Project description:The goal of this study was to determine what the effect of modulating Cnot7 expression levels would have on the steady state transcription program of the 4T1 mammary tumor cell line.
Project description:The goal of this study was to determine what the effect of modulating Cnot7 expression levels would have on the steady state transcription program of the 4T1 mammary tumor cell line. Three biological replicates for over expression compared to vector control. Three biological replicates for two different shRNAs versus shScramble control
Project description:4T1 is a mammary tumor cell line to which the NFAT1 transcription factor is essential for tumorigenesis and metastasis. control or shRNA transduced 4T1 cells growing in culture were collected and RNA was extracted from each sample and processed for hybridization to Affymetrix arrays.
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.
Project description:Native RNA immunoprecipitation of Cnot7-bound transcripts. Abstract: Accumulating evidence supports the role of an aberrant transcriptome as a driver of tumor cell metastatic potential. Deadenylation is a general regulatory node for post-transcriptional control by microRNAs and other determinants of RNA stability. We show here that CCR4-NOT subunit CNOT7 is a deadenylase-dependent driver of tumor cell autonomous metastatic potential. Metastasis promotion by CNOT7 is dependent on contact with CNOT1 and TOB1. We further show TOB1 independently drives metastasis. RNA-immunoprecipitation and integrated transcriptome wide analyses reveal that CNOT7-regulated transcripts are enriched for a tripartite 3’UTR motif bound by RNA-binding proteins known to complex with CNOT7, TOB1, and CNOT1. Collectively, our data support a model of CNOT7, TOB1, CNOT1, and RNA-binding proteins collectively exerting post-transcriptional control on a metastasis suppressive transcriptional program to drive tumor cell metastasis. 48 total samples, 4-5 biological replicates, two forms of control: input samples and vector controls
Project description:We have previously described a sub-clones of the 4T1 mammary carcinoma cell line that are proficient for vasculogenic mimciry (VM), namely 4T1-E and 4T1-T. In vitro assays suggest that not all cells within these lines a VM-competent. To explore subsets of cells within tumors derived from these cells that may display VM properties we utilized single cell RNA-Seq of 4T1-T mammary fat-pad tumors.