Project description:Hypoxic microenvironment plays important roles in the progression of solid tumors including oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have gained much attention in the past few years. However, it is not clear whether lncRNAs could regulate hypoxia-adaptation of OSCC, and which lncRNAs participate in this process. Using an lncRNA microarray, we analyzed the aberrant lncRNA expression profiles in OSCC tissues compared with paired normal oral mucosa as well as in hypoxic OSCC cells compared with normoxic OSCC cells. Our data revealed 2053 differentially expressed (Fold Change >= 2.0, P-value <= 0.05) lncRNAs, among which 934 lncRNAs were significantly up-regulated and 1119 lncRNAs were down-regulated in OSCC compared with paired normal mucosa. Six OSCC tissues and paired normal oral mucosa were obtained from 6 patients with OSCC. LncRNA expression profiles were evaluated by an Agilent Human LncRNA Array v3.0 (8 x 60K, Arraystar).
Project description:Hypoxic microenvironment plays important roles in the progression of solid tumors including oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have gained much attention in the past few years. However, it is not clear whether lncRNAs could regulate hypoxia-adaptation of OSCC, and which lncRNAs participate in this process. Using an lncRNA microarray, we analyzed the aberrant lncRNA expression profiles in OSCC tissues compared with paired normal oral mucosa as well as in hypoxic OSCC cells compared with normoxic OSCC cells. Our data revealed 2053 differentially expressed (Fold Change >= 2.0, P-value <= 0.05) lncRNAs, among which 934 lncRNAs were significantly up-regulated and 1119 lncRNAs were down-regulated in OSCC compared with paired normal mucosa.
Project description:Hypoxic microenvironment plays important roles in the progression of solid tumors including oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have gained much attention in the past few years. However, it is not clear whether lncRNAs could regulate hypoxia-adaptation of OSCC, and which lncRNAs participate in this process. Using an lncRNA microarray, we analyzed the aberrant lncRNA expression profiles in OSCC tissues compared with paired normal oral mucosa as well as in hypoxic OSCC cells compared with normoxic OSCC cells. Our microarray also identified 942 lncRNAs that were up-regulated and 507 lncRNAs that were down-regulated in cells cultured under hypoxia compared with those cultured under normoxia (Fold Change >= 2.0, P-value <= 0.05).
Project description:Hypoxic microenvironment plays important roles in the progression of solid tumors including oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have gained much attention in the past few years. However, it is not clear whether lncRNAs could regulate hypoxia-adaptation of OSCC, and which lncRNAs participate in this process. Using an lncRNA microarray, we analyzed the aberrant lncRNA expression profiles in OSCC tissues compared with paired normal oral mucosa as well as in hypoxic OSCC cells compared with normoxic OSCC cells. Our microarray also identified 942 lncRNAs that were up-regulated and 507 lncRNAs that were down-regulated in cells cultured under hypoxia compared with those cultured under normoxia (Fold Change >= 2.0, P-value <= 0.05). An OSCC cell line Cal-27 was cultured under either 20% O2 (normoxic) or 1% O2 (hypoxic) conditions. Three samples from each group were obtained for microarray study.
Project description:Carcinogenesis is a genetic process in which molecular changes occur earlier than histomorphological changes. The key to early detection of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is to identify genetic alterations. However, aberrant lncRNA expression profiles in OSCC plasma is still largely unknown. Using an lncRNA microarray, we analyzed the aberrant lncRNA expression profiles in OSCC plasma compared with paired healthy volunteer plasma. Our data revealed 7473 differentially expressed (Fold Change >= 2.0, P-value <= 0.05) lncRNAs, among which 3972 lncRNAs were significantly up-regulated and 3501 lncRNAs were down-regulated in OSCC compared with paired healthy volunteer plasma.
