Project description:Immature cell populations, including stem cells and progenitor cells, can be found in “side-population (SP)” cells. Although SP cells isolated from some adult tissues have been reported elsewhere, isolation and characterization of human trophoblast SP cells remained to be reported. We used microarrays to detail the global program of gene expression underlying cell differentiation and identified up-regulated genes of SP cells. HTR-8/SVneo SP cells or NSP cells were isolated using a cell sorter for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. To obtain many SP or NSP cells, we cultured a large amount of HTR-8/SVneo cells (1×10^7 cells). The cells were labeled with 2.5µg/ml Hoechst 33342 dye (Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR) for 120 minutes at 37 ℃, either alone or in combination with 50 µmol/L verapamil (Sigma-Aldrich, ST Louis, MO). Finally, the cells were then passed through EPICS ALTRA HyPerSort (Beckman Coulter, Fullerton, CA) using dual wavelength analysis (blue, 424-444 nm; red, 675 nm) after excitation with 350 nm UV light.
Project description:Immature cell populations, including stem cells and progenitor cells, can be found in M-bM-^@M-^\side-population (SP)M-bM-^@M-^] cells. Although SP cells isolated from some adult tissues have been reported elsewhere, isolation and characterization of human trophoblast SP cells remained to be reported. We used microarrays to detail the global program of gene expression underlying cell differentiation and identified up-regulated genes of SP HTR-8/SVneo SP cells or NSP cells were isolated using a FACS Vantage fluorescence-activated cell sorter (BD Bioscience, San Jose, California) using dual wavelength analysis (blue, 424 - 444nm; red 675 nm) after excitation with 350 nm UV light. PI-positive dead cells were excluded from the analysis. Sorted SP and NSP cells' RNA had been analyzed by microarray analysis.
Project description:We report the application of single-cell RNA sequencing data on Side Population (SP) cells and their Non-Side Population (NSP) counterparts in a mouse model of undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (UPS). SP cells exhibit tumor propagting cell properties characterized by enhanced tumorigenicity and self-renewal potential. The purpose of this experiment is to investigate cellular heterogeneity at the gene expression level in UPS tumors and lineage relationships between different subpopulation of tumor cells. We generated the gene expression profiles of individual cells in the SP and NSP compartments of mouse UPS.
Project description:Tumours contain heterogeneous cell populations. A population enriched in tumour-initiating potential has been identified in soft-tissue sarcoma (STS) by the isolation of side population (SP) cells. In this study, we compared the gene expression profiles of SP and non-SP cells in STS and identified Hedgehog (Hh) and Notch pathways as potential candidates for the targeting of SP cells. Upon verification of the activation of these pathways in SP cells, using primary tumor xenografts in NOD-SCID mice as our experimental model, we used the Hh blocker Triparanol and the Notch blocker DAPT to demonstrate that the suppression of these pathways effectively depleted the abundance of SP cells, reduced tumour growth, and inhibited the tumour-initiating potential of the treated sarcoma cells upon secondary transplantation. The data provide additional evidence that SP cells act as tumour initiating cells and points to Hh and Notch pathways as enticing targets for developing potential cancer therapies. We used microarrays to detail the difference in gene expressions between the side population cells in soft-tissue sarcoma in comparison to the bulk non-side-population cells. To examine whether certain pathways may be differentially regulated in SP cells versus non-SP cells, which represent the bulk of tumour cells, we compared the gene expression profiles of SP and non-SP cells in four primary STS tumours each from different patient. Upon surgical excision, these tumours were dissociated mechanically and enzymatically into individual cells. Via Hoechst dye staining and flow-cytometry, these primary tumour cells were sorted into distinct side population and non-side population fractions. Total RNA is extracted from an equal number of SP and NSP cell from each primary tumour. cDNA from each sample was generated from the isolated total RNA and hybridized onto Affymetrix Human Genome EukGE-WS2v4 gene chips against the same reference cDNA library. After initial processing of the raw data, using the Genespring® GX software, the expression of SP cells from each tumour was normalized against the expression of the corresponding non-SP cells. A gene list was constructed by selecting genes that were regulated in the same direction (SP vs. NSP) in all sample pairs with a fold change greater than 1.25. This list was examined using Genespring® GX significant pathway function to identify differentially regulated pathways.
Project description:Human solid tumors contain rare cancer side population (SP) cells, which expel the fluorescencent dye H33342 and display cancer stem cell characteristics. Transcriptional profiling of cancer SP cells isolated by H33342 fluorescence analysis is a newly emerging approach to discover cancer stem cell markers and aberrant differentiation pathways. Using Affymetrix expression microarrays this study investigated differential gene expression between SP and non-SP (NSP) cells isolated from the CAL-51 human mammary carcinoma cell line. Keywords: cell type comparison
Project description:Gene expression profiling of side population cells (SP) and CD146+ cells from primary human osteosarcoma. We aimed to identify genes that differentially regulated between the tumor propagating cells and the bulk tumor cells. Total RNA was isolated from SP, Non-SP(NSP), CD146+ and CD146- cells. The RNA is converted to cDNA using Nugen Ovation Kit (Nugen, CA, USA) and subjected to Illumina HT-12 array.
Project description:Human solid tumors contain rare cancer side population (SP) cells, which expel the fluorescencent dye H33342 and display cancer stem cell characteristics. Transcriptional profiling of cancer SP cells isolated by H33342 fluorescence analysis is a newly emerging approach to discover cancer stem cell markers and aberrant differentiation pathways. Using Affymetrix expression microarrays this study investigated differential gene expression between SP and non-SP (NSP) cells isolated from the CAL-51 human mammary carcinoma cell line. Keywords: cell type comparison To characterize differential gene expression between CAL-51 breast cancer SP and NSP cells, three consecutive cell culture passages of CAL-51 were independently subjected to H33342 labeling and dual wavelength fluorescence analysis and were then flow cytometrically sorted into SP and NSP cell fractions. Subsequently, each of the six cell preparations was subjected to global transcriptional profiling using Affymetrix HG U133 Plus 2.0 expression microarrays.
Project description:The goal of this study is to compare miRNAs expressed by HGF treated HTR-8/SVneo cells to miRNAs expressed in untreated control HTR-8/SVneo cells to identify micro RNAs which play a role during HGF-mediated HTR-8/SVneo cells invasion
Project description:The goal of this study is to compare mRNAs expressed by EGF treated HTR-8/SVneo cells to iRNAs expressed in untreated control HTR-8/SVneo cells to identify various genes which play a role during EGF-mediated HTR-8/SVneo cell invasion