Project description:Rates of esophageal adenocarcinoma are rising globally, with risk factors including a range of genetic and environmental factors, including obesity, tobacco smoking, TP53 mutations, and Barrett’s esophagus, a proinflammatory condition which often occurs prior to developing adenocarcinoma. Interestingly, these factors also modulate the gastrointestinal microbiome. To better understand the linkage between the microbiome, inflammation, and development of esophageal adenocarcinoma, we integrated 16S and RNA sequencing data. We found several microbial taxa enriched in tumor samples which were correlated with predicted immune cell infiltration from RNA-seq data, including a decrease in megakaryocyte-erythroid progenitor cells with a concomitant increase in platelets. These data suggest dysbiosis of the intratumoral microbiome promotes development and production of platelets, which reveal alterations in the immune microenvironment of esophageal adenocarcinoma and suggest novel therapeutic targets.
Project description:We have now developed an organoid-based model of gastric cancer from GAstric Neoplasia (GAN) mice, which express Wnt1 and the enzymes COX2 and microsomal prostaglandin E synthase 1 in the stomach. Both p53 knockout (GAN-p53KO) organoids and KRASG12V-expressing GAN-p53KO (GAN-KP) organoids were generated by genetic manipulation of GAN mouse–derived tumor (GAN-WT) organoids. To uncover the molecular mechanism underlying the intratumoral heterogeneity of GAN-KP tumors, we performed spatial transcriptomics analysis with the 10× Genomics Visium platform, which allows characterization of the spatial topography of gene expression.
Project description:We sought to illustrate molecular subtypes associated with clinical prognosis and to identify genetic aberrations for potential targeted therapeutics through comprehensive whole-genome analysis of 131 Chinese gastric cancer tissue specimens using whole-genome array CGH.
2014-05-06 | GSE57302 | GEO
Project description:The gastric microbiome in advanced gastric adenocarcinoma
Project description:Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) can be classified into the major subtypes adenocarcinoma (AC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) subtypes. Although explicit molecular, histological and clinical characteristics have been reported for both subtypes, no specific therapy exists so far. However, the characterization of suitable molecular targets holds great promises to develop novel therapies in NSCLC. In the present study, global gene expression profiling of 58 human high grade NSCLC specimens revealed large transcriptomic differences between AC and SCC subtypes: More than 1.700 genes were found to be differentially expressed. Experiment Overall Design: The NSCLC patient collective was composed of the histological subtype adenocarcinoma (n=40) and squamous cell carcinoma (n=18). We subjected gene expression profiles of 40 AC and 18 SCC samples into further analysis. Unsupervised hierarchical clustering of all 58 NSCLC tumors using the 500 most variably expressed transcripts revealed two different clusters, which were strongly associated with the histological subtypes AC and SCC of NSCLC. Our result indicated that the major impact on global transcriptional changes was due to the NSCLC histology.
