Human Renal Cancer Cells: Control vs STF-62247-treated cells
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ABSTRACT: Transcriptomic profiling of Renal Cancer Cells (RCC) in response to a small molecule, STF-62247. These microarrays have been used to compared with proteomic profiling data in the paper entitled Quantitative proteomics to study a small molecule targeting the loss of VHL in Renal Cell Carcinomas
Project description:Transcriptomic profiling of Renal Cancer Cells (RCC) in response to a small molecule, STF-62247. These microarrays have been used to compared with proteomic profiling data in the paper entitled Quantitative proteomics to study a small molecule targeting the loss of VHL in Renal Cell Carcinomas Two condition experiments, one cell line (RCC4), untreated control and STF-62247-treated. Biological triplicates N=3, indendently grown and harvested. Cells were treated with 1.25uM STF-62247 or vehicle (DMSO) for 48h. Oligo microarrays done in triplicate dye swaps for a total of 6 slides.
Project description:Human renal cell carcinomas (RCC) have differential expression of HIF-1alpha and HIF-2alpha, depending on VHL genotype and other events. Here, we have divided a series of RCC samples for HIF-alpha expression and VHL genotype, in order to define differentially expressed genes Keywords: Patient Sample Study A total of 57 frozen RCC samples were stained for HIF-1alpha and HIF-2alpha, and genotyped for VHL. 5 VHL WT/HIF-negative, 8 VHL-deficient/HIF-1alpha+/HIF-2alpha+ and 8 VHL-deficient/HIF-2alpha+ tumors were selected for microarray
Project description:Human renal cell carcinomas (RCC) have differential expression of HIF-1alpha and HIF-2alpha, depending on VHL genotype and other events. Here, we have divided a series of RCC samples for HIF-alpha expression and VHL genotype, in order to define differentially expressed genes Keywords: Patient Sample Study
Project description:Human renal cell carcinomas (RCC) have differential expression of HIF-1alpha and HIF-2alpha, depending on VHL genotype and other events. Here, we have divided a series of RCC samples based on HIF-alpha expression, in order to examine levels of genomic DNA aberration. Keywords: Patient Sample Study A total of 57 frozen RCC samples were stained for HIF-1alpha and HIF-2alpha, and genotyped for VHL. 10 VHL-deficient/HIF-1alpha+/HIF-2alpha+ and 11 VHL-deficient/HIF-2alpha+ tumors were selected for array CGH.
Project description:Human renal cell carcinomas (RCC) have differential expression of HIF-1alpha and HIF-2alpha, depending on VHL genotype and other events. Here, we have divided a series of RCC samples based on HIF-alpha expression, in order to examine levels of genomic DNA aberration. Keywords: Patient Sample Study
Project description:Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) tumors express varying gene profiles, dependent on VHL and HIF status, as well as other events. Here we analyzed a series of RCC tumors for HIF-alpha expression and VHL genotype, in relation to overal gene expression profiles. Keywords: Patient sample study
Project description:Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) accounts for around 2-3% of all adult neoplasms and its incidence is increasing. RCC is largely resistant to standard cancer treatment regimens including chemotherapy and radiation therapy, whilst immunotherapy modestly provides benefit to only a small subset of patients. As a result, prognosis for RCC patients with advanced disease is very poor, with a 5-year survival rate of less than 10%. An early event in the development of familial and up to 90% of sporadic RCC is the loss and/or mutation/methylation of the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumour suppressor gene. The tumor suppressor role of VHL relies primarily on its ability to target members of the hypoxia-inducible factors (HIF) for proteosomal degradation, however it has also been implicated in other biological processes linked to oncogenesis, such as the extracellular matrix assembly and the regulation of actin cytoskeleton, that are less clearly defined. Targeting the VHL/HIF pathway may dramatically improve RCC treatment, as demonstrated by an increasing number of novel agents that have shown promising activity in recent clinical trials6. Identification of other possible proteins regulated by VHL that may be involved in tumour suppression will improve our understanding of RCC pathobiology and also provide novel disease biomarkers or potential targets.
