Project description:MicroRNAs from serum samples could detect pancreatic and biliary tract cancer patients more accurately than other traditional markers. Prospective miRNA markers for pancreatic/biliary tract cancer were selected in the training cohort. Using these miRNAs, discriminant analysis was performed, and the diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity and specificity were calculated in the test cohort.
Project description:Tumour and adjacent components from human resected biliary tract cancers were characterised for the expression of immunorelated transcripts
Project description:Purpose: Biliary tract cancers (BTCs) carry a very poor prognosis and have no approved targeted therapies. Recent genomic profiling of primary BTCs identified a number of potentially actionable drug targets, however accurate model systems to evaluate these targets are currently lacking. The purpose of this study was to compare the genomic landscape of commonly used BTC cell lines to primary BTCs, and to utilize these models for drug target evaluation. Design: Twenty BTC cell lines were profiled by RNA-seq analysis. Results: Transcriptomic profiling of BTC cell lines identified two subtypes, enriched for epithelial and mesenchymal genes respectively, which were also identified in primary BTC. Conclusions: Cell lines harbor similar genomic alterations to primary BTCs. Integration of cell line and primary cancer data identify novel molecular subsets, and highlight specific molecular vulnerabilities in BTC.
Project description:MicroRNAs from serum samples could detect pancreatic and biliary tract cancer patients more accurately than other traditional markers.
Project description:Organoid culture is important for maintenance of epithelial cell characteristics, stemness, and tumorigenic activity of biliary tract cancer initiating cells. To investigate whether organoid culture maintain cancer stem cell properties of biliary tract cancer initiating cells, we compared the gene expression changes between organoid culture and adherent culture.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of cancer stem cells (sphere-cultured cells) comparing non-cancer stem cells (adherent-cultured cells). Goal was to identity cancer stem cell-specific genes.
Project description:Purpose: To analyze human and bacteria proteomic profiles in bile, exposed to a tumor vs. non-tumor microenvironment, in order to identify differences between these conditions, which may contribute to a better understanding of pancreatic carcinogenesis. Patients and Methods: Using liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry, human and bacteria proteomic profiles of a total of 20 bile samples (7 from gallstone (GS) patients, and 13 from pancreatic head ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) patients) that were collected during surgery, and taken directly from the gallbladder were compared. g:Profiler and KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) Mapper Reconstruct Pathway was used as the main comparative platform focusing on over-represented biological pathways among human proteins and interaction pathways among bacterial proteins. Results: Three bacterial infection pathways were over-represented in the human PDAC group of proteins. IL-8 is the only human protein that coincides in the three pathways and this protein is only present in the PDAC group. Quantitative and qualitative differences in bacterial proteins suggest a dysbiotic microenvironment in the PDAC group, supported by significant participation of antibiotic biosynthesis enzymes. Prokaryote interaction signaling pathways highlight the presence of zeatin in the GS group and surfactin in the PDAC group, the former in the metabolism of terpenoids and polyketides, and the latter in both metabolisms of terpenoids, polyketides and quorum sensing. Based on our findings, we propose a bacterial-induced carcinogenesis model for the biliary tract. Conclusion: To the best of our knowledge this is the first study with the aim of comparing human and bacteria bile proteins in a tumor vs. non-tumor microenvironment. We proposed a new carcinogenesis model for the biliary tract based on bile metaproteomic findings. Our results suggest that bacteria may be key players in biliary tract carcinogenesis, in a long-lasting dysbiotic and epithelially harmful microenvironment, in which specific bacterial species biofilm formation is of utmost importance. Our finding should be further explored in future using in vitro and in vivo investigations