Project description:Cyclin E1 (CCNE1) is amplified in various tumor types including high-grade serous ovarian cancer where it is associated with poor clinical outcome. We have demonstrate that suppression of the Cyclin E1 partner kinase, CDK2, induces apoptosis in a CCNE1 amplicon-dependent manner. Little is known of mechanisms of resistance to CDK inhibitors. We therefore generated OVCAR-3 sublines with reduced sensitivity to CDK2 inhibitors and profiled by SNP copy number microarrays. Arrayed samples included parental OVCAR-3 cells and five independently derived sublines resistant to PHA-533533 (OVCAR3-533533-R1, -R3, -R5, -R6, -R7). The resistant cell lines were arrayed after drug selection (P5).
Project description:Low-grade serous ovarian carcinomas are typically Ras-pathway mutated, TP53 wild-type, have limited chromosomal aberration, and are frequently associated with borderline tumors. By contrast, high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma lack Ras-pathway mutations, are invariably TP53 mutated, show widespread genomic change, and are commonly BRCA-pathway disrupted.We sought to identify differences in genomic copy number changes between co-existing borderline and invasive components of serous carcinoma. Paired co-existing borderline and invasive tumor components were sampled and profiled from formalin-fixed paraffin embedded tumors from 6 patients
Project description:Low-grade serous ovarian carcinomas are typically Ras-pathway mutated, TP53 wild-type, have limited chromosomal aberration, and are frequently associated with borderline tumors. By contrast, high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma lack Ras-pathway mutations, are invariably TP53 mutated, show widespread genomic change, and are commonly BRCA-pathway disrupted. We sought to identify differences in genomic copy number changes in borderline and invasive components of serous carcinoma. Borderline and invasive tumor components were profiled from patients with LGSC
Project description:Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HPCs) can be maintained in vitro, but the vast majority of their progeny loses M-bM-^@M-^\stemnessM-bM-^@M-^] during culture. In this study, we have analyzed DNA methylation (DNAm) profiles of freshly isolated CD34+ cells and upon expansion on either tissue culture plastic (TCP) or mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs). DNAm profiles of expanded CD34+ versus CD34- subsets reflected hematopoietic differentiation, whereas culture on TCP or MSCs had little impact. Notably, all cultured HPCs - even those which remained CD34 positive - acquired significant DNA-hypermethylation, particularly in up-stream promoter regions, shore-regions of CpG islands, and binding sides for PU.1 and RUNX1. Our results point to a coordinated epigenetic process which needs to be controlled to enhance self-renewal of HPCs in vitro. 12 samples were hybridised to the Illumina Infinium 450k Human Methylation Beadchip
Project description:Low-grade serous ovarian carcinomas are typically Ras-pathway mutated, TP53 wild-type, have limited chromosomal aberration, and are frequently associated with borderline tumors. By contrast, high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma lack Ras-pathway mutations, are invariably TP53 mutated, show widespread genomic change, and are commonly BRCA-pathway disrupted. We sought to identify differences in genomic copy number changes between co-existing borderline and invasive components of serous carcinoma. Paired co-existing borderline and invasive tumor components of ovarian serous carcinoma were sampled and profiled from tumors from 7 patients
Project description:Pathology archives contain vast resources of clinical material in the form of formalin-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue samples. Due to the methods of tissue fixation and storage, the integrity of DNA and RNA available from FFPE tissue is compromised, meaning obtaining informative data regarding epigenetic, genomic and expression alterations can be challenging. Here we have investigated the utility of repairing damaged DNA derived from FFPE tumours prior to single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays for whole genome DNA copy number analysis. To investigate whether repairing the DNA might improve performance in SNP array assay, we used the DNA Restore protocol from Illumina as a pre-treatment step prior to applying the DNA to the Infinium assay using the Human CytoSNP FFPE-12v2.1 arrays. DNA was extracted from FFPE samples spanning five decades involving tumor material obtained from surgical specimens and post-mortems. Various aspects of the protocol were assessed, including the method of DNA extraction, the role of Quality Control quantitative PCR in predicting sample success and the effect of DNA restoration on assay performance, data quality and the prediction of copy number aberrations (CNAs). In total 8 cases were analysed in this experiment, involving 43 SNP arrays of tumour and matched normal DNA samples, replicates and other control arrays.