Project description:The human renal cancer cell line 786-0 was transfected with 3 vectors allowing the doxycycline-inducible expression of 1) the full length wild type sequence of VHL: 786-0 VHL WT, VHL+/+, 2) the R167Q mutant : 786-0 R167Q, VHL mutated, 3) the empty vector : 786-0 EV, VHL-/-. The aim of the study was to examine whether the VHL-R167Q mutation, which is associated with a high risk of developping clear cell renal carcinomas, could impact the plasticity of renal carcinoma cells.
Project description:Accurate diagnostic discrimination of benign renal oncocytoma (OC) and malignant renal cell carcinomas (RCC) is not only useful for planning appropriate treatment strategies of patients with renal masses but also for estimating prognosis. Classification of renal neoplasms solely by histopathology can often be challenging for a variety of reasons. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a genomic algorithm for molecular classification of renal cortical neoplasms that could be implemented in a routine clinical diagnostic setting. Using TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) copy number profiles of over 600 RCC specimens, prior FISH studies and published literature, a classification algorithm was developed consisting of 15 genomic markers: loss of VHL, 3p21, 8p, and chromosomes 1, 2, 6, 10 and 17, and gain of 5qter, 16p, 17q, 20q, and chromosomes 3, 7, and 12. Criteria for scoring specimens for the presence of each genomic marker were established. As validation, 191 surgically resected formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded renal neoplasms were blindly submitted to targeted array-CGH and were classified according to the algorithm. Upon histologic re-review leading to exclusion of three specimens and using histology as the gold standard, the algorithm correctly classified 58 of 62 (93%) clear cell renal cell carcinoma, 51 of 56 (91%) papillary RCC, and 33 of 34 (97%) chromophobe RCC. Of the 36 OC specimens, 17 were classified as OC, two as a malignant subtype, 14 as benign, and three exhibited alterations not associated with a specific subtype. In ten of the latter two groups, CCND1-rearrangement was detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization, affording a classification as OC. Together, 33 of 36 (92%) OC were classified as OC or benign. For the entire validation cohort, an overall diagnostic sensitivity of 93% and above 97% specificity was achieved, suggesting that the implementation of genome-based molecular classification in a clinical diagnostic setting could impact the overall management and outcome of patients with renal tumors. A total of 191 RCC FFPE samples are analyzed including 63 clear cell RCC (ccRCC), 57 papillary RCC (pRCC), 35 chromophobe RCC (chrRCC) and 36 oncocytoma (OC). Two-color array-comparative genomic hybdrization on custom designed using RCC DNA as test and normal sex-matched DNA as reference.
Project description:Altered metabolism is an important part of malignant transformation of tumor cells. Oncogenic transformation may reprogram tumor metabolism and render tumor cells addicted to extracellular nutrients. Such nutrient addictions associated with oncogenic mutations may offer therapeutic opportunities; however, it remains difficult to predict these nutrient addictions. Here, we performed a nutrigenetic screen to determine the phenotypes of isogenic pairs of clear-cell renal cancer cells (ccRCC) with or without VHL upon the deprivation of individual amino acids. We identified that cystine deprivation triggered rapid programmed necrosis in VHL-deficient RCC, but not in their VHL-restored counterparts. Similar cystine addiction was also observed in VHL-deficient primary RCC tumors cells. Blockage of cystine uptake significantly delayed xenograft growth of ccRCC. Importantly, cystine deprivation triggered similar metabolic changes regardless of VHL status. Therefore, metabolic differences due to cystine deprivation are not different enough to readily explain the distinct fate of life vs. death in VHL-deficient and restored cell.. Instead, we found that increased levels of TNFα associated with VHL loss in the VHL-deficient RCC force them to rely on intact RIPK1 to inhibit apoptosis. However, this pre-existing elevated TNFα in the VHL-deficient ccRCC renders these cells susceptible to the necrosis signaling triggered by cystine deprivation. In addition, we identified that cystine-deprived necrosis in VHL-deficient RCC depends on reciprocal amplification of the Src-p38-Noxa signaling and TNFα-RIP1/3-MLKL necrosis pathways that culminate in MLKL oligomerization and programmed necrosis. Together, our data reveal that the contextual cystine-addictions in VHL-deficient ccRCC is dependent on activating pre-existing oncogenic pathways to trigger programmed necrosis. RNA was extracted by RNAeasy kits (Qiagen) from the RCC4 Vec and VHL-reconstituted cells which were exposed to the control full DMEM or cystine deprived DMEM media for 6 hours (three replicates in each condition).