Project description:Prostate cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers in men. Prostate tumor staging and disease aggressiveness are evaluated based on the Gleason scoring system, which is further used to direct clinical intervention. The Gleason scoring system provides an estimate of tumor aggressiveness through quantitation of the serum level of prostate specific antigen (PSA) and histologic assessment of Grade Group, determined by the Gleason Grade of the tumor specimen. To improve our understanding of the proteomic characteristics differentiating low- versus high-grade prostate cancer tumors, we performed a deep proteomic characterization of laser microdissected epithelial and stromal subpopulations from surgically resected tissue specimens from patients with Gleason 6 (n=23 specimens from n=15 patients) and Gleason 9 (n=15 specimens from n=15 patients) prostate cancer via quantitative high-resolution liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis.
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:In this dataset, we report the gene expression of adjacent Gleason 3 and Gleason 4 foci microdissected from the same prostate cancer sample. We found a striking similarity between adjacent G3 and G4 tumors, consistent with their clonal origin, but very few recurrently up- or down- regulated genes across patients.
Project description:In this study, comparison of gene expression profiles in benign epithelia from men with prostate cancer to those of men without prostate cancer reveal differences in several genes associated with prostate cancer. Custom Agilent 44K whole human genome expression oligonucleotide microarrays were used to profile benign epithelium from prostate needle biopsies from 15 men with high grade(Gleason 8-10) prostate cancer and 14 age- and BMI-matched controls. All samples were laser-capture microdissected and total RNA isolated and amplified prior to hybridization against a common reference pool of prostate tumor cell lines
