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GSE146814
Homo sapiens
65 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (hgu133plus2)
Description
Splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL) is a rare, indolent non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that affects 0.13 per 100,000 persons annually. Overall survival of SMZL is estimated to reach 8 to 11 years in most cases, but up to 30% of SMZL cases develop aggressive presentations resulting in greatly diminished time of survival. SMZL presents with a very heterogeneous molecular profile, making diagnosis problematic and accurate prognosis even less likely. The study herein has utilized this data to assist in identifying a potential diagnostic gene expression signature with highly specific predictive utility for further evaluation among control and SMZL patient samples. Delineation of a unique SMZL signature that could provide diagnostic utility for a malignancy that has historically been difficult to identify. These results should be further investigated and validated in subsequent molecular investigations of SMZL so it may be potentially incorporated into standard oncology practice for improving the understanding and outlook for SMZL patients.
Publication Title
Identification of a Splenic Marginal Zone Lymphoma Signature: Preliminary Findings With Diagnostic Potential.
Sample Metadata Fields
No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 38 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Transcriptome Array 2.0 (hta20)
Description
Alternative splicing (AS) is a post-transcriptional gene regulatory mechanism that contributes to proteome diversity. Aberrant splicing mechanisms (mutations, polymorphisms, insertion/deletion etc.) contribute to various cancers and muscle related conditions such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy. However, dysregulation of AS in Cancer Cachexia (CC) patients remains unexplored. Our objectives were (i) to profile alternatively spliced genes (ASGs) on a genome-wide scale, and (ii) to identify DE alternatively spliced genes (DASGs) associated with CC. Rectus abdominis muscle biopsies obtained from cancer patients were stratified into cachectic cases (n=21, classified based on International consensus diagnostic framework for CC) and non-cachectic controls (n=19, weight stable cancer patients). Human Transcriptome array 2.0 was used for profiling ASGs using the total RNA isolated from muscle biopsies. Representative DASG signatures were validated using semi-quantitative RT-PCR. We identified 8960 ASGs, of which 922 DASGs (772 up-regulated, 150 down-regulated) were identified at > 1.4 fold-change and p < 0.05. Representative DASGs when validated by semi-quantitative RT-PCR also showed similar trends, confirming the primary findings from the genome-wide arrays. Identified DASGs were associated with myogenesis, adipogenesis, protein ubiquitination and inflammation. Up to 10% of the DASGs exhibited cassette exon (exon included or skipped) as a predominant form of AS event. We also observed other forms of AS events such as intron retention, alternate promoters. Overall, we have, for the first time conducted global profiling of muscle tissue to identify DASGs associated with CC. The mechanistic roles of the identified DASGs in CC pathophysiology using model systems is warranted, as well as replication of findings in independent cohorts.
Publication Title
Small RNAome profiling from human skeletal muscle: novel miRNAs and their targets associated with cancer cachexia.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 2 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HumanHT-12 V4.0 expression beadchip
Description
The generation of insulin-producing pancreatic cells from stem cells in vitro would provide an unprecedented cell source for drug discovery and cell transplantation therapy in diabetes. However, insulin-producing cells previously generated from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC) lack many functional characteristics of bona fide cells. Here we report a scalable differentiation protocol that can generate hundreds of millions of glucose-responsive cells from hPSC in vitro. These stem cell derived cells (SC) express markers found in mature cells, flux Ca2+ in response to glucose, package insulin into secretory granules and secrete quantities of insulin comparable to adult cells in response to multiple sequential glucose challenges in vitro. Furthermore, these cells secrete human insulin into the serum of mice shortly after transplantation in a glucose-regulated manner, and transplantation of these cells ameliorates hyperglycemia in diabetic mice.
Publication Title
Generation of functional human pancreatic β cells in vitro.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Cell line
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 4 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Gene 1.0 ST Array (mogene10st)
Description
Ctla4-/- mice suffer from a severe autoimmunity characterized by indiscriminate self-reactive T cell activation. Itk-/-Ctla4-/- (DKO) mice are protected from lethal autoimmunity despite a fulminant autoimmune process in the LNs as self-reative T cells fail to migrate to destroy tissues.
Publication Title
CD28 and ITK signals regulate autoreactive T cell trafficking.
Sample Metadata Fields
Age, Specimen part
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 61 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (hgu133plus2)
Description
Follicular lymphoma (FL) is an indolent, but incurable subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. These tumor harbor t (14;18) translocation in at least 90% of patients. Recently, activating EZH2 mutations have been Follicular lymphoma (FL) is an indolent, but incurable subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. These tumor harbor t (14;18) translocation in at least 90% of patients. Recently, activating EZH2 mutations have been found in a significant number of patients with FL.
Publication Title
EZH2 mutations in follicular lymphoma from different ethnic groups and associated gene expression alterations.
