Project description:Melanoma cell lines were established and used for methylome profiling with Illumina HM450 beadchip. The molecular alterations in selected invasive melanoma cell populations were compared to those in the original cell lines by performing DNA methylation (Illumina HM450K) assays
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:This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below. Motwani, J., Roger, E. J., Stockwell, P.A., Baguley, B.C., Macaulay, E.C. , Eccles, M.R. (2020). Integrated transcriptome and DNA methylome analysis of invasive and non-invasive melanoma cell lines identifies widespread coding and long non-coding RNA expression differences, yet comparatively few differences in DNA methylation
Project description:Over the last decades, exosomes have received increasing attention due to their involvement in numerous pathologies including cancer. Tumor-derived exosomes and exosomes derived from the tumor microenvironment are implicated in multiple mechanisms that support disease progression such as the escape of malignant cells from immunosurveillance, tumor cell growth, tumor angiogenesis, preparation of a pre-metastatic niche and remodeling of the extracellular matrix, thereby promoting dissemination and metastasis. Here, we performed protein expression phenotyping of exosomes derived from different invasive and proliferative melanoma cell lines (n=8) to provide a solid framework of gene expression programs, which - in a clinical setting - would be useful for prognosis and may also predict treatment response. Cell line characteristics have been published previously (Wenzina et al.,2020). Having identified a set of differentially expressed proteins in proliferative and invasive melanoma cell lines, we correlated them to the protein composition of plasma exosomes from melanoma patients pre and post immunotherapy treatment (n=7) as well as healthy controls (n=5).
Project description:To investigate the function of N1-methyladenosine methylome (m1A) in ocular melanoma, we analyzed m1A enrichment level in ocular melanoma and melanocyte cell lines and established ALKBH3 knock down cell lines in 92.1.