Project description:Current study focus on unraveling the promoter DNA methylation pattern changes in normal kidney, primary ccRCC and metastatic ccRCC tumors
Project description:Metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) has a poor prognosis and unpredictable course and there are no molecular markers that reliably predict ccRCC metastasis. In this study, specimens from 84 patients with ccRCC were directly cultured in vitro. The primary cultures from 38 of 94 specimens contained more than 90% tumor cells at 4th passages. After identified by immunostaining, the primary cultures of metastatic- and nonmetastatic ccRCC specimens from the age-, gender-matched patients were subjected to cDNA microrray assays. A total of 842 differentially expressed genes with FDR (false discovery rate) = 4.79% were identified by using SAM (Significance Analysis of Microarray) software. Pathway enrichment and co-occurrence with “cancer”, “metastasis” and “invasion” in the literature annotations enriched the functions of the 842 genes and indicated the reliability of our microarray assays. Novel genes associated with metastasis were selected based on intra-molecular interaction between 205 differentially expressed genes co-occurred with “metastasis” and those not appeared with “metastasis” on Medline, as well as co-expression analysis between 205 differentially expressed genes co-occurred with “metastasis” and those not appeared on Medline in 12 microarray data. FSTL1, AV722783, SLC15A1, DDX17, ORC2L and PKMYT1 were proved to be potential ccRCC metastasis-associated novel genes, based on its expression patterns in the cultures and tumor tissues. Interestingly, the up-regulated genes (CAV1, PKMYT1 and ORC2L) were up-regulated and the down-regulated genes (FSTL1, GSTM3, CYR61, SLC15A1 and AV722783) were down-regulated, in the primary ccRCC specimens as compared with its adjacent normal kidney in 37 patients (determined by semi-quantitative RT-PCR). This study provides potential biomarkers and novel molecular targets for the early diagnosis and treatment of ccRCC metastasis. Keywords: Homo sapiens Because of limited cell number of primary cultures, total RNA of the primary cultures from 2 age and gender matched patients was pooled for each microarray assay. Each assay was technically repeated once. Cy3-labeled 1st cDNA synthesized from total RNA of the metastatic ccRCC pool was mixed with Cy5-labeled 1st cDNA synthesized from total RNA of the non-metastatic ccRCC pool, and hybridized to 16K cDNA chips (GEO Platform ID: GPL6259; SBC-R-HC-100-22, National Engineering Center for Biochip, Shanghai, China) that included 14784 unigenes, 241 negative controls and 527 positive controls. In our study we used a co-expression analysis for the relationship between genes; three gastric cancer Samples were only introduced to this analysis methods.
Project description:Metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) has a poor prognosis and unpredictable course and there are no molecular markers that reliably predict ccRCC metastasis. In this study, specimens from 84 patients with ccRCC were directly cultured in vitro. The primary cultures from 38 of 94 specimens contained more than 90% tumor cells at 4th passages. After identified by immunostaining, the primary cultures of metastatic- and nonmetastatic ccRCC specimens from the age-, gender-matched patients were subjected to cDNA microrray assays. A total of 842 differentially expressed genes with FDR (false discovery rate) = 4.79% were identified by using SAM (Significance Analysis of Microarray) software. Pathway enrichment and co-occurrence with “cancer”, “metastasis” and “invasion” in the literature annotations enriched the functions of the 842 genes and indicated the reliability of our microarray assays. Novel genes associated with metastasis were selected based on intra-molecular interaction between 205 differentially expressed genes co-occurred with “metastasis” and those not appeared with “metastasis” on Medline, as well as co-expression analysis between 205 differentially expressed genes co-occurred with “metastasis” and those not appeared on Medline in 12 microarray data. FSTL1, AV722783, SLC15A1, DDX17, ORC2L and PKMYT1 were proved to be potential ccRCC metastasis-associated novel genes, based on its expression patterns in the cultures and tumor tissues. Interestingly, the up-regulated genes (CAV1, PKMYT1 and ORC2L) were up-regulated and the down-regulated genes (FSTL1, GSTM3, CYR61, SLC15A1 and AV722783) were down-regulated, in the primary ccRCC specimens as compared with its adjacent normal kidney in 37 patients (determined by semi-quantitative RT-PCR). This study provides potential biomarkers and novel molecular targets for the early diagnosis and treatment of ccRCC metastasis. Keywords: Homo sapiens
Project description:Understanding gene expression changes during transformation from normal tissue to primary RCC and then to metastasis is important. Such analysis is pivotal for undertanding biology in renal cancer and also to unearth novel gene targets. Hence, we examined global transcriptome profile of normal renal tissue, primary RCC and metastasis RCC tumors, identifying important RCC biomarkers
Project description:The understanding of metastatic spread is limited and molecular mechanisms causing particular characteristics of metastasis are largely unknown. This comprises the extremely varying dormancy periods of tumor cells in the secondary organ after metastatic spread, represented by the disease-free survival (DFS) of the patients, or differing numbers of metastases in different patients. Knowing the molecular fundamentals of these phenomena would support the individual prediction of patients´ outcome and facilitate the decision for an appropriate monitoring and therapy regime. In a first study (PMID 19391132) we analyzed the transcriptome-wide expression profiles of 20 pulmonary metastases of renal cell carcinoma (Met1-9, Met11-18, Met20, Met23, Met25) to identify expression patterns associated with the dormancy period and the number of metastases per patient. Pre-processed and analyzed data for this study are available in GEO Series GSE14378. In this second study, we validated the DFS-associated expression pattern from the first study on four further metastases and also included primary ccRCC with different DFS. For this, the microarray data of all metastases and primary tumors were pre-processed together. The aim of this second study was to identify those genes, which are differentially expressed in metastases developed after different dormancy periods and which are already deregulated in primary tumors. Genes differentially expressed in synchronously vs. metachronously metastases might contribute functionally to the dormancy period. Genes already deregulated in primary ccRCC might be suitable for prognostic purposes. metastases manifested synchronously or metachronously (DFS less than or equal to 9 months compared with DFS greater than or equal to 60 months); primary ccRCC which developed synchronous or metachronous metastases (DFS less than or equal to 6 months compared with DFS greater than or equal to 45 months)
Project description:Comparative analysis of the transcriptome of primary tumors generated from 4T1 cells transduced with a lentiviral vector expressing a siRNA against murine SPARC (4T1-C18), primary tumors generated from 4T1 cells transduced with a lentiviral vector expressing a scramble sequence (4T1-SCR) or lung metastasis foci from 4T1-SCR tumor-bearing mice (4T1-SCR MTTS).
Project description:We identify genes presenting a specific expression profile in midgut carcinoid cells, primary carcinoids tumors and liver metastasis were gene profiled. Gene expression profiling of classical midgut carcinoid primary tumors and liver metastasis reveal potential novel therapeutic targets and molecular signatures. Experiment Overall Design: Normal and tumoral (carcinoid) cells