A number of breast or colon specific genes predictive of the relapse status were used in comparing the outcome from matched fresh frozen and stored in RNAlater preservative.
Prognostic gene expression signatures can be measured in tissues collected in RNAlater preservative.
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View SamplesNon-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. The oxygen-sensitive Hypoxia Inducible Factor (HIF) transcriptional regulators HIF-1 and HIF-2 are overexpressed in many human NSCLCs, and constitutive HIF-2 activity can promote murine lung tumor progression, suggesting that HIF proteins may be effective NSCLC therapeutic targets. To investigate the consequences of inhibiting HIF activity in lung cancers, we deleted Hif-1 or Hif-2 in an established KrasG12D-driven murine NSCLC model. Deletion of Hif-1 had no obvious effect on tumor growth, whereas Hif-2 deletion resulted in an unexpected increase in tumor burden that correlated with reduced expression of the candidate tumor suppressor gene Scgb3a1 (HIN-1).
HIF-2alpha deletion promotes Kras-driven lung tumor development.
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View SamplesThe H2A variant H2AZ is essential for embryonic development and for proper execution of developmental gene expression programs in embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Divergent regions in H2AZ are likely key for its functional specialization, but we know little about how these differences contribute to chromatin regulation. Here, we show that the extended acidic patch, specifically the three divergent residues in the C-terminal docking domain, is necessary for lineage commitment during ESC differentiation and proper execution of gene expression programs during ESC differentiation. Surprisingly, disruption of the acidic patch domain has a distinct consequence on cellular specification compared to H2AZ depletion. This is consistent with differences in gene expression profiles of H2AZ –depleted and acidic patch (AP) mutant ESCs during early lineage commitment. Interestingly, the distinct consequence of AP mutant expression on gene regulation is coincidence with an altered destabilized chromatin state and high chromatin mobility dependent on active transcription. Collectively, our data shows that the divergent residues within the acidic patch domain are key structural determinants of H2AZ function and links chromatin structure and dynamics with gene regulation and cell fate specification. Overall design: H2AZ extended acidic patch was mutated, or H2AZ was KD in mouse embryonic stem cells and RNA-Seq analysis was performed on the resulting cultures. Characterization of H2AZ-WT and -AP3-mutant binding specificities were performed by ChIP-Seq.
H2A.Z acidic patch couples chromatin dynamics to regulation of gene expression programs during ESC differentiation.
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject, Time
View SamplesHead and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is a deadly and disfiguring disease for which better systemic therapy is desperately needed. The development of new therapies for HNSCC and the understanding of its biology both depend upon clinically relevant animal models. An increasingly promising xenograft model, the patient derived xenograft (PDX), is developed by surgically implanting tumor tissue directly from a patient into an immunocompromised mouse. We transplanted 30 HNSCC primary tumors directly into mice. The histology and stromal components were analyzed using immunohistochemistry. Gene expression analysis with Affymetrix U133A-microarrays was conducted on patient tumors, including third generation and one tenth generation PDX; one PDX-derived cell line; and 2 established HNSCC cell lines. Five of 30 (17%) transplanted tumors could be serially passaged and used for therapeutic and mechanistic studies. One cell line has been established from a tongue primary. The tumors maintained the histologic appearance of the parent tumor although human stromal components were lost upon engraftment. One PDX model was derived from an HPV-positive tumor. From the >54,000 probes tested, there were widespread differences in gene expression between the tumors growing in mice vs. the corresponding human tumors from which they were derived. For genes differing between parent tumors and human cell lines in culture, the PDXs expression pattern was very similar to that of the parent tumors. There were also widespread expression differences between the human tumors that subsequently grew in mice vs. those that did not - suggesting that this model enriches for cancers with distinct biological features. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of a PDX model of HNSCC. Gene expression patterns suggest that the PDX more closely recapitulated the parental tumor than do cells in culture. The histology of the tumors in mice is similar to that of the same tumor in humans. Additionally, gene expression patterns and histology are stable over multiple generations.
Tumor grafts derived from patients with head and neck squamous carcinoma authentically maintain the molecular and histologic characteristics of human cancers.
Specimen part, Cell line
View SamplesTransciptome analysis of CD34+ enriched human HSPC lentivirally transduced with cohesin WT or mutant
Leukemia-Associated Cohesin Mutants Dominantly Enforce Stem Cell Programs and Impair Human Hematopoietic Progenitor Differentiation.
Specimen part
View SamplesThe goal of this analysis was to assess the similarity in transcriptomes between WT and Coro1-/- across regulatory and conventional T cells. Overall design: mRNA profiles of wild-type and Coronin1A knockout from murine regulatory (trg) and conventional (con) T cells were generated by deep sequencing, in triplicate, using Illumina TruSeq stranded mRNA sample kit.
Disruption of Coronin 1 Signaling in T Cells Promotes Allograft Tolerance while Maintaining Anti-Pathogen Immunity.
Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesAnalysis of wig-1 pathways via suppression of Wig-1 by antisense oligonucleotides
Genomic analysis of wig-1 pathways.
Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesHCT116 cells were transfected with two different siRNA's targeting either DDX5, an siRNA targeting EBNA1, or no siRNA (mock). The siRNA targeting EBNA1 is used as a negative control since HCT116 cells do not have the EBNA1 gene. RNA was obtained from cultures at 24hrs post-siRNA transfection using the Qiagen RNeasy Minikit (cat. # 74104) with on-column DNase digestion performed as per the manufacturer's protocol. The RNA samples were isolated at 24hrs post-siRNA transfection since this timepoint precedes an impaired G1-to-S phase cell cycle progression phenotype that is evident at 48hrs post-siRNA transfection and so may reveal gene expression changes occuring before this effect on cell cycle. RNA samples were submitted to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Microarray Faciity where cDNA was prepared, labeled, and hybridized to Affymetrix GeneChip Human Gene 1.0 ST microarrays. Data from the arrays were processed using the RMA method with an up-to-data probe set definition (Biostatistics 4:249-264 and Nucleic Acids Research 33(20):e175. Gene set analysis was performed using generally applicable gene set enrichment (BMC Bioinformatics 10:161). The most differentially regulated gene ontology groups were selected with FDR q-value < 0.1.
DDX5 regulates DNA replication and is required for cell proliferation in a subset of breast cancer cells.
Cell line
View SamplesRecently a genome of Russian individual (somatic DNA from blood) was sequenced (Skryabin et al. 2009). That study was continued to find a linkage between genetic differences in parental alleles and bias in biallelic expression of genes.
Individual genome sequencing identified a novel enhancer element in exon 7 of the CSFR1 gene by shift of expressed allele ratios.
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View SamplesLivers from wild-type (WT) or Ppara knock-out (Ppara KO) C57Bl6 mice were used to prepare RNA which was then processed for analysis using MoGene-2_0-st Affymetrix microarrays according to standard procedures.
The logic of transcriptional regulator recruitment architecture at <i>cis</i>-regulatory modules controlling liver functions.
Sex, Specimen part
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