Prostate cancer is dependent on androgen receptor (AR) signaling at all stages of the disease and cyclin D1 has been shown to negatively modulate the expression of the AR-dependent gene prostate specific antigen (KLK3/PSA).
Cyclin D1 is a selective modifier of androgen-dependent signaling and androgen receptor function.
Cell line, Treatment
View SamplesBAF57, a component of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex conglomerate,modulates androgen receptor activity to promote prostate cancer. However the molecular consequences of tumor associated BAF57 elevation have remianed undefined in advanced disease such as castration resistant prostate cancer and/or metastasis
Aberrant BAF57 signaling facilitates prometastatic phenotypes.
Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesCDK4/6 kinase inhibitors have shown great promise in clinical trials in various cancer types and have recently entered clinical trial for advanced prostate cancer. Although patients are expected to respond well to this class of drugs, development of resistance in some patients is anticipated. To pre-empt this and study how prostate cancer may evade CDK4/6 inhibition, new resistance models were generated from LNCaP and LAPC4 prostate cancer cells cells by prolonged culturing in presence of 0.5uM palbociclib. RNA sequencing data was integrated with phospho-proteomics to unravel the molecular underpinnings of acquired resistance to palbociclib and resultant broad CDK4/6 inhibitor resistance. Overall design: Thirty total sample: three biological replicates of vehicle control and PD treated parental and Palbociclib (PD) resistant cells (PDR) that were generated from LAPC4 and LNCaP cells.
MAPK Reliance via Acquired CDK4/6 Inhibitor Resistance in Cancer.
Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesTo provide further insight to the signaling pathways deregulated by SPOP mutation and determine the relevance of these models to human prostate cancer, we performed RNA-seq on SPOP mutant organoids and controls. RNA-seq reads mapped to human and mouse SPOP confirmed appropriate expression of the F133V transgenic transcript without overexpression compared to endogenous mouse Spop. Quantification of gene expression was performed via RSEQtools using GENCODE as reference gene–annotation set. Both SPOPmut and SPOPwt were done in the same run. S0 was done in first run; S1 and S2 were done in second run. S3, S4 and S5 were done in third run. S5mut and S5wt were excluded from differentially expressed genes analysis, due to the different mouse line. Overall design: Differentially expressed genes between mouse SPOPmut organoids and control by RNA-seq.
SPOP Mutation Drives Prostate Tumorigenesis In Vivo through Coordinate Regulation of PI3K/mTOR and AR Signaling.
Specimen part, Subject
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Cell cycle-coupled expansion of AR activity promotes cancer progression.
Cell line
View SamplesEvaluation of the genome wide impact of cell cycle position on DHT stimulated gene expression programs. Results show differential cell cycle regulated gene expression in different cell cycle phases.
Cell cycle-coupled expansion of AR activity promotes cancer progression.
Cell line
View SamplesCyclin D1b is a splice variant of the cell cycle regulator Cyclin D1 and is known to harbor divergent and highly oncogenic functions in human disease. While Cyclin D1b is induced during disease progression in many cancer types, the mechanisms underlying Cyclin D1b function remain poorly understood. Herein, models of human disease were utilized to resolve the downstream pathways requisite for the pro-tumorigenic functions of Cyclin D1b. Specifically, it was shown that Cyclin D1b modulates the expression of a large transcriptional network that cooperates with AR signaling to enhance tumor cell growth and invasive potential. Notably, Cyclin D1b promoted AR-dependent activation of genes associated with metastatic phenotypes. Further exploration determined that transcriptional induction of SNAI2 (Slug) was essential for Cyclin D1b- mediated proliferative and invasive properties, implicating Slug as a critical driver of disease progression. Importantly, Cyclin D1b expression highly correlated with that of Slug in clinical samples of advanced disease. Further, in vivo analyses provided strong evidence that Slug enhances both tumor growth and homing to distal soft tissues. Collectively, these findings reveal the underpinning mechanisms behind the pro-tumorigenic functions of Cyclin D1b, and demonstrate that the convergence of the Cyclin D1b-AR and Slug pathways results in the activation of processes critical for the promotion of lethal tumor phenotypes.
Convergence of oncogenic and hormone receptor pathways promotes metastatic phenotypes.
Specimen part, Cell line
View SamplesHuman clinical trials in type 1 diabetes (T1D) patients are underway using mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) without prior validation in a mouse model for the disease. In response to this void, we characterized bone marrow-derived murine MSC for their ability to modulate immune responses in the context of T1D, as represented in non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice. In comparison to NOD-, BALB/c-MSC express higher levels of the negative costimulatory molecule PD-L1 and promote a shift toward Th2-like responses in treated NOD mice. In addition, transfer of MSC from resistant strains (i.e. NOR or BALB/c), but not from NOD mice, conferred disease protection when administered to prediabetic NOD mice. The number of BALB/c-MSC trafficking to the pancreatic lymph nodes of NOD mice was higher than in NOD mice provided autologous NOD-MSC. Administration of BALB/c-MSC resulted in reversal of hyperglycemia in 90% of NOD mice (p=0.002). Transfer of autologous NOD-MSC imparted no such therapeutic benefit, and in fact soft tissue and visceral tumors were uniquely observed in this setting (i.e. no tumors were present with BALB/c- or NOR-MSC transfer). These data provide important preclinical data supporting the basis for further development of allogeneic MSC-based therapies for T1D and potentially, other autoimmune disorders.
Immunomodulatory function of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells in experimental autoimmune type 1 diabetes.
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7q11.23 dosage-dependent dysregulation in human pluripotent stem cells affects transcriptional programs in disease-relevant lineages.
Sex, Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesWe apply the cellular reprogramming experimental paradigm to two disorders caused by symmetrical copy number variations (CNV) of 7q11.23 and displaying a striking combination of shared as well as symmetrically opposite phenotypes: Williams Beuren syndrome (WBS) and 7q microduplication syndrome (7dup). Through a uniquely large and informative cohort of transgene-free patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), along with their differentiated derivatives, we find that 7q11.23 CNV disrupt transcriptional circuits in disease-relevant pathways already at the pluripotent state. These alterations are then selectively amplified upon differentiation into disease-relevant lineages, thereby establishing the value of large iPSC cohorts in the elucidation of disease-relevant developmental pathways. In addition, we functionally define the quota of transcriptional dysregulation specifically caused by dosage imbalances in GTF2I (also known as TFII-I), a transcription factor in 7q11.23 thought to play a critical role in the two conditions, which we found associated to key repressive chromatin modifiers. Finally, we created an open-access web-based platform (accessible at http://bio.ieo.eu/wbs/ ) to make accessible our multi-layered datasets and integrate contributions by the entire community working on the molecular dissection of the 7q11.23 syndromes.
7q11.23 dosage-dependent dysregulation in human pluripotent stem cells affects transcriptional programs in disease-relevant lineages.
Sex, Specimen part, Subject
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