Project description:miRNAs profiling of HepG2 cells comparing vector-control treated HepG2 cells with HepG2 cells transfected with Twist1, Bcl-2, and Twist1/Bcl-2 plasmids. Microarray analysis revealed a panel of miRNAs with significant differential expression among these four HCC cell lines.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of human 786-O cells comparing total RNA from cells transfected with the pCEP4 vector containing a Bcl-xAS lncRNA construct vs. control empty pCEP4 vector-transfected cells. Goal was to determine the effects of Bcl-xAS overexpression on global 786-O cells gene expression.
Project description:Microarray analysis of A673 cell line stably transfected with empty vector pc3.1 versus A673 cell lines stably transfected with pcDNA3.1-LMO3-BORCS5
Project description:Analysis of DDX20 knockdown - hepatocellular carcinoma cells. The expression levels of genes driven by NF-kB and related with carcinogenesis, were significantly enhanced in DDX20-knockdown cells. One condition experiment, HepG2 vs. HepG2-DDX20 knockdown cells
Project description:Hepatocellular carcinoma is one of the most common cancers in world wide. During tumorigenesis, tumor suppressor and cancer-related genes are commonly silenced by aberrant DNA methylation in their promoter regions. Zebularine [1-(β-ᴅ-ribofuranosyl)-1,2-dihydropyrimidin-2-one] acts as an inhibitor of DNA methylation and exhibits chemical stability and minimal cytotoxicity both in vitro and in vivo. In this study, we explore the effect and possible mechanism of action of zebularine on hepatocellular carcinoma cell line HepG2. Here, we demonstrated that zebularine exhibited antitumor activity on HepG2 cells by inhibiting cell proliferation and inducing apoptosis. Zebularine treatment down-regulated CDK2 and phosphorylation of retinoblastoma protein (RB), and up-regulated p21WAF/CIP1 and p53. We also found that zebularine treatment up-regulated phosphorylation of p44/42 MAPK. These results suggest that p44/42 MAPK pathway play a role in zebularine induced cell cycle arrest by regulating activity of p21WAF/CIP1 and Rb. Furthermore, we found that zebularine induced apoptosis. Although proapoptotic protein Bax levels were not affected, antiapoptotic protein Bcl-2 level was down-regulated with zebularine treatment. The data in the present study suggest that the action of the double-stranded RNA-dependent protein kinase (PKR) is involved in inducing apoptosis with zebularine. These results provide a novel mechanism of zebularine-induced cell growth arrest and apoptosis in hepatocellular carcinoma. Three each independent batches of zebuluarine-treated and control HepG2 cells were subjected to illumina Human methylation 450K Beadchip analysis.
Project description:Vector or shRNA was transfected into SMMC-7721 to detect effect of shRNA on gene expression Specific hormone receptor was knocked down by shRNA in hepatocellular carcinoma
Project description:Vector or shRNA was transfected into SMMC-7721 to detect effect of shRNA on gene expression Specific hormone receptor was knocked down by sh-RNA in hepatocellular carcinoma
Project description:Investigation of whole genome gene expression level changes in hepatocellular carcinoma cell line hepG2 in regular culture, hepG2-slug in regular culture and hepG2-slug on Matrigel. Whole genome gene expression level changes have been compared in hepatocellular carcinoma cell line hepG2 in regular culture, hepG2-slug in regular culture and hepG2-slug on Matrigel. Roche NimbleGen micro-array analysis was employed to assess global genome expression in HepG2 in regular culture, HepG2-slug in regular culture and HepG2-slug on Matrigel. The results demonstrated that the up-regulated genes and the down-regulated genes increased significantly when HepG2-slug cells with VM forming ablity were cultured on Matrigel and formed VM.
