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Genomic analysis of hepatoblastoma identifies distinct molecular and prognostic subgroups.
Sex, Age, Specimen part, Race
View SamplesHepatoblastoma (HB) is the most common liver cancer in children, but few pre-treatment tumors have been molecularly profiled. Consequently, there are no validated prognostic or therapeutic biomarkers for HB patients. We report on molecular analysis of 88 clinically-annotated HB tumors. This analysis pointed to three risk-stratifying molecular subtypeslow, intermediate and high riskthat are characterized by differential activation of hepatic progenitor cell markers and metabolic pathways. High-risk tumors are characterized by high NFE2L2 activity and LIN28B, HMGA2, SALL4 and AFP expression, low let-7 expression and HNF1A activity, and high coordinated expression of oncofetal proteins and stem cell markers. Tests on a 35 HB validation set supported these genes as prognostic biomarkers.
Genomic analysis of hepatoblastoma identifies distinct molecular and prognostic subgroups.
Sex, Specimen part, Race
View SamplesTo determine if fibroblasts could be reprogrammed to a keratinocyte phenotype p63+KLF4 or LacZ expressing retroviruses were transduced into primary human neonatal fibroblasts.
Highly rapid and efficient conversion of human fibroblasts to keratinocyte-like cells.
Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesStem and progenitor cells maintain the tissue they reside in for life by regulating the balance between proliferation and differentiation. How this is done is not well understood. Here, we report that the human exosome maintains progenitor cell function. The expression of several subunits of the exosome were found to be enriched in epidermal progenitor cells, which were required to retain proliferative capacity and to prevent premature differentiation. Loss of PM/Scl-75 also known as EXOSC9, a key subunit of the exosome complex, resulted in loss of cells from the progenitor cell compartment, premature differentiation, and loss of epidermal tissue. EXOSC9 promotes self-renewal and prevents premature differentiation by maintaining transcript levels of a transcription factor necessary for epidermal differentiation, GRHL3, at low levels through mRNA degradation. These data demonstrate that control of differentiation specific transcription factors through mRNA degradation is required for progenitor cell maintenance in mammalian tissue.
Progenitor function in self-renewing human epidermis is maintained by the exosome.
Specimen part
View Samples1. Keratinocytes infected with retroviruses expressing control or SNAI2 shRNAs were cultured in growth medium and Affymetrix HG-U133 plus 2.0 arrays were used to determine global gene expression profiles.
SNAI2 controls the undifferentiated state of human epidermal progenitor cells.
Specimen part
View SamplesAlternative splicing of pre-mRNA is a prominent mechanism to generate protein diversity, yet its regulation is poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate a direct role for histone modifications in alternative splicing. We find distinctive histone modification signatures which correlate with splicing outcome in a set of human genes. Modulation of histone modifications causes splice site switching. The mechanism for histone-mediated splice site selection involves a histone mark which is read by a chromatin protein, which in turn recruits a splicing regulator. These results outline an adaptor system for reading of histone marks by the pre-mRNA splicing machinery. Overall design: To obtain an estimate of how many PTB-dependent alternative splicing events are regulated by SET2/MRG15-mediated recruitment of PTB, we carried out a genomewide comparative analysis of alternative splicing in hMSC cells depleted of either SETD2, MRG15 or PTB using specific siRNAs, or mock-depleted using a control siRNA.
Regulation of alternative splicing by histone modifications.
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View SamplesPrimary skin fibroblasts from HGPS patients and an age-matched control wild-type individuals were challenged in a standard transformation assay by retroviral introduction of TERT (T), V12-HRAS (R) and SV40 large and small T antigens (S). TERT-Immortalized cell lines from the same sources were also generated.
Transformation resistance in a premature aging disorder identifies a tumor-protective function of BRD4.
Specimen part
View SamplesHGPS is a rare premature ageing disease, caused by a mutation in the LMNA gene, which activates a cryptic splice site, resulting in the production of a mutant lamin A isoform, called progerin. Sporadic usage of the same cryptic splice site has been observed with normal physiological aging. As it is unknown how HGPS causes premature ageing defects, we set out to determine the gene signature of both young healthy individuals, old healthy individuals, as well as HGPS patients.
Repression of the Antioxidant NRF2 Pathway in Premature Aging.
Specimen part, Disease
View SamplesThe ability to detect and isolate bGL1-22/LGL1specific human type II NKT cells allowed us to compare the global gene expression profiles of these cells with type I NKT cells using microarray analysis. Principal component analysis revealed that the gene expression profile signature for bGL1-22 and LGL1-specific T cells both before and after activation with anti-CD3/CD28 beads is distinct from that of type I NKT cells.
Type II NKT-TFH cells against Gaucher lipids regulate B-cell immunity and inflammation.
Specimen part
View SamplesTranscriptome profiling of radial glia, intermediate progenitors, and cortical neurons in WT and Prdm16 conditional knock-out (cKO) mouse (Emx1Ires-Cre; Prdm16flox/flox) at embryonic day 15.5. Overall design: Sorting of PAX6+ radial glia, TBR2+ intermediate progenitors and Pax6-TBR2- neurons from WT and Prdm16 cKO embryonic cerebral cortex was followed by library preparation and RNA-seq of 4 biological replicates per cell type and genotype.
The Epigenetic State of PRDM16-Regulated Enhancers in Radial Glia Controls Cortical Neuron Position.
Specimen part, Subject
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