Project description:We identified miR-95 in a screen for miRNAs which functionally affect autophagic flux in MCF-7 cells. We over expressed miR-95 or a scramble control and isolated total RNA for microarray analysis. We identified several biological pathways and targets regulated by miR-95 including genes related to endocytosis, ubiquitin mediated proteolysis and lysosomal function.
Project description:Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism of cellular self-digestion in which proteins and organelles are degraded through delivery to lysosomes. Defects in this process are implicated in numerous human diseases including cancer. To further elucidate regulatory mechanisms of autophagy, we performed a functional screen in search of microRNAs (miRNAs), which regulate the autophagic flux in breast cancer cells. In this study we identified the tumor suppressive miRNA, miR-101, as a potent inhibitor of basal, etoposide- and rapamycin-induced autophagy. Through transcriptome profiling, we identified three novel miR-101 targets, STMN1, RAB5A and ATG4D. siRNA-mediated depletion of these genes phenocopied the effect of miR-101 overexpression, demonstrating their importance in autophagy regulation. Importantly, overexpression of STMN1 could partially rescue cells from miR-101-mediated inhibition of autophagy, indicating a functional importance for this target. Finally, we show that miR-101-mediated inhibition of autophagy can sensitize breast cancer cells to 4-hydroxytamoxifen (4-OHT) mediated cell death. Collectively, these data establish a novel link between two highly important and rapidly growing research fields and present a new role for miR-101 as a key regulator of autophagy. MCF-7 cells were seeded in 6-cm plates and independent triplicate transfections were performed the following day with 50 nM miR-101 or scramble control using Lipofectamine 2000. Total RNA was harvested 24 h after transfection using Trizol reagent. There are a total of six arrays included in this experiment, including three biological replicates of mRNA expression after miR-101 over-expression and three scramble controls in MCF-7 cells.
Project description:This experiment is designed to investigate the impact of exosomal miR-145-5p on the functional pathway and molecules on RPTEC cells. Data-independent acquisition (DIA) proteomics was conducted in the RPTEC cells transfected with miR-145-5p mimic or scramble control.
Project description:The goal of the study is to investigate the effect of microRNA-644 overexpression by chemical mimics on gene expression in breast cancer cell lines. To this purpose control and microRNA-644 mimics are used to transfect MDA-MB-231 cells, SK-BR-3 cells, and MCF-7 cells respectively. Transcriptomics profiling was performed with Illumina HumanHT-12 V4.0 BeadChip microarray. Three cell lines are treated with scramble microRNA mimic (control herein) and microRNA-644 mimic (miR-644 herein), with two replicates per condition. mRNA expression is compared between miR-644 and control treatment within each cell line, respectively.
Project description:miR-21 is overexpressed in breast cancer cells. Knock-down of miR-21 cause apoptosis and decreased cell proliferation. To identify miR-21 regulated cancer-pathways in MCF-7 cells, we knocked-down miR-21 and performed microarray. RNA was harvested from MCF-7 cells 24 hours transfection of anti-control, anti-21, or untreated cells. RNA was processed and hybridized into Affymetrix whole human genome arrays in duplicates.
Project description:miR-222 overexpression leads to promotion of proliferation and hypertrophy and inhibition of apoptosis in in primary neonatal rat ventricular cardiomyocytes (NRVMs). Isolated primary neonatal rat ventricular cardiomyocytes were plated in 6 cm BD Primaria tissue culture dishes. Transfection of microRNA precursors or scramble control (0.4 μM) was carried out using Lipofectamine RNAiMAX (Invitrogen) as recommended by the manufacturer. Forty-eight hours after transfection, RNAs from cultured cells and tissues were isolated with Tryzol (Invitrogen) following the manufacturesâ?? manuals. Total RNA was harvested and submitted to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory for assay. These results revealed miR-222 regulated gene expression in primary neonatal rat ventricular cardiomyocytes. Gene expression in NRVM cells tranfected with control scramble precursor (4 samples) or miR-222 precursor (4 smaples ) was evaluated using Affymetrix Rat Genome 230 v2.0.
Project description:miR-222 overexpression leads to promotion of proliferation and hypertrophy and inhibition of apoptosis in in primary neonatal rat ventricular cardiomyocytes (NRVMs). Isolated primary neonatal rat ventricular cardiomyocytes were plated in 6 cm BD Primaria tissue culture dishes. Transfection of microRNA precursors or scramble control (0.4 μM) was carried out using Lipofectamine RNAiMAX (Invitrogen) as recommended by the manufacturer. Forty-eight hours after transfection, RNAs from cultured cells and tissues were isolated with Tryzol (Invitrogen) following the manufactures’ manuals. Total RNA was harvested and submitted to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory for assay. These results revealed miR-222 regulated gene expression in primary neonatal rat ventricular cardiomyocytes.