Project description:Cancer cells that express oncogenic alleles of RAS typically require sustained expression of the mutant allele for survival, but the molecular basis of this oncogene dependency remains incompletely understood. To identify genes that can functionally substitute for oncogenic RAS, we systematically expressed 15,294 open reading frames in a human KRAS-dependent colon cancer cell line engineered to express an inducible KRAS-specific shRNA. We found 147 genes that promoted survival in the setting of KRAS suppression. In this model, the transcriptional co-activator YAP1 rescued cell viability in KRAS-dependent cells upon suppression of KRAS and was required for KRAS-induced cell transformation. Acquired resistance to Kras suppression in a Kras-driven murine lung cancer model also involved increased YAP1 signaling. KRAS and YAP1 converge on the transcription factor FOS and activate a transcriptional program involved in regulating the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Together, these findings implicate transcriptional regulation of EMT by YAP1 as a significant component of oncogenic RAS signaling. We used microarrays to compare gene expression in HCT116 cells in which we suppressed KRAS expression doxycycline-inducible shRNA targeting KRAS compared to cells treated with media alone (no shKRAS induced). We express KRAS, LacZ, and YAP1 in each condition to identify genes transcriptionally involved in the rescue of KRAS suppression. HCT116 cells harboring doxycycline-inducible shKRAS (HCTtetK) expressing either LacZ, KRAS, or YAP1, were treated with doxycycline for 30 hours to suppress KRAS. Untreated (no doxycycline) cells expressing each ORF were used as control. Total RNA was collected using PerfectPure RNA Cultured Cell Kit (5Prime) and expression profiling was performed on Human Genome U133A 2.0 Array (Affymetrix) using the Dana Farber Cancer Institute Microarray Core.
Project description:Cancer cells that express oncogenic alleles of RAS typically require sustained expression of the mutant allele for survival, but the molecular basis of this oncogene dependency remains incompletely understood. To identify genes that can functionally substitute for oncogenic RAS, we systematically expressed 15,294 open reading frames in a human KRAS-dependent colon cancer cell line engineered to express an inducible KRAS-specific shRNA. We found 147 genes that promoted survival in the setting of KRAS suppression. In this model, the transcriptional co-activator YAP1 rescued cell viability in KRAS-dependent cells upon suppression of KRAS and was required for KRAS-induced cell transformation. Acquired resistance to Kras suppression in a Kras-driven murine lung cancer model also involved increased YAP1 signaling. KRAS and YAP1 converge on the transcription factor FOS and activate a transcriptional program involved in regulating the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Together, these findings implicate transcriptional regulation of EMT by YAP1 as a significant component of oncogenic RAS signaling. We used microarrays to compare gene expression in HCT116 cells in which we suppressed KRAS expression doxycycline-inducible shRNA targeting KRAS compared to cells treated with media alone (no shKRAS induced). We express KRAS, LacZ, and YAP1 in each condition to identify genes transcriptionally involved in the rescue of KRAS suppression.
Project description:Chromatogram library generated of pooled sample. Coculture spheroids formed from fibroblast and colon cancer cell lines, and monoculture spheroids formed from the colon cancer cell line HCT116.
Project description:Cancer cells that express oncogenic alleles of RAS typically require sustained expression of the mutant allele for survival, but the molecular basis of this oncogene dependency remains incompletely understood. To identify genes that can functionally substitute for oncogenic RAS, we systematically expressed 15,294 open reading frames in a human KRAS-dependent colon cancer cell line engineered to express an inducible KRAS-specific shRNA. We found 147 genes that promoted survival in the setting of KRAS suppression. In this model, the transcriptional co-activator YAP1 rescued cell viability in KRAS-dependent cells upon suppression of KRAS and was required for KRAS-induced cell transformation. Acquired resistance to Kras suppression in a Kras-driven murine lung cancer model also involved increased YAP1 signaling. KRAS and YAP1 converge on the transcription factor FOS and activate a transcriptional program involved in regulating the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Together, these findings implicate transcriptional regulation of EMT by YAP1 as a significant component of oncogenic RAS signaling Three biological replicates of primary lung adenocarcinoma cells derived from the Kras Lox-STOP-Lox-G12D;p53flox/flox (KP) mouse lung cancer model into which a doxycycline-inducible shRNA targeting Kras expressed from the 3’UTR of GFP was introduced (KP-KrasA cells) were analyzed at timepoints (days) D0, D4, and D21.
