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GSE100020
Homo sapiens
12 Downloadable Samples
Illumina HumanHT-12 V4.0 expression beadchip
Description
Current preclinical models in tumor biology are limited in their ability to recapitulate relevant (patho-) physiological processes, including autophagy. Three-dimensional (3D) growth cultures have frequently been proposed to overcome the lack of correlation between two-dimensional (2D) monolayer cell cultures and human tumors in preclinical drug testing. Besides 3D growth, it is also advantageous to simulate shear stress, compound flux and removal of metabolites, e.g. via bioreactor systems, through which culture medium is constantly pumped at a flow rate reflecting physiological conditions. Here, we show that both Staticic 3D growth and 3D growth within a bioreactor system modulate key hallmarks of cancer cells, including proliferation and cell death as well as macroautophagy, a recycling pathway often activated by highly proliferative tumors to cope with metabolic stress. The autophagy-related gene expression profiles of 2D- and 3D-grown cells are substantially different, with the 3D-grown cells exhibiting an expression profile closely resembling the (patho-) physiological Statice of a tumor. Underscoring the importance of this pathway, autophagy-controlling transcription factors, such as TFEB and FOXO3, are upregulated in tumors, and 3D-grown cells have increased expression compared with cells grown in 2D conditions. Three-dimensional cultures depleted of the autophagy mediators BECN1, ATG5 or ATG7 or the transcription factor FOXO3, are more sensitive to cytotoxic treatment. Accordingly, combining cytotoxic treatment with compounds affecting late autophagic flux, such as chloroquine, renders the 3D-grown cells more susceptible to therapy and increases intracellular doxorubicin concentration to the level of 2D-grown cells. Altogether, 3D cultures are a valuable tool to study drug response of tumor cells, as these models recapitulate (patho-) physiologically relevant pathways, such as autophagy.
Publication Title
Three-dimensional tumor cell growth stimulates autophagic flux and recapitulates chemotherapy resistance.
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Specimen part, Cell line
View Samples- Rattus norvegicus
- 11 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Rat Genome 230 2.0 Array (rat2302)
Description
Transplanting renal allografts represents the major curative treatment of chronic renal failure. Despite recent advances in immunosuppressive therapy, long-term survival of allografts remains a major clinical problem. Kidney function depends in part on transport proteins such as MRP2 (ABCC2) which facilitates renal secretion of amphiphilic exogenous and endogenous compounds. Inherited variants of genes not related to the immune system have been shown to modify the outcome after renal transplantation. We investigated whether ABCC2 gene variants in the donor kidney affect renal graft function.
Publication Title
Multidrug resistance-related protein 2 genotype of the donor affects kidney graft function.
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Sex
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 9 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (hgu133plus2)
Description
The human prostate epithelium is predominantly comprised of two cell-types: basal and luminal. While basal cells exhibit significant progenitor activity in a variety of functional assays, luminal cells are depleted of this activity. Recent studies indicate that approximately 1% of luminal cells exhibit progenitor activity. We have discovered that differential expression of the glycoprotein CD38 can fractionate the luminal population into two subsets: CD38+ and CD38-low. In functional assays, the CD38-low luminal cells exhibit roughly 5-fold increased progenitor activity compared to the remaining CD38+ population. Therefore, we propose that CD38-low luminal cells represent an enriched luminal progenitor population while the CD38+ subset is predominantly comprised of mature non-progenitor luminal cells.
Publication Title
Low CD38 Identifies Progenitor-like Inflammation-Associated Luminal Cells that Can Initiate Human Prostate Cancer and Predict Poor Outcome.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Subject
View Samples- Rattus norvegicus
- 36 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Rat Expression 230A Array (rae230a)
Description
To systemically explore how RNA quality affects microarray assay results, a set of rat liver RNA samples with a progressive change in RNA quality was generated either by thawing frozen tissue or by ex vivo incubation of fresh tissue.
Publication Title
Characterization of the effect of sample quality on high density oligonucleotide microarray data using progressively degraded rat liver RNA.
Sample Metadata Fields
Sex, Age, Specimen part, Time
View Samples- Arabidopsis thaliana
- 14 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Arabidopsis ATH1 Genome Array (ath1121501)
Description
Usually starch is nearly depleted at the end of the night. To induce a gradual depletion of carbon, we have analysed the global response of transcripts during an extension of the night, where carbon becomes severely limiting from about four hours onwards.
