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GSE33538
Homo sapiens
24 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Human Gene 1.0 ST Array (hugene10st)
Description
MicroRNAs (miRs) function primarily as post-transcriptional negative regulators of gene expression through binding to their mRNA targets. Reliable prediction of a miRs targets is a considerable bioinformatic challenge of great importance for inferring the miRs function. Sequence-based prediction algorithms have high false-positive rates, are not in agreement, and are not biological context specific. Here we introduce CoSMic (Context-Specific MicroRNA analysis), an algorithm that combines sequence-based prediction with miR and mRNA expression data. CoSMic differs from existing methodsit identifies miRs that play active roles in the specific biological system of interest and predicts with less false positives their functional targets. We applied CoSMic to search for miRs that regulate the migratory response of human mammary cells to epidermal growth factor (EGF) stimulation. Several such miRs, whose putative targets were significantly enriched by migration processes were identified. We tested three of these miRs experimentally, and showed that they indeed affected the migratory phenotype; we also tested three negative controls. In comparison to other algorithms CoSMic indeed filters out false positives and allows improved identification of context-specific targets. CoSMic can greatly facilitate miR research in general and, in particular, advance our understanding of individual miRs function in a specific context.
Publication Title
Context-specific microRNA analysis: identification of functional microRNAs and their mRNA targets.
Sample Metadata Fields
Cell line
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 20 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Exon 1.0 ST Array [probe set (exon) version (huex10st)
Description
Transcriptional responses to stimuli are regulated by tuning rates of transcript production and degradation. Here we show that stimulation-induced changes in transcript production and degradation rates can be inferred from simultaneously measured precursor mRNA (pre-mRNA) and mature mRNA profiles. Our studies on the transcriptome-wide responses to extracellular stimuli in different cellular model systems revealed hitherto unanticipated dynamics of transcript production and degradation rates. Intriguingly, genes with similar mRNA profiles often exhibit marked differences in the amplitude and onset of their production. Moreover, we identify a group of genes, which take advantage of the unexpectedly large dynamic range of production rates to expedite their induction by a transient production overshoot. These findings provide an unprecedented quantitative view on processes governing transcriptional responses, and may have broad implications for understanding their regulation at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels.
Publication Title
Coupled pre-mRNA and mRNA dynamics unveil operational strategies underlying transcriptional responses to stimuli.
Sample Metadata Fields
Cell line, Treatment
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 12 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HumanHT-12 V4.0 expression beadchip
Description
Strigolactones are a novel class of plant hormones produced in roots and regulate shoot and root development. We have previously shown that synthetic strigolactone analogues potently inhibit growth of breast cancer cells and breast cancer stem cells. Here we show that strigolactone analogues inhibit the growth and survival of an array of cancer-derived cell lines representing solid and non-solid cancer cells including: prostate, colon, lung, melanoma, osteosarcoma and leukemic cell lines, while normal cells were minimally affected. Furthermore, we tested the response of patient-matched conditionally reprogrammed normal and prostate cancer cells. The tumor cells exhibited significantly higher sensitivity to the two most potent SL analogues with increased apoptosis compared to their normal counterpart cells. Treatment of cancer cells with strigolactone analogues was hallmarked by increased expression and activity of genes involved in stress signaling, cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. All five strigolactone analogues induced G2/M cell cycle arrest, accompanied with a decrease in the expression level of cyclin B1. Apoptosis was marked by increased percentages of cells in the sub-G1 fraction and was confirmed by Annexin V staining. In conditionally reprogramed matched tumor and normal prostate cells, the cleavage of PARP1 confirmed the specific increase in apoptosis of tumor cells. In summary, Strigolactone analogues are promising candidates for anticancer therapy by their ability to specifically induce cell cycle arrest, cellular stress and apoptosis in tumor cells with minimal effects on growth and survival of normal cells.
Publication Title
Strigolactone analogues induce apoptosis through activation of p38 and the stress response pathway in cancer cell lines and in conditionally reprogrammed primary prostate cancer cells.
