We have developed an in vitro system of cancer cell redirection that employs the 1:50 ratio of cancer cells to normal cells. Using our in vitro system of cancer cell redirection we investigated the genetic profiles of erbB2-overexpressing mammary tumor-derived cells as they undergo the redirection phenomenon.
RNA Expression Profiling Reveals Differentially Regulated Growth Factor and Receptor Expression in Redirected Cancer Cells.
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View SamplesThe tyrosine kinase receptors HER2 and HER3 play an important role in breast cancer. The HER2/HER3 heterodimer is a critical oncogenic unit associated with reduced relapse-free and decreased overall survival. We provide gene expression profile of the mammary epithelial cells MCF10A expressing HER2, HER3 or HER2/HER3 and grown in three-dimensional cultures for 15 days in the presence of heregulin, a known HER3-ligand that stabilizes and activates the HER2/HER3 heterodimer.
Co-expression of HER2 and HER3 receptor tyrosine kinases enhances invasion of breast cells via stimulation of interleukin-8 autocrine secretion.
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View SamplesThe Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (ERBB2 or HER2) is amplified and overexpressed in approximately 20% of invasive breast cancers and is associated with metastasis and poor prognosis. Here we describe the role of a constitutively active splice variant of HER2 (Delta-HER2) in human mammary epithelial cells. Overexpression of Delta-HER2 in human mammary cells decreased apoptosis and increased proliferation and expression of epithelial-to-mesenchymal markers. It also induced invasion in three-dimensional cultures and promoted tumorigenicity and metastasis in vivo. In contrast, similar overexpression of wild-type HER2 failed to evoke the same effects. Unbiased protein-tyrosine phosphorylation profiling revealed a significant increase in phosphorylation of several key signaling proteins upon Delta-HER2 expression, some of which not previously shown to belong to the HER2 pathway. In addition, microarray analysis revealed the expression of a set of genes specifically associated with Delta-HER2 expression. We found those genes to be highly expressed in ER-negative, high grade and metastatic primary breast tumors. Altogether, these results provide new insights into the function of a tumorigenic splice variant of HER2 and the signaling cascade deriving from its activity
Mammary tumor formation and metastasis evoked by a HER2 splice variant.
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View SamplesAnalysis of protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) deficient mammary glands from nulliparous mice at estrous and pregnancy day 3, 7, 10 and 15. We used a genetically ablated PTP1B mouse model to gain a deeper knowledge of the role PTP1B plays in mammary gland development and to define the mechanism regulated by this phosphatase.
Protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B restrains mammary alveologenesis and secretory differentiation.
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Parity induces differentiation and reduces Wnt/Notch signaling ratio and proliferation potential of basal stem/progenitor cells isolated from mouse mammary epithelium.
Specimen part
View SamplesThis study examined the effect of early pregnancy on the gene expression profile of total isolated mammary epithelial cells in mice.
Parity induces differentiation and reduces Wnt/Notch signaling ratio and proliferation potential of basal stem/progenitor cells isolated from mouse mammary epithelium.
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PIK3CA(H1047R) induces multipotency and multi-lineage mammary tumours.
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View SamplesThis study examined the effect of early pregnancy on the gene expression profiles of stromal and various epithelial mammary cell subpopulations in mice.
PIK3CA(H1047R) induces multipotency and multi-lineage mammary tumours.
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View SamplesThis study examined the gene expression profile of mammary tumors derived from Lgr5- and K8-positive cell-of-origins
PIK3CA(H1047R) induces multipotency and multi-lineage mammary tumours.
Specimen part
View SamplesThis study examined the effect of mutant PIK3CAH1047R expression in mammary subsets of preneoplastic mammary glands from Lgr5-creERT2/PIK3CA H1047R mice
PIK3CA(H1047R) induces multipotency and multi-lineage mammary tumours.
Specimen part, Treatment
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