Project description:Transcriptional profiling of human acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) CD34+ cells treated with 5 μM fenretinide. Two timepoints included are 6h, 12h, covering the apoptosis-induction time window of AML CD34+ cells responsing to the fenretinide treatment. We studied gene expression series in human AML CD34+ cells with or without 5 μM fenretinide treatment by cDNA microarray analysis. Several signal transduction pathways are involve, including stress response, NF-kappaB inhibition and p53 inhibition (p<0.05). These findings indicate fenretinide may represent a promising candidate for targeting AML-initiating cells.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of human acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) CD34+ cells treated with 5 μM fenretinide. Two timepoints included are 6h, 12h, covering the apoptosis-induction time window of AML CD34+ cells responsing to the fenretinide treatment. We studied gene expression series in human AML CD34+ cells with or without 5 μM fenretinide treatment by cDNA microarray analysis. Several signal transduction pathways are involve, including stress response, NF-kappaB inhibition and p53 inhibition (p<0.05). These findings indicate fenretinide may represent a promising candidate for targeting AML-initiating cells. 6-condition experiment, untreated AML CD34+ cells vs. fenretinide-treated AML CD34+ cells,including 2 time points, for each point the untreated and 5 μM fenretinide treated, independently grown and harvested. Untreated was used to counteracting the background.
Project description:Pharmacological intervention of redox balance in cancer cells often results in oxidative stress-mediated apoptosis, attracting much attention for the development of a new generation of targeted therapy in cancer. However, little is known about mechanisms underlying the conversion from oxidative signaling to downstream activities leading cells to death. We here report a systematic detection of transcriptome changes in response to oxidative signals generated in leukemia cells upon fenretinide treatment, implicating the occurrence of numerous stress-responsive events during the fenretinide induced apoptosis, such as redox response, endoplasmic reticulum stress/unfolded protein response, translational repression and proteasome activation. Moreover, the configuration of these relevant events is primarily orchestrated by stress responsive transcription factors, as typically highlighted by NF-E2-related factor-2 (NRF2) and heat shock factor 1 (HSF1). Several lines of evidence suggest that the coordinated regulation of these transcription factors and thus their downstream genes are involved in converting oxidative signaling into downstream stress-responsive events regulating pro-apoptotic and apoptotic activities at the temporal and spatial levels, typifying oxidative stress-mediated programmed death rather than survival in cancer cells. This study provides a roadmap for understanding oxidative stress-mediated apoptosis in cancer cells, which may be further developed into more sophisticated therapeutic protocols, as implicated by synergistic induction of cell apoptosis using proteasome inhibitors with fenretinide. Time-series experiment, fenretinide treated NB4 cells at 19 time points (i.e., 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 30, 36, 42, 48, 54 and 60 hours) and untreated NB4 cells at 4 time points (i.e., 0, 8, 12 and 15 hours).
Project description:Gene expression profiling of immortalized human mesenchymal stem cells with hTERT/E6/E7 transfected MSCs. hTERT may change gene expression in MSCs. Goal was to determine the gene expressions of immortalized MSCs.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of human mesenchymal stem cells comparing normoxic MSCs cells with hypoxic MSCs cells. Hypoxia may inhibit senescence of MSCs during expansion. Goal was to determine the effects of hypoxia on global MSCs gene expression.