Anaysis of the response to different therapeutic agents at the transcriptional level. The design of the experiment allows to determine how the comnination target therapy (Rapamycin + PD0325901) treatment shifted the transcriptome towards a less aggressive or even a wild type phenotype. It also allow...
In our investigations of the molecular pathways of prostate tumorigenesis in Nkx3.1; Pten mutant mice using gene expression profiling, we now find that the AP-1 transcription factors, c-Jun and c-Fos, are significantly up-regulated during cancer progression. Forced expression of c-Fos and c-Jun in p...
Key histological and growth progression characteristics of human prostate cancer are phenocopied in mouse models that have been subjected to androgen level depletion and engineered for hemizygosity of candidate prostate cancer tumor suppressor genes Nkx3.1 and Pten. To characterize their relative tr...
We used RNA-seq to compare the expression profiles of mouse prostate tumors originated from epithelial basal cells to those originated from luminal cells. We next generated expression signatures for both basal and luminal origin tumors by comparison of tumor samples to their respective controls. By ...
Analysis of the transcriptome of allografted mouse tumors after treatment with rapamycin and PD0325901. Nkx3.1CreERT2/+; Ptenflox/flox; KrasLSL-G12D/+ (NPK mice) were induced and their tumors removed to generate allograft lines by implanting a 1.5 mm3 tumor fragment in the subcutaneous space of athy...
Analysis of the transcriptome of mouse models of prostate cancer after treatment with rapamycin and PD0325901 combination therapy or standard of care docetaxel. The Nkx3.1CreERT2/+; Ptenflox/flox; KrasLSL-G12D/+ (NPK mice) was used in this study. Two months after tumor induction, mice were randomly ...
Analysis of transcriptome of human RWPE1 cells over-expressing wild type NKX3.1 and mutant NKX3.1 (T164A). Total RNA obtained from RWPE1 cells engineered with empty vector (altered pTRIPZ), NKX3.1 wild type over-expression, and NKX3.1 (T164A) mutant over-expression. Engineered RWPE1 cells were harve...
Analysis of transcriptome of prostate tissue from 4-month-old Nkx3.1 +/+ and Nkx3.1 -/- mice. Total RNA obtained from prostate tissues from 4-month-old Nkx3.1 +/+ and Nkx3.1 -/- mice. Prostate tissues were harvested and processed for RNA isolation and transcriptome analysis using the MagMAX RNA isol...