Project description:LncRNA urothelial carcinoma-associated 1 (UCA1) is an oncogene in breast cancer. Previous reports indicates that lncRNAs may function as competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) to sponge miRNAs, thereby modulating the derepression of miRNA targets. To characterize microRNAs that associated with UCA1, the microRNAs associated with UCA1 were extracted from the UCA1-MS2 RNP complexes and analyzed by miRNA-seq.
Project description:LncRNA MACC1-AS1 is the antisense RNA of MACC1 mRNA, which is located on the sixth intronic of MACC1 gene. MACC1-AS1 is an oncogenic lncRNA in colorectal cancer. But the function role of MACC1-AS1 in breast cancer is unknown. In the present study, We used MS2-Tagged RNA Affinity Purification and miRNA-Seq to characterize microRNAs that associated with MACC1-AS1 in breast cancer cell line MDA231.
Project description:Identifcation of lncRNA MACC1-AS1-associated microRNAs in breast cancer cell line MDA231 using MS2-Tagged RNA Affinity Purification and miRNA-Seq
Project description:ZBP1/IMP1 is a RNA binding protein that post-transcriptionally regulates the expression of a handful mRNAs, implicated in maintaining cell polarity and adhesion. We have previously shown that ZBP1 was able to inhibit proliferation and invasiveness of breast carcinoma cells in vitro. To determine important LncRNA for breast tumor growth and metastasis in response to IMP1 expression, LncRNA expression data were obtained from, and compared between the breast cancer cell line MDA231-IMP1 and MDA231/GFP.
Project description:To investigate downstream targets of PRRX1, we used MDA-MB-231 (MDA231) breast cancer cells which express low level of PRRX1 to generate a stable cell line where human PRRX1 was ectopically overexpressed (MDA231-PRRX1), and performed comparative microarray analyses. Interestingly, we found many miRNAs that were upregulated in MDA231-PRRX1 cells.
Project description:Differential lncRNA expression has been correlated to clinical characteristics of colorectal cancers (CRC), which are the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths. LncRNA UCA1 plays a role in epigenetic gene regulation in diverse cancers. We studied CRC cell properties in CRISPR/Cas9 HT29-derived models and, interestingly, UCA1-depleted HT29 cells presented an increased stem-cell phenotype. We show that loss of UCA1 modulates SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes, which were previously shown to be involved in maintaining stem-cell properties. Not only was UCA1 permissive for induced SWI/SNF subunit SMARCA2 (BRM) expression upon chemo-drug treatment, but it also affected subunit compositions of SWI/SNF complexes by direct interaction of UCA1 with both ATP helicase BRM and BRG1. UCA1 is known to stimulate proliferation and decrease apoptosis, and we here show that it can restrain cells from a stem cell phenotype. The dual action of UCA1 revealed in this study highlights the complex actions of lncRNAs in cancer.
Project description:CTCF, H2AFZ and FOXA1 genomic recruitment sites were determined using ChIP-chip while MeDIP-chip was used to monitor DNA methylation levels. Amplified and labeled DNA was hybridized to Affymetrix tiling arrays covering human chromosomes 8, 11 and 12. Cells used in this study are: MCF7 breast cancer cells, LNCaP prostate cancer cells, MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells stably transfected with a FOXA1 expression vector (MDA231-FOXA1) or the empty control plasmid (MDA231-CTRL). H3K4me2 genomic distribution was determined using ChIP-chip. Amplified and labeled DNA was hybridized to Affymetrix tiling arrays covering human chromosomes 8, 11 and 12. Cells used in this study are MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells stably transfected with a FOXA1 expression vector (MDA231-FOXA1) or the empty control plasmid (MDA231-CTRL).
Project description:Inhibition of UCA1 by siRNAs sensitizes the chemoresistant ovarian cancer cell line OAW42-R to the effect of cisplatin We therefore studied the transcriptomic consequences of UCA1 downregulaiton in order to asses the mechanisms and pathways by which regulation the downregulaiton of UCA1 affects cell's response to cisplatin
Project description:microRNA (miRNA) dysfunction is associated with a variety of human diseases including cancer. Our previous study showed that miR-671-5p was deregulated during breast cancer progression. We aim to decipher the functional mechanism of miR- 671-5p in breast cancer. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression after overexpression miR-671-5p in several breast cancer cell lines, and those altered genes might potentially under regulation of miR-671-5p contibuting to breast cancer developemtn. miR-671-5p or scramble control nucleotide were tranfected into breast cancer cell lines, including MCF7, MDA231 and SKBR3. Total RNA were extracted and hybridized on Affymetrix microarrays. We sought to identify the potential downstream target genes that under miR-671-5p regulation by overexpress miR-671-5p. Potential targets were predicted to see if it has binding sites matching miR-671-5p sequence by miRNA target prediction softwares.