Project description:The comprehensive DNA methylation analysis with nasopharyngeal carcinoma cases with normal nasopharyngeal epithelial tissues, and nasopharyngeal epithelial cell lines. Infinium HumanMethylation850 BeadChip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across 850,000 CpG sites. Samples included 2 nasopharyngeal carcinoma cases, 3 normal nasopharyngeal epithelial tissues, and NP69T and NP69T-LMP1 cell lines.
Project description:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) related nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an epithelial malignancy with higher incidence in Asian endemic area (EA) than in non-endemic area (NEA), where frequency is below 1/105/year. The causes of such difference are unclear and might be related to viral, environmental (e.g. diet) and genomic factors. We aimed at dissecting the gene expression (GE) and microenvironment landscape in NPC leading to the identification of molecular subtypes explaining the differences between EA and NEA.
Project description:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) has extremely skewed ethnic and geographic distributions, is poorly understood at the genetic level and is in need of effective therapeutic approaches. Here we determined the mutational landscape of 128 cases with NPC using whole-exome and targeted deep sequencing, as well as SNP array analysis. These approaches revealed a distinct mutational signature and nine significantly mutated genes, many of which have not been implicated previously in NPC. Notably, integrated analysis showed enrichment of genetic lesions affecting several important cellular processes and pathways, including chromatin modification, ERBB-PI3K signaling and autophagy machinery. Further functional studies suggested the biological relevance of these lesions to the NPC malignant phenotype. In addition, we uncovered a number of new druggable candidates because of their genomic alterations. Together our study provides a molecular basis for a comprehensive understanding of, and exploring new therapies for, NPC Examination of mRNA expression levels in 4 individuals dignosed for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma using RNA sequencing.
Project description:Metastasis is the major reason of treatment failure in nasopharyngeal carcinoma. miRNAs have been identified to regulate tumor metastasis. We aimed to identify metastasis-associated miRNAs in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Project description:Purpose: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized systems-based analysis of cellular pathways. The goals of this study are using RNA sequencing analysis to evaluate the effects of si-E2F1 (or E2F3) on the mRNA of human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line HK1. Methods: Human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line HK1 was transfected with a control non-targeting siRNA to cells or transfected with siRNA targeting E2F1 (or E2F3) for 48 hours in DMEM medium (with 10% serum). Total RNA were extracted and detected by Illumina high-throughput RNA sequencing data analysis. 3 independent biological replicates were plated, transfected in parallel for each control and siRNA. Results: Log-fold changes of up- or down-regulated mRNAs between the control and experiment group were selected with a significance threshold of p<0.05. Conclusions: Our study describes the mRNA changes of human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line HK1 transfected with E2F1 (or E2F3) siRNA.
Project description:microRNA signatures with diagnosis, distant metastasis and prognosis for nasopharyngeal carcinoma 62 nasopharyngeal carcinoma and 6 non-cancer nasopharyngitis fresh tissues were detected by microRNA microarray
Project description:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a common cancer in southern China and South East Asia where more than 50,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. We used microarrays to identify down or upregulated genes in NPC compared with non-malignant controls. Experiment Overall Design: Snap frozen nasopharyngeal biopsies from 25 patients with histologically confirmed undifferentiated NPC were included in the microarray analysis. Controls were obtained from 3 patients with no evidence of malignancy.
