Project description:GBM neurosphere line GBM1B were depleted of growth factors for 16 hours followed by EGF stimulation for 4 and 24 hours. RNA-seq was used to identify differentially-expressed (DE) genes after EGF treatment.
Project description:We report the application of transcriptome sequencing technology in the analysis of transcriptome changes in human epidermal stem cells after EGF incubation. We found that EGF can significantly change the gene transcription of human epidermal stem cells. There are 3,759 differential genes, which are highly related to wound healing and the proliferation and differentiation of epidermal stem cells. This study provides a basis for comprehensive analysis of the effect of EGF/EGFR pathway on epidermal stem cells.
Project description:ASCL1 mediates neuronal differentiation of GBM stem cell (GSC) cultures. We sought to identify chromatin changes upon induced ASCL1 expression in primary human GSC cultures. In this dataset, we include ATAC-seq data obtained from GSC cultures harbouring a CRISPR-deletion of ASCL1. We assessed differential ASCL1 binding between control and GSC cultures induced to overexpress ASCL1 after 14 days of doxycycline treatment.
Project description:Colorectal cancer is treated with antibodies blocking epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R) but therapeutic success is limited. EGF-R is stimulated by soluble ligands, which are derived from transmembrane precursors by ADAM17-mediated proteolytic cleavage. In mouse intestinal cancer models in the absence of ADAM17, tumorigenesis was almost completely inhibited and the few remaining tumors were of low grade dysplasia. RNA-Seq analysis demonstrated downregulation of STAT3 and Wnt pathway components. Since EGF-R on myeloid cells, but not on intestinal epithelial cells is required for intestinal cancer and IL-6 is induced via EGF-R stimulation, we analyzed the role of IL-6 signaling. Tumor formation was equally inhibited in IL-6 -/- and sgp130Fc transgenic mice, in which only trans-signaling via soluble IL-6R is abrogated. ADAM17 is needed for EGF-R-mediated induction of IL-6 synthesis, which via IL-6 trans-signaling induces ß-catenin dependent tumorigenesis. Our data reveal the possibility of a novel strategy for treatment of colorectal cancer, which could circumvent intrinsic and acquired resistance to EGF-R blockade.
Project description:Translatome analysis by sucrose gradient centrifugation of cell lysates followed by microarray profiling of the polysomal and subpolysomal RNA fractions represents a way of both studying translational control networks and better approximating the proteomic representation of cells. It is an established notion that translational control takes place essentially at the translation initiation level, therefore the variation in abundance of a given mRNA species on polysomes can be directly related to the variation in abundance of the corresponding protein. Comparison of translatome profile changes with corresponding transcriptome profile changes can provide a measure of the degree of concordance between cellular controls affecting mRNA abundance and cellular controls affecting mRNA availability to translation. To provide a direct experimental evaluation of the phenomenon, we decided to study a classical example of transcriptional reprogramming of gene expression: Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) treatment. This stimulus triggers a well known chain of intracellular transduction events, ultimately resulting in a multifaceted phenotypic spectrum of changes with prevalent induction of cell growth and proliferation. We subjected HeLa cells to serum starvation for 12h and then we added EGF at final concentration of 1 μg/ml, profiling before and after 40 minutes of treatment the transcriptome, the translatome, coming from the polysomal pool of mRNAs after sucrose gradient separation, and also the mRNA content of the subpolysomal pool, expected not to be actively translated. Keywords: translatome profiling, polysomal profiling, polysomal RNA, translational control, translational profiling, polysome profiling, post-transcriptional regulation, EGF starvation release. The comparison between transcriptional and polysomal profiling was used for the discovery of general and mRNA-specific changes in the translation state of the serum starved HeLa cells transcriptome in response to EGF stimulus. To identify translationally regulated mRNA molecules, gene expression signals derived from the polysomal and subpolysomal RNA populations were compared by microarrays analysis to those obtained from unfractionated total RNAs. Polysomal RNA, subpolysomal RNA and total RNA were isolated from HeLa cells serum starved and treated with EGF. Cells lysates were collected before (t = 0 min) and after (t = 40 min) EGF treatment. All experiments were run in triplicates.
Project description:We performed EGF treatment and hnRNP A1 knockdown in HeLa cells and analyzed alternative splicing patterns by high-throughput RNA sequencing.
Project description:We identified that EGF blocks differentiation of radial glial progenitors into multiciliated cells. We evaluated global changes to ependymal cell culture gene expression profiles during EGF treatment during differentiation.