We compared the transcriptomes of isogenic diploid fibroblasts expressing progerin or elevated levels of wild-type prelamin A with that of wild-type fibroblasts. We subsequently used the reversion towards normal of two phenotypes, reduced cell growth and dismorphic nuclei, by treatment with farnesyltransferase inhibitor (FTI) or overexpression of ZMPSTE24, as a filtering strategy to identify genes linked to the onset of these two phenotypes.
A filtering strategy identifies FOXQ1 as a potential effector of lamin A dysfunction.
Specimen part, Cell line, Treatment
View SamplesWe are investigating the transcriptional response of changes in RNA steady-state levels between normal and DM1.
RNA steady-state defects in myotonic dystrophy are linked to nuclear exclusion of SHARP.
Specimen part
View SamplesIt has been shown previously that endothelial cells and LepR+ stromal cells are the main sources of SCF in vivo in the mouse bone marrow. We tested whether SCF from endothelial cells and/or LepR+ stromal cells is important for the maintenance of hematopoietic progenitors and erythroid progenitors in mouse bone marrow by conditional deletion of Scf from these two cell types. We discovered that Scf deletion from LepR+ stromal cells, but not endothelial cells, reduced the numbers of hematopoietic progenitors and erythroid progenitors in mice. We performed RNA-Seq on PreCFU-E and CFU-E progenitors from control mice and from mice with Scf deletion from LepR+ stromal cells. We discovered that lack of SCF from LepR+ cells induces a premature differentiation of PreCFU-E and CFU-E progenitors. Overall design: Examination of gene expression profile in 2 cell tyeps from 3 different genetic backgrounds
Restricted Hematopoietic Progenitors and Erythropoiesis Require SCF from Leptin Receptor+ Niche Cells in the Bone Marrow.
Sex, Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesSingle O-GlcNAc modification orchestrate by O-GlcNAc Transferase (OGT) and O-GlcNAcase (OGA alias MGEA5) enzymes, affects signal transduction and gene expression by chromatin modulation. We developed Oga deleted MEF (mouse embryonic fibroblast) cells to investigate effects of O-GlcNAc modification in mice. RNA isolated from Mouse Embryonic Fibroblast cells generated from Oga Knock out (KO) Heterozygous (Het) and wild type (WT) cells and subjected to microarray analysis.
Conditional knock-out reveals a requirement for O-linked N-Acetylglucosaminase (O-GlcNAcase) in metabolic homeostasis.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesTumor-stromal communication within the microenvironment contributes to initiation of metastasis and may present a therapeutic opportunity. Using serial single cell RNA-sequencing in an orthotopic mouse prostate cancer model, we find upregulation of Prolactin receptor as cancer cells that have disseminated to the lung expand into micrometastases. Secretion of the ligand Prolactin by adjacent lung stromal cells is induced by tumor cell production of the COX-2 synthetic product prostaglandin E-2 (PGE-2). PGE-2 treatment of fibroblasts activates the nuclear orphan receptor NR4A (Nur77), with Prolactin as a major transcriptional target for the NR4A-Retinoid X receptor (RXR) heterodimer. Ectopic expression of Prolactin receptor in mouse cancer cells enhances micrometastasis, while treatment with the COX-2 inhibitor Celecoxib abrogates Prolactin secretion by fibroblasts and reduces tumor initiation. Across multiple human cancers, COX-2, Prolactin, and Prolactin receptor show consistent differential expression in tumor and stromal compartments. Such paracrine crosstalk may thus contribute to the documented efficacy of COX-2 inhibitors in cancer suppression. Overall design: Primary tumors were established by direct prostate inoculation into immunosuppressed NSG mice of CE1-4 prostate cancer cells, derived from tissue-specific inactivation of PTEN [Pubmed ID: 20631921]. These cells, which were GFP-luciferase tagged, are noteworthy in that they have preserved expression of the androgen receptor and epithelial markers and recapitulate biological features of human prostate cancer. Six weeks following intra-prostate inoculation, multiple single DTCs were identified microscopically within the lungs (394 cells/hpf), with a smaller number in liver (54 cells/hpf), brain (9 cells/hpf) and bone marrow (1 cell/hpf). To undertake RNA sequencing of single cells during progression from quiescent DTCs to proliferative lesions, we identified GFP-tagged single tumor cells from lung harvested at various intervals, analyzing these separately from microdissected multicellular lesions. Individual DTCs collected at 6-7 weeks (DTC-I; N=20) and at 9-11 weeks (DTC-II; N=55) were compared with single cells derived from the primary tumor (N=29), lung micro-metastases (N=33), and CTCs isolated by microfluidic capture from blood specimens (N=12) [Pubmed ID: 28181495].
