Project description:Intra-individual stability of the urine miRNA transcriptome was examined by investigating longitudinal changes over time in a cohort of patients with localized prostate cancer. Using training and validation cohorts, urinary miRNA biomarkers are characterized and validated their utility to identify aggressive prostate cancer.
Project description:Intra-individual stability of the urine miRNA transcriptome was examined by investigating longitudinal changes over time in a cohort of patients with localized prostate cancer. Using training and validation cohorts, urinary miRNA biomarkers are characterized and validated their utility to identify aggressive prostate cancer.
Project description:Intra-individual stability of the urine miRNA transcriptome was examined by investigating longitudinal changes over time in a cohort of patients with localized prostate cancer. Using training and validation cohorts, urinary miRNA biomarkers are characterized and validated their utility to identify aggressive prostate cancer.
Project description:Here, we introduce a magnetic bead-based EV enrichment approach (EVrich) for automated and high-throughput processing of urine samples. Parallel enrichments can be performed in 96-well plates for downstream cargo analysis, including EV characterization, miRNA, proteomics and phosphoproteomics analysis. We applied the instrument to a cohort of clinical urine samples to achieve reproducible identification of over 47,562 unique EV peptides and 4,327 EV proteins in each one-ml urine sample. Quantitative phosphoproteomicsrevealed 186 unique phosphopeptides corresponding to 77 proteins that were significantly elevated in prostate cancer patients.
Project description:miRNAs have been proven to be very useful biomarkers, readily detectable in body fluids, particularly urine may be a valuable source to identify changes in miRNA levels that contribute to better differentiate prostate cancer (PCa) from benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) cases. In order to characterize microRNA expression in urine samples from PCa, we analyzed expression of 376 microRNAs in 9 samples of PCa and 9 of BPH. The Normalized Ct values were compared between PCa and BPH. Statistical comparisons were made using Mann-Whitney U test, considering two different distributions. We found statiscally differences n expression for 21 miRNAs (Fold change >2 and P value<0.05).
Project description:Methylation profiling of urine samples from patients with aggressive prostate cancer and without prostate cancer. Methylated DNA was immunoprecipitated with anti-methylcytosine antibodies from genomic DNA and detected by Affymetrix CytoScanHD chips. Methylated DNA was purified by 5-mC antibodies and Affymetrix CytoScanHD arrays were performed according to the manufacturer's protocols.