Project description:Identifying patients that benefit from cisplatin-based adjuvant chemotherapy is a major issue in the management of muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). The purpose of this study is to correlate “luminal” and “basal” type protein expression with histological subtypes, to investigate the prognostic impact on survival after adjuvant chemotherapy and to define molecular subtypes of “double negative” patients (i.e. without expression of CK5/6 or GATA3).
Project description:Muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) is one of the aggressive cancer with limited treatment options. Targeted gene expression profiling in normal and tumor samples from MIBC patients could aid in identification of potential therapeutic targets. Thus we used kinase specific panel to study their expression pattern and to identify targetable genes.
Project description:At diagnosis approximately 75% of bladder urothelial carcinomas are non muscle invasive bladder cancers (Ta, T1 and Tis), 20% are muscle invasive bladder cancer (T2-T4) and 5% are already metastatic. Non muscle invasive bladder cancers are characterized by tumor recurrence in 60% to 85% of cases and, therefore, long-term followup is needed. The current standard methods to detect and monitor bladder cancer are cystoscopy and cytology. Cystoscopy is an invasive method and cytology is hampered by low sensitivity, especially for low grade tumors. So there is need to develop reliable and noninvasive methods to detect and predict bladder cancer biological behavior. So we have performed high density oligonucleotide microarray for discovery of new molecular markers to diagnose and predict the outcome of bladder cancer. Under an ethical guideline of Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University, India histologically confirmed seven bladder cancer patients were recruited from Department of Urology, Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University, Lucknow, India. Total RNA was extracted from tumor biopsies and hybridized on affymetrix Human Gene ST 1.1 array to determine differentially expressed genes in urinary bladder cancer with muscle invasion in comparison of normal human urinary bladder.
Project description:At diagnosis approximately 75% of bladder urothelial carcinomas are non muscle invasive bladder cancers (Ta, T1 and Tis), 20% are muscle invasive bladder cancer (T2-T4) and 5% are already metastatic. Non muscle invasive bladder cancers are characterized by tumor recurrence in 60% to 85% of cases and, therefore, long-term followup is needed. The current standard methods to detect and monitor bladder cancer are cystoscopy and cytology. Cystoscopy is an invasive method and cytology is hampered by low sensitivity, especially for low grade tumors. So there is need to develop reliable and noninvasive methods to detect and predict bladder cancer biological behavior. So we have performed high density oligonucleotide microarray for discovery of new molecular markers to diagnose and predict the outcome of bladder cancer.
Project description:This RNA-sequencing cohort includes 52 Non-muscle Invasive Bladder cancer (NMIBC) samples and 6 Muscle Invasive Bladder cancer (MIBC) samples.
Project description:Given the heterogeneity of disease evident from study of the presentation, histomorphology, disease course, and molecular lesions of bladder cancer, a cohort of 8 non-muscle invasive and 11 muscle invasive bladder cancers were profiled for gene expression using the Affymetrix HG-U133A platform. Under an IRB-approved protocol, snap frozen tissues for 19 cases of bladder cancer were procured and profiled for gene expression using Affymetrix HG-U133A microarrays.
Project description:Given the heterogeneity of disease evident from study of the presentation, histomorphology, disease course, and molecular lesions of bladder cancer, a cohort of 8 non-muscle invasive and 11 muscle invasive bladder cancers were profiled for gene expression using the Affymetrix HG-U133A platform.
Project description:Treatment of muscle-invasive bladder cancer remains a major clinical challenge. Aberrant HGF/c-MET upregulation and activation is frequently observed in bladder cancer correlating with cancer progression and invasion. However, the precise mechanisms underlying HGF/c-MET mediated invasion in bladder cancer remains unknown. As part of a negative feedback loop SMAD7 binds to the E3 ligase SMURF2 targeting the TGFβ receptor for degradation. Under these conditions SMAD7 acts as an agonist disrupting the intermolecular interactions within SMURF2, permitting SMURF2 activation. We demonstrate that HGF stimulates TGFβ signaling by inducing c-SRC mediated phosphorylation of SMURF2 at two tyrosine residues impeding SMAD7 binding and enhancing SMURF2 C2-HECT domain interaction, resulting in SMURF2 inhibition and TGFβ receptor stabilization. This upregulation of the TGFβ pathway by HGF leads to TGFβ-mediated EMT and invasion. Using biologically relevant orthotopic mouse models we show that inhibition of TGFβ signaling completely prevents HGF induced bladder cancer invasion. Furthermore, we make a rationale for the use of TGFβ receptor and MEK inhibitors in the treatment of high grade non-muscle-invasive bladder cancers or early stage muscle invasive bladder cancers.
Project description:ARID1A, a subunit of SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex. SWI/SNF complex can regulate expression of genes involved in vital biological processes such as cell cycle, DNA damage repair and development. ARID1A is known to have high mutation rate in human cancers including bladder cancer, leading to its loss of function. Publicly available whole exome sequencing data for muscle invasive and non-muscle invasive bladder cancers, show fraction of tumors with truncated ARID1A. Thus identifying therapeutic strategies for ARID1A mutant cancers is of high importance. EZH2, a histone methyltransferase is known to over-express and play pivotal role in aggressive bladder cancer. Our preliminary studies show that treatment of EZH2 inhibitor (GSK126) on ARID1A mutant bladder cancer cells significantly reduced cancer cell viability, invasion and colony formation relative to wild type ARID1A containing cells. Here, we performed microarray experiments to assess the effect of EZH2 inhibitor on global transcriptome of both ARID1A mutant and wild type bladder cancer cell line.