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Comparative genomic hybridization by array of early passage melanoma cell lines (LM-MEL-series) and single-cell sub-clone of these cell lines to study clonal heterogeneity in melanoma

ABSTRACT: Genetic heterogeneity is an important feature of solid tumors, however it is often assumed that most cancer cell lines are genetically homogeneous. A disparity in genetic complexity between cell lines and the disease they model could result in problems such as in vitro preclinical experiments overstating the effectiveness of putative therapeutics. We therefore derived clonal sublines by single cell cloning of in house derived early passage melanoma cell lines (LM-MEL-series), and compared their genomes to each other and the parental cell line using Illumina 610-Quad SNP arrays.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Anaka M

PROVIDER: S-ECPF-MTAB-1753 | biostudies-other | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Project description:BACKGROUND: Melanoma progression occurs through three major stages: radial growth phase (RGP), confined to the epidermis; vertical growth phase (VGP), when the tumor has invaded into the dermis; and metastasis. In this work, we used suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) to investigate the molecular signature of melanoma progression, by comparing a group of metastatic cell lines with an RGP-like cell line showing characteristics of early neoplastic lesions including expression of the metastasis suppressor KISS1, lack of alphavbeta3-integrin and low levels of RHOC. METHODS: Two subtracted cDNA collections were obtained, one (RGP library) by subtracting the RGP cell line (WM1552C) cDNA from a cDNA pool from four metastatic cell lines (WM9, WM852, 1205Lu and WM1617), and the other (Met library) by the reverse subtraction. Clones were sequenced and annotated, and expression validation was done by Northern blot and RT-PCR. Gene Ontology annotation and searches in large-scale melanoma expression studies were done for the genes identified. RESULTS: We identified 367 clones from the RGP library and 386 from the Met library, of which 351 and 368, respectively, match human mRNA sequences, representing 288 and 217 annotated genes. We confirmed the differential expression of all genes selected for validation. In the Met library, we found an enrichment of genes in the growth factors/receptor, adhesion and motility categories whereas in the RGP library, enriched categories were nucleotide biosynthesis, DNA packing/repair, and macromolecular/vesicular trafficking. Interestingly, 19% of the genes from the RGP library map to chromosome 1 against 4% of the ones from Met library. CONCLUSION: This study identifies two populations of genes differentially expressed between melanoma cell lines from two tumor stages and suggests that these sets of genes represent profiles of less aggressive versus metastatic melanomas. A search for expression profiles of melanoma in available expression study databases allowed us to point to a great potential of involvement in tumor progression for several of the genes identified here. A few sequences obtained here may also contribute to extend annotated mRNAs or to the identification of novel transcripts.

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Comparative genomic hybridization by array of early passage melanoma cell lines (LM-MEL-series) and single-cell sub-clone of these cell lines to study clonal heterogeneity in melanoma

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