Gene expression profiling in response to radiation treatment in breast cancer [patient samples]
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ABSTRACT: Introduction: Breast radiotherapy is currently “one size fits all” regardless of breast cancer subtype (eg. luminal, basal). However, recent clinical data suggests that radiation response may vary significantly among subtypes. Therefore, current practice leads to over- or under-treatment of women whose tumors are more or less radiation responsive. We hypothesized that this clinical variability may be due, in part, to differences in cellular radiation response. Methods: We exposed 16 biologically-diverse breast tumor cell lines to 0 or 5GY radiation. Microarray analysis was performed on RNA harvested from those cell lines. Samples were run in triplicate. Following quality assessment, differential gene expression analysis was performed using a two-way multiplicative linear mixed-effects model. A candidate radiation response biomarkers with biologically plausible role in radiation response, were identified and confirmed at the RNA and protein level with qPCR and Western blotting assays. Induction in human breast tumors was confirmed in 32 patients with paired pre- and post-radiation tumor samples using IHC and microarray analysis. Quantification of protein was performed in a blinded manner and included positive and negative controls.
Project description:Introduction: Breast radiotherapy is currently â??one size fits allâ?? regardless of breast cancer subtype (eg. luminal, basal). However, recent clinical data suggests that radiation response may vary significantly among subtypes. Therefore, current practice leads to over- or under-treatment of women whose tumors are more or less radiation responsive. We hypothesized that this clinical variability may be due, in part, to differences in cellular radiation response. Methods: We exposed 16 biologically-diverse breast tumor cell lines to 0 or 5GY radiation. Microarray analysis was performed on RNA harvested from those cell lines. Samples were run in triplicate. Following quality assessment, differential gene expression analysis was performed using a two-way multiplicative linear mixed-effects model. A candidate radiation response biomarkers with biologically plausible role in radiation response, were identified and confirmed at the RNA and protein level with qPCR and Western blotting assays. Induction in human breast tumors was confirmed in 32 patients with paired pre- and post-radiation tumor samples using IHC and microarray analysis. Quantification of protein was performed in a blinded manner and included positive and negative controls. The objective of our study was to identify genomic determinants of radiation sensitivity using clinical samples as well as breast tumor cell lines. In order to identify differences in the radiation response gene expression profiles of specific breast cancer subtypes, we exposed 16 biologically-diverse breast tumor cell lines to 0 or 5GY radiation. Microarray analysis was performed on RNA harvested from those cell lines. Samples were run in triplicate. Following quality assessment, differential gene expression analysis was performed using a two-way multiplicative linear mixed-effects model. Candidate radiation response biomarker with a biologically plausible role in radiation response, were identified and confirmed at the RNA and protein level with qPCR and Western blotting assays. Induction of the genes of interest were further evaluated and confirmed in human breast tumors in 32 breast cancer patients with paired pre- and post-radiation tumor samples using IHC and microarray analysis assays.
Project description:Introduction: Breast radiotherapy is currently “one size fits all” regardless of breast cancer subtype (eg. luminal, basal). However, recent clinical data suggests that radiation response may vary significantly among subtypes. Therefore, current practice leads to over- or under-treatment of women whose tumors are more or less radiation responsive. We hypothesized that this clinical variability may be due, in part, to differences in cellular radiation response. Methods: We exposed 16 biologically-diverse breast tumor cell lines to 0 or 5GY radiation. Microarray analysis was performed on RNA harvested from those cell lines. Samples were run in triplicate. Following quality assessment, differential gene expression analysis was performed using a two-way multiplicative linear mixed-effects model. A candidate radiation response biomarkers with biologically plausible role in radiation response, were identified and confirmed at the RNA and protein level with qPCR and Western blotting assays. Induction in human breast tumors was confirmed in 32 patients with paired pre- and post-radiation tumor samples using IHC and microarray analysis. Quantification of protein was performed in a blinded manner and included positive and negative controls.
Project description:Transcription profiling of IMR90 fibroblasts after ionizing radiation. Cells were harvested 30 minutes (acute response) or 5 days (cell cycle arrested) after being irradiated with 5Gy of ionizing radiation.