COX-2 mediates tumor-stromal prolactin signaling to initiate tumorigenesis.
Disease, Subject
View SamplesTumor-stromal communication within the microenvironment contributes to initiation of metastasis and may present a therapeutic opportunity. Using serial single cell RNA-sequencing in an orthotopic mouse prostate cancer model, we find upregulation of Prolactin receptor as cancer cells that have disseminated to the lung expand into micrometastases. Secretion of the ligand Prolactin by adjacent lung stromal cells is induced by tumor cell production of the COX-2 synthetic product prostaglandin E-2 (PGE-2). PGE-2 treatment of fibroblasts activates the nuclear orphan receptor NR4A (Nur77), with Prolactin as a major transcriptional target for the NR4A-Retinoid X receptor (RXR) heterodimer. Ectopic expression of Prolactin receptor in mouse cancer cells enhances micrometastasis, while treatment with the COX-2 inhibitor Celecoxib abrogates Prolactin secretion by fibroblasts and reduces tumor initiation. Across multiple human cancers, COX-2, Prolactin, and Prolactin receptor show consistent differential expression in tumor and stromal compartments. Such paracrine crosstalk may thus contribute to the documented efficacy of COX-2 inhibitors in cancer suppression. Overall design: We performed RNA-seq on the human dermal fibroblast cell line DF treated for six hours with PGE-2 or untreated.
COX-2 mediates tumor-stromal prolactin signaling to initiate tumorigenesis.
Specimen part, Cell line, Treatment, Subject
View SamplesTumor-stromal communication within the microenvironment contributes to initiation of metastasis and may present a therapeutic opportunity. Using serial single cell RNA-sequencing in an orthotopic mouse prostate cancer model, we find upregulation of Prolactin receptor as cancer cells that have disseminated to the lung expand into micrometastases. Secretion of the ligand Prolactin by adjacent lung stromal cells is induced by tumor cell production of the COX-2 synthetic product prostaglandin E-2 (PGE-2). PGE-2 treatment of fibroblasts activates the nuclear orphan receptor NR4A (Nur77), with Prolactin as a major transcriptional target for the NR4A-Retinoid X receptor (RXR) heterodimer. Ectopic expression of Prolactin receptor in mouse cancer cells enhances micrometastasis, while treatment with the COX-2 inhibitor Celecoxib abrogates Prolactin secretion by fibroblasts and reduces tumor initiation. Across multiple human cancers, COX-2, Prolactin, and Prolactin receptor show consistent differential expression in tumor and stromal compartments. Such paracrine crosstalk may thus contribute to the documented efficacy of COX-2 inhibitors in cancer suppression. Overall design: We performed RNA-seq on the mouse prostate cancer cell line CE1-4 treated for six hours with PGE-2 or untreated.
COX-2 mediates tumor-stromal prolactin signaling to initiate tumorigenesis.
Specimen part, Cell line, Treatment, Subject
View SamplesEMT, Epithelial to mesenchymal transition is a developmental biology process associated with migration, known to be involved in cancer metastasis. To study this process, we used the breast epithelial cell line MCF10A that enter in EMT after treatment with the cytokine TGFB or by expression of EMT transcriptor factor SNAIL. Overall design: mRNA profiles of MCF10A cells treated for 1 or 6 days with TGFb (done in duplicate), and mRNA profiles of Snail inducible line, MCF10A-SNAIl, induced for 1 or 6 days.
Genomic Instability Is Induced by Persistent Proliferation of Cells Undergoing Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition.
Cell line, Subject
View SamplesProstate 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
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