Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of sixteen melanoma cell lines. The Illumina Infinium MethylationEPIC DNA methylation Beadchip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 850,000 CpGs from the cell lines at baseline.
Project description:DNA methylation profiling of human melanocytes and melanoma cell lines. Goal was to identify hypermethylated gene promoters in melanoma
Project description:Melanoma is a very aggressive type of skin cancer, which renders it difficult to treat because of extensive heterogeneity frequently observed in melanoma tumours. Here we hypothesized that gene expression and DNA methylation differences would correlate with invasiveness in melanoma cells. To address this question, we carried out genome-wide transcriptome and methylome investigations in non-invasive and invasive groups of melanoma cell lines.
Project description:Melanoma is a very aggressive type of skin cancer, which renders it difficult to treat because of extensive heterogeneity frequently observed in melanoma tumours. Here we hypothesized that gene expression and DNA methylation differences would correlate with invasiveness in melanoma cells. To address this question, we carried out genome-wide transcriptome and methylome investigations in non-invasive and invasive groups of melanoma cell lines.
Project description:DNA methylation profiling of human melanocytes and melanoma cell lines. Goal was to identify hypermethylated gene promoters in melanoma Genomic DNA from 4 human melanoma cell lines and normal human epidermal melanocytes was subjected to methylated DNA immunoprecipitation (MeDIP) and hybridized to Agilent's G4489A Human Promoter ChIP-on-Chip Set 244K
Project description:Epigenetic alterations play significant roles in the melanoma tumorigenesis and malignant progression. We profiled genome-wide promoter DNA methylation patterns of melanoma cells deribed from primary lesions of Radial Growrth phase (RGP) and Vertical Growth Phase (VGP), metastatic lesions, and primary normal melanocytes by interrogating 14,495 genes using Illumina bead chip technology. By comparative analysis of the promoter methylation profiles, we identified epigenetically silenced gene signatures that potentially associated with malignant melanoma progression. Bisulphite converted genomic DNA from a group of melanoma cells representing pathologic stages of melanoma progression (3 cell lines derived from RGP melanoma lesions, 4 cell lines derived from VGP lesions, and 3 melastatic melanomas) and normal human primary melanocytes isolated from lightly pigmented adult skin were hybridized to Illumina's Infinium HumanMethylation27 BeadChips
Project description:Epigenetic regulation of tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) has been shown to play a central role in melanomagenesis. Integrating gene expression and methylation array analysis we identified novel candidate TSGs frequently methylated in melanoma. We validated the methylation status of the most promising TSGs using the highly sensitive, specific and comprehensive Sequenom Epityper assay in a large panel of melanoma cell lines and resected melanomas, and compared the findings with that from cultured melanocytes. We found transcript levels of UCHL1, COL1A2, THBS1 and TNFRSF10D were inversely correlated with promoter methylation. The effect of this methylation on expression was confirmed at the protein level. Identification of these candidate TSGs and how their silencing is related to melanoma development will increase our understanding of the etiology of this cancer and may provide tools for its early diagnosis. Analysed samples consisted of 11 melanoma cell lines and 1 neonatal foreskin melanocyte pool as a reference. Melanoma cell lines overlap with members of the DNA copy number analysis series GSE9003 and expression profiling series GSE7127 . The matching copy number data GEO samples IDs are noted in characteristics: Matching CN Sample ID and characteristics: Matching expn Sample ID columns respectively.
Project description:Aberrant DNA methylation and histone modifications both contribute to carcinogenesis, but how these two epigenetic factors interact to impact gene expression remain unclear. To address this issue, we studied gene expression profiles, DNA methylation and two key histone modifications (H3K4me3 and H3K27me3), in two types of normal melanocytes (HEMn and HEMa) and two melanoma cell lines SK-MEL-28 and LOXIMVI. Using these data, we analyzed the relationship between epigenetic factors and gene expression status in both normal and melanoma cells, and the impact of epigenetic switches on gene expression during melanomagenesis. ChIP-seq analysis of H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 in two types of normal melanocytes (HEMn and HEMa) and two melanoma cell lines (SK-MEL-28 and LOXIMVI).
Project description:Aberrant DNA methylation and histone modifications both contribute to carcinogenesis, but how these two epigenetic factors interact to impact gene expression remain unclear. To address this issue, we studied gene expression profiles, DNA methylation and two key histone modifications (H3K4me3 and H3K27me3), in two types of normal melanocytes (HEMn and HEMa) and two melanoma cell lines SK-MEL-28 and LOXIMVI. Using these data, we analyzed the relationship between epigenetic factors and gene expression status in both normal and melanoma cells, and the impact of epigenetic switches on gene expression during melanomagenesis.
Project description:Epigenetic regulation of tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) has been shown to play a central role in melanomagenesis. Integrating gene expression and methylation array analysis we identified novel candidate TSGs frequently methylated in melanoma. We validated the methylation status of the most promising TSGs using the highly sensitive, specific and comprehensive Sequenom Epityper assay in a large panel of melanoma cell lines and resected melanomas, and compared the findings with that from cultured melanocytes. We found transcript levels of UCHL1, COL1A2, THBS1 and TNFRSF10D were inversely correlated with promoter methylation. The effect of this methylation on expression was confirmed at the protein level. Identification of these candidate TSGs and how their silencing is related to melanoma development will increase our understanding of the etiology of this cancer and may provide tools for its early diagnosis.