Project description:To understand the global changes in genes expression after knockdown of LINC00152, we compared transcriptomes of control cells (treated with siGL2) and LINC00152 knockdown cells (treated with si00152).
Project description:The long noncoding RNA LINC00152 shows ubiquitous expression and is often upregulated in tumor entities compared to healthy tissues. LINC00152 promotes malignant progression in the glioblastoma cell line U87. Here, LINC00152 knockdown leads to a reduction of migration and invasion of tumor cells. However, LINC00152 seems to have an opposite effect in another glioblastoma cell line A172. For this reason, the transcriptional patterns after LINC00152 knockdown in both cell lines (U87 and A172) were compared to identify the differences.
Project description:After performing an in-vivo screening with U87 glioblastoma cells transduced with a knockdown library several genes could be identified. Lin7a which was one of the candidates was further evaluated. Single knockdown of Lin7a in U87 conferred a pro-invasive phenotype in-vitro and in-vivo. Overexpression of Lin7a in the Primary glioblastoma cell line T269 reduced its invasive phenotype. To decipher the underlying pathways U87 control, U87-shLIN7a and U87-shLin7a+Lin7A (rescue cells after re-expression of Lin7A) were analyzed after in-vitro culture by a transcription profiling Array.