Project description:Mucoepidermoid carcinomas (MEC) is the most common salivary gland malignancy. To date, advanced and nonresectable MEC have poor prognosis and no effective treatment. The CRTC1-MAML2 fusion oncogene, which is associated with more than 50% of MEC, consists of the N-terminal CREB-binding domain of the CREB transcriptional co-activator CRTC1 and the C-terminal transcriptional activation domain of the Notch transcriptional co-activator MAML2. CRTC1-MAML2 fusion was found to interact with CREB and constitutively activate their transcriptional targets. To investigate the genes and pathways regulated by CRTC1-MAML2 fusion oncogene, gene expression profiling analysis were performed in human fusion-positive MEC cells before and after knockdown of both CRTC1-MAML2 and MAML2 as well as in human fusion-negative salivary gland cancer cells before and after MAML2 knockdown only. This study revealed specific transcriptional program induced by the CRTC1-MAML2 fusion oncogene, which potentially mediates CRC1-MAML2 functions in MEC initiation and maintenance. The information will be useful for developing new approaches to block CRTC1-MAML2 fusion-expressing MEC. The fusion-positive H3118 MEC cells were used in this study. The fusion knockdown was performed with two biological replicates for each group. Since we are unable to obtain any shRNA that causes specific knockdown of CRTC1-MAML2, we utilized pSuperRetro-based retroviruses that express shRNA targeting the MAML2 TAD as well as GFP for fusion knock down, and the retroviruses express shRNA targeting luciferase gene (shLuc) and GFP for the control. Cells were infected with retroviruses and cultured for 48 hours. FACS sorting was performed to obtain GFP-positive cells and thus enrich shRNA-expressing cells. RNA was subsequently harvested for microarray analysis. The shMAML2 retroviruses caused the knockdown of MAML2 and CRTC1-MAML2 fusion in fusion-positive H3118 cells.

2014-04-21 | E-GEOD-46580 | biostudies-arrayexpress

Identification of MAML2 regulated transcriptional program in HSY cells

Project description:Mucoepidermoid carcinomas (MEC) is the most common salivary gland malignancy. To date, advanced and nonresectable MEC have poor prognosis and no effective treatment. The CRTC1-MAML2 fusion oncogene, which is associated with more than 50% of MEC, consists of the N-terminal CREB-binding domain of the CREB transcriptional co-activator CRTC1 and the C-terminal transcriptional activation domain of the Notch transcriptional co-activator MAML2. CRTC1-MAML2 fusion was found to interact with CREB and constitutively activate their transcriptional targets. To investigate the genes and pathways regulated by CRTC1-MAML2 fusion oncogene, gene expression profiling analysis were performed in human fusion-positive MEC cells before and after knockdown of both CRTC1-MAML2 and MAML2 as well as in human fusion-negative salivary gland cancer cells before and after MAML2 knockdown only. This study revealed specific transcriptional program induced by the CRTC1-MAML2 fusion oncogene, which potentially mediates CRC1-MAML2 functions in MEC initiation and maintenance. The information will be useful for developing new approaches to block CRTC1-MAML2 fusion-expressing MEC. The fusion-negative HSY parotid adenocarcinoma cells were used in this study. The MAML2 knockdown was performed with two biological replicates for each group. We utilized pSuperRetro-based retroviruses that express shRNA targeting the MAML2 TAD as well as GFP, and the retroviruses express shRNA targeting luciferase gene (shLuc) and GFP for the control. Cells were infected with retroviruses and cultured for 72 hours. FACS sorting was performed to obtain GFP-positive cells and thus enrich shRNA-expressing cells. RNA was subsequently harvested for microarray analysis. The shMAML2 retroviruses caused MAML2 knockdown in fusion-negative HSY cells.

2015-10-30 | E-GEOD-57022 | biostudies-arrayexpress

Identification of the CREB-regulated transcriptional program in human mucoepidermoid carcinoma cells

2015-10-30 | GSE49673 | GEO

Identification of the CREB-regulated transcriptional program in human mucoepidermoid carcinoma cells

Project description:Mucoepidermoid carcinomas (MEC) is the most common salivary gland malignancy. To date, advanced and nonresectable MEC have poor prognosis and no effective treatment. The CRTC1-MAML2 fusion oncogene, which is associated with more than 50% of MEC, consists of the N-terminal CREB-binding domain of the CREB transcriptional co-activator CRTC1 and the C-terminal transcriptional activation domain of the Notch transcriptional co-activator MAML2. CRTC1-MAML2 fusion was found to interact with CREB and constitutively activate their transcriptional targets. To investigate the contribution of the transcription factor CREB to mediate the fusion target gene expression, gene expression profiling analysis were performed in two salivary gland tumor cell lines (including fusion-positive H3118 MEC cells and fusion-negative HSY parotid adenocarcinoma cells) before and after CREB knockdown. This study demonstrated that CRTC1-MAML2 co-activation of CREB is a major mechanism underlying CRTC1-MAML2-mediated transcriptional regulation. Two salivary gland tumor cell lines were used in this study, including fusion-positive H3118 MEC cells and fusion-negative HSY parotid adenocarcinoma cells. The CREB knock down was performed with three biological replicates for each group. Both fusion-positive MEC H3118 cells and fusion-negative parotid adenocarcinoma HSY cells were stably transduced with pLKO.1-based shRNA targeting luciferase gene (shLuc, control) or CREB (shCREB). The cells were independently cultured and RNAs were then harvested 72 hours after transduction for microarray analysis.

2015-10-30 | E-GEOD-49673 | biostudies-arrayexpress

Gene expression profiling of mouse CRTC1-MAML2-driven MEC-like tumors

Project description:We established a transgenic CRTC1-MAML2 fusion mouse model and crossed it with the MMTV-Cre transgenic mouse line to induce Cre expression and consequently the CRTC1-MAML2 fusion transgene expression in salivary glands. We observed that Cre-induced CRTC1-MAML2 transgene expression caused the formation of salivary gland tumors resembling the histological features of human MEC. Here we performed genome-wide gene expression profiling analysis to characterize the transcriptomic feature of these murine CRTC1-MAML2-driven MEC-like tumors.

2024-05-10 | GSE143264 | GEO

CRTC1-MAML2 fusion oncogene-induced transcriptional program is regulated by CREB-dependent and -independent mechanisms

Project description:CRTC1-MAML2 fusion oncogene-induced transcriptional program is regulated by CREB-dependent and -independent mechanisms

| PRJNA256213 | ENA

Homo sapiens

Project description:Identification of the CREB-regulated transcriptional program in human mucoepidermoid carcinoma cells

| PRJNA214696 | ENA