Project description:Comparing Stage 1 and stage 2 lung adenocarcinomas against a standard human reference RNA sample. Two colour design, stage 1 or stage 2 adenocarcinoma vs human reference RNA (Clontech), 5 stage 1 comparisons and 5 stage 2 comparisons
Project description:Background: A gel-free proteomic approach was utilized to perform in-depth tissue protein profiling of lung adenocarcinoma (ADC) and normal lung tissues from early and advanced stages of the disease. The long-term goal of this study is to generate a large-scale, label-free proteomic data set from histologically well-classified lung ADC that can be used to increase further our understanding of disease progression and aid in identifying novel biomarkers. Methods and Results: Cases of early-stage (I-II) and advanced-stage (III-IV) lung ADCs were selected and paired with normal lung tissues from 22 patients. The histologically and clinically stratified human primary lung adenocarcinomas were analyzed by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). From the analysis of ADC and normal specimens, 5,933 protein groups were identified. To examine the protein expression profile of ADC, a peak area-based quantitation method was used. In early- and advanced-stage ADC, 33 and 39 proteins were differentially-expressed respectively between normal and tumor tissue (adjusted p-value < 0.01, fold change ≥ 4). For early- and advanced stage ADC tumors compared to normal patient-matched tissue, 11 and 22 proteins and 23 and 16 proteins were identified as down- and up-regulated, respectively. In silico functional analysis of the up-regulated proteins in both tumor groups revealed that most of the enriched pathways are involved in mRNA metabolism. Furthermore, the most over-represented pathways in the proteins that were unique to ADC are related to mRNA metabolic processes. Conclusions: Further analysis of these data may provide an insight into the molecular pathways involved in disease etiology and may lead to the identification of biomarker candidates and potential targets for therapy. Our study provides potential diagnostic biomarkers for lung ADC and novel stage-specific drug targets for rational intervention.
Project description:Series of stage IB lung adenocarcinomas and large cell carcinomas. The aim of the study was to predict outcome using a Copy Number Driven Gene Expression signature. Experiment Overall Design: Homogeneous series of 72 cases of lung primary stage IB adenocarcinomas/large cell carcinomas, analyzed using the Human U133Plus 2.0 oligonucleotide arrays (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA).
Project description:Identification of genes up-regulated in ALK-positive and EGFR/KRAS/ALK-negative lung adenocarcinomas. To elucidate molecular characteristics of lung adenocarcinomas (ADCs) with ALK mutations and those without EGFR, KRAS and ALK mutations, 226 primary lung ADCs of pathological stage I-II, examined for the status of EGFR, KRAS and ALK mutations, were subjected to genome-wide expression profiling, and genes up-regulated in lung ADCs with ALK mutations and those without EGFR, KRAS and ALK mutations were identified. One hundred and seventy-four genes, including ALK, were selected as being up-regulated specifically in 79 lung ADCs without EGFR and KRAS mutations. These 79 cases were divided into: 11 cases of ALK-positive ADCs, 36 cases of group A triple-negative ADCs, and 32 cases of group B triple-negative ADCs, by unsupervised clustering according to the expression of the 174 genes. In ALK-positive ADCs, 30 genes, including ALK itself and GRIN2A, were significantly overexpressed. Group A triple-negative ADC cases showed significantly worse prognoses for relapse and death than ADC cases with EGFR, KRAS or ALK mutations and group B triple-negative ADC cases. Nine genes were identified as being significantly up-regulated in group A triple-negative ADC cases and critical for predicting their prognosis. The nine genes included DEPDC1, which had been identified as a candidate diagnostic and therapeutic target in bladder and breast cancers. Genes discriminating this group of ADCs will be useful for selection of patients who will benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy after surgical resection of stage I-II triple-negative ADCs and also informative for the development of molecular targeting therapies for these patients. Expression profiles in of 226 lung adenocarcinomas (127 with EGFR mutation, 20 with KRAS mutation, 11 with EML4-ALK fusion and 68 triple negative cases).
Project description:Compare the global methylation profile of 20 malignant pleural mesotheliomas and lung adenocarcinomas. A DNA mixture of two normal mesothelium tissues was used as a reference for the mesotheliomas and a mixture of five normal lung tissues used as the reference for the lung adenocarcinomas
Project description:We performed RNA-seq using 19 human surgically-resected lung adenocarcinomas to investigate of difference between EGFR-mutated and wild-type lung adenocarcinomas.
Project description:Identification of genes up-regulated in ALK-positive and EGFR/KRAS/ALK-negative lung adenocarcinomas. To elucidate molecular characteristics of lung adenocarcinomas (ADCs) with ALK mutations and those without EGFR, KRAS and ALK mutations, 226 primary lung ADCs of pathological stage I-II, examined for the status of EGFR, KRAS and ALK mutations, were subjected to genome-wide expression profiling, and genes up-regulated in lung ADCs with ALK mutations and those without EGFR, KRAS and ALK mutations were identified. One hundred and seventy-four genes, including ALK, were selected as being up-regulated specifically in 79 lung ADCs without EGFR and KRAS mutations. These 79 cases were divided into: 11 cases of ALK-positive ADCs, 36 cases of group A triple-negative ADCs, and 32 cases of group B triple-negative ADCs, by unsupervised clustering according to the expression of the 174 genes. In ALK-positive ADCs, 30 genes, including ALK itself and GRIN2A, were significantly overexpressed. Group A triple-negative ADC cases showed significantly worse prognoses for relapse and death than ADC cases with EGFR, KRAS or ALK mutations and group B triple-negative ADC cases. Nine genes were identified as being significantly up-regulated in group A triple-negative ADC cases and critical for predicting their prognosis. The nine genes included DEPDC1, which had been identified as a candidate diagnostic and therapeutic target in bladder and breast cancers. Genes discriminating this group of ADCs will be useful for selection of patients who will benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy after surgical resection of stage I-II triple-negative ADCs and also informative for the development of molecular targeting therapies for these patients.
Project description:To identify gene expression biomarkers associated with asbestos-related lung adenocarcinoma, we analyzed primary tumour gene expression for a total of 36 primary lung adenocarcinomas on 22,323 element microarrays, comparing 12 patients with lung asbestos body counts above levels associated with urban dwelling (ARLC-AC: asbestos-related lung cancer-adenocarcinoma) with 24 patients with no asbestos bodies (NARLC-AC: non-asbestos related lung cancer-adenocarcinoma).