Project description:To investigate the identity of the tissue origin for metastases, we compared gene expression profiles of the prostate tissues and seminal vesicles from PB-Pten-NICD mice and those of 7 lung metastases from different mice. Three respective cell lines established from primary seminal vesicle tumors, primary prostate tumors, and lung metastases in PB-Pten-NICD mice were also included in the microarray analysis. We hypothesized that the gene expression profiles of primary and metastatic tumors should resemble those of their tissue origins. We identified genes differentially expressed between the seminal vesicle and prostate tumors. The expression profiles of the two cell lines established from primary tumors resembled those of their respective tissue origins, which supports our hypothesis. The expression profile of the metastatic cell line resembled those of the prostate tumor tissues, indicating the prostate as its tissue of origin. The expression profiles of 2 metastatic specimens each resembled those of the seminal vesicle tumors and the prostate tumors, respectively, while the expression profiles of the remaining 3 samples displayed a mixed pattern. This study suggests that metastatic tumors in this model may have originated from either the prostate, or the seminal vesicles, or both.
Project description:RNA-seq was carried out on prostate tumors from mice with prostate-conditional PTEN knockout with and without prostate-conditional FOXP1-SHQ1 locus deletion (12 month old PTEN-flox/flox Pb-Cre4 mice and FOXP1-SHQ1-flox/flox PTEN-flox/flox Pb-Cre4 mice )
Project description:Gene copy numbers of prostate tumors of G3 and G4 generations of LSL-mTert PB-Pten/p53 mouse model Prostate tumors were developed in G3 and G4 generations of LSL-mTert PB-Pten/p53 mice. These tumors were profiled with affy and aCGH. We used affy gene expression to correlate with the copy number alterations in the mouse prostate tumors.
Project description:Here we prolife prostate cancers derived from GEM models of prostate cancer representative of human prostate cancer Total DNA was isolated from established prostate cancers in 4 GEM models of prostate cancer - PB-MYC, Pten-/-, Pten-/- p53-/-, Pten-/- Rosa26-ERG, and 3 cell lines derived from GEM models including CaP8, MYC CaP, and MPC3 and normalized to wild-type prostate of litter-mate mice of same genetic background strain
Project description:PB-Cre/Pten/Smad4 is a transgenic mouse model of metastatic prostate adenocarcinoma (PMID: 21289624). To study the transcriptomic alterations associated with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), the PB-Cre/Pten/Smad4 males with established prostate cancer were treated with surgical castration followed by enzalutamide-admixed diet. After about 4 weeks, dorsolateral prostate (DLP) lobes of treatment-naïve prostate tumors (N=2) and CRPC tumors (N=3) were harvested and extracted for RNA purification and microarray profiling. To further study the transcriptomic changes associated with lung metastases of the PB-Cre/Pten/Smad4/mTmG CRPC model, the PB-Cre/Pten/Smad4 males with established prostate cancer were treated with surgical castration followed by enzalutamide-admixed diet. About 3 months later, from one mouse anterior prostate (AP), dorsolateral prostate (DLP), ventral prostate (VP) and GFP+ lung metastasis nodules were each harvested for RNA purification and microarray profiling.
Project description:We used microarrays to analyze the global gene expression and identified differentially expressed gene list between wild-type anterior prostates and Pb-Cre4;PtenLoxP/LoxP anterior prostates, Pb-Cre4;PtenLoxP/LoxP;LrfLoxP/LoxP anterior prostates at 12 weeks of age. Prostate-specific Pten deletion (Pb-Cre4;PtenLoxP/LoxP) results in prostate intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) which, following a long latency, can progress to high-grade adenocarcinoma, albeit with minimally invasive and metastatic features. However, inactivation of Lrf in the prostate epithelium in combination of Pten results in aggressive prostate tumors. To understand the molecular mechanisms by which loss of Lrf promotes Pten-loss-driven prostate tumorigenesis, we conducted transcriptome comparison of three wild-type anterior prostates, three Pb-Cre4;PtenLoxP/LoxP PIN, and three Pb-Cre4;PtenLoxP/LoxP;LrfLoxP/LoxP anterior prostate tumors.
Project description:Here we profile prostate cancers derived from GEM models of prostate cancer representative of human prostate cancer Total RNA was isolated from established prostate cancers in 3 GEM models of prostate cancer - PB-MYC, Pten-/-, Pten-/- p53-/-
Project description:Acute Pten loss initiates prostate tumorigenesis characterized by cellular senescence response. Here we examine the cellular senescence response in epithelial individual cells, by single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) in Ptenpc-/- and Ptenpc-/-; Timp1-/- GEMMs. ScRNAseq analysis determines a cluster of senescent cells expressing the senescence-related genes. A significant positive correlation is observed between the senescence score and Bcl2 expression. This provides the rational for targeting senescent cells using Bcl2 inhibitor.
Project description:Introgressed variants from other species can be an important source of genetic variation because they may arise rapidly, can include multiple mutations on a single haplotype, and have often been pretested by selection in the species of origin. Although introgressed alleles are generally deleterious, several studies have reported introgression as the source of adaptive alleles-including the rodenticide-resistant variant of Vkorc1 that introgressed from Mus spretus into European populations of Mus musculus domesticus. Here, we conducted bidirectional genome scans to characterize introgressed regions into one wild population of M. spretus from Spain and three wild populations of M. m. domesticus from France, Germany, and Iran. Despite the fact that these species show considerable intrinsic postzygotic reproductive isolation, introgression was observed in all individuals, including in the M. musculus reference genome (GRCm38). Mus spretus individuals had a greater proportion of introgression compared with M. m. domesticus, and within M. m. domesticus, the proportion of introgression decreased with geographic distance from the area of sympatry. Introgression was observed on all autosomes for both species, but not on the X-chromosome in M. m. domesticus, consistent with known X-linked hybrid sterility and inviability genes that have been mapped to the M. spretus X-chromosome. Tract lengths were generally short with a few outliers of up to 2.7 Mb. Interestingly, the longest introgressed tracts were in olfactory receptor regions, and introgressed tracts were significantly enriched for olfactory receptor genes in both species, suggesting that introgression may be a source of functional novelty even between species with high barriers to gene flow.