Project description:<p>The purpose of this study was to obtain tissue specimens derived from patients with melanoma to generate research tools to advance our understanding of the genetics, pathogenesis, and therapeutics of melanoma. Briefly, tissue was obtained from metastatic lesions and used to generate clonal primary cell lines from melanoma cells and fibroblasts from the tumor microenvironment. RNA was extracted from low passage cell lines using Trizol reagent. cDNA libraries were prepared using the TruSeq mRNA sample preparation kit, v2 (Illumina) and sequenced on the HiSeq 2000 platform (Illumina). The submitted files are bam files that contain both unaligned and aligned reads (human genome, build hg19). </p>
Project description:We searched for putative phenotypic and genotypic differences between primary lesions and melanoma metastasis. Therefore we investigated melanoma cells derived either from the primary tumor or from lymph node metastasis of the same individual patient. In vitro studies revealed high migratory and anchorage independent growth of metastasis-derived cells. Unexpectedly, whole genome DNA analysis displayed a total of 10 homozygous losses in the primum-derived cell line, whereas the metastasis–derived cell line only shared 5 of those losses. We further tested these cells in a mouse model for intradermal melanoma growth and detected fast growth of the metastasis-derived cell line and no growth of primum-derived cells. Therefore we suggest that tumor cell progression at the metastatic niche can occur parallel and independently from the primary tumor. Additionally we screened melanoma samples isolated from patients and could identify one case were the primum harboured deletions not present in the metastatic lesion. We propose that for mutation-targeted therapy genotyping should be performed not only from primary, but foremost from metastatic melanoma cells.
Project description:IVLBCL is a rare distinct disease entity of extranodal large B-cell lymphoma . The disease is characterized by selective growth of tumor cells in the lumina of small vessels and by the absence of remarkable lymphadenopathy. We have developed patient derived xenograft IVLBCL mouse models from primary patient bone marrow samples. This dataset includes the array CGH analysis of IVLBCL tumor cells from the mouse xenograft models.
