Project description:CAMPARI2 CRISPR screening for SOCE modulators of ER stress. PC cells were sorted and sequenced for CRISPR whole KO library (De brie). Unsorted, SOrte din LOW PC and LOW PC Tunica treated fro 4hours were analysed.
Project description:We have developed a screening platform for the isolation of genetic entities involved in metastatic reactivation. Retroviral libraries encoding cDNAs from highly metastatic breast cancer cells or pooled microRNAs were transduced into breast cancer cells that become dormant upon infiltrating the lung. Upon inoculation in the tail vein of mice, the cells that had acquired the ability to undergo reactivation generated metastatic lesions. Integrated retroviral vectors were recovered from these lesions, sequenced, and subjected to a second round of validation. By using this strategy, we identified canonical genes and microRNAs that mediate metastatic reactivation in the lung. To identify genes that oppose reactivation, we screened an expression library encoding shRNAs and we identified target genes that encode potential enforcers of dormancy. Our screening strategy enables the identification and rapid biological validation of single genetic entities that are necessary to maintain dormancy or to induce reactivation. This technology should facilitate the elucidation of the molecular underpinnings of these processes.
Project description:Metastasis is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths, enabling cancer cells to expand to secondary tumor sites and compromise systemic organ function1. Given that primary tumors and metastases often share the same constellation of functional driver mutations2–4, the mechanisms driving their distinct phenotypes are unclear. Here, we show that inactivation of a frequently mutated tumor suppressor gene, liver kinase B1 (LKB1), has evolving effects throughout lung cancer progression, differentially re-programming the epigenetic landscape of early-stage primary tumors compared to late-stage metastases. By integrating genome-scale CRISPR/Cas9 screening with bulk and single-cell multi-omic analyses, we unexpectedly identify LKB1 as a master regulator of chromatin state in lung adenocarcinoma primary tumors. Using an in vivo model of metastatic progression, we further reveal that loss of LKB1 activates the early endoderm transcription factor SOX17 in metastases and metastatic-like sub-populations of cancer cells within primary tumors. SOX17 expression is both necessary and sufficient to drive a second wave of epigenetic changes in LKB1-deficient cells that enhances metastatic ability. Overall, our study demonstrates how the downstream effects of an individual driver mutation can change throughout cancer development, with implications for stage-specific therapeutic resistance mechanisms and the gene regulatory underpinnings of metastatic evolution.
Project description:Osteosarcoma (OS) is the malignant bone tumor with a high tendency to metastasize to the lung, where the molecular mechanisms are unclear. The mouse OS cell line LM8 has been isolated originally from the Dunn OS cell line by in vivo selection as a subline with a high metastatic potential to the lung. We used gene chip-based global gene expression analysis of differential screening between parental Dunn and LM8 cells in order to reveal genes predominantly expressed in LM8 cells, which correlate with high metastatic potential. 2 cell lines
Project description:We have developed a screening platform for the isolation of genetic entities involved in metastatic reactivation. Retroviral libraries encoding cDNAs from highly metastatic breast cancer cells or pooled microRNAs were transduced into breast cancer cells that become dormant upon infiltrating the lung. Upon inoculation in the tail vein of mice, the cells that had acquired the ability to undergo reactivation generated metastatic lesions. Integrated retroviral vectors were recovered from these lesions, sequenced, and subjected to a second round of validation. By using this strategy, we identified canonical genes and microRNAs that mediate metastatic reactivation in the lung. To identify genes that oppose reactivation, we screened an expression library encoding shRNAs and we identified target genes that encode potential enforcers of dormancy. Our screening strategy enables the identification and rapid biological validation of single genetic entities that are necessary to maintain dormancy or to induce reactivation. This technology should facilitate the elucidation of the molecular underpinnings of these processes. We conducte miRNA microarray analysis (Agilent Technologies) as a complementary technique to examine miRNA expression profiles in our tumor progression series model, comparing the non-metastatic cells lines (67NR, 168FARN, 4TO7) with that of the metastatic cell line (4T1). By studying these profiles, we can identify sets of miRNAs that regulate the different steps of metastasis, namely intravasation, survival in the circulatory system and at distant sites, and extravasation and metastases formation, as represented by the different cell lines.
Project description:Osteosarcoma (OS) is the malignant bone tumor with a high tendency to metastasize to the lung, where the molecular mechanisms are unclear. The mouse OS cell line LM8 has been isolated originally from the Dunn OS cell line by in vivo selection as a subline with a high metastatic potential to the lung. We used gene chip-based global gene expression analysis of differential screening between parental Dunn and LM8 cells in order to reveal genes predominantly expressed in LM8 cells, which correlate with high metastatic potential.
Project description:KP1233 lung tumor cells cells were screened with a CRISPR library against TSGs in vitro and as tumors in Rag1-null and immunocompetent WT C57BL/6 mice
Project description:CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing was used to disrupt nearly all the GPCR and neuropeptide genes from C. elegans genome. Multiple genes were disrupted in each strain for the purpose of screening. The genotype is the list of targeted genes
Project description:To identify breast cancer metastasis-relevant circRNAs, we assessed the expression profiles of circRNAs in parental MDA-MB-231 (231-PAR) cells, isogenic brain metastatic cells (231-BM6), lung metastatic cells (LM2) and bone metastatic cells (1833), which were isolated from brain, lung or bone-seeking 231-PAR cells
Project description:Metastasis is the major cause of cancer-related mortality. In the lung metastasis, monocyte-derived macrophages (Mo-macs) exhibit a complex function. However, tumor cells how to derive lung metastasis through Mo-macs remains unclear. Here we show that a tumor-secreted protein osteoprotegerin (OPG) contributes to the lung metastasis of cancer depends on the Mo-macs by an in vivo screening. OPG binds with RANKL to block the signaling between RANKL-RANK on Mo-macs. RANKL-RANK signals induce Mo-macs to secrete CXCL10, recruiting NK cells to control the lung metastasis. Increased expression of OPG in the metastases is regulated by TGF-β. Consistent with our findings, enrichment of OPG amplifications was observed in metastatic cancer patients, and increased expression of OPG was also shown in the lung metastatic sites compared with the paired primary breast cancer samples. Overall, our findings reveal a mechanism of how tumor cells promote lung metastasis via inhibiting the function of Mo-macs.