Project description:DU 145 prostate cancer cells were treated with and without 100?g/ml Emetine Dihydrochloride Hydrate (Fluka, Buchs, Swizerland). Both Emetine-treated and untreated control cells were then incubated at 37°C for 10 hours. After the incubation, the first time point (0 min) was harvested for both treated and untreated cells. Simultaneously, Actinomycin D (Sigma-Aldrich, St Louis, MO) with the final concentration of 5ug/ml, was added to the remaining treated and untreated cells to stop new transcription. Time points of 10min, 30min, 1h, 2h, 4h and 8h were harvested in both groups for most of the cell lines. Cell pellets were snap-frozen and mRNA extracted by using FastTrack kit (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. For each time point, The untreated sample was hybridized against the Emetine-treated equivalent. Four ug of untreated mRNA was labeled with Cy5-dUTP and four ug of Emetine-treated mRNA with Cy3-dUTP (Amersham Biosciences, Piscataway, NJ) as previously described (Mousses et al, 2000). Image analysis was done by DeArray software. Average intensities of the tumor samples were divided by the average intensities of the reference sample at each microarray spot after background intensity subtraction18. Within-slide normalization was performed with ratio statistics method using housekeeping genes as described previously (Chen et al, 1997). The data were quality filtered with ratio quality method (Chen et al, 2002), which computes a quality value for each ratio. The scale for the quality values is from zero (poor quality) to one (good quality). Here, all ratios having quality value below 0.5 were discarded from the subsequent analysis. Keywords: time-course
Project description:The first experiment involved the DU-145 tumor cell samples cultured with or without macrophages. This experiment was planned with an aim to evaluate the gene expression changes that might occur in DU-145 cells when grown in proximity to macrophages as compared to DU145 cells being grown alone. Similarly, the second experiment, involved the macrophage samples cultured with or without the DU-145 cells. This experiment was planned with an aim to evaluate the gene expression changes that might occur in Macrophages when grown in proximity to DU-145 cells .
Project description:Diarylpentanoids exhibit a high degree of anti-cancer activity and stability in vitro over curcumin in prostate cancer cells. Hence, this study aims to investigate the effects of a diarylpentanoid, 1,5-bis(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-1,4-pentadiene-3-one (MS13) on cytotoxicity, anti-proliferative, apoptosis-inducing, anti-migration properties, and the underlying molecular mechanisms on treated androgen-independent prostate cancer cells, DU 145 and PC-3. A cell viability assay has shown greater cytotoxicity effects of MS13-treated DU 145 cells (EC50 7.57 ± 0.2 µM) and PC-3 cells (EC50 7.80 ± 0.7 µM) compared to curcumin (EC50: DU 145; 34.25 ± 2.7 µM and PC-3; 27.77± 6.4 µM). In addition, MS13 exhibited significant anti-proliferative activity against AIPC cells compared to curcumin in a dose- and time-dependent manner. Morphological observation, increased caspase-3 activity, and reduced Bcl-2 protein levels in these cells indicated that MS13 induces apoptosis in a time- and dose-dependent. Moreover, MS13 effectively inhibited the migration of DU 145 and PC-3 cells. Our results suggest that cell cycle-apoptosis and PI3K pathways were the topmost significant pathways impacted by MS13 activity. Our findings suggest that MS13 may demonstrate the anti-cancer activity by modulating DEGs associated with the cell cycle-apoptosis and PI3K pathways, thus inhibiting cell proliferation and cell migration and inducing apoptosis in AIPC cells.