Chromosome 8 BAC Array CGH and Expression Studies Identify Amplification and Overexpression of TRMT12 in Breast Cancer
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ABSTRACT: Genomic changes in chromosome 8 are commonly observed in breast cancer cell lines and tumors. Fine mapping of such genomic changes, and evaluation of associated expression changes, are expected to provide reagents for diagnosis, insights into understanding the disease, and open up avenues for novel therapeutic intervention. We made an effort to search for genes on chromosome 8 with altered copy number and expression. A high resolution (0.1Mb) bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) array of chromosome 8 that can detect single copy changes was developed using Phi29 DNA polymerase amplified BAC DNA. Hybridization of DNA from a breast cancer cell line (SKBR3) with two known amplified regions (8q21 and 8q24) resulted in resolving this region into 6 distinct amplicons, in addition identified 3 deleted regions. The boundaries and the peak of each region were verified by FISH, and the extent of amplification/deletion for each region was validated by qPCR. Using these BAC arrays, CGH was performed with a total of eight breast cancer cell lines, and common regions of genomic amplification/deletion were identified by segmentation analysis. Two consensus regions in 8q24 included a 1.2 Mb region (125.3-126.5 Mb) and a 1.0 Mb region (128.1-129.1 Mb) that were amplified in 7/8 cell lines, and in the 8q21 region there was a smaller 0.88 Mb region (86.62-87.50 Mb) amplified in 4/8 cell lines. A global expression analysis was performed for all these cell lines using a high-density oligonucleotide array to identify the genes whose expression correlated with amplification/deletion. Representative genes from 5 commonly amplified regions (REXO1L1, TMEM55A, TRMT12, MTSS1, EIF2C2, MYC) and 2 deleted regions (DPYSL2, NRG1 and NDRG1) were verified by qPCR and RT-qPCR for genomic and expression changes. Validation by RT-qPCR using RNA from 30 breast tumors showed that the TRMT12 (125.5 Mb) gene were overexpressed in many of the tumors. TRMT12 is homolog of a yeast gene encoding tRNA methyltransferase involved in biosythesis of a modified base in a tRNA. It would be interesting to explore the role of TRMT12 and the RNA processing pathway in tumorigenesis. Keywords: Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH), Breast cancer cell lines, Expression, BAC array, Oligo expression array
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE6567 | GEO | 2007/05/07
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA98741
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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