Project description:Recently, multicellular spheroids were isolated from a well-established epithelial ovarian cancer cell line, OVCAR-3, and were propagated in vitro. These spheroid derived cells displayed numerous hallmarks of cancer stem cells, which are chemo and radioresistant cells thought to be a significant cause of cancer recurrence and resultant mortality. Gene set enrichment analysis of expression data from the OVCAR-3 cells and the spheroid-derived putative cancer stem cells identified several metabolic pathways enriched in differentially expressed genes. Before this, there had been little previous knowledge or investigation of systems-scale metabolic differences between cancer cells and cancer stem cells, and no knowledge of such differences in ovarian cancer stem cells. To determine if there were substantial metabolic changes corresponding with these transcriptional differences, we used two-dimensional gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry to measure the metabolite profiles of the two cell lines. These two cell lines exhibited significant metabolic differences in both intracellular and extracellular metabolite measurements. Principal components analysis, an unsupervised dimensional reduction technique, showed complete separation between the two cell types based on their metabolite profiles. Pathway analysis of intracellular metabolomics data revealed close overlap with metabolic pathways identified from gene expression data, with four out of six pathways found enriched in gene-level analysis also enriched in metabolite-level analysis. Some of those pathways contained multiple metabolites that were individually statistically significantly different between the two cell lines, with one of the most broadly and consistently different pathways, arginine and proline metabolism, suggesting an interesting hypothesis about cancerous and stem-like metabolic phenotypes in this pair of cell lines. Overall, we demonstrate for the first time that metabolism in an ovarian cancer stem cell line is distinct from that of more differentiated isogenic cancer cells, supporting the potential importance of metabolism in the differences between cancer cells and cancer stem cells.
Project description:Persistent infection by high-risk human papillomaviruses (HPVs) is associated with the development of cervical cancer and a subset of anogenital and head and neck squamous cell carcinomas. Abnormal expression of cellular microRNAs (miRNAs) plays an important role in the development of cancer, including HPV-related tumors. MiRNA expression profile was investigated by microrray analysis in the HPV-positive cervical cancer cell lines SiHa (HPV16-positive cell line derived from a cervical squamous cell carcinoma), CaSki (HPV16-positive cell line derived from a metastatic cervical epidermoid carcinoma), and HeLa (HPV18-positive cell line derived from a cervical adenocarcinoma) and compared with primary HFKs and C33a (HPV-negative cervical cell line).
Project description:Gene expression profiling of early stage cervical cancer tumours with and without lymph node metastasis, in order to predict lymph node metastasis before treatment. Subsequently, comparing gene expression profiles between healthy cervical tissue and early stage cervical cancer tissue. Keywords: Disease stage analysis
Project description:Introduction: In vitro 3-dimension spheroid culture has been widely used as model to enrich CD44+CD24dim/- cancer stem cells with high ALDH1 activity. However, present of the CD24+ population in the 3D spheroid also requests further attention as this side-population of cells may response differently to drug treatment comparing to the cancer stem cells. Methods: In this study, CD24+ population from the MCF-7 spheroid was sorted and subjected to spheroid formation test, stem cell markers immunofluorescence, invasion/migration test, and microRNA expression profiling. MCF-7 CD24+ cells sorted from primary spheroid reform 3D spheroid after longer period of time associated with dim expression of surface SOX-2, CD44, CD49f and Nanog comparing to the primary spheroid. Results: Remarkably, the MCF-7 CD24+ cells was found with high expression of ALDH1 protein, which subsequently contributed to higher resistant against doxorubicin and cisplatin. MicroRNA profiling has shown that absent of cancer stem cell phenotypes were contributed by the downregulation of major cancer stem cells related pathways including Hedgehog, Wnt and MAPK signalling pathways. Besides, resistance of CD24+ cells was correlated to dyregulation of cell death pathway.
2018-03-12 | GSE95598 | GEO
Project description:Cervical Cancer derived cell lines: Gene Expression Profile
Project description:Controlling metastatic lesions is an important part of improving cancer prognosis, in addition to controlling the primary lesion. There have been many histological examinations of primary and metastatic lesions, but little basic research using cell strains from primary and metastatic lesions belonging to the same patient. In this study, we successfully established a cell strain derived from lower gingival carcinoma (WK2) and a strain derived from secondary cervical lymph node metastasis (WK3F) through primary cultures of tissue from a patient with oral squamous cell carcinoma. We then investigated the biological characteristics of the cancer cell strains from these primary and metastatic lesions, and analyzed metastasis-related genes. Comparing the biological characteristics in vitro showed WK3F to have higher cell proliferation ability and shorter cell doubling time than WK2. It also showed increased cell migratory ability, and high invasive and self-replication abilities. Heterotransplantation into nude mice resulted in high tumor formation rates in the tongue and high metastasis rates in the cervical lymph nodes. Changes in WK2 and WK3F gene expression were comprehensively analyzed with the microarray method. Genes with increased expression in WK3F compared to WK2 were extracted when Z-score ≥ 2.0 and ratio ≥ 5.0, while genes with reduced expression in WK3F compared to WK2 were extracted when Z-score ≤ -2.0 and ratio ≤ 0.2. As a result, differences were found in 604 genes. From these, MAGEC1 (88.0 times), MMP-7 (18.6 times), SNAI1 (6.6 times), MACC1 (6.2 times), and HTRA1 (0.012 times) were selected as metastasis-related candidate genes. The results suggest that these molecules could be important to clarifying the mechanism of metastasis, and could become therapeutic targets. We successfully established a cell strain derived from lower gingival carcinoma (WK2) and a strain derived from secondary cervical lymph node metastasis (WK3F) through primary cultures of tissue from a patient with oral squamous cell carcinoma. Changes in WK2 and WK3F gene expression were comprehensively analyzed with the microarray method.
Project description:In order to study the molecular mechanism of HPV18 carcinogenesis, we used conditional reprogramming technique to culture normal cervical epithelial cells, cervical intraepithelial Neoplasia HPV18 cells and patient-derived cervical cancer cell lines for 24 h and stimulated with estradiol for 24 h,and collected total RNA samples for mRNA sequencing (RNA-SEQ). Then, Gene expression profiling was performed using RNA-seq data from six groups of cells.
Project description:Gene expression profiling of early stage cervical cancer tumours with and without lymph node metastasis, in order to predict lymph node metastasis before treatment. Subsequently, comparing gene expression profiles between healthy cervical tissue and early stage cervical cancer tissue. Experiment Overall Design: All patients had clinical FIGO stage IB-IIA cervical cancer, the low-risk group (N) included 19 patients without unfavourable prognostic factors (positive lymph nodes, parametrial invasion, positive margins or a combination of unfavourable prognostic factors); the high risk group (P) consisted of 16 patients with lymph node metastasis, who were treated with adjuvant radiation therapy with or without chemotherapy. Healthy cervical tissue biopsies (H) were collected from 5 non-cervical carcinoma patients who underwent hysterectomy for benign reasons. RNA pooled from all tumour tissue samples was used as reference sample. Log-ratios of five technical replicates were used for normalization.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Human primary colon cancer cells under spheroid culture. Goal was to determine the effects of spheroid culture on global primary colon cancer cells gene expression.