Project description:The transcriptome of human glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs) isolated from brain tumours of four patients (#5, #7, #8, #9) was comparatively analysed among them and in respect to common established human glioblastoma cell lines (U87MG, U373MG) and non-transformed human neural stem cells (NSCs). Cells were grown under optimal culture conditions, total RNA carefully isolated form the seven cell samples, and then subjected to global transcriptomic analysis in Array
Project description:Glioblastoma is one of the most malignant brain tumors with poor prognosis and their development and progression are known to be driven by glioblastoma stem cells. Although glioblastoma stem cells lose their cancer stemness properties during cultivation in serum-containing medium, little is known about the molecular mechanisms regulating signaling alteration in relation to reduction of stemness. In order to elucidate the global phosphorylation-related signaling events, we performed a SILAC-based quantitative phosphoproteome analysis of serum-induced dynamics in glioblastoma stem cells established from the tumor tissues of the patient. Among a total of 2,876 phosphorylation sites on 1,584 proteins identified in our analysis, 732 phosphorylation sites on 419 proteins were regulated through the alteration of stem cell characteristics.
Project description:Here we performed a ChIP-seq experiment for Zeb1 trancription factor on a sample of adherent cultures of human neural stem cells (Cb192 cell line) and of a human glioblastoma cancer stem-like cell line (NCH421k). The result is the generation of the genome-wide maps for Zeb1 binding to chromatin in human neural stem cells and glioblastoma stem-like cells.