Project description:Bone metastasis is an incurable complication of breast cancer. In advanced stages, patients with estrogen-positive tumors experience significantly higher incidence of bone metastasis compared to estrogen-negative patients. To investigate how estrogen-positive breast cancer cells communicate with bone microenvironmental cells, extracellular vesicles from bone metastatic MCF7BoM2 were purified and analyzed. We used GeneChip miRNA 4.1 Array to detail the miRNA expression in the extracellular vesicles from the bone metastatic MCF7BoM2 and its parental cell line MCF7, and identified the dysregulated miRNAs.
Project description:The origin and the contribution of breast tumor heterogeneity to its progression are not clear. We investigated the effect of a growing orthotopic tumor formed by an aggressive estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer cell line on the metastatic potential of a less aggressive ER-positive breast cancer cell line for the elucidation of how the presence of heterogeneous cancer cells might affect each other’s metastatic behavior.
Project description:The origin and the contribution of breast tumor heterogeneity to its progression are not clear. We investigated the effect of a growing orthotopic tumor formed by an aggressive estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer cell line on the metastatic potential of a less aggressive ER-positive breast cancer cell line for the elucidation of how the presence of heterogeneous cancer cells might affect each other’s metastatic behavior. ER positive ZR-75-1/GFP/puro cells, resistant to puromycin and non-tumorigenic/non-metastatic without exogenous estrogen supplementation, were injected intracardiacally into mice bearing growing orthotopic tumors, formed by ER negative MDA-MB-231/GFP/Neo cells resistant to G418. A variant cell line B6, containing both estrogen-dependent and -independent cells, were isolated from GFP expressing cells in the bone marrow and re-inoculated in nude mice to generate an estrogen-independent cell line B6TC.
Project description:This laboratory's focus is on the immune response to carbohydrate antigens, with an emphasis on modalities to analyze and to increase the immune response. We are also interested in carbohydrate drug targeting. The hypothesis is that these 2 variants have different cell surface carbohydrate expression, which results in different adhesion patterns, which ultimately results in different metastasis patterns. Evidence for expression differences and loss of the variants ability to metastasize to the lung could have clinical implications in the prevention of metastasis to different organs. The 4T1 mouse metastatic breast cancer cell line is known to change with passages in culture. Our data has shown changes cause the cells to metastasize to the intestine rather than to the lung. Four classes of RNA were analyzed: one each from 4T1 metastatic cell line variant #1, 4T1 variant #2, non-metastatic cell lines 4T07, and non-metastatic cell line 67NR. Classes were prepared in triplicate for a total of 12 samples. All samples were hybridized to the custom designed CFG GLYCOv2 glycogene array.
Project description:MicroRNAs are noncoding, endogenous small RNAs that regulate target genes by cleavage of the targeted mRNA or translational repression. We investigated the microRNAome using 2-color microarrays in a highly invasive human breast cancer cell line, MDA-MB-231 (sub line 4175) and a non-invasive breast epithelial cell line, MCF10A. We found 13 miRNAs that were up-regulated and 9 were down-regulated significantly in 4175 cells (p <0.05, fold change >2) compared with MCF10A cells. We compared the highly metastatic human breast cell lines MDA-MB-231 (4175 subline) with non-metastatic MCF10A cell lines. Two 4175 sublines and two MCF10A cell lines, independently grown and harvested. Dye swap was performed.
Project description:The nucleolus, responsible for ribosome biogenesis, acts as a key center for detecting and responding to cellular stress. Additionally, growing evidence suggests that ribosome biogenesis may play a significant role in promoting metastasis. A proteomic screen of nucleolar protein content between metastatic and non-metastatic breast cancers found that metastatic breast cancer cell lines have a unique nucleolar proteome signature as compared to non-metastatic breast cancer cell lines.
Project description:As organ-specific models of breast cancer bone metastasis do not exist, we established a novel breast cancer line was established from the ER-/PR-/HER2- bone metastasis from a breast cancer patient. This cell line was characterized and compared to the primary tumour and/or normal mammary epithelial cells with regards to phenotypes (i.e. marker expression), gene expression and copy number variation.
