Project description:Silencing HoxA1 in vivo by intraductal delivery of nanoparticle-formulated siRNA reduced mammary tumor incidence by 75% , reduced cell proliferation, and prevented loss of ER and PR expression.
Project description:Silencing HoxA1 in vivo by intraductal delivery of nanoparticle-formulated siRNA reduced mammary tumor incidence by 75% , reduced cell proliferation, and prevented loss of ER and PR expression. 8 week wild type FVB mouse whole mammary gland and 8week to 20 week transgenic FVB C3(1)-SV40Tag mouse whole mammary gland
Project description:BRCA1 mutation-carriers are predisposed to develop Basal-like breast cancer (BLBC), and p53 mutations are present in the majority of human BLBC cases, suggesting loss of these two tumor suppressors play key roles in development of BLBC. Recent studies suggest that the majority of human breast cancers, including BLBC, may originate from mammary epithelial cells (MECs) in the luminal lineage. However, how loss of p53 and BRCA1 contributes to development of BLBC from luminal MECs remains largely elusive. We developed a novel genetic targeting and lineage tracing approach based on intraductal injection of Cre-expressing adenovirus under the control of the pan-luminal Keratin 8 (K8) promoter (Ad-K8-Cre). We performed intraductal injection of Ad-K8-Cre to female mice carrying conditional knockout alleles of Brca1 (Brca1L) and Trp53 (Trp53L). The injected females developed mammary tumors similar to human BLBC within 12 months after injection. Here we characterized MECs targeted by Ad-K8-Cre at different time points after the intraductal injection, as well as mammary tumors developed in this model, by single cell expression analysis.
Project description:BRCA1 mutation-carriers are predisposed to develop Basal-like breast cancer (BLBC), and p53 mutations are present in the majority of human BLBC cases, suggesting loss of these two tumor suppressors play key roles in development of BLBC. Recent studies suggest that the majority of human breast cancers, including BLBC, may originate from mammary epithelial cells (MECs) in the luminal lineage. However, how loss of p53 and BRCA1 contributes to development of BLBC from luminal MECs remains largely elusive. We developed a novel genetic targeting and lineage tracing approach based on intraductal injection of Cre-expressing adenovirus under the control of the pan-luminal Keratin 8 (K8) promoter (Ad-K8-Cre). We performed intraductal injection of Ad-K8-Cre to female mice carrying conditional knockout alleles of Brca1 (Brca1L) and Trp53 (Trp53L). The injected females developed mammary tumors similar to human BLBC within 12 months after injection. Here we characterized MECs targeted by Ad-K8-Cre one month after the intraductal injection.
Project description:We utilized DCIS mouse intraductal (MIND) models with both SUM225 and DCIS.COM cell lines to characterize the sequential and temporal changes in mRNA expression over a time course of 2, 6, and 10 weeks during in vivo progression in the epithelial cells from DCIS to invasive cancer. DCIS cell lines: DCIS.COM and SUM225 were injected intraductally into the MIND model as triplicates. At 2, 6, and 10 weeks post-injection, the mammary glands were collected and magnetically sorted for the epithelial cells. Affymetrix microarray was utilized to analyze gene expression profiles from RNA isolated from these cells.
Project description:BRCA1 mutation-carriers are predisposed to develop Basal-like breast cancer (BLBC), and p53 mutations are present in the majority of human BLBC cases, suggesting loss of these two tumor suppressors play key roles in development of BLBC. Recent studies suggest that the majority of human breast cancers, including BLBC, may originate from mammary epithelial cells (MECs) in the luminal lineage. However, how loss of p53 and BRCA1 contributes to development of BLBC from luminal MECs remains largely elusive. We developed a novel genetic targeting and lineage tracing approach based on intraductal injection of Cre-expressing adenovirus under the control of the pan-luminal Keratin 8 (K8) promoter (Ad-K8-Cre). We performed intraductal injection of Ad-K8-Cre to female mice carrying conditional knockout alleles of Brca1 and Trp53. The injected females developed mammary tumors within 12 months after injection. Microarray expression profiling of these tumors showed that they most closely resembled human BLBC.
Project description:We report the gene expression profile in BRCA deficient tumors after treatment with saline, nanoparticle-formulated Talazoparib and free Talazoparib
Project description:High-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) has enabled accurate gene discovery and expression estimation, but robust differential analysis of gene and transcript abundances has proven difficult. We present a new algorithm, implemented in the freely available tool Cuffdiff, which integrates transcript-level expression estimation with a method to control for variability across replicate samples. Cuffdiff robustly identifies differentially regulated isoforms and genes and reveals differential splicing or promoter-preference changes. We demonstrate the accuracy of our approach through differential analysis of lung fibroblasts in response to loss of the developmental transcription factor HOXA1 and uncover a critical role for this gene in the maintenance of adult cells. We show that HOXA1 is required for lung fibroblast and HeLa cell cycle progression, and loss of HOXA1 results in significant expression level changes in thousands of individual transcripts, along with isoform switching events in key regulators of the cell cycle. Lung Fibroblasts were transfected with either a HOXA1 directed siRNA pool or a scramble non-targeting siRNA control. RNA was collected 48 hours after transfection and changes in gene expression were assayed for using Agilent microarrays.
Project description:High-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) has enabled accurate gene discovery and expression estimation, but robust differential analysis of gene and transcript abundances has proven difficult. We present a new algorithm, implemented in the freely available tool Cuffdiff, which integrates transcript-level expression estimation with a method to control for variability across replicate samples. Cuffdiff robustly identifies differentially regulated isoforms and genes and reveals differential splicing or promoter-preference changes. We demonstrate the accuracy of our approach through differential analysis of lung fibroblasts in response to loss of the developmental transcription factor HOXA1 and uncover a critical role for this gene in the maintenance of adult cells. We show that HOXA1 is required for lung fibroblast and HeLa cell cycle progression, and loss of HOXA1 results in significant expression level changes in thousands of individual transcripts, along with isoform switching events in key regulators of the cell cycle. Lung Fibroblasts were transfected with either a HOXA1 directed siRNA pool or a scramble non-targeting siRNA control. RNA was collected 48 hours after transfection and changes in gene expression were assayed for using Agilent microarrays.