Project description:Patient-derived bone tumor (osteosarcoma and giant cell tumor of bone) cells, and the normal mesenchymal stem cells and osteoblasts were cultured and subjected to UV crosslinking (UV) at 254 nm or without crosslinking (noUV) as negative controls. Subsequently, RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) were identified by eRIC.
Project description:To study early events in osteosarcoma genesis murine bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells (mMSCs) were studied which generated osteosarcoma-like tumours upon injection into nude mice. The process of transformation was studied in a step-wise manner by culturing the MSCs in vitro for 28 passages. Subsequently the transformed passage 28 MSCs were compared to their normal passage 12 originator cells in a number of experiments to identify underlying events prior to malignant transformation. In addition both low and high passage MSCs were shown to still have the phenotypical and functional characteristics of normal MSCs.
Project description:To investigate the altered patways among sarcomas and MSCs, gene expression profiles were comared among rat osteosarcoma and malignant histiocytoma (MFH) to mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from syngeneic origin. Several altered pathways have identified including down-regulation of Wnt, Cell adhesion, ECM interaction and up-regulation of Hedgehog, cell cycling pathways in rat sarcomas compared to MSCs. Gene expression array analysis was perfromed for the samples of rat osteosarcoma COS1NR and malignant fibrous histiocytoma MFH1NR cell lines, bothe established from chemically induced tumors in F344 rats by 4-HAQO, and rat mesenchymal stem cells freshly isolated from femur bone marrow of F344 rats.
Project description:Pathological processes like osteoporosis or steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the hip are accompanied by increased bone marrow adipogenesis. Such disorder of adipogenic/osteogenic differentiation, which affects also bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) contributes to bone loss during aging. Therefore, we investigated the effects of extracellular vesicles (EVs) isolated from human (h)BMSCs during different stages of osteogenic differentiation on osteogenic and adipogenic differentiation capacity of naïve hBMSCs.
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE27900: Gene expression analysis of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC), osteoblasts and the U2OS (osteosarcoma) cell line GSE35573: ChIP-seq analysis of H3K4Me3- and H3K27Me3-marked chromatin in mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), osteoblasts derived from MSCs and the osteosarcoma cell line U2OS Refer to individual Series
Project description:The aim was to identify pathways and genes that are transcriptionally deregulated in osteosarcoma due to changes in CpG island DNA methylation. In order to identify candidates, we compared low passage cell cultures derived from a mouse model of osteosarcoma to mature osteoblasts derived by in vitro differentiation of the mouse bone marrow stromal cell line, Kusa4b10. Under cell culture osteoblastic differentiating conditions, Kusa4b10 cells acquire a mature osteoblastic phenotype (21 days). A potential role for DNA methylation in directing gene expression changes was established by integrating gene expression data with genome wide DNA methylation maps generated by methyl-DNA binding domain capture and NimbleGen promoter arrays (MBDCap-Chip).