Project description:Gene expression of T47D-MTVL human breast cancer cells expressing Dox-inducible shRNAs against histone H1.4 (sh120) or multiple H1 variants (sh225), or overexpressing WT or K26A mutant HA-tagged H1.4. T47D-MTVL, breast cancer cell line carrying one stably integrated copy of luciferase reporter gene driven by the MMTV promoter, is stably infected with an inducible system for the expression of shRNAs.Cells stably express RedFP and KRAB repressor fused to Tet regulator.Upon Dox treatment, cells express RedFP and the cloned shRNA. Stable breast cancer-derived cell lines expressing an shRNA against one of each of the histone H1 isoforms in response to doxycycline (Dox) were grown for six days in the presence or absence of Dox, in duplicate, and RNA extracted for microarray hybridization. Cell lines used: inducible shRNA against H1.4 or multiple H1 variants, and random shRNA-expression vector. Stable breast cancer-derived cell lines expressing the histone H1.4 isoform, WT or K26A, HA-tagged, in duplicate, and RNA extracted for microarray hybridization. Cell lines used: overexpressing H1.4 WT or K26A mutant.
Project description:A small number of tumor-derived cell lines have formed the mainstay of cancer therapeutic development, yielding drugs with impact typically measured as months to disease progression. To develop more effective breast cancer therapeutics, and more readily understand their potential clinical impact, we constructed a functional metabolic portrait of 46 independently-derived breast tumorigenic cell lines, contrasted with purified normal breast epithelial subsets, freshly isolated pleural effusion breast tumor samples and culture-adapted, non-tumorigenic mammary epithelial cell derivatives. We report our analysis of glutamine uptake, dependence, and identification of a significant subset of triple negative samples that are glutamine auxotrophs. This NCBI GEO submission comprises a small datasest generated to compare the expression profiles of the above nontumorigenic, purified normal and purified pleural effusion samples with 10 established breast cancer-derived cell lines. This dataset was subsequently merged with a previously published expression dataset derived from 45 independent breast cancer derived cell lines (Neve, et al 2006), and analyses contrasting various subsets of the merged dataset were published. Expression data from 26 samples, no replicates: purified normal human mammary epithelial breast cellular subsets CD10+, BerEP4+, and remaining stromal cell samples from 3 independent anonymous donors; 3 anonymous purified human breast cancer pleural effusion samples; 4 HMEC-derived culture adapted but not transformed samples (184A1, 184B5, HMLE, HMLE-PR); and 10 established human breast cancer cell lines.
Project description:PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are a novel class of small ncRNAs initially isolated from germ line cells; although recent studies report that they are expressed also in somatic cells. To elucidate the role of piRNAs in somatic cells, in particular from breast cancer, we performed the first extensive next generation sequencing expression analysis of small RNA transcriptomes of hormone responsive breast cancer cell lines in different culture conditions. In addition, to understand the behavior of piRNAs with respect to miRNAs in breast tumor tissues, small RNA sequence data set available in Gene Expression Omnibus (GSE39162) database was used. Results led to the identification of ~100 and ~150 human piRNAs in the breast cancerous cell lines and tumors respectively, several of which differentially expressed in cell lines under different experimental conditions tested or in response to ERβ and in tumor tissues. Western blotting and Q-PCR analysis also revealed the presence in breast cell lines of PIWIL (PIWI Like) subfamily members proteins encoded in the human genome (PIWIL2/HILI and PIWIL4/HIWI2) and of other components of the piRNA biogenesis pathways, suggesting that this might indeed be functional in somatic cells. These results show that piRNAs are expressed in human somatic cells, in particular in cancer, where their expression is influenced by neoplastic transformation, growth conditions and estrogen receptor beta. More important, we demonstrate for the first time a distinct pattern of piRNAs expression in cancerous vs normal breast tissues, which suggests a potential role of these epigenetic modulators in mammary carcinogenesis and maintenance of the cancer cell phenotype.
