Project description:CD44, an adhesion molecule that binds to extracellular matrix, primarily to hyaluronan (HA), has been implicated in cancer cell migration, invasion, and metastasis. CD44 has also recently been recognized as a marker for stem cells of several types of cancer. However, the roles of CD44 in the development of bone metastasis still remain unclear. To explore this issue, we established the MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells stably expressing short hairpin RNA against CD44. The CD44-knockdown MDA-MB-231 cells (MDA-MB-231 shCD44-2 and shCD44-3) were analyzed. As control, MDA-MB-231 cells stably expressing shRNA against firefly luciferase (shLuc) were used. Total of three samples. No replicates.
Project description:Identification of changes in protein expression by label-free shotgun proteomics in breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cells with knockdown of ELOVL5 and IGFBP6 genes in comparison with control MDA-MB-231 cells.
Project description:Aurora Kinase B and ZAK interaction model
Equivalent of the stochastic model used in "Network pharmacology model predicts combined Aurora B and ZAK inhibition in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells" by Tang et. al. 2018.
The only difference is cell division and partitioning of the components, which are available in the original model for SGNS2.
Project description:Analysis of the effect of shRNA-mediated knockdown of SOX4 on global gene expression levels in MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells. Results were used for the identification of overlapping up- and downregulated genes in TRPM7 + SOX4 shRNA MDA-MB-231 cells
Project description:SIPA1 is a potential transcriptional modulator of tumor metastasis and recurrence. Here we showed that the breast cancer patients with higher SIPA1 expression have a higher relapse rate and worse prognosis, especially for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients. Moreover, SIPA1 expression was found positively correlated with relapse of breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy. In a TNBC cell line MDA-MB-231, we identified the possible tumorigenesis and metastasis processes regulated by SIPA1, and demonstrated that SIPA1 promoted cancer stem-like feature to form tumourspheres. Tumoursphere-formed MDA-MB-231 cells were shown to be resistant to epirubicin. Then we confirmed that SIPA1 could particularly activate the CD44 promoter and upregulate CD44 expression. Furthermore, SIPA1 could promote ABCB1 expression and strengthen chemoresistance of MDA-MB-231 cells to epirubicin. In conclusion, SIPA1 is a risk factor for highly-relapse in TNBC patients and a transcriptional regulator to maintain cancer stem-like features and promote chemoresistance in breast cancer cells.
Project description:Deregulation of Src kinases is associated with cancer. We previously showed that SrcDN conditional expression in MCF7 cells diminished tumorigenesis and causes tumor regression in mice. However, it remained unclear whether SrcDN affected breast cancer stem cell functionality or it reduced tumor mass. Here, we address this question by isolating an enriched population of BCSCs (ESA+-CD44+-CD24-) and the tumor-differentiated cells (ESA+-CD44+-CD24+) from MCF7-Tet-On-SrcDN. ESA+-CD44+-CD24- grew in suspension forming mammospheres, and producing tumors in nude mice, while ESA+-CD44+-CD24+ were poorly/non-tumorigenic. Doxycycline-induction of SrcDN inhibited BCSC tumorigenesis, selfrenewal, and stem-cell markers expression. SrcDN significantly inhibited SFE, and stem-cell markers expression in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) MDA-MB-231 and SUM159PT cells. Inducible depletion of c-Src caused similar effects in MDA-MB-231 cells. In MCF7-Tet-On-SrcDN derived mammospheres SrcDN-induction inhibited expression, and activity of hexokinase, pyruvate kinase and lactate dehydrogenase, resulting in diminished glucose consumption and lactate production, which restricted Warburg effect. Thus, c-Src functionality is important for breast cancer stem cell maintenance and renewal, tumorigenicity, and stem cell transcription factor expression, effects linked to glucose metabolism reduction.
Project description:Analysis of the effect of shRNA-mediated knockdown of TRPM7 on gene expression levels in MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells. Results were used for the identification of so-called epithelial-mesenchymal transcription factors that were affected by TRPM7 knockdown and for the analysis of overlapping up- and downregulated genes in shT7#1 + shSOX4#1 MDA-MB-231 cells
Project description:We used MYOSIN10 shRNA to stably silence the expression of endogenous MYOSIN10 in Breast cancer cell MDA-MB-231. To investigate the inner change of cells with silenced MYOSIN10, we conducted a genome-wide screening for all potential genes affected by MYOSIN10 shRNA using Affymetrix Human Genome U133 plus 2.0 array. We showed genes affected by MYOSIN10 knockdown in breast cancer cell MDA-MB-231