Project description:Cancer cells that express oncogenic alleles of RAS typically require sustained expression of the mutant allele for survival, but the molecular basis of this oncogene dependency remains incompletely understood. To identify genes that can functionally substitute for oncogenic RAS, we systematically expressed 15,294 open reading frames in a human KRAS-dependent colon cancer cell line engineered to express an inducible KRAS-specific shRNA. We found 147 genes that promoted survival in the setting of KRAS suppression. In this model, the transcriptional co-activator YAP1 rescued cell viability in KRAS-dependent cells upon suppression of KRAS and was required for KRAS-induced cell transformation. Acquired resistance to Kras suppression in a Kras-driven murine lung cancer model also involved increased YAP1 signaling. KRAS and YAP1 converge on the transcription factor FOS and activate a transcriptional program involved in regulating the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Together, these findings implicate transcriptional regulation of EMT by YAP1 as a significant component of oncogenic RAS signaling
Project description:Experimental set accompanying Giacomini et al publication "A legacy gene-expression signature of genetic instability in colon cancer". Includes 18 colon cancer cell line training set, 13 colon cancer cell line test set, and 3 cell lines (HCT116, HCT116+ch2, HCT116+ch3) used to evaluate signature after correcting underlying genetic instability. Experiments were performed by comparing mRNA from each colon cancer cell line (Cy5; channel 2) to a "universal" mRNA reference (Cy3; channel 1). A disease state experiment design type is where the state of some disease such as infection, pathology, syndrome, etc is studied. Series type: disease_state_design Series_overall_design: Using regression correlation Keywords: other
Project description:Experimental set accompanying Giacomini et al publication "A legacy gene-expression signature of genetic instability in colon cancer". Includes 18 colon cancer cell line training set, 13 colon cancer cell line test set, and 3 cell lines (HCT116, HCT116+ch2, HCT116+ch3) used to evaluate signature after correcting underlying genetic instability. Experiments were performed by comparing mRNA from each colon cancer cell line (Cy5; channel 2) to a "universal" mRNA reference (Cy3; channel 1). A disease state experiment design type is where the state of some disease such as infection, pathology, syndrome, etc is studied. Series type: disease_state_design Series_overall_design: Using regression correlation
Project description:The study aimed to identify genes essential for the maintenance of the transformed phenotype of the colorectal cancer cell line HCT116, which is dependent on the continued expression of the activated KRAS oncogene (KRASG13D). We generated HCT116 cell lines stably expressing an inducible shRNA-expressing retroviral vector targeting KRAS (Ngo et al., Nature, 2006). In cells engineered to express the bacterial tetracycline repressor, the shRNA is expressed specifically upon doxycycline addition. With this system, we showed that inducible down-regulation of KRAS is triggering cell death in the HCT116 cells, suggesting oncogene addiction in this cell line. In this study, we compared the gene expression profile of HCT116 cells where KRAS has been downregulated for different lengths of time, aiming at identifying RAS-target genes. We also compared the gene expression profile of the parental HCT116 cell line with two derived isogenic cell lines, Hke3 and Hkh-2, where the activated KRAS gene has been deleted by homologous recombination.
Project description:P53 mutation is closely associated with the occurrence and progression of colon cancer. In this project, we did crotonylomics sequencing by using human colon cancer homologous cell line pair-HCT116+/+(with wild type p53) and HCT116-/- (with null p53). Crotonylomics sequencing results showed that p53 deficiency regulated crotonylation of non-histone proteins.