Project description:DNA methylation profiling of human melanocytes and melanoma cell lines. Goal was to identify hypermethylated gene promoters in melanoma Genomic DNA from 4 human melanoma cell lines and normal human epidermal melanocytes was subjected to methylated DNA immunoprecipitation (MeDIP) and hybridized to Agilent's G4489A Human Promoter ChIP-on-Chip Set 244K
Project description:DNA methylation profiling of human melanocytes and melanoma cell lines. Goal was to identify hypermethylated gene promoters in melanoma
Project description:Purpose: Epigenetic mechanisms and alterations in uveal melanoma (UM) development are still not well understood. In this pilot study, histone posttranslational modifications (PTMs), which are epigenetic mechanisms regulating gene expression, were analyzed in UM formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues and control tissue as well as in UM cell lines and healthy melanocytes to provide a deeper insight into the pathogenesis of UM and the potentially prognostic relevance of these molecular markers. Methods: FFPE tissue of UM (n=24) and normal choroid (n=4) as well as human UM cell lines (n=7), human skin melanocytes (n=6) and uveal melanocytes (n=2), were analyzed by a quantitative mass spectrometry (MS) approach.
Project description:Aberrant DNA methylation and histone modifications both contribute to carcinogenesis, but how these two epigenetic factors interact to impact gene expression remain unclear. To address this issue, we studied gene expression profiles, DNA methylation and two key histone modifications (H3K4me3 and H3K27me3), in two normal melanocytes (HEMn and HEMa) and two melanoma cell lines SK-MEL-28 and LOXIMVI. Using these data, we analyzed the relationship between epigenetic factors and gene expression status in both normal and melanoma cells, and the impact of epigenetic switches on gene expression change during melanomagenesis. Each of the two normal melanocytes (HEMn and HEMa) and the two melanoma cell lines SK-MEL-28 and LOXIMVI was cultured in triplicate. For each cell line, the same culture conditions and cell density were applied to the triplicates. Total RNA was extracted and microarray analysis was performed for genome-wide gene expression profiling. Using the Sentrix Human-HT12 v4 Beadchip, all four cell samples, each in triplicate, were examined in 12 individual arrays on a same beadchip. Thus, together with the data on DNA methylation and histone modifications, we could not only analyze the epigenetic regulation of gene expression in each cell sample, but also investigate the expression change associated with epigenetic changes in melanoma when compared to normal melanocytes.
Project description:To discover potential biomarkers of melanoma development and progression, we embarked on studies comparing the glycomic gene profiles of normal human epidermal melanocytes with human metastatic melanoma (MM) cells represented by A375 and G361 cell lines. Glycomic features embody all of those enzymatic, membranous and regulatory proteins that influence glycan ‘sugar’ formation/degradation on a cell. Comparative expression profiling of glycomic genes indicated that several genes were differentially expressed between normal melanocytes and MM cells. We speculate that glycome genes differentially expressed in MM cells help drive malignant and metastatic behavior of MM cells and could potentially serve as a biomarker(s) of melanoma progression.
Project description:Gene expression profiling of immortalized human mesenchymal stem cells with hTERT/E6/E7 transfected MSCs. hTERT may change gene expression in MSCs. Goal was to determine the gene expressions of immortalized MSCs.
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of primary uveal melanoma cells, normal uveal melanocytes, neural crest stem cells, embryonic stem cells and uveal melanoma cell lines. The Illumina Infinium 27k Human DNA methylation Beadchip Rev B was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 27,000 CpGs in the samples. Samples included 58 primary UM, 3 NUM and NCSC controls and 2 cell lines.
