Ovarian and Breast Cancer Spheres Are Similar in Transcriptomic Features and Sensitive to Fenretinide
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ABSTRACT: The identification and characterization of subpopulations of cancer stem cells (CSCs) provide new understandings and possible therapeutic implications in cancer biology. We found the ovarian cancer sphere cells possessed CSCs properties maintained self renewal, drug resistance, and tumorigenesis. Using high-throughput microarray system, we identified common GO terms and pathway signatures significantly enriched in ovarian and breast cancer stem cells.
Project description:The identification and characterization of subpopulations of cancer stem cells (CSCs) provide new understandings and possible therapeutic implications in cancer biology. We found the ovarian cancer sphere cells possessed CSCs properties maintained self renewal, drug resistance, and tumorigenesis. Using high-throughput microarray system, we identified common GO terms and pathway signatures significantly enriched in ovarian and breast cancer stem cells. Ovarian and breast cancer cells were cultured in sphere formation conditions, and total RNA from those spheres and conresponding adhered cell was hybridized on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:Fenretinide has shown its antitumor activity in many tumor types with low cytotoxicity to normal cells. Recently, we have shown that fenretinide could eradicate chronic myeloid leukemia stem/progenitor cells and spheres from ovarian cancer. In this study, we investigate whether fenretinide could selectively target sphere cells of colon cancer. Using high-throughtput microarray system, we identified GO terms and pathway signatures enriched in fenretinide treated HT29 cells and HT29 derived sphere cells. Colon cancer cells HT29 were cultured in sphere formation conditions, HT29 cells and HT29 derived sphere cells were treated with fenretinide, and total RNA from those spheres and corresponding adhered cell was hybridized on Affymetrix U133 plus 2.0 genechip.
Project description:Fenretinide has shown its antitumor activity in many tumor types with low cytotoxicity to normal cells. Recently, we have shown that fenretinide could eradicate chronic myeloid leukemia stem/progenitor cells and spheres from ovarian cancer. In this study, we investigate whether fenretinide could selectively target sphere cells of colon cancer. Using high-throughtput microarray system, we identified GO terms and pathway signatures enriched in fenretinide treated HT29 cells and HT29 derived sphere cells.
Project description:Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are considered to play a central role in the cancer progression, metastasis and the development of drug resistance. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have important roles in regulating CSC properties and are considered to be potential therapeutic targets. Diverse aberrantly expressed miRNAs have been reported in ovarian cancer cells. However, there have been few reports about miRNAs that were associated with stemness and progression of ovarian cancer. In this study, we enriched ovarian CSCs by using sphere culture of two ovarian cancer cell lines Kuramochi and SKOV3, and screened crucial miRNAs associated with characteristics and maintenance of CSCs by using miRNA nanoString nCounter assay.
Project description:To understand the differentiation of ovarian cancer stem cells (CSCs), We derived two phenotypes of CSCs and identified the gene expression profiling. The CSCs were derived from Cp70 ovarian cancer cells and cultured in suspension and examined every day for sphere formation. Spheres were then dissociated and passaged at least eight times in 2 months to generate spheres, which are henceforth referred to as SR cells. The surface of SR-I was smooth regardless of the size, whereas SR-II was morula. SR-I could differentiate into multiple-lineage cell types under specific induction conditions. SR-I spheroids could differentiate to SR-II spheroids through epithelial-mesenchymal transition.The self-renewal was slower for SR-I than for SR-II.
Project description:Rhabomyosarcoma cells can be cultured in stem cell medium over several passages and form spheres being enriched in putative cancer stem cell markers and expressing high levels of stem cell genes. In this dataset, we include RNA samples from 2 rhabdomyosarcoma cell lines and 3 different sphere passages of each cell line. 16 samples were analyzed and all sphere passages were compared to the expression level of their corresponding adherent cell line. We wanted to see an up- or downregulation of genes in the spheres to identify new potential cancer stem cell marker.
Project description:Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are resistant to chemotherapy and are ability to regenerate cancer cell populations, thus attracting much attention in cancer research. In this report, we first demonstrated that sphere cells from ovarian cancer cell line A2780 shared many features of CSCs, such as resistance to cisplatin and able to initiate tumors in an efficient manner. Then, we conducted cDNA microarray analysis on spheres from ovarian A2780 cells, and from breast MCF7 and SUM159 cells, and found that molecular pathways underlying spheres from these cancer cell lines were similar to a large extent, suggesting that similar mechanisms are involved in the genesis of CSCs in both ovarian and breast cancer types. In addition, we showed that spheres from these cancer types were highly sensitive to fenretinide, a stimulus of oxidative stress-mediated apoptosis in cancer cells. Thus, our results not only provide important insights into mechanisms underlying CSCs in ovarian and breast cancer, but also lead to the development of more sophisticated protocols of cancer therapy in near future.
Project description:Rhabomyosarcoma cells can be cultured in stem cell medium over several passages and form spheres being enriched in putative cancer stem cell markers and expressing high levels of stem cell genes. In this dataset, we include RNA samples from 2 rhabdomyosarcoma cell lines and 3 different sphere passages of each cell line.
Project description:Metastatic prostate cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death in men. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are involved in tumor progression and metastasis, including in prostate cancer. There is an obvious and urgent need for effective cancer stem cells specific therapies in metastatic prostate cancer. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are an important class of pervasive genes that are involved in a variety of biological functions, especially in cancer. The goal of this study was to identify miRNAs involved in prostate cancer metastasis and cancer stem cells. Several published reports have demonstrated that non-adherent spheres culture is increasingly used as an effective method to enrich and identify stem cells or putative CSCs.In our previous study, we enriched prostate cancer stem cells from PC-3 sphere cells in serum-free suspension culture and characterized their CSCs properties.Thus, we used spheres as a prostate cancer stem cells model to elucidate its metastatic mechanisms. We examined the miRNA expression profiles of PC-3 sphere cells of prostate cancer compared with PC-3 adherent cells by miRNA microarray.