The hormone prolactin is implicated in the pathogenesis of breast cancer, and a subset of prolactin-induced gene expression is mediated by CypA activity.
Inhibition of the Activity of Cyclophilin A Impedes Prolactin Receptor-Mediated Signaling, Mammary Tumorigenesis, and Metastases.
Sex, Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage, Cell line
View SamplesEGFR inhibitors (EGFRi) are effective against EGFR mutant lung cancers. The efficacy of these drugs however is mitigated by the outgrowth of resistant cells, most often driven by a secondary acquired mutation in EGFR, T790M. We recently demonstrated that T790M can arise de novo during treatment (Hata et al., Nature Medicine 2016); it follows that one potential therapeutic strategy to thwart resistance would be identifying and eliminating these cells (referred to as drug tolerant cells (DTCs)) prior to acquiring secondary mutations like T790M. We have developed DTCs to EGFRi in EGFR mutant lung cancer cell lines. Subsequent analyses of DTCs included RNA-seq, high-content microscopy, and protein translational assays. Based on these results, we tested the ability of MCL-1 BH3 mimetics to combine with EGFR inhibitors to eliminate DTCs and shrink EGFR mutant lung cancer tumors in vivo. Overall design: The NSCLC cell line PC9 was made tolerant to gefitinib over 6-days. Replicates were performed at a minimum of duplicates. EGFR inhibitors (EGFRi) are effective against EGFR mutant lung cancers. The efficacy of these drugs however is mitigated by the outgrowth of resistant cells, most often driven by a secondary acquired mutation in EGFR, T790M. We recently demonstrated that T790M can arise de novo during treatment (Hata et al., Nature Medicine 2016); it follows that one potential therapeutic strategy to thwart resistance would be identifying and eliminating these cells (referred to as drug tolerant cells (DTCs)) prior to acquiring secondary mutations like T790M. We have developed DTCs to EGFRi in EGFR mutant lung cancer cell lines. Subsequent analyses of DTCs included RNA-seq, high-content microscopy, and protein translational assays. Based on these results, we tested the ability of MCL-1 BH3 mimetics to combine with EGFR inhibitors to eliminate DTCs and shrink EGFR mutant lung cancer tumors in vivo.
Increased Synthesis of MCL-1 Protein Underlies Initial Survival of <i>EGFR</i>-Mutant Lung Cancer to EGFR Inhibitors and Provides a Novel Drug Target.
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesEarly onset sepsis due to Group B streptococcus (GBS) leads to neonatal morbidity, increased mortality and long term neurological deficencies. Interaction between septicemic GBS and confluent monlayers of human coronary artery endothelial cells (HCAEC) was analyzed by a genome wide expression profiling. Regulation of selected genes and proteins identified in the gene array analysis was confirmed by Real Time RT-PCR assay (Granulocyte chemotactic protein 2 (CXCL6)), ELISA (Urokinase, Cyclooxygenase 2 (COX2), Granulocyte chemotactic protein 1 (IL8)) and Western Blotting (Heme oxygenase1, BCL2 interacting protein (BIM)) at various time points between 4 and 24 hours. In total, 124 genes were differentially regulated (89 upregulated, 35 downregulated) based on a more than 3-fold difference to unstimulated HCAEC. Regulated genes are involved in apoptosis, hemostasis, oxidative stress response, infection and inflammation. We confirmed upregulation of urokinase (UPA), COX2, HMOX1 and BCL2 interacting protein and downregulation of CXCL6 and IL8. These results indicate that GBS infection might lead to impaired function of the innate immune system and might contribute to hemorrhagic and inflammatory complications during GBS sepsis.
Infection of human coronary artery endothelial cells by group B streptococcus contributes to dysregulation of apoptosis, hemostasis, and innate immune responses.
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View SamplesMyogenic differentiation relies on Pax7 function. We used embryonic stem cells lacking functional Pax7 to follow its role in derivation of skeletal myoblasts.
Myogenic Differentiation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells That Lack a Functional Pax7 Gene.
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View SamplesMyogenic differentiation relies on Pax7 function. We used mouse embryonic fibroblasts lacking functional Pax7 to follow its role in terminally differentiated cells.
Cell cycle regulation of embryonic stem cells and mouse embryonic fibroblasts lacking functional Pax7.
Specimen part
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Childhood tolerance of severe influenza: a mortality analysis in mice.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesWe previously showed that a diet containing phloridzin suppressed the blood glucose levels in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice most likely by inhibiting glucose absorption from the small intestine. In this study, we showed that 0.5% and 1% phloridzin diets significantly reduce the blood glucose levels in healthy normal BALB/c mice after 7 days of feeding.
Phloridzin reduces blood glucose levels and alters hepatic gene expression in normal BALB/c mice.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesQuercetin is a food component that may ameliorate the diabetic symptoms. We examined hepatic gene expression of BALB/c mice with streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes to elucidate the mechanism of the protective effect of dietary quercetin on diabetes-associated liver injury.
Dietary quercetin alleviates diabetic symptoms and reduces streptozotocin-induced disturbance of hepatic gene expression in mice.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesWe showed that diets containing 0.1% or 0.5% quercetin lowered the STZ-induced increase in blood glucose levels and improved plasma insulin levels. A cluster analysis of the hepatic gene expressions showed that 0.5% quercetin diet suppressed STZ-induced alteration of gene expression. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) and quantitative RT-PCR analysis showed that the quercetin diets had their greatest suppressive effect on the STZ-induced elevation of expression of cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor p21(WAF1/Cip1) (Cdkn1a).
Dietary quercetin alleviates diabetic symptoms and reduces streptozotocin-induced disturbance of hepatic gene expression in mice.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesThis study aims to demonstrate the link between epigenome-wide methylation aberrations at birth and genomic transcriptional changes upon allergen sensitization that occur in the neonatal dendritic cells (DC) due to maternal asthma. In an in vivo model reproducing human epidemiology findings, maternal but not paternal asthma predisposes the neonate to increased asthma risk, the effect is allergen-independent and is not genetic or environmental. Earlier we demonstrated that neonates of asthmatic mothers are born with a functional skew in splenic DCs that mediates the early-life asthma origin. These allergen-naive cells convey allergy responses to normal recipients, however minimal to no transcriptional or phenotypic changes were found to explain the functional pro-allergic alterations. In this study we profiled both allergen-nave dendritic cells, and cells after allergen sensitization in vivo. We found that while allergen-naive DCs from asthma-at-risk neonates have minimal transcriptional change compared to controls, upon allergen sensitization, multiple genes with pre-existing epigenetic alterations show significant transcriptional change. .
Link between epigenomic alterations and genome-wide aberrant transcriptional response to allergen in dendritic cells conveying maternal asthma risk.
Specimen part, Treatment
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