Publication Title
Global transcript levels respond to small changes of the carbon status during progressive exhaustion of carbohydrates in Arabidopsis rosettes.
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Specimen part
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 12 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430A 2.0 Array (mouse430a2)
Description
Extracellular matrix interactions play essential roles in normal physiology and many pathological processes. Here, we report a novel screening platform capable of measuring phenotypic responses to combinations of ECM molecules. While the importance of ECM interactions in metastasis is well documented, systematic approaches to identify their roles in distinct stages of tumorigenesis have not been described. Using a genetic mouse model of lung adenocarcinoma, we measured the ECM-dependent adhesion of tumor-derived cells. Hierarchical clustering of adhesion profiles generated using this platform differentially segregated metastatic cell lines from primary tumor lines. Furthermore, we uncovered that metastatic cells selectively associate with fibronectin when in combination with galectin-3, galectin-8, or laminin. These interactions appear to be mediated in part by 31 integrin both in vitro and in vivo. We show that these galectins also correlate with human disease at both a transcriptional and histological level. Thus, our in vitro platform allowed us to interrogate the interactions of metastatic cells with their surrounding environment, and identified ECM and integrin interactions that could lead to therapeutic targets for metastasis prevention.
Publication Title
A combinatorial extracellular matrix platform identifies cell-extracellular matrix interactions that correlate with metastasis.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 8 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Gene 1.0 ST Array (mogene10st)
Description
Abstract: Colonic cancers with a serrated morphology have been proposed to comprise a molecularly distinct tumor entity following an alternative pathway of genetic alterations independently of APC mutations. Here we demonstrate that intestinal cell specific expression of oncogenic K-rasG12D in mice induces serrated hyperplasia, which is characterized by p16ink4a overexpression and induction of senescence. Deletion of Ink4a/Arf in K-rasG12D expressing mice prevents senescence and leads to invasive, metastasizing carcinomas with morphological and molecular alterations comparable to human KRAS mutated serrated tumors. Thus, we suggest that oncogenic K-ras is sufficient to initiate an alternative, serrated pathway to colorectal cancer and hence propose RAS-RAF-MEK signaling apart from APC as an additional gatekeeper in colorectal tumor development.
Publication Title
Ink4a/Arf and oncogene-induced senescence prevent tumor progression during alternative colorectal tumorigenesis.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 48 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Gene 2.1 ST Array (hugene21st)
Description
Primary human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection usually goes unnoticed, causing mild or no symptoms in immunocompetent individuals. Some rare severe clinical cases have however been reported without investigation of host immune responses or viral virulence. In this present study, we investigate, for the first time, phenotypic and functional features together with gene expression profiles in immunocompetent adults experiencing a severe primary HCMV infection. Twenty PHIP were enrolled as well as 26 HCMV-seronegative and 39 HCMV-seropositive healthy controls. PHIP had a huge lymphocytosis marked by massive expansion of NK and T cell compartments. Interestingly, PHIP mounted efficient innate and adaptive immune responses with a deep HCMV imprint, revealed mainly by the expansion of NKG2C+ NK cells, CD16+ V2- T cells and conventional HCMV-specific CD8+ T cells. The main effector lymphocytes were activated and displayed an early immune phenotype that developed toward a more mature differentiated status. We suggest that both huge lymphocytosis and excessive lymphocyte activation could contribute to a massive cytokine production known to mediate tissue damage observed in PHIP. Taken together, these findings bring new insights into the comprehensive understanding of immune mechanisms involved during primary HCMV-infection in immunocompetent individuals.
Publication Title
Severe Symptomatic Primary Human Cytomegalovirus Infection despite Effective Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses.
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Disease
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 10 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array (mouse4302)
Description
Foxp1 is expressed throughout B cell development, but the physiological functions in mature B lymphocytes are unknown. We therefore evaluated differential gene expression in Foxp1-deficient B cells, with or
Publication Title
Foxp1 controls mature B cell survival and the development of follicular and B-1 B cells.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 6 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array (mouse4302)
Description
CMPF is elevated in diabetes and is associated with impaired insulin secretion. We used microarrays to determine the effect of CMPF on gene expression in isolated islets.
Publication Title
The furan fatty acid metabolite CMPF is elevated in diabetes and induces β cell dysfunction.
Sample Metadata Fields
Sex, Age, Specimen part, Treatment
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