Project description:ADGRG1/GPR56 was knocked down by two different shRNAs in cord blood CD34+ cells via lentiviral transduction. GFP was used as marker indicating successful transduction.
Project description:A mesenchymal transition occurs both during natural evolution of glioblastoma (GBM) and in response to therapy. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying mesenchymal differentiation are not well understood. We have found that the adhesion G protein-coupled receptor, GPR56/ADGRG1, inhibits mesenchymal differentiation and radioresistance in glioblastoma stem-like initiating cells (GICs). Here, we have performed microarray analysis of control- versus GPR56 knockdown-GICs to characterize gene expression changes upon GPR56 knockdown and identify a gene expression signature associated to GPR56.
Project description:We founed enhanced Gpr56/Adgrg1 mRNA expression in bone tropic mouse breast cancer cell lines, 4T1.3, grown in a bone cavity, compared with in vitro culture condition. Thus, we examined about the function of Gpr56/Adgrg1 in tumor growth of vitro culture condition with its ligand, type III collagen.
Project description:G protein-coupled receptor 56 (GPR56/ADGRG1) is an adhesion GPCR with an essential role in brain development and cancer. Elevated expression of GPR56 was observed in the clinical specimens of Glioblastoma (GBM), a highly invasive primary brain tumor. However, we found the expression to be variable across the specimens, presumably due to the intratumor heterogeneity of GBM. Therefore, we re-examined GPR56 expression in public domain spatial gene expression data and single-cell expression data for GBM, which revealed that GPR56 expression was high in cellular tumors, infiltrating tumor cells, and proliferating cells, low in microvascular proliferation and peri-necrotic areas of the tumor, especially in hypoxic mesenchymal-like cells. To gain a better understanding of the consequences of GPR56 downregulation in tumor cells and other molecular changes associated with it, we generated a sh-RNA-mediated control and GPR56 knockdown in the GBM cell line U373 and performed transcriptomics, proteomics, and phospho-proteomics analysis and using the data we propose a putative model to explain this functional and regulatory relationship of the two proteins.
Project description:A mesenchymal transition occurs both during natural evolution of glioblastoma (GBM) and in response to therapy. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying mesenchymal differentiation are not well understood. We have found that the adhesion G protein-coupled receptor GPR56/ADGRG1 inhibits mesenchymal differentiation and radioresistance in glioblastoma stem-like initiating cells (GICs). Here, we have performed microarray analysis of parental- versus GPR56 knockout-GICs to identify gene expression changes upon GPR56 knockout
Project description:The placenta, forming the maternal–fetal interface, is essential for the survival and development of the fetus. It has been shown that the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor Hand1 plays an important role in trophoblast giant cells (TGCs) differentiation during placental development in mice. However, the underlying molecular mechanism remains elusive. We hereby report that Adgrg1 (GPR56), a G protein coupled receptor, was a new transcriptional target of Hand1. Hand1 activated the expression of Adgrg1 by binding to its promoter region during TGCs differentiation. Double in situ hybridization revealed co-expression of Hand1 and Adgrg1 in TGCs, and Adgrg1 was located to Prl2c2+ TGCs in the junctional zone of the placenta. Knockdown of Adgrg1 not only led to increased expression of Prl2c2, but also the improvement of cell migration during TGC differentiation. Moreover, the ligands of Adgrg1, Tgm2 and Col3a1, were expressed in Prl2c2+ TGCs located in the placental junctional zone and maternal spiral arteries, respectively, further providing preconditions for the function of Adgrg1 in TGCs. Collectively, these results demonstrate that Adgrg1 is a new transcriptional target of Hand1, affecting Prl2c2 expression and cell migration during TGCs differentiation. Tgm2 and Col3a1 may be involved in TGC differentiation regulated by Adgrg1 in the manners of autocrine or paracrine. As a transmembrane receptor, Adgrg1 perhaps could act as a potential therapeutic target for placental-associated diseases caused by abnormal trophoblast migration, providing new insights for the preventions and therapies of placenta-related diseases.
