Project description:To further understand the cellular function of PCNA Y211 phosphrylation, we have profiled RNA expression from our transgenic mouse model derived mammary tumor cell.
Project description:Junction Adhesion Molecule-A (JAM-A) is present on leukocytes and platelets where it promotes cell adhesion and motility. We are interested in an interaction between JAM-A and tumor progression/metastases. To address this point, we mated JAM-A-/- mice and mouse mammary tumor model MMTV-PyMT mice which, which express polyoma middle T antigen under the control of mouse mammary tumor virus. MMTV-PyMT mice show 100% penetration of mammary tumor and highly metastases to lung. MMTV-PyMT mice without JAM-A show less primary tumor progression, therefore JAM-A enhance primary tumor progression. Then we are addressing the molecular mechanism of this phenomenon by in vivo. Furthermore, we would like to examine JAM-A deficient MMTV tumor signature. Each 3 MMTV-PyMT JAm-A+/+ (JamA+) and 3 MMTV JAM-A-/- (JamA-) mammary tumor were resected at early stages of tumor development for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:Junction Adhesion Molecule-A (JAM-A) is present on leukocytes and platelets where it promotes cell adhesion and motility. We are interested in an interaction between JAM-A and tumor progression/metastases. To address this point, we mated JAM-A-/- mice and mouse mammary tumor model MMTV-PyMT mice which, which express polyoma middle T antigen under the control of mouse mammary tumor virus. MMTV-PyMT mice show 100% penetration of mammary tumor and highly metastases to lung. MMTV-PyMT mice without JAM-A show less primary tumor progression, therefore JAM-A enhance primary tumor progression. Then we are addressing the molecular mechanism of this phenomenon by in vivo. Furthermore, we would like to examine JAM-A deficient MMTV tumor signature.
Project description:We labeled PyMT control cells versus PyMT-GPx2 KD with GFP in vitro and then injected into mammary fat pad of mice for incubating 45 days. We then generated single cell suspension by FACS sorting from PyMT-control, GPx2 KD. 10X Genomics was used to make cDNA library. We then sequenced the samples with Illumina high throughput sequencing.
Project description:To investigate the role of NR1D1 in the progression of breast cancer, mammary gland tumor tissues were obtained from 14 weeks old FVB Nr1d1+/+;PyMT and Nr1d1-/-;PyMT mice and the gene expression patterns were analyzed by RNA-seq.
Project description:Previously, lncRNA Malat1 knockout mice were generated by insertional inactivation. By crossing this line to MMTV-PyMT mammary tumor mouse model, we produced PyMT;Malat1 wild-type (WT) and PyMT;Malat1 knockout (KO). Furthermore, we generated Malat1 transgenic mice by targeting ROSA26 locus and bred them to PyMT;Malat1 knockout mice to produce Malat1-rescued PyMT;Malat1 knockout;Malat1 transgenic animals (TG). Using mammary tumors from the three groups of animals, we performed RNA-Seq analysis to identify differentially up-regulated genes in KO tumors to find novel target genes of YAP-TEAD pathway.
Project description:The aim of this investigation was to study the consequences of interfering with soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) expression on tumor growth and metastasis in genetically modified animals that spontaneously generate tumors without the exogenous application of high concentrations of epoxide mediators or inhibitors. Therefore, breast cancer development was studied in mice expressing the polyoma middle T oncogene (PyMT) under the control of the mouse mammary tumor virus promoter, to induce spontaneous mammary tumors. To facilitate the study of endogenous sEH activity in tumor growth, PyMT mice were then crossed with sEH-/- mice to generate sEH-deficient mice that spontaneously generate breast tumors (so called PyMTsEH mice). For these analyses, primary tumors were removed from 20 week old mice.
Project description:Breast carcinoma cell invasion is thought to depend on the mobilization of the membrane-anchored matrix metalloproteinase, Mmp14/MT1-MMP, to drive the remodeling of extracellular matrix and trigger associated signaling cascades. However, the roles that this proteinase plays during breast tumor progression and invasion in vivo remain undefined. A highly penetrant syngeneic mouse model for luminal B breast cancer driven by the polyoma middle T (PyMT) antigen, in tandem with recently developed Mmp14-floxed mice and MMTV-Cre transgenics that express Cre recombinase throughout the mammary epithelial cell compartment, were used to characterize the impact of conditional Mmp14-targeting on breast carcinoma cell invasion programs in vivo. Transcriptome profiling of intact MMTV-PyMT carcinoma tumors was used to investigate the functional roles of carcinoma cell-derived MT1-MMP in MMTV-PyMT tumor progression and invasion in an unbiased fashion
Project description:We sequenced mammary gland samples of MMTV-PyMT mouse from 4 stages (hyperplasia at week 6, adenoma/MIN at week 8, early carcinoma at week 10, and late carcinoma with lung metastasis at week 12) during tumor progression. We sacrificed 3 PyMT (FVB background) mice and 3 FVB control mice at each of the 4 stages, extracted small RNA and performed sequencing.