Project description:T1 and G1 are the two melanoma cell lines, established from primary tumor (T1) and lymph node metastases (G1) of a 77 years old male patient. While G1 cells were resistant to TRAIL (TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand) mediated cell death, T1 cells exhibited a high dose- and time-dependent sensitivity to TRAIL. Cells were treated with or without of two doses (0.2 and 1ug/ml) of TRAIL for 24 h. Gene expression of each sample vs pool was measured. TRAIL-resistant metastatic G1 vs primary TRAIL-sensitive T1 was compared.
Project description:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease involving primarily the synovial membranes and articular structures of multiple joints. A hallmark of RA is the pseudo-tumoral expansion of fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS), as these cells invade and finally destroy the joint structure. RA FLS have been therefore proposed as a therapeutic target. > TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) has been described as a pro-apoptotic factor on malignant cells. The fact that fibroblasts-like-synoviocytes (FLS) in rheumatoid arthritis RA patients exhibit tumor like features led us to investigate the effect of TRAIL on ex-vivo RA FLS. We have previously described that TRAIL induces apoptosis only in a subset of RA FLS, but an induction of proliferation in the surviving cells. This observation corresponds to the pleiotropic effects of TRAIL observed on primary human tumor cells. We also observed that sensitivity to TRAIL-induced apoptosis varied in RA FLS from one patient to another, and was correlated with disease severity. We therefore screened for genes that were differentially expressed in RA FLS sensitive and resistant to TRAIL induced apoptosis in order to understand molecular factors making cells resistant or sensitive to TRAIL induced apoptosis.
Project description:To further analyze the change of microRNA (miRNA) between TRAIL-sensitive and TRAIL-resistant Bel-7402 cells Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL)
Project description:Microarray analysis revealed differential gene expression patterns of rhabdomyosarcoma (A-204), leiomyosarcoma (SK-LMS-1) and epithelioid cell sarcoma (VA-ES-BJ) cells treated with TRAIL and/or taurolidine. To explore new therapeutic options in the treatment of sarcomas, we tested the antibiotic taurolidine (TRD) on A-204, SK-LMS-1 and VA-ES-BJ carcinoma cell lines alone and in combination with rhTRAIL (TNF related apoptosis-inducing ligand). Gene expression was analysed by RNA microarray. Cell lines were treated with Taurolidine, Trail and a combination of both and compaired to untreated cells
Project description:To identify intrinsic mechanismis that mediating Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) resistance , gene expression analysis was performed on MDA-MB-231 cell lines exposed to TRAIL, in parental (Sensitive) or treat to resistance (TTR) conditions.
Project description:Microarray analysis revealed differential gene expression patterns of rhabdomyosarcoma (A-204), leiomyosarcoma (SK-LMS-1) and epithelioid cell sarcoma (VA-ES-BJ) cells treated with TRAIL and/or taurolidine. To explore new therapeutic options in the treatment of sarcomas, we tested the antibiotic taurolidine (TRD) on A-204, SK-LMS-1 and VA-ES-BJ carcinoma cell lines alone and in combination with rhTRAIL (TNF related apoptosis-inducing ligand). Gene expression was analysed by RNA microarray.
Project description:Acquired resistance of Jurkat cells to TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL): a role for histone deacetylase inhibitors as powerful apoptosis sensitizer.
Project description:Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) is a well-known inducer of apoptosis via formation of the primary death-inducing signaling complex (TRAIL-DISC) at the level of membrane death receptors (DR4 and DR5) which recruit successively FADD and caspase-8. TRAIL can also induce necroptosis when caspases are inhibited. Necroptosis is a regulated cell death dependent on the formation of a cytosolic necrosome complex which includes RIPK1, RIPK3 and MLKL proteins. Elucidating the molecular mechanisms involved in TRAIL-induced necroptosis might provide new insights into the TRAIL death signaling pathway. Here, we report the analysis by mass spectrometry of endogenous RIPK3-dependent necrosome complex constituents upon necroptosis induced by TRAIL/z-VAD/Birinapant (TzB) in HT29 cells. Besides characterization of RIPK1, RIPK3, MLKL, FADD, caspase-8, we find TRIM21 as a new constituent of the necrosome complex. Moreover RIPK1, RIPK3, MLKL, P-MLKL, FADD, caspase-8 and TRIM21 are also found associated to the native TRAIL-DISC upon TzB stimulation showing initiation of the necrotic pathway at the level of TRAIL death receptors in HT29 cells. Finally, TRIM21 may positively modulate necroptosis induction by downregulating NF-kB activation.
Project description:TRAIL (TNF-Related Apoptosis Inducing Ligand) is a well-known apoptosis inducer, which activates the extrinsic death pathway. It is pro-apoptotic on colon cancer cells, while not cytotoxic towards normal healthy cells. However, its clinical use is limited by resistance which occurs in approximately 50% of cancer cells. SCFA (Short Chain Fatty Acids) are also known to specifically induce apoptosis of cancer cells. In accordance, we have shown that food grade dairy propionibacteria induce intrinsic apoptosis of colon cancer cells, via the production and release of SCFA (propionate/acetate) acting on mitochondria. Here, we investigated possible synergistic effect between Propionibacterium freudenreichii and TRAIL. We hypothesized that acting on both extrinsic and intrinsic death pathways may exert a synergistic pro-apoptotic effect. Whole transcriptomic analysis demonstrated that propionibacterial supernatant or propionibacterial metabolites (propionate and acetate), in combination with TRAIL, boosted pro-apoptotic gene expression in HT29 human colon cancer cells. The revealed synergistic pro-apoptotic effect, depending on death receptors (TRAIL-R1/DR4, TRAIL-R2/DR5) and on caspase-8, caspase-9 and caspase-3 activation, was more lethal on cancer cells than on normal human intestinal epithelial cells (HIEC), and was inhibited by Bcl-2 expression. Finally, milk fermented only by P. freudenreichii induced apoptosis of HT29 cells and enhanced cytotoxic activity of TRAIL, as did P. freudenreichii culture supernatants or its metabolites SCFA. These results open new perspectives for the use of food grade P. freudenreichii-containing products in order to potentiate TRAIL-based cancer therapy in colorectal cancer.