Project description:Bone is the most common metastasis site in patients with breast cancer, and approximately up to 80% of patients with advanced breast cancer (BC) develop bone metastasis (BM), which leads to a worse prognosis with a median survival of 16 months and skeletal-related events (SREs), including severe bone pain, pathological fracture, hypercalcemia and lethal complications. Using quantitative proteomics mass-spectrometry (MS) analysis of low bone-metastatic BC cells (MDA-MB-231) and high bone-metastatic BC cells (SCP2), we identified an unreported breast cancer (BC) cells–secreted microprotein, LINC00263-P, encoded by lincRNA LINC00263 and clinically associated with BC bone-tropism.
Project description:Bone is the most common metastasis site in patients with breast cancer, and approximately up to 80% of patients with advanced breast cancer (BC) develop bone metastasis (BM), which leads to a worse prognosis with a median survival of 16 months and skeletal-related events (SREs), including severe bone pain, pathological fracture, hypercalcemia and lethal complications. Using quantitative proteomics mass-spectrometry (MS) analysis of the secretome from patient-derived primary BC cells (PBCs) and bone-metastatic BC cells (BMBCs), we identified an unreported breast cancer (BC) cells–secreted microprotein, osteolysin, encoded by tropomyosin 3 pseudogene 9 (TPM3P9) and clinically associated with BC bone-tropism.
Project description:1,322 morphologically unidentified fragmentary bone specimens were analyzed using MALDI-TOF and a subset of 341 bone specimens with LC-MS/MS in order to characterize their proteome for species identification and potential hominin specimens related to the LRJ transitional period derived from the site Ilsenhöhle Ranis, Germany (50°39.7563’N, 11°33.9139’E).
