Project description:To investigate the mRNA m6A modification profiling in human metastatic ovarian carcinoma and in situ ovarian carcinoma tissue, we performed m6A MeRIP-seq(GenSeq®️ m6A MeRIP Kit) with the total RNA extacted from these tissue samples.
Project description:High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSC) is the most lethal histotype of ovarian cancer and the majority of cases present with metastasis and late stage disease. We aimed to better characterize the distinctions between primary and metastatic tumors based on short- or long-term survival.
Project description:The extracellular matrix (ECM) of tumors differ significantly from that in normal tissues. Biochemical cues from the tumor ECM critically affect intratumoral signaling contributing to tumor malignancy, growth and response to treatment. In this study, we characterized the expression of 1,027 genes encoding core extracellular matrix and associated proteins defined as the matrisome (Naba et al., 2016) in treatment-naïve and chemotherapy-treated high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSC) using longitudinal patient cohort consisting of 165 samples. The expression profiling was conducted by using 45 primary tumor samples, 93 metastatic omental-peritoneal-mesenteric tissue samples and 27 ascites-derived cancer cell samples from HGSC patients. By comparing the matrisome gene expression between the primary tumor and metastatic tissues pre- and post-chemotherapy, we identified the cancer cell surrounding fibro-inflammatory tumor-microenvironment to be markedly different in primary tumors compared to metastatic tissues and to change in response to chemotherapy, in terms of both the extent and type of the extracellular matrix proteins. Further study on these specific genes may aid finding potential therapeutic ECM gene targets to enhance HGSC patient outcome.
Project description:Breast and ovarian cancers, the most common cancers in women in India. Metastatic organotropism is a non-random, predetermined process which represents a more lethal and advanced form of cancer with increased mortality rate. In an attempt to study organotropism, salivary proteins were analyzed by mass spectrometry indicative of pathophysiology of breast and ovarian cancers compared to healthy and ovarian chemotherapy subjects. Collectively, 646 proteins were identified, of which 409 proteins were confidently identified across all four groups. Network analysis of up-regulated proteins such as coronin-1A, hepatoma derived growth factor, vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein (VASP), and cofilin in breast cancer and proteins like coronin-1A, destrin and HSP90α in ovarian cancer were functionally linked and were known to regulate cell proliferation and migration. Additionally, proteins namely VASP, coronin-1A, stathmin and suprabasin were confidently identified in ovarian chemotherapy subjects, possibly in response to combined paclitaxel and carboplatin drug therapy to ovarian cancer. In summary, this proteomic study was performed to identify a pattern of differentially expressed salivary proteins as indicators of metastatic organotropism potential of breast and ovarian cancers, as well as their response to neoadjuvant (paclitaxel and carboplatin) drugs therapy.
Project description:High-grade serous (HGS) ovarian cancer is the most common and aggressive ovarian cancer type, and the most lethal gynaecological disease 1,2. The major cause is its highly metastatic nature and the limited availability of effective therapies to oppose it. The omentum is a highly vascularised visceral depot of adipose tissue with immune functions, which becomes the preferential metastatic site in patients with HGS ovarian cancer 1,2. The omentum provides an environment that supports the rapid growth of metastatic tumours and their spread within the peritoneal cavity and adjacent organs 2,3. Research aimed at understanding the biology of metastatic tumours in the omentum is therefore essential to find strategies to oppose HGS ovarian cancer. To this aim, there is the need for in vitro models that faithfully recapitulate the microenvironment of HGS omental metastasis in patients.