-MB-231, MDA-MB-231 S1a and MDA-MB-231 S1b) were analyzed
Project description:Identification of genes that are involved in self-seeding by comparing gene expression profiles between parental MDA-MB-231 cells and seeder cells (MDA-231-S1a and S1b)
Project description:To discover the potential drivers of TNBC metastasis, we established an in vivo model by injecting MDA-MB-231cells into the tail veins of mice. Then, the breast tumor cells that successfully grew into metastatic lung tumors were collected and expanded in vitro, followed by re-injected into the tail veins of mice for lung metastasis. After three rounds of selection, a highly metastatic subline, MDA-MB-231-P3, was established, and more frequent micro-metastasis was detected in MDA-MB-231-P3 groups than that of MDA-MB-231 groups when the lungs of mice were stained with hematoxylin and eosin (HE). The lncRNA profiles of MDA-MB-231 or MDA-MB-231-P3 cells were analyzed by lncRNA sequencing. A total of 267 lncRNAs in MDA-MB-231-P3 cells were upregulated more than 2-fold in comparison to the MDA-MB-231 cells.
Project description:Using microarray, we compared miRNAs expression profiles of MDA-MB-231 cells transfected with myocardin and empty vector (pcDNA3.1) and found that 25 miRNAs were significantly changed in myocardin-transfected groups (17 up-regulated and 9 down-regulated miRNAs). Moreover, we showed that 18 of 25 miRNAs significantly regulated by myocardin were inhibited by ERα in MDA-MB-231 cells. In addition,through a microarray approach, we identify the subset of miRNAs modulated by ERα in MDA-MB-231 cells. Our results determined that ERα may function as tumor-promoter through down-regulating expression of 3 miRNAs (miR-26b, miR-146a and miR-331-3p) in MDA-MB-231 cells.
Project description:We used RNA sequencing to analyze gene expression profiles of MDA-MB-231 and its brain metastasis variant (231-BR). The goal of this study is to explore genes that are differentially expressed in 231-BR and MDA-MB-231.
