Project description:Cadherin-11 expression is associated with tumor progression and metastasis in various cancers, including basal-like breast carcinoma and advanced prostate cancer, and invasive cell lines, yet is absent in normal epithelium. We now show cadherin-11 attenuation in aggressive breast and prostate cancer cells results in marked decreases in proliferation, migration, and invasion. Cadherin-11 depletion in MDA-231 cells prevents tumor growth in mice and alters gene expression associated with poor prognosis malignancies. Additionally, a novel small molecule inhibitor targeting its unique adhesive interface significantly inhibits the growth and migration of cadherin-11 positive cells. Cadherin-11 is essential for malignant progression of MDA-231 basal-type cells, and may serve as both an aggressive tumor marker and viable therapeutic target for poor prognosis carcinomas expressing it.
Project description:Aurora Kinase B and ZAK interaction model
Equivalent of the stochastic model used in "Network pharmacology model predicts combined Aurora B and ZAK inhibition in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells" by Tang et. al. 2018.
The only difference is cell division and partitioning of the components, which are available in the original model for SGNS2.
Project description:Alterations in the cadherin-catenin adhesion complexes are involved in tumor initiation, progression and metastasis. However, the functional implication of distinct cadherin types in breast cancer biology is still poorly understood. Methods: To compare the functional role of E-cadherin and P-cadherin in invasive breast cancer, we stably transfected these molecules into the MDA-MB-231 cell line, and investigated their effects on motility, invasion and gene expression regulation. Expression of either E- and P-cadherin significantly increased cell aggregation and induced a switch from fibroblastic to epithelial morphology. Although expression of these cadherins did not completely reverse the mesenchymal phenotype of MDA-MB-231 cells, both E- and P-cadherin decreased fibroblast-like migration and invasion through extracellular matrix in a similar way. Moreover, microarray gene expression analysis of MDA-MB-231 cells after expression of E- and P-cadherins revealed that these molecules can activate signaling pathways leading to significant changes in gene expression. Although the expression patterns induced by E- and P-cadherin showed more similarities than differences, 40 genes were differentially modified by the expression of either cadherin type. Microarray gene expression analysis of MDA-MB-231 cells after expression of E- and P-cadherins using different clones for each conditions to reveal that these molecules can activate signaling pathways leading to significant changes in gene expression
Project description:Alterations in the cadherin-catenin adhesion complexes are involved in tumor initiation, progression and metastasis. However, the functional implication of distinct cadherin types in breast cancer biology is still poorly understood. Methods: To compare the functional role of E-cadherin and P-cadherin in invasive breast cancer, we stably transfected these molecules into the MDA-MB-231 cell line, and investigated their effects on motility, invasion and gene expression regulation. Expression of either E- and P-cadherin significantly increased cell aggregation and induced a switch from fibroblastic to epithelial morphology. Although expression of these cadherins did not completely reverse the mesenchymal phenotype of MDA-MB-231 cells, both E- and P-cadherin decreased fibroblast-like migration and invasion through extracellular matrix in a similar way. Moreover, microarray gene expression analysis of MDA-MB-231 cells after expression of E- and P-cadherins revealed that these molecules can activate signaling pathways leading to significant changes in gene expression. Although the expression patterns induced by E- and P-cadherin showed more similarities than differences, 40 genes were differentially modified by the expression of either cadherin type.
Project description:In order to identify patterns of gene expression that are associated with the putative tumor suppressor gene ITIH5 mediated suppression of breast cancer metastatic growth, we performed a transcriptomic micro-array analysis of the MDA-MB-231 wildtype, three independent highly aggressive MDA-MB-231-mock clones and four independent weak aggressive MDA-MB-231-ITIH5 clones. Related methylation profiling data are found under accession <a href='../E-MTAB-5081/'>E-MTAB-5081</a>.
