Project description:STAT2 is an essential transcription factor in type I interferon (IFN) signaling. STAT2 mediates the antigrowth and apoptotic effects of IFN as demonstrated in cell lines thus leading to the hypothesis that STAT2 has tumor suppressor function. We used microarrays to identify genes in the tumors that are STAT2 dependent and important in anti-tumor immunity. B16-F1 melanoma tumor cells were implanted on the dorsal flank of either wild type (WT) or Stat2KO (S2KO). Tumor growth was monitored during the course of 3 weeks. S2KO mice developed larger tumors when compared to WT mice.
Project description:B cells potentially play a role in the immune response to melanoma, including during treatment with immune modulators. We profiled (transcriptome analysis) effects of anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy on gene expression in B16 melanoma tumors of B cells depleted and WT syngeneic mice. After 7 days of B16 tumors implantation, mice were treated or untreated with anti-PD-L1 antibody (every three days).
Project description:B16 melanoma cells were screened with a CRISPR library against TSGs in vitro and as tumors in Rag1-null and immunocompetent WT C57BL/6 mice
Project description:To identify the co-immunoprecipitating proteins of Rab27a following Rab27a pull down of B16-F1 mouse melanoma cells infected with adenovirus expressing GFP-hsSPIRE1.
Project description:The goal of this study was to compare the gene expression profiles of a highly versus poorly tumorigenic murine melanoma. B16-F1 is a well-characterized murine melanoma cell line that grows progressively in hosts, both as primary tumors in subcutaneous tissue and as metastatic lesions in internal organs. D5.1G4 is a chemically mutated variant of B16 melanoma that grows with significantly slower kinetics than its wild-type counterpart. Whole genome expression microarray analysis of RNA isolated from these murine melanoma lines was performed to provide insights into factors that regulate the growth and metastasis of these tumors, which are useful models for investigating in a murine system the outgrowth, progression, and control of a cancer type that is prevalent in humans worldwide.
Project description:The FOXC2 transcription factor regulates a variety of developmental and biological processes in both embryonic and adult tissues. Importantly, overexpression or dysregulation of FOXC2 is also associated with oncogenic activity in numerous cancer types, though the function of FOXC2 in the context of melanoma has not been previously investigated. Therefore, the goal of this study was to assess FOXC2's regulation of gene expression in melanoma cells. To this end, we employed CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology to disrupt the Foxc2 gene in B16-F1 melanoma, and we performed RNA-seq analysis to assess differential gene expression between the wild-type B16-F1 melanoma cell line and our novel FOXC2-deficient B16-F1ΔFOXC2 gene-edited variant cell line.
Project description:B cells potentially play a role in the immune response to melanoma, including during treatment with immune modulators. We profiled effects of 3M-052 on gene expression in draining lymph nodes of syngeneic mice bearing B16 melanoma tumors. When B16 tumors reached 30-40 mm2 in size, they were injected intratumorally once with 3M-052 or vehicle control.
Project description:Introgressed variants from other species can be an important source of genetic variation because they may arise rapidly, can include multiple mutations on a single haplotype, and have often been pretested by selection in the species of origin. Although introgressed alleles are generally deleterious, several studies have reported introgression as the source of adaptive alleles-including the rodenticide-resistant variant of Vkorc1 that introgressed from Mus spretus into European populations of Mus musculus domesticus. Here, we conducted bidirectional genome scans to characterize introgressed regions into one wild population of M. spretus from Spain and three wild populations of M. m. domesticus from France, Germany, and Iran. Despite the fact that these species show considerable intrinsic postzygotic reproductive isolation, introgression was observed in all individuals, including in the M. musculus reference genome (GRCm38). Mus spretus individuals had a greater proportion of introgression compared with M. m. domesticus, and within M. m. domesticus, the proportion of introgression decreased with geographic distance from the area of sympatry. Introgression was observed on all autosomes for both species, but not on the X-chromosome in M. m. domesticus, consistent with known X-linked hybrid sterility and inviability genes that have been mapped to the M. spretus X-chromosome. Tract lengths were generally short with a few outliers of up to 2.7 Mb. Interestingly, the longest introgressed tracts were in olfactory receptor regions, and introgressed tracts were significantly enriched for olfactory receptor genes in both species, suggesting that introgression may be a source of functional novelty even between species with high barriers to gene flow.
Project description:We wanted to correlate the protein cargo of secreted exosomes with gene expression pattern in B16-F1 and B16-F1R2. For that purpose, we performed RNA sequencing analysis of B16-F1, B16-F1R2 and B16-F1R2L (Fig.1E). We identified >3000 genes significantly up-regulated and >1000 significantly down-regulated in B16-F1R2 model compared to B16-F1, using a false discovery rate (FDR) of 0.05.