Sample Metadata Fields
Age, Specimen part
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 6 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (hgu133plus2)
Description
Purpose: In acute myeloid leukemia (AML) without retinoic acid receptor (RAR) rearrangement the effect of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) is still poorly understood despite an association of NPM1 mutation and ATRA response. Recently, PRAME (preferentially expressed antigen in melanoma) has been shown to be a dominant repressor of RAR-signaling. Experimental design: Thus, we further investigated ATRA response mechanisms, especially the impact of PRAME expression on ATRA-responsiveness by profiling gene expression in K562 cell lines. Results: Our data revealed a PRAME-expression associated gene pattern to be significantly enriched for genes involved in the retinoic acid metabolic process. In leukemia cell line models we could demonstrate that retinoic acid-regulated cell proliferation and differentiation are impacted by PRAME expression. Conclusions: PRAME seems to impair differentiation and to increase proliferation likely via blocking RAR-signaling, which might be reversed by ATRA.
Publication Title
PRAME-induced inhibition of retinoic acid receptor signaling-mediated differentiation--a possible target for ATRA response in AML without t(15;17).
Sample Metadata Fields
Treatment
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 4 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Genome U133A Array (hgu133a)
Description
We report the gene expression profiles of germinal center B cells obtained by FACS analyses of normal human lymph nodes.
Publication Title
Identification and functional relevance of de novo DNA methylation in cancerous B-cell populations.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 24 Downloadable Samples
IlluminaHiSeq2000
Description
Understanding distinct gene expression patterns of normal adult and developing fetal human pancreatic a and b cells is crucial for developing stem cell therapies, islet regeneration strategies, and therapies designed to increase b cell function in patients with diabetes (type 1 or 2). Toward that end, we have developed methods to highly purify a, b, and d cells from human fetal and adult pancreata by intracellular staining for the cell-specific hormone content, sorting the sub-populations by flow cytometry and, using next generation RNA sequencing, we report on the detailed transcriptomes of fetal and adult a and b cells. We observed that human islet composition was not influenced by age, gender, or body mass index and transcripts for inflammatory gene products were noted in fetal b cells. In addition, within highly purified adult glucagon-expressing a cells, we observed surprisingly high insulin mRNA expression, but not insulin protein expression. This transcriptome analysis from highly purified islet a and b cell subsets from fetal and adult pancreata offers clear implications for strategies that seek to increase insulin expression in type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Overall design: RNA-sequencing of highly purified human adult and fetal islet cell subset was performed using our newly developed method. Using this data, we can study and compare the detailed transcriptome or alpha and beta cells during development.
Publication Title
Novel Observations From Next-Generation RNA Sequencing of Highly Purified Human Adult and Fetal Islet Cell Subsets.
Sample Metadata Fields
No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 6 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (hgu133plus2)
Description
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer fatalities in Western societies, characterized by high metastatic potential and resistance to chemotherapy. Critical molecular mechanisms of these phenotypical features still remain unknown, thus hampering the development of effective prognostic and therapeutic measures in PDAC. Here we show that transcriptional co-factor Transducin beta-like (TBL) 1 was over-expressed in both human and murine PDAC. Inactivation of TBL1 in human and mouse pancreatic cancer cells reduced cellular proliferation and enhanced chemosensitivity, correlating with diminished glucose uptake, glycolytic flux, and PI3kinase signaling. TBL1 deficiency both prevented and reversed pancreatic tumor growth in mice, triggering transcriptional PI3kinase inhibition also in vivo. As TBL1 mRNA levels were also found to correlate with overall and disease-free survival in a cohort of human PDAC patients and to predict therapy responsiveness in these subjects, TBL1 expression may serve both as a novel prognostic marker and molecular target in the treatment of human PDAC.
Publication Title
Transcriptional co-factor Transducin beta-like (TBL) 1 acts as a checkpoint in pancreatic cancer malignancy.
Sample Metadata Fields
Cell line, Treatment
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 22 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array (mouse4302)
Description
The early life microbiome plays important roles in host immunological and metabolic development. Because type 1 diabetes (T1D) incidence has been increasing substantially in recent decades, we hypothesized that early-life antibiotic use alters gut microbiota that predisposes to disease. Using NOD mice that are genetically susceptible to T1D, we examined the effects of exposure to either continuous low-dose antibiotics or pulsed therapeutic antibiotics (PAT) early in life, mimicking childhood exposures. We found that in mice receiving PAT, T1D incidence was significantly higher, microbial community composition and structure differed compared with controls. In pre-diabetic male PAT mice, the intestinal lamina propria had lower Th17 and T reg proportions and intestinal SAA expression than in controls, suggesting key roles in transducing the altered microbiota signals. PAT affected microbial lipid metabolism and host cholesterol biosynthetic gene expression. These findings show that early-life antibiotic treatments alter the gut microbiota and its metabolic capacities, intestinal gene expression, and T-cell populations, accelerating T1D onset in NOD mice.
Publication Title
Antibiotic-mediated gut microbiome perturbation accelerates development of type 1 diabetes in mice.
Sample Metadata Fields
Sex, Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage, Treatment
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