Project description:G protein-coupled receptor 56 (GPR56/ADGRG1) is an adhesion GPCR with an essential role in brain development and cancer. Elevated expression of GPR56 was observed in the clinical specimens of Glioblastoma (GBM), a highly invasive primary brain tumor. However, we found the expression to be variable across the specimens, presumably due to the intratumor heterogeneity of GBM. Therefore, we re-examined GPR56 expression in public domain spatial gene expression data and single-cell expression data for GBM, which revealed that GPR56 expression was high in cellular tumors, infiltrating tumor cells, and proliferating cells, low in microvascular proliferation and peri-necrotic areas of the tumor, especially in hypoxic mesenchymal-like cells. To gain a better understanding of the consequences of GPR56 downregulation in tumor cells and other molecular changes associated with it, we generated a sh-RNA-mediated GPR56 knockdown in the GBM cell line U373 and performed transcriptomics, proteomics, and phospho-proteomics analysis. Our analysis revealed enrichment of gene signatures, pathways, and phosphorylation of proteins potentially associated with mesenchymal (MES) transition in the tumor and concurrent increase in cell invasion and migration behavior of the GPR56 knockdown GBM cells. Interestingly, our analysis also showed elevated expression of Transglutaminase 2 (TG2) - a known interactor of GPR56, in the knockdown cells. The inverse expression of GPR56 and TG2 was also observed in intratumoral, spatial gene expression data for GBM and in GBM cell lines cultured in vitro under hypoxic conditions. Integrating all these observations, we infer a functional link between the inverse expression of the two proteins, the hypoxic niche, and the mesenchymal status in the tumor. Hypoxia-induced downregulation of GPR56 and activation of TG2 may result in a network of molecular events that contribute to the mesenchymal transition of GBM cells, and we propose a putative model to explain this functional and regulatory relationship of the two proteins.
Project description:AML1-ETO expression in normal human umbilical cord blood CD34+ cells leads to long-term proliferation of an early self-renewing primitive progenitor cell with multilineage potential and stem cell ability, but these cells do not induce leukemia in immunodeficient mice. This comparative microarray study was initiated to determine the differences in the transcriptome of AML-ETO-expressing CD34+ cells after extended culture in vitro, using normal cord blood cells expanded for 6-8 weeks in vitro and subsequently purified for the CD34+ population as the control comparison. Keywords: Disease state analysis; comparison of changes in transcriptome due to long-term AML1-ETO expression in normal human hematopoietic CD34+ progenitor cells
Project description:Global gene expressions of human cord blood-derived 18Lineage-negative (18Lin-)CD34+CD38-CD133+GPI-80+ cells (CD34+ HSCs), 18Lin-CD34-CD133+GPI-80+ cells (CD34- HSCs) and 18Lin-CD34+CD133- cells (non-HSCs) were analyzed. Results provide an insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying the self-renewal, maintenance and differentiation of human cord blood-derived CD34+/- HSCs.
Project description:AML1-ETO expression in normal human umbilical cord blood CD34+ cells leads to long-term proliferation of an early self-renewing primitive progenitor cell with multilineage potential and stem cell ability, but these cells do not induce leukemia in immunodeficient mice. This comparative microarray study was initiated to determine the differences in the transcriptome of AML-ETO-expressing CD34+ cells after extended culture in vitro, using normal cord blood cells expanded for 6-8 weeks in vitro and subsequently purified for the CD34+ population as the control comparison. Experiment Overall Design: We have established a culture system whereby we retrovirally transduce human CD34+ cells, obtained from cord blood, with the leukemia fusion gene AML1-ETO. Cells expressing this fusion protein are able to proliferate long-term in vitro in a cytokine dependent manner. AML1-ETO-expressing cord blood cells have a large population of primitive self-renewing CD34+ cells with continued abnormal differentiation. We grow these cells in serum-free conditions using the BIT supplement from Stem Cell Technologies. For the current experiments we used cell cultures that had been proliferating in vitro for 8-12 weeks, in a cytokine cocktail of SCF, TPO, FLT3L, IL-6 all at 20 ng/mL and IL-3 at 10 ng/mL. Control cord blood samples that were CD34 purified were expanded for 5-8 weeks in the same culture media as used for AML1-ETO cells. All samples were magnetically selected for the CD34+ population, returned to culture, and one week later again selected for CD34+ cells and then lysed for RNA isolation.