Project description:Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a main reason of oral cancer mortality and morbidity. Cancer of oral cavity in central south Asia, ranks among third most common kinds of cancer. The discovery of candidate markers to differentiate normal from malignant cells in clinical diagnosis of OSCC would be of critical importance because this malignancy has poor prognosis. To improve the clinical outcome in OSCC patients, the present study was aimed at identifying robust candidate biomarkers for early OSCC diagnosis and to enhance understanding of the mechanisms of disease progression and pathogenesis. Of particular interest are proteins that can be found in tissue lysates of OSCC tumor vs normal adjacent mucosa samples and secreted in cell line Secretomes of HNSCC for non-invasive detection. We analysed 17 paired human malignant OSCC tissues and normal adjacent tissue in addition to secretomes of 9 HNSCC cell lines. The proteome dataset of OSCC and normal tissues consisted of 5,123 protein groups, including 299 proteins with strong differential expression (p-value <0.01, fold change barrier to ˃+2 and <-2, 205 upregulated and 94 down regulated) and 134 common proteins were also found out of total dataset of 4473 identified proteins of HNSCC cell line secretomes. Functional data analysis revealed that these differential proteins were significantly associated with multiple biological processes. Myogenesis, Fatty Acid Metabolism and KRAS Signaling DN were associated with the proteins downregulated in cancer tissues, while Protein Secretion, Unfolded Protein Response, Spliceosomal complex assembly, Protein localization to endosome and Interferon Gamma Response were enriched in the set of upregulated proteins and these regulated proteins may be classically or non-classically secreted. Furthermore, we found differential enrichment of Creb3L1, ESRRA, YY, ELF2, STAT1 and XBP transcription factors potentially regulating these major pathways.
Project description:Oral carcinogenesis is a multi-step process involving normal mucosa progressing to oral precancerous lesions and finally to oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). This complex process encompasses various molecules, including non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). In this study, we performed whole-transcriptome analyses on adjacent normal tissues, oral leukoplakia tissues, and OSCC tissues, with the goal of identifying key differentially expressed circRNAs, lncRNAs, miRNAs, and mRNAs associated with different stages of oral carcinogenesis. In our study, numerous differentially expressed circRNAs, lncRNAs, miRNAs, and mRNAs were identified in adjacent normal, oral leukoplakia, and OSCC tissues. Subsequently, we constructed two regulatory competitive endogenous RNA (ceRNA) networks and identified some potential critical molecules involved in oral carcinogenesis. In conclusion, based on the whole-transcriptome analyses, we mapped the molecular feathers at RNA level during the process of oral carcinogenesis and revealed certain ncRNAs with great research potential.
Project description:Oral epithelial dysplasias are believed to progress through a series of histopathological stages; from mild to severe dysplasia, to carcinoma in situ, and finally to invasive OSCC. Underlying this change in histopathological grade are gross chromosome alterations and changes in gene expression of both protein-coding genes and non-coding RNAs. Recent papers have described associations of aberrant expression of microRNAs, one class of non-coding RNAs, with oral cancer. However, expression profiling of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) has not been reported. Long non-coding RNAs are a novel class of mRNA-like transcripts with no protein coding capacity, but with a variety of functions including roles in epigenetics and gene regulation. In recent reports, the aberrant expression of lncRNAs has been associated with human cancers, suggesting a critical role in tumorigenesis. Here, we present the first long non-coding RNA expression map for the human oral mucosa. We describe the expression of 325 long non-coding RNAs, suggesting lncRNA expression contributes significantly to the oral transcriptome. Intriguingly, 60% of the detected lncRNAs show aberrant expression in oral premalignant lesions. A number of these lncRNAs have been previously associated with other human cancers. A total of six normal oral samples and ten oral premalignant lesions were used to construct SAGE libraries which were then queried for long non-coding RNA expression profiles. The six normal oral samples were previously deposited as GSE8127.
Project description:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in the tumorigenesis and metastasis of colorectal cancer (CRC). This study used a lncRNA microarray to analyze the aberrant lncRNA expression profiles in CRC tissues compared with paired adjacent normal tissues as well as CRC with regional lymph nodes metastasis compared with CRC without regional lymph nodes metastasis.
Project description:Oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) as one of the malignant disorders endures a series of histopathological stages to invasive oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) eventually. The role of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) expression in OSF malignant progression is still poorly understood. Genome-wide lncRNA expression profiling of normal mucous, OSF and OSCC tissues was performed by RNA sequencing. Bioinformatic methods were applied for differential lncRNA analysis and functional enrichment analysis. Quantitative-RT-PCR was used to verify identified lncRNAs.21 novel transcripts were differentially expressed among all three stages during OSF progression with varied expression levels. Our study firstly comprehensively elucidated lncRNAs expression profile of the process of OSCC premalignant lesion to OSCC.