Project description:Chemoresistance remains the major barrier to effective ovarian cancer treatment. The molecular features and associated biological functions of this phenotype remain poorly understood. We developed carboplatin resistant cell line models using OVCAR5 and CaOV3 cell lines with the aim of identifying chemoresistance-specific molecular features. Chemotaxis and CAM invasion assays revealed enhanced migratory and invasive potential in OVCAR5 resistant, compared to parental cells lines. Mass spectrometry analysis was used to analyse the metabolome and proteome of these cell lines and was able to separate these populations based on their molecular features. It revealed signalling and metabolic perturbations in chemoresistant cell lines. Comparison with the proteome of patient derived primary ovarian cancer cells grown in culture showed a shared dysregulation of cytokine and type 1 interferon signalling, potentially revealing a common molecular feature of chemoresistance. A comprehensive analysis of a larger patient cohort, including advanced in vitro and in vivo models, promises to help better understand the molecular mechanisms of chemoresistance and associated enhancement of migration and invasion.
Project description:Oxaliplatin resistance was induced in 2 colorectal cancer cell lines (LoVo-92, wt-p53 and LoVo-Li, functionally inactive p53) and one ovarian cancer cell line (A2780, wt-p53). Resistance was induced by weekly exposure to oxaliplatin for 4 hrs or 72 hrs with increasing concentrations for a period of 7 months Genomic DNA of oxaliplatin and cisplatin resistant colorectal cancer and ovarian cancer cell lines as well as the parental cell lines were labeled and subsequently hybridized against pooled reference DNA of healthy volunteers of the opposite gender using across array hybridization. Extracted raw-data were normalised and smoothend using the R-script NOWAVE resulting in normalised log2 ratio profiles of resistant cell line versus parental cell line and parental cell line versus reference DNA.
Project description:microRNA and mRNA profiling was conducted for parental cell lines and cell lines resistant to trifluridine in 3 colorectal cell lines (DLD-1, HCT-116, RKO). We hypothesized that a detailed comparison between miRNA and mRNA expression might reveal the mechanism for acquired resistant to trifluridine in colorectal cancer.
