Project description:MiRNA expression is known to be deregulated in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). To get insight into miRNA expression pattern in CLL, we compaired miRNA expression profiling of peripheral blood-derived CLL cells and the healthy donor, peripheral blood-derived B-lymphocytes. A set of differentially expressed miRNAs was revealed.
Project description:Intervention type:DRUG. Intervention1:Huaier, Dose form:GRANULES, Route of administration:ORAL, intended dose regimen:20 to 60/day by either bulk or split for 3 months to extended term if necessary. Control intervention1:None.
Primary outcome(s): For mRNA libraries, focus on mRNA studies. Data analysis includes sequencing data processing and basic sequencing data quality control, prediction of new transcripts, differential expression analysis of genes. Gene Ontology (GO) and the KEGG pathway database are used for annotation and enrichment analysis of up-regulated genes and down-regulated genes.
For small RNA libraries, data analysis includes sequencing data process and sequencing data process QC, small RNA distribution across the genome, rRNA, tRNA, alignment with snRNA and snoRNA, construction of known miRNA expression pattern, prediction New miRNA and Study of their secondary structure Based on the expression pattern of miRNA, we perform not only GO / KEGG annotation and enrichment, but also different expression analysis.. Timepoint:RNA sequencing of 240 blood samples of 80 cases and its analysis, scheduled from June 30, 2022..
Project description:Highly homologous B-cell receptors, stereotyped BCR, are expressed in a recurrent fraction of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). In this study, we investigated the biological and molecular features of leukemic cells from 16 patients utilizing stereotyped subset #4 BCR (IGHV4-34) in a prospective cohort of 462 Binet stage A CLL patients. All subset #4 patients were characterized by the IGHV mutated gene configuration and by the absence of unfavorable cytogenetic lesions, and NOTCH1 and SF3B1 mutations. Gene expression profiling demonstrated a significant downregulation of WDFY4, MF2A and upregulation of PDGFA, FGFR1 and TFEC genes in leukemic cells from subset #4 compared to those from the remaining IGHV-mutated patients. Similarly, in the cells from subset #4 cases there was a specific miRNA expression pattern involving the upregulation of miR-497 and miR-29c. Furthermore transfection of miR-497 mimic in primary leukemic CLL cells induced a downregulation of BCL2, known to be a validated target of this miRNA. Our data identify a distinct gene and miRNA expression profile of the cells from subset #4 patients, providing further evidence for the putative role of BCR in shaping the features of the leukemic cells.
Project description:Certain non-coding microRNAs play a major role in CLL pathogenesis, we postulate that a differential expression of microRNAs in different ethnic groups could potentially account for the different CLL incidences. Using GeneChip® miRNA Array to analyze the global miRNA expression profiles in B lymphocytes from Asian and Western CLL patients and healthy individuals.
Project description:Hypoxia is the most prominent feature in human solid tumors and induces activation of hypoxia-inducible factors and their downstream genes to promote cancer progression. However, whether and how hypoxia regulates overall mRNA homeostasis is unclear. Here we show that hypoxia inhibits global-mRNA decay in cancer cells. Mechanistically, hypoxia induces the interaction of AGO2 with HOIL-1L/HOIP, two crucial components of a linear ubiquitin chain assembly complex, which co-localizes with miRNA-induced silencing complex and in turn catalyzes AGO2 occurring Met1-linked linear ubiquitination (M1-Ubi). A series of biochemical experiments reveal that M1-Ubi of AGO2 restrains miRNA-mediated gene silencing. Moreover, combination analyses of the AGO2-associated mRNA transcriptome by RIP-Seq and the mRNA transcriptome by RNA-Seq confirm that AGO2 M1-Ubi interferes miRNA-targeted mRNA recruiting to AGO2, and thereby facilitates accumulation of global mRNAs. By this mechanism, short-term hypoxia may protect overall mRNAs and enhances stress tolerance, whereas long-term hypoxia in tumor cells results in seriously changing the entire gene expression profile to drive cell malignant evolution.
Project description:In this study we compared the miRNA expression profile of 217 CLL cases versus various normal B cell subpopulations in the attempt of finding the normal cell subset most similar to CLL cells and gain information on possible miRNA deregulations. Our analyses indicated that CLL cells exhibited a miRNA expression pattern close to memory and marginal zone-like B cells. Conversely, tonsil GC and CD19+ peripheral blood B cells appeared only distantly related to CLL. Memory and marginal zone B cells were used as reference to identify differentially expressed miRNAs in CLL, which included miR-193b, miR-33b*, miR-365, miR-181b and miR-196a/b among the down-regulated and miR-23a/b, miR-26a, miR-130a, miR-532 (5p and 3p) among the up-regulated miRNAs. We also investigated differences of miRNA expression related to the IGHV somatic mutation status and to deletions at 13q, 11q and 17p or trisomy 12. Little differences were detected between unmutated (UM) versus mutated (M) CLLs, although miR-29c, miR-29c* and miR-146b were strongly down-modulated in the UM-CLL subgroup. Each of the cytogenetic classes of CLL was characterized by uniquely abnormally expressed miRNAs. Deletion at 13q displayed a reduced expression of miR-16, more evident if the deletion was biallelic. Deletion of 17p was characterized by the strong reduction of miR-34a expression and up-regulation of miR-96. Deletion at 11q was characterized by the up-regulation of miR-338-3p and miR-769-5p. Trisomy 12 was characterized by a strong down-regulation of miR-483-5p.
Project description:The aim is to identify the differential miRNA expression profile of B-CLL stimulated with different type of stimulation CPG One color design, 36 samples, Two-condition experiment, CPG-stimulated B-CLL unmutated and mutated vs. Unstimulated B-CLL unmutated and mutated. Biological replicates: 18 unstimulated replicates, 18 CPG-stimulated replicates.
Project description:The present NGST, TMT and Q-TOF MS platform should provide unprecedented resources to address such questions as to how hypoxic condition affects gene, miRNA, protein, and metabolite expression and changes the molecular pathways, and whether miRNAs participate in this process. For this purpose, we characterise transcriptomic, miRNAomic, proteomic and metabonomic sequencing of control- and hypoxia-treated P. vachelli muscles to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of hypoxia adaptation. We were able to find the predicted miRNA-mRNA-protein-metabolite regulatory network using bioinformatics analysis and miRNA prediction algorithms (Fig. 1). This is the first report on integrated analysis of transcriptome, miRNAome, and proteome, and metabolome in fishes and as such offers deeper insight into the hypoxia molecular mechanisms. We provide a good case study with which to analyse mRNA, miRNA, protein and metabolite expression and profile non-model fish species.