Project description:We present evidence for cytogenetic changes in two transformed ovarian surface epithelium cell lines, TOSE1 and TOSE4. hTERT-immortalised ovarian surface epithelial cell line spontaneously transformed as measured by growth in soft agar. These cells were grown on plastic, and genomic DNA was extracted and analyzed for cytogenetic changes. The genotyping Affymetrix SNP6.0 arrays were used to define copy number changes in the TOSE1 and TOSE4 cell lines.
Project description:We present evidence for cytogenetic changes in two transformed ovarian surface epithelium cell lines, TOSE1 and TOSE4. hTERT-immortalised ovarian surface epithelial cell line spontaneously transformed as measured by growth in soft agar. These cells were grown on plastic, and genomic DNA was extracted and analyzed for cytogenetic changes.
Project description:The gene expression of two different tumorigenic human breast epithelial cell types (HMLER and BPLER) is compared with their immortalized parental cell-of-origin (HME and BPE). Experiment Overall Design: Two different normal primary human mammary epithelial cell populations (BPECs and HMECs) were isolated based on their differing in vitro growth requirements. These cells were immortalized by hTERT giving rise to BPE and HME cells. These hTERT immortalized cells (BPE and HME) were transformed by SV40-early region (LT+st) and H-Ras giving rise to transformed tumorigenic derivatives BPLER and HMLER. Biological replicates (4 - 6 samples) for each of 4 cell types were analyzed (untransformed hTERT immortalized cell populations (BPE&HME), and transformed tumorigenic derivatives (BPLER & HMLER).
Project description:The source of IFN-γ in ovarian cancer microenvironment and its biological effect to the tumor cells is unclear. The immortalized human ovarian surface epithelial cell line, HOSE-E7/hTERT (HOSE) was treated with IFN-γ and expression microarray analysis was performed, and probes showing significantly higher values in IFN-γ-added group were termed “IFN-γ signature genes (295 probes)”. We then applied this signature to our ovarian cancer microarray data, which included 75 ovarian cancer clinical samples, by means of ss-GSEA. IFN-γ signature score was strongly correlated to the number of infiltrating CD4-positive or CD8-positive lymphocytes in the tumors. These data suggest that the IFN-γ in the ovarian cancer microenvironment is derived from lymphocytes, and an IFN-γ-rich microenvironment is strongly correlated to a lymphocyte-rich microenvironment.
Project description:The source of IFN-γ in ovarian cancer microenvironment and its biological effect to the tumor cells is unclear. The immortalized human ovarian surface epithelial cell line, HOSE-E7/hTERT (HOSE) was treated with IFN-γ and expression microarray analysis was performed, and probes showing significantly higher values in IFN-γ-added group were termed â??IFN-γ signature genes (295 probes)â??. We then applied this signature to our ovarian cancer microarray data, which included 75 ovarian cancer clinical samples, by means of ss-GSEA. IFN-γ signature score was strongly correlated to the number of infiltrating CD4-positive or CD8-positive lymphocytes in the tumors. These data suggest that the IFN-γ in the ovarian cancer microenvironment is derived from lymphocytes, and an IFN-γ-rich microenvironment is strongly correlated to a lymphocyte-rich microenvironment. HOSE cells were incubated in 8 separate culture dishes, 4 dishes with and 4 dishes without 500 IU/ml recombinant human IFN-γ (R&D Systems) in the culture medium for 6 hours prior to the analysis.
Project description:To delineate the role of hypoxia in esophageal epithelial biology, we carried out gene array experiments using a non-transformed immortalized diploid human esophageal cell line, EPC2-hTERT (Mol Cancer Res. 2003;1:729-38). Unlike cancer cell lines, EPC2-hTERT has no genetic alterations at early passages that may affect the cellular response to hypoxia.
Project description:Our lab established the M0505 cell line from the ovarian surface epithelium (OSE) of FVB/N mice in May 2005 in order to study OSE biology. This cell line spontaneously transformed into the spontaneously transformed OSE (STOSE) cell line in mid 2012. We used microarrays to try to determine the molecular pathways that may have lead to the transformation of M0505 cells into STOSE cells to gain information that may lead to a greater understanding of human ovarian cancer initiation.
Project description:To identify HMGA2-regulated downstream target microRNAs, we compared the difference of microRNA profiles between ovarian surface epithelial cells without HMGA2 (T29) and cells with HMGA2 (T29A2). Immortalized ovarian surface epithelial cells (named T29) were transfected with HMGA2 retrovirus vector pBabe-HMGA2 (named T29A2). Then cells were harvested for RNA isolation for microRNA expression analysis.
Project description:Unlike ovarian cancer, normal ovarian epithelium response to TGFb1 induced growth inhibition. This study tried to idenify promoters that showed Smad4 binding after additionof TGFb1 in immortalized ovarian surface epithelial cells (IOSE) which is derived from normal ovarian epithelial cells Keywords: ChIP-chip
Project description:Unlike ovarian cancer, normal ovarian epithelium response to TGFb1 induced growth inhibition. This time course study tried to idenify genes that showed changes after additionof TGFb1 in immortalized ovarian surface epithelial cells (IOSE) which is derived from normal ovarian epithelial cells Keywords: Time-course