Project description:Junction Adhesion Molecule-A (JAM-A) is present on leukocytes and platelets where it promotes cell adhesion and motility. We are interested in an interaction between JAM-A and tumor progression/metastases. To address this point, we mated JAM-A-/- mice and mouse mammary tumor model MMTV-PyMT mice which, which express polyoma middle T antigen under the control of mouse mammary tumor virus. MMTV-PyMT mice show 100% penetration of mammary tumor and highly metastases to lung. MMTV-PyMT mice without JAM-A show less primary tumor progression, therefore JAM-A enhance primary tumor progression. Then we are addressing the molecular mechanism of this phenomenon by in vivo. Furthermore, we would like to examine JAM-A deficient MMTV tumor signature. Each 3 MMTV-PyMT JAm-A+/+ (JamA+) and 3 MMTV JAM-A-/- (JamA-) mammary tumor were resected at early stages of tumor development for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:Junction Adhesion Molecule-A (JAM-A) is present on leukocytes and platelets where it promotes cell adhesion and motility. We are interested in an interaction between JAM-A and tumor progression/metastases. To address this point, we mated JAM-A-/- mice and mouse mammary tumor model MMTV-PyMT mice which, which express polyoma middle T antigen under the control of mouse mammary tumor virus. MMTV-PyMT mice show 100% penetration of mammary tumor and highly metastases to lung. MMTV-PyMT mice without JAM-A show less primary tumor progression, therefore JAM-A enhance primary tumor progression. Then we are addressing the molecular mechanism of this phenomenon by in vivo. Furthermore, we would like to examine JAM-A deficient MMTV tumor signature.
Project description:The objective of this study was to determine the effect of Thyroid Hormone Responsive Protein Spot14 (Spot14) loss on the gene expression profiles of tumors from MMTV-Polyomavirus middle-T antigen (PyMT) mice. MMTV-PyMT/S14-heterozygous mice were crossed with S14-heterozygous mice and 1 cm tumors from MMTV-PyMT control (wild-type S14) or MMTV-PyMT/S14-null offspring were profiled using Affymetrix gene arrays. Tumor latency was not different between groups; however, tumors lacking S14 grew significantly slower than control tumors. Loss of S14 also decreased the levels of de novo synthesized fatty acids in mammary tumors. In additional studies, performed on MMTV-Neu mice, we found that S14 overexpression was associated with increased tumor cell proliferation and elevated levels of tumor fatty acids. Gene expression profiling revealed that S14 loss and overexpression in mouse mammary tumors altered pathways associated with proliferation and metabolism. This study provides important information about the role of S14 in mammary tumorigenesis and tumor metabolism. Microarray analysis was performed on 4 mammary tumors from MMTV-PyMT mice and 4 tumors from MMTV-PyMT/S14-null mice.
Project description:The objective of this study was to determine the effect of Thyroid Hormone Responsive Protein Spot14 (Spot14) loss on the gene expression profiles of tumors from MMTV-Polyomavirus middle-T antigen (PyMT) mice. MMTV-PyMT/S14-heterozygous mice were crossed with S14-heterozygous mice and 1 cm tumors from MMTV-PyMT control (wild-type S14) or MMTV-PyMT/S14-null offspring were profiled using Affymetrix gene arrays. Tumor latency was not different between groups; however, tumors lacking S14 grew significantly slower than control tumors. Loss of S14 also decreased the levels of de novo synthesized fatty acids in mammary tumors. In additional studies, performed on MMTV-Neu mice, we found that S14 overexpression was associated with increased tumor cell proliferation and elevated levels of tumor fatty acids. Gene expression profiling revealed that S14 loss and overexpression in mouse mammary tumors altered pathways associated with proliferation and metabolism. This study provides important information about the role of S14 in mammary tumorigenesis and tumor metabolism.
Project description:In order to identify transciptomic changes of endothelial cells (Ecs) in response to STING activation, endothelial cells were soted using FACS and RNA-seq was performed. We compared ECs from 3 models; normal mammary fat pad, MMTV-PyMT spontaneous breast tumor, implanted breast tumor. Tumor cells derived from MMTV-PyMT spontaneous breast tumor were expanded on culture and implanted in mammary fat pad of female FVB mice to establish implanted breast tumor model.
Project description:miRNA sequencing of mammary tumor RNA from 18 [AKXD subline(n) x PyMT]F1. The PyMT strain was FVB/N-TgN(MMTV-PyVT)634Mul. Mammary tumor total small RNA from mice representing each of the 18 AKXD RI strains was pooled to represent each strain and sequenced using the Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx sequencer.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of miRNA levels in mammary tumors from 18 [PyMT x AKXD]F1 sublines. The PyMT strain was FVB/N-TgN(MMTV-PyVT)634Mul. Mammary tumor total RNA from mice representing one of 18 AKXD RI strains were pooled to represent each strain and expression profiled using a custom miRNA microarray.
Project description:In this experiment, we have tested the effect of microRNA-203 as a potential differentiation inducer in breast cancer organoids, derived from the PyMT mouse model. MMTV-PyVT transgenic mice express the Polyoma Virus middle T antigen under the direction of the mouse mammary tumor virus promoter/enhancer. Hemizygous MMTV-PyMT females develop palpable mammary tumors which metastasize to the lung. These mice have high penetrance of early onset of mammary cancer compared to other mammary tumor models. PyMT mice were crossed with miR-203 knock-in mice, where miR-203 expression is induced upon DOX treatment. Thus, organoids derived from the mammary gland tumors of such mouse model where evaluated in vitro. miR-203 expression was therefore induced by Doxycycline in vitro, and compared to other well-defined differentiation media for breast cancer tissue, such as the mammary epithelial cell culture media and kit (CC-2551B; Lonza).
Project description:Loss of E2F transcription factos alters metastatic capacity of MMTV-PyMT tumors. We used microarrays to futher characterize the effects of E2F loss on mammary tumorigenesis in MMTV-PyMT mice.