Sample Metadata Fields
Cell line, Time
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 20 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Gene 1.0 ST Array (hugene10st)
Description
Mammary epithelial cells MCF10A and HER2 overexpressing MCF10A cells were grown on matrigel in the absence or presence of epidermal growth factor. Cells were lysed and RNA was collected at 1.5,3,5,7,9 days.
Publication Title
Modeling ductal carcinoma in situ: a HER2-Notch3 collaboration enables luminal filling.
Sample Metadata Fields
Cell line, Treatment
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 17 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Gene 1.0 ST Array (hugene10st)
Description
Normal cells require continuous exposure to growth factors, in order to cross a restriction point and commit to cell cycle progression. This can be replaced by two short, appropriately spaced pulses of growth factors, where the first pulse primes a process, which is completed by the second pulse, and enables restriction point crossing. Through integration of comprehensive proteomic and transcriptomic analyses of each pulse, we identified three processes that regulate restriction point crossing: (i) The first pulse induces essential metabolic enzymes and activates p53-dependent restraining processes. (ii) The second pulse eliminates, via the PI3K/AKT pathway, the suppressive action of p53, as well as (iii) sets an ERK-EGR1 threshold mechanism, which digitizes graded external signals into an all-or-none decision obligatory for S-phase entry. Together, our findings uncover novel gating mechanisms, which ensure that cells ignore fortuitous growth factors, and undergo proliferation only in response to consistent mitogenic signals.
Publication Title
Two phases of mitogenic signaling unveil roles for p53 and EGR1 in elimination of inconsistent growth signals.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Cell line
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 20 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Genome U133A Array (hgu133a)
Description
This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
Publication Title
A module of negative feedback regulators defines growth factor signaling.
Sample Metadata Fields
No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 7 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Human Genome U133A Array (hgu133a)
Description
HELA cells derived from human cervical tumor were subjected to EGF stimulation for 0,20,40,60,120,240 and 480 minutes.
Publication Title
A module of negative feedback regulators defines growth factor signaling.
Sample Metadata Fields
No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 1 Downloadable Sample
Description
MCF10A cells derived from spontaneously immortalized normal human mammary epithel were subjected to EGF/SERUM stimulation for 0,20,40,60,120,240 and 480 minutes.
Publication Title
A module of negative feedback regulators defines growth factor signaling.
Sample Metadata Fields
No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 8 Downloadable Samples
Illumina HiSeq 2500
Description
Growth factors (GFs) suppression by steroid hormones recurs in embryology and is co-opted in pathology. While studying mammary cell migration, which is stimulated by GFs and antagonized by glucocorticoids (GCs), we found that GCs inhibit positive feedback loops activated by GFs and stimulate the reciprocal negative loops. Although no alterations in DNA methylation accompany the transcriptional events instigated by either stimulus, forced demethylation of distal regions broadened the repertoire of inducible genes. Our data indicate that the crosstalk involve transcription factors like p53 and NF-kB, along with reduced pausing (and traveling) of RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) at the promoters (and bodies) of GF-inducible genes. In addition, while GFs hyper-acetylated chromatin at unmethylated promoters and enhancers of genes involved in motility, GCs hypo-acetylated the corresponding regions. In conclusion, stably unmethylated genomic regions that encode feedback regulatory modules and differentially recruit RNAPII and acetylases/deacetylases underlie suppression of growth factor signaling by glucocorticoids. Overall design: RNA-Seq – EGF treatemnt for 60 min of WT and DNMT1a and DNMT3b double-knockout HCT116 cells
Publication Title
Epigenetic mechanisms underlie the crosstalk between growth factors and a steroid hormone.
Sample Metadata Fields
Treatment, Subject
View Samples- Arabidopsis thaliana
- 38 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Arabidopsis ATH1 Genome Array (ath1121501)
Description
We sorted for GFP+ cells using the enhancer trap J0571 with the UAS promoter driving the expression of different BIRD genes. Different genetic backgrounds are use and listed below.
Publication Title
Transcriptional control of tissue formation throughout root development.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
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