Project description:Back skin from 8-10 weeks male mice was plucked to induce actively growing hair follicles. After 9 days, the back skin was irradiated with 5Gy ionizing radiation. Skin samples were collected for CHIP-seq analysis using a p53 antibody and H3K4me3 antibody. We compared wild type and Krt17 knock out mice for their epigenetic regulation of gene expression change in response to ionizing radiation
Project description:Signals often ultimately affect the transcription of genes, and often, two different signals can affect the transcription of the same gene. In such cases, it is natural to ask how the combined transcriptional response compares to the individual responses. Mechanistic models can predict a range of combined responses, with the most commonly applied models predicting additive or multiplicative responses, but systematic genome-wide evaluation of these predictions are not available. Here, we performed a comprehensive analysis of the transcriptional response of human MCF-7 cells to two different signals (retinoic acid and TGF-β), applied individually and in combination. We found that the combined responses exhibited a range of behaviors, but clearly favored both additive and multiplicative combined transcriptional responses. We also performed paired chromatin accessibility measurements to measure putative transcription factor occupancy at regulatory elements near these genes. We found that increases in chromatin accessibility were largely additive, meaning that the combined binding response was the sum of the binding responses to each signal individually. We found some association between super-additivity of accessibility and multiplicative or super-multiplicative combined transcriptional responses, while sub-additivity of accessibility associated with additive transcriptional responses. Our findings suggest that mechanistic models of combined transcriptional regulation must be able to reproduce a range of behaviors.
Project description:Human salispheres, a culture of stem/progenitor cells, represent a potential therapy for radiation induced hyposalivation. Radiation-induced hyposalivation dramatically reduces quality of life of patients. We have demonstrated the potential of human salispheres to engraft and differentiate when transplanted into a mouse model of hyposalivation, in the manuscript associated with these data. We also demonstrate the functional recovery of irradiated salivary glands (SGs) following human salisphere transplantation, by the measurement of saliva production. We previously employed Illumina microarrays to determine if transplanted human salisphere cells exert a paracrine stimulatory effect on recipient mouse SGs. Results of this array unveiled a large cohort of immuneresponse genes unregulated following human salisphere transplantation. In order to negate this immune response and unveil any true paracrein stimulatory effects, we performed autologous transplantation of salispheres from NOD.Cg-Prkdcscid Il2rgtm1Wjl/SzJ (NSG) mice, the same model employed in our first microarray study, in the irradiated SGs of NSG mice. 6 samples were analysed in total. Total RNA from 3 irradiated control SGs (5Gy irradiation) and 3 salivary glands transplanted with 100,000 NSG salispheres.
Project description:Control and RBM6-KO MCF10A-Hras cells were subjected to RNA-sequencing before and after 12hrs exposure to 5Gy ionizing radiation (IR). Transcriptome analysis revealed a subset of genes that are differentially regulated in RBM6-KO cells compared to control cells. In addition, transcriptome of RBM6-KO cells after IR showed upregulation of DNA damage genes, suggesting impaired DNA repair compared to control cells.
Project description:In this study, we asked whether expression profiling could generate a “signature” of a dose of exposure to a toxic in general and to gamma rays in particular. To characterize genes that could potentially “sign” an exposure to irradiation and could allow the estimation of the received dose, we have performed DNA microarray experiments. Responses to gamma rays were analysed by genome-wide expression profiling at different doses in blood leucocytes of c57bl/6 mice. Twenty four mice were divided into five groups and exposed to 0.02Gy, 0.2Gy, 0.5Gy, 2Gy and 5Gy, five mice by dose except for 5Gy where we used only four mice. Keywords: dose response
Project description:Breast cancer is one of the cancer-related leading causes of death worldwide. Treatment of breast cancer is complex and challenging especially when metastasis is developed. In this study, we established a new concept of using infrared radiation as an alternative approach to breast cancer treatment. We used middle infrared (MIR) in the wavelength range of 3 to 5 μm to irradiate breast cancer cells. MIR significantly inhibited cell proliferation in several breast cancer cells, but did not affect the growth of normal breast epithelium cells. We performed iTRAQ-coupled LC-MS/MS system to investigate the MIR-triggered molecular mechanisms in breast cancer cells. A total of 1,749 proteins were quantified and 167 proteins were considered to be regulated by MIR. Applying the functional enrichment analysis on the proteomics results, we confirmed that MIR caused G2/M cell cycle arrest, remodeled microtubule network to an astral pole arrangement, altered actin filament formation and focal adhesion molecule localization, and reduced cell migration activity and invasion ability. Together, our results uncover the collaborative effects of MIR regulated physiological responses in concentrated networks, demonstrating the potential implementation of infrared radiation in breast cancer therapy.