Project description:Aerobic glycolysis is a hallmark of cancer glucose metabolism. Here we suggest that extracellular vesicles (EVs) originating from cancer cells can modulate glucose metabolism in the recipient cancer cells and induce cell proliferation and aggressive cancer phenotypes. Two breast cancer cell lines with different levels of glycolytic activity, MDA-MB-231 and MCF7, were selected and co-cultured, as the originating and recipient cells. The change in 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake of the recipient MCF7 cells was assessed after co-culture with the MDA-MB-231 cells. Proteomics analysis was performed to investigate the changes in the protein expression patterns in the recipient MCF7 cells. FDG uptake by the recipient MCF7 cells was sig-nificantly increased after co-culture with the MDA-MB-231 cells.
Project description:We examined whether SATB1 functions as a global gene regulator in order to maintain the aggressive phenotype of the MDA-MB-231 cell line. We compared the gene expression profiles between control_shRNA-MDA-MB-231 cells, which express SATB1 at high levels, and SATB1_shRNA1-MDA-MB-231 in which the level of SATB1 was greatly downregulated by RNAi technology. This comparative studies were performed using two different platforms (Codelink and Affymetrix genechip) with two culture conditions either on plastic dish (2D) or on matrigel (3D) which allows cells to form a breast-like morphology only for non-aggressive cells. Keywords: Comparative studies on Control_shRNA and SATB1_shRNA1 expressing MDA-MB-231 from 2D or 3D culture. We examined control_shRNA-MDA-MB-231 cells and SATB1_shRNA1-MDA-MB-231 cells under two culture condition;on plastic dish(2D culture) and on Matrigel coated dish(3D culture). When SATB1 was depleted by RNAi technology, these normally aggressive cells exhibited normal breast like morphology on 3D. We used two different microarray platforms (Codelink and Affymetrix) to make expression data. Initial analysis of data and cross-platform comparison were performed using Codelink expression analysis and GeneSpring software. We provide ratio for control_shRNA/SATB1_shRNA1-MDA-MB-231 cells for 2D and 3D on this series.
Project description:The project profiled the expression patterns in hypoxia induced secretomes between MDA-MB-231 parental and MDA-MB-231 Bone Tropic (BT) breast cancer cell lines which have been previously generated by Massague and colleagues (Kang et al. Cancer Cell 2003).
Project description:Oct4, a key transcription factor for maintaining the pluripotency and self-renewal of stem cells has been reported previously. It also plays an important role in tumor proliferation and apoptosis, but the role of Oct4 been in tumor metastasis is still not very clear. Here, we found that ectopic expression of Oct4 in breast cancer cells can inhibit their migration and invasion. Detailed examinations revealed that Oct4 up-regulates expression of E-cadherin, indicative of its inhibitory role in epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). RNA-sequence assay showed that Oct4 down-regulates expression of Rnd1. As an atypical Rho protein, Rnd1 can affect cytoskeleton rearrangement and regulate cadherin-based cell-cell adhesion by antagonizing the typical Rho protein, RhoA. Ectopic expression of Rnd1 in MDA-MB-231 cells changes cell morphology which influences cell adhesion and increases migration. It is reported that EMT is accompanied by cytoskeleton remodeling, we hypothesized that Rnd1 may play a role in regulating EMT. Over-expression of Rnd1 can partly rescue the inhibitory effects induced by Oct4, not only migration and invasion, but also in E-cadherin level and cellular morphology. Furthermore, silencing of Rnd1 can up-regulate the expression of E-cadherin in MDA-MB-231 cells. These results present evidence that ectopic expression of Oct4 increases E-cadherin and inhibits metastasis, effects which may be related to Rnd1 associated cell-cell adhesion in breast cancer cells. Examination of mRNA profiles in MDA-MB-231 cells with OCT4 overexpressing
Project description:To investigate the function of Neuropilin-1 (NRP-1) in breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cells. CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing was used to knockout (KO) the NRP-1 gene in MDA-MB-231 human triple-negative breast cancer cells. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were determined in NRP-1 KO and parental MDA-MB-231 cells using whole transcriptome next-generation sequencing.