Project description:High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma is the most lethal type of gynecologic malignancy.Emerging evidences have suggested the vital roles of splicing factor in the human cancers. RNA splicing pathways was found excessive activated in HGSOC. USP39 was one of overexpressed splicing factor in HGSOC. However, the biological function and concrete regulatory mechanism of USP39 in ovarian cancer remain unclear. In this study, we investigate the oncogenic roles of the splicing factor USP39 in HGSOC through facilitated the growth speed and invasion of ovarian cancer cells.Elevated USP39 expression levels, based on immunohistochemistry staining, were associated with poor survival in HGSOC patients. In order to investigate the binding peaks of USP39 in ovarian cancer,we performed RIP-seq in A2780 cells with Flag-USP39 overexpression.
Project description:High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma is the most lethal type of gynecologic malignancy.Emerging evidences have suggested the vital roles of splicing factor in the human cancers. RNA splicing pathways was found excessive activated in HGSOC. USP39 was one of overexpressed splicing factor in HGSOC. However, the biological function and concrete regulatory mechanism of USP39 in ovarian cancer remain unclear. In this study, we investigate the oncogenic roles of the splicing factor USP39 in HGSOC through facilitated the growth speed and invasion of ovarian cancer cells.Elevated USP39 expression levels, based on immunohistochemistry staining, were associated with poor survival in HGSOC patients. Since many RNA-binding proteins showed DNA-binding ability , we performed ChIP-seq in A2780 cells with Flag-USP39 overexpression in order to detect the bindng of USP39 to DNA and POLR2A was used as a positive control.
Project description:To identify the directly bound transcripts of Flag antibody (the backgroud control for our METTL16 RIP-seq), RNA immunoprecipitation sequencing (RIP-seq) was conducted HEK293T. Briefly, HEK293T cells were infected with pmiRNA1-empty vector. Only the GFP-positive cells were used for study and expanded in DMEM medium.
Project description:Dysregulated expression of splicing factors has important roles in cancer development and progression. However, it remains a major challenge to identify the cancer-specific splicing variants. Here we demonstrated that splicing factor PQBP1 is commonly overexpressed in high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) and high level of PQBP1 is associated with poor prognosis. To gain global insights into PQBP1-RNA binding property, RNA immunoprecipitation sequencing (RIP-seq) and SpyTag-based CLIP (SpyCLIP) were performed to analysis the interaction between PQBP1 and the target RNA.
Project description:Mis-regulation of splicing factors are thought to activate cancer specific splicing programs that contribute to cancer development and progression. However, it remains a major challenge to identify the key splicing variants caused by aberrant expression of splicing factors in cancer. Here we report that splicing factor BUD31 is commonly overexpressed in high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) and high level of BUD31 is associated with poor prognosis. RNA-seq analysis reveals that BUD31 inhibition predominantly results in alternation of exon skipping and intron retention. RNA immunoprecipitation sequencing (RIP-seq) was used to analysis the interaction between BUD31 and the target RNA. Our data indicate that BUD31 is a critical oncogenic splicing factor in ovarian cancer and might act as a potential therapeutic target.
Project description:High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma is the most lethal type of gynecologic malignancy.Emerging evidences have suggested the vital roles of splicing factor in the human cancers. RNA splicing pathways was found excessive activated in HGSOC. USP39 was one of overexpressed splicing factor in HGSOC. However, the biological function and concrete regulatory mechanism of USP39 in ovarian cancer remain unclear. In this study, we investigate the oncogenic roles of the splicing factor USP39 in HGSOC through facilitated the growth speed and invasion of ovarian cancer cells.Elevated USP39 expression levels, based on immunohistochemistry staining, were associated with poor survival in HGSOC patients. In order to investigate the regulatory mechanism of USP39 in ovarian cancer,we performed RNA-seq in A2780 cells with USP39 knock down compared with control in three repeat. HMGA2 was identified as USP39 target gene because of different expression and downregulated splicing efficiency.
Project description:IGF2BP3-bound transcripts were identified by RNA immunoprecipitation and sequencing (RIP-Seq) and bioinformatics analysis. A pancreatic cancer cell line S2-013 was cultured on fibronectin. We performed RIP of IGF2BP3 using anti-IGF2BP3 antibody from the fibronectin-stimulated S2-013 extracts, and identified the associated mRNAs using a next generation sequencer.