Analysis of estrogen receptor (ER)-positive MCF7 cell total RNA expression and polysome-assiciated RNA expression following treatment with estradiol (E2) and vehicle (etoh).
Estrogen coordinates translation and transcription, revealing a role for NRSF in human breast cancer cells.
Cell line
View SamplesGene Expression Profiling of a Mouse Xenograft Model of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Brain Metastases With and Without Vorinostat Treatment.
Vorinostat inhibits brain metastatic colonization in a model of triple-negative breast cancer and induces DNA double-strand breaks.
Treatment
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Induced p53 loss in mouse luminal cells causes clonal expansion and development of mammary tumours.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesMany components of Wnt/-catenin signaling pathway also play critical roles in mammary tumor development. To study the role of Apc in mammary tumorigensis, we introduced conditional Apc mutations specifically into two different mammary epithelial populations using K14-Cre (progenitor) and WAP-cre (lactaing luminal) transgenic mice. Only the K14-cre mediated Apc heterozygosity developed mammary adenocarcinomas demonstrating histological and molecular heterogeneity, suggesting the progenitor cell origin of these tumors. These tumors harbored truncation mutation in a very defined region in the remaining wild-type allele of Apc that would retain some down-regulating activity of -catenin signaling. Our results suggest that not only the epithelial origin but also a certain Apc mutations are selected to achieve a specific level of -catenin signaling optimal for mammary tumor development.
Genetic mechanisms in Apc-mediated mammary tumorigenesis.
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View SamplesGlioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive primary brain cancer that includes focal amplification of PDGFR and for which there are no effective therapies. Herein, we report the development of a genetically engineered mouse model of GBM based on autocrine, chronic stimulation of PDGFR and the analysis of GBM signaling pathways using proteomics. We discovered the tubulin-binding protein Stathmin1 (STMN1) as a PDGFR phospho-regulated target and that this mis-regulation conferred selective sensitivity to vinblastine (VB) cytotoxicity. Treatment of PDGFR GBMs with VB in mice drastically prolonged survival and was dependent on STMN1. Our work provides a rationale for evaluating genotype-specific anti-microtubule drugs as cancer treatment in select GBM patient populations.
A PDGFRα-driven mouse model of glioblastoma reveals a stathmin1-mediated mechanism of sensitivity to vinblastine.
Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesIn the normal prostate, most basal and some luminal cells are castration-resistant (CR). The identity of these CR cells and their relation to CR prostate cancer are unresolved. We compared single-cell expression profiles of prostate cells sorted from hormonally nave (HN) and castrated mice. We found both basal and luminal-localized cells, particularly the latter, were molecularly heterogeneous. CR luminal cells and a subset of HN luminal cells exhibited a similar intermediate expression pattern, including high-level expression of multiple prostate stem/progenitor marker genes and androgen receptor gene. We validated LY6D as a marker linking CR luminal cells to luminal progenitors. LY6D+ prostate cells, including LY6D+ luminal cells, were enriched for organoid-forming potential regardless of the presence or absence of androgen. Krt8-based lineage-tracing revealed that LY6D+ CR luminal cells produced LY6D- normal luminal cells upon regeneration, but LY6D+ luminal cancer cells under PTEN-deficiency. Furthermore, prostate cancers originating from CR luminal cells (LY6D+) exhibited a more advanced phenotype than those from HN luminal cells (LY6D+ or LY6D-). Lastly, LY6D amplification/upregulation appear associated with advanced prostate cancer in patient samples. Together, our studies demonstrate LY6D as a novel progenitor marker predictive of lethal CR disease.
Single-Cell Analysis Identifies LY6D as a Marker Linking Castration-Resistant Prostate Luminal Cells to Prostate Progenitors and Cancer.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesPPAR is a member of the nuclear receptor family for which agonist ligands have anti-growth effects. However, clinical studies using PPAR ligands as a monotherapy failed to show a beneficial effect. Here we have studied the effects of PPAR activation with chemotherapeutic agents in current use for specific cancers. We observed a striking synergy between rosiglitazone and platinum-based drugs in several different cancers both in vitro and using transplantable and chemically induced spontaneous tumor models. The effect appears to be due in part to PPAR-mediated downregulation of metallothioneins, proteins that have been shown to be involved in resistance to platinum-based therapy. These data strongly suggest combining PPAR agonists and platinum-based drugs for the treatment of certain human cancers
Synergy between PPARgamma ligands and platinum-based drugs in cancer.
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View SamplesThe infant leukemia-associated gene, Ott1(Rbm15), has broad regulatory effects within the murine hematopoiesis. However, germline Ott1 deletion results in fetal demise prior to E10.5, indicating additional developmental requirements for Ott1. The spen gene family, to which Ott1 belongs, has a transcriptional activation/repression domain and RNA recognition motifs, and in Drosophila has a significant role in the development of the head and thorax. Early Ott1-deficient embryos show growth retardation and incomplete closure of the notochord. Further analysis demonstrated placental defects in the spongiotrophoblast and syncytiotrophoblast layers, resulting in an arrest of vascular branching morphogenesis. Rescue of the placental defect using a conditional allele with a trophoblast-sparing cre transgene allowed embryos to form a normal placenta and survive gestation. This result shows that the process of vascular branching morphogenesis in Ott1-deficient animals is regulated by the trophoblast compartment rather than the fetal vasculature. Mice surviving to term manifested hyposplenia and abnormal cardiac development. Analysis of global gene expression of Ott1-deficient embryonic hearts shows enrichment of hypoxia-related genes and significant alteration of several candidate genes critical for cardiac development. Thus, Ott1-dependent pathways in addition to being implicated in leukemogenesis, may also be important in the pathogenesis of placental insufficiency and cardiac malformations.
Ott1 (Rbm15) is essential for placental vascular branching morphogenesis and embryonic development of the heart and spleen.
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View SamplesFew studies have investigated heterogeneity of selection response in replicate lines subjected to equivalent selection. We developed 4 replicate lines of mice based on high levels of voluntary wheel running (high runner or HR lines) while also maintaining 4 non-selected control lines. This led to the unexpected discovery of the HR mini-muscle (HRmini) phenotype, recognized by a 50% reduction in hindlimb muscle mass, which became fixed in 1 of the 4 HR selected lines.
Gene expression profiling of gastrocnemius of "minimuscle" mice.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesRNAseq characterization of gene expression changes 72 hours after genomic excision of Cebpa in murine hematopoietic progenitors from Cebpaf/f;CreER mice transformed by Hoxa9/Meis1. In the presence of tamoxifen (4OHT), Cre-ER localizes to the nucleus of cells allowing for excision of Cebpa and loss of C/EBPa protein levels. Loss of C/EBPa leads to a decrease in cellular proliferation. Overall design: Examination of gene expression by RNAseq in two conditions in biological replicates.
C/EBPα is an essential collaborator in Hoxa9/Meis1-mediated leukemogenesis.
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