Project description:To determine interactors of Aurora-A, HA tagged Aurora-A was immunoprecipitated from MV4-11 cells stably expressing HA tagged Aurora-A wild type and compared to MV4-11 cells expressing empty vector.
Project description:Enhanced homing and uncontrolled expansion are the characteristics of AML cells. We identified a transcription factor FEV (fifth Ewing variant) as the regulator. To assess the regulation mechanisms, FEV expression was knocked down in AML cell line MV4-11 cells using shRNA. MV4-11 cells transduced with non-silencing control (NC), FEV shRNA (shFEV) were cultured for 3 days and sorted by FACS. The cells were collected and total RNA was isolated by the Trizol kit (Takara Bio, Otsu, Japan) according to manufacturer’s protocol. High-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) was performed by Illumina HiSeq 2500 (Illumina, San Diego, CA) at CapitalBio Corporation (Beijing, China). Differentially expressed genes were analysed between the two groups.
Project description:A novel hypomethylating agent NTX-301 is a promising therapeutic agent for AML patients. To examine its mechanisms of action, we produced gene expression data upon treatment with NTX-301 or decitabine (DAC) in MV4-11 cell line.
Project description:Our gene set analysis of MV4-11-R versus MV4-11 indicated decreased depolarization of mitochondria and mitochondrial membrane, mitochondrial dysfunction and anti-apoptosis as other top ranked molecular or cellular functions of differential gene sets. expression of most genes encoding glycolytic enzymes was up-regulated in MV4-11-R cells we revealed a metabolic alteration in sorafenib-resistant cell lines with mitochondrial respiration deficiency, leading to substantial decrease of mitochondria-derived ATP generation and a significant increase in glycolytic activity to maintain sufficient ATP production. Our study revealed a metabolic signature of sorafenib resistance and indicated that increase of glycolytic activity including upregulation of major glycolytic enzymes may be viewed as a marker for early detection of sorafenib resistance in AML patients with FLT3/ITD mutation and glycolytic inhibitors warrant further investigation as alternative therapeutic agents for sorafenib-resistant cells Sorafenib resistant cells MV411-R VS. parental MV4-11 cells. Biological replicates: 3 control replicates, 3 treated replicates.
Project description:Pharmacological inhibition of the SMARCA4 bromodomain inhibited human leukemic cell proliferation, phenocopying SMARCA4 knockdown in these cells. We performed microarray analysis of global gene expression changes in MV4-11 cells after 6 days of PFI-3 treatment and after SMARCA4 knock-down. With this analysis we identified several genes whose expression was similarly up- or down-regulated upon inhibitor treatment and SMARCA4 depletion. Human acute monocytic leukemia cells (MV4-11, ACC 102) were lentivirally transduced with shRNA taregting SMARCA4 (KD) or with a negative control shRNA (Scr). In a parallel experiment MV4-11 cells were treated for 6 days with 10 uM PFI-3, which is SMARCA4, SMARCA2 and PBRM1 bromodomain inhibitor, or DMSO as a negative control. All sample types were prepared in triplicates.
Project description:Mutations in protein-coding genes are well established as the basis for human cancer, yet it remains elusive how alterations within non-coding genome, a substantial fraction of which contain cis-regulatory elements (CREs), contribute to cancer pathophysiology. Here we developed an integrative approach to systematically identify and characterize non-coding regulatory variants with functional consequences in human hematopoietic malignancies. Combining targeted resequencing of hematopoietic lineage-specific CREs and mutation discovery, and uncovered 1,837 recurrently mutated CREs containing leukemia-associated non-coding variants. By enhanced CRISPR/dCas9-based CRE perturbation screening and functional analyses, we identified 218 variant-associated oncogenic or tumor suppressive CREs in human leukemia. Non-coding variants at KRAS and PER2 enhancers reside in nuclear receptor (NR) binding regions and modulate transcriptional activities in response to NR signaling in situ in leukemia cells. NR binding sites frequently co-localize with non-coding variants across cancer types. Hence, recurrent non-coding variants connect enhancer dysregulation with nuclear receptor signaling in hematopoietic malignancies.
Project description:The expression level of microRNAs in FLT3-ITD+ AML is unknown. Using empty vector (EV) lentiviral CRISPR-Cas9 infected FLT3-ITD+ AML cell lines (MV4-11 cells), we performed next generation RNA sequencing on small RNAs to determine microRNA expression level in these cells. We found a variety of evolutionarily conserved and non-conserved microRNAs expressed in our cells of interest. Small RNAseq on EV lentiviral CRISPR-Cas9 infected MV4-11 cell lines was performed on triplicate cultures.