Project description:Osteosarcoma (Osteosarcoma) is a type of bone cancer. Eighty percent of this tumor will be metastatic to the lungs or liver, and as a result, patients generally need chemotherapy to improve survival possibility. Recently, anti-tumor activity has been reported in Ocimum gratissimum aqueous extract (OGE), which has been the focus of recent extensive studies on therapeutic strategies due to its antioxidant properties. We used microarrays to identify potential and novel target genes responsive to the anticancer effect in OGE treatment in osteosarcoma cells, We performed pharmacogenomics analyses for the effect of OGE on human osteosarcoma U2-OS and HOS cell growth. Cell viability, Western blot and flow cytometry analysis were performed before performing pharmacogenomics analyses for the effect of OGE on human osteosarcoma U2-OS and HOS cell growth, including cDNA microarray and RT-PCR assays.
Project description:Analysis of two metastatic OS cell lines, KHOS and KRIB, and two non-metastatic OS cell lines, HOS and U2OS. Results show differences in gene expression between cell lines with different ability to metastasise in vivo.
Project description:Investigation of whole transcriptional changes in F. verticillioides FRC M-3125 when exposed to 5 μg/ml pyrrocidine A (PA), 20 μg/ml pyrrocidine B (PB), 50 μg/ml 2-benzoxazolinone (BOA), 50 μg/ml 2-oxindole (OXD), 50 μg/ml 2-coumaranone (CMN), or 50 μg/ml chlorzoxazone (CZX). Cultures were harvested one hour after exposure. Assessed in reference to control cultures of M-3125 exposed to DMSO (0.5% final concentration) since all the above compounds were dissolved in DMSO.
Project description:U2-OS cells were transfected with scramble siRNA or PKC delta siRNA, then left untreated or treated with 2 ug/ml adriamycin for 8 h.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling to investigate the effect of drug treatment on the E. faecalis cells. For microarray analysis, E. faecalis OG1RF was grown in FMC medium supplemented with 10 mM glucose to an optical density at 600 nm (OD600) of 0.3 and the cultures were divided in 7 aliquots. One aliquot was collected by centrifugation and immediately frozen (untreated control cells). The other aliquots were treated for 30 or 60 min with 1.25 X the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of one of the following CW inhibitors: ampicillin (20 μg ml-1), bacitracin (80 μg ml-1), or cephalothin (80 μg ml-1). After an exposure time of 30 or 60 minutes, each of these cultures was also centrifuged and the pellets frozen. RNA was then isolated from each pellet for microarray analysis. This process was repeated 3 additional times, for a total of four replicates of each condition.
Project description:Background: Osteosarcoma (OS) is a very aggressive bone tumor characterized by highly abnormal complex karyotypes. With the improved resolution offered by array comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) platforms, it is possible to readily detect cryptic microaberrations in genomic DNA. The identification of these microaberrations in genetic syndromes is currently the focus of many array CGH studies, but there have been no analyses to date documenting the occurrence of microaberrations in tumors. Results: In this study we utilized high-resolution oligonucleotide array CGH to identify novel microaberrations under ~750 kb in four OS-derived cell lines: U-2 OS, HOS, MG-63 and SAOS-2. Comparative analysis of these alterations showed that SAOS-2 harbored the most microaberrations at 17, followed by MG-63 with 11, HOS with 9 and U-2 OS with 6. SAOS-2, which has a TP53 mutation, exhibited the highest level of chromosomal instability in previous studies by our group; whereas U-2 OS, which has wild-type p53 status, exhibited the least instability. A consensus region of gain at 5p15.33 was detected in three of the four OS-derived cell lines (HOS, MG-63 and SAOS-2) by aCGH. Of these consensus gains, one was a microaberration of 500 kb in SAOS-2, and confirmed by fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis. It should be noted that this microaberration is immediately telomeric to the TERT gene, which also showed gain. TERT is correlated with increased tumor aggression, as well as decreased progression free survival in OS patients. Experiment Overall Design: This genome-wide analysis is the first study to utilize oligonucleotide array CGH to identify microaberrations in OS, likely to contain genes involved in OS tumor oncogenesis. A better understanding of the underlying molecular genetic events leading to tumor initiation and progression could result in the identification of prognostic markers and therapeutic targets.
Project description:Background: Osteosarcoma (OS) is a very aggressive bone tumor characterized by highly abnormal complex karyotypes. With the improved resolution offered by array comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) platforms, it is possible to readily detect cryptic microaberrations in genomic DNA. The identification of these microaberrations in genetic syndromes is currently the focus of many array CGH studies, but there have been no analyses to date documenting the occurrence of microaberrations in tumors. Results: In this study we utilized high-resolution oligonucleotide array CGH to identify novel microaberrations under ~750 kb in four OS-derived cell lines: U-2 OS, HOS, MG-63 and SAOS-2. Comparative analysis of these alterations showed that SAOS-2 harbored the most microaberrations at 17, followed by MG-63 with 11, HOS with 9 and U-2 OS with 6. SAOS-2, which has a TP53 mutation, exhibited the highest level of chromosomal instability in previous studies by our group; whereas U-2 OS, which has wild-type p53 status, exhibited the least instability. A consensus region of gain at 5p15.33 was detected in three of the four OS-derived cell lines (HOS, MG-63 and SAOS-2) by aCGH. Of these consensus gains, one was a microaberration of 500 kb in SAOS-2, and confirmed by fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis. It should be noted that this microaberration is immediately telomeric to the TERT gene, which also showed gain. TERT is correlated with increased tumor aggression, as well as decreased progression free survival in OS patients. Keywords: comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH)
Project description:To further study the transcriptome of Caco-2 human colon epithelial-like cells after exposure to S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO, 1.4 μM), or Eudragit RL PO polymeric nanoparticles (NP-ERL, 50 μg/mL) or GSNO loaded nanoparticles (NP-GSNO, 50 μg/mL corresponding to (1.4 μM GSNO) we investigate whole genome microarray to identify genes regulates by exposure or not to GSNO (1.4 μM) or Eudragit RL PO polymeric nanoparticles (NP-ERL, 50 μg/mL) or GSNO loaded nanoparticles (NP-GSNO, 50 μg/mL corresponding to (1.4 μM GSNO).