Project description:Chronic inflammation plays important role in lung cancer development. Recently, we found that anti-inflammation drugs aspirin and triptolide when combined showed synergistic effect in suppressing lung cancer development. In this study, we aim to use gene microarray to define the genes and pathways that are affected by aspirin, triptolide individually or in combination.
Project description:Aspirin, or acetylsalicylic acid is widely used to control pain, inflammation and fever. An important property of aspirin is its ability to acetylate multiple cellular proteins with some pharmacological functions explicable by the irreversible acetylation of cyclooxygenases at active site serine residues. We have used a labeled form of aspirin, aspirin-d3 to acetylate proteins in cultured human cells, and unambiguously identified over 12000 sites of acetylation, using acetylated lysine peptide enrichment combined with mass-spectrometry-based proteomics. Aspirin increases lysine acetylation occupancy of the majority of detected endogenous sites, but leaves almost unchanged a small group that are already highly acetylated. We show that cells are remarkably tolerant of this acetylation insult unless endogenous deacetylases are inhibited. This work raises the possibility that rather than single protein effects, some of the clinical features of aspirin may be the consequence of multiple concurrent protein modifications, and that combining aspirin with lysine deacetylase inhibitors may have important medical implications.
Project description:Temporal analysis of colon carcinoma cell line CC531 response to 4.5 mM butyrate or 3 mM aspirin. Samples taken at 2, 6, 12, 16 and 24 hours. The CC531 cell line has been widely used to study different aspects of tumor growth and metastasis and provides an excellent experimental platform to develop novel antitumor strategies. To characterize the CC531 model at the molecular level, we screened for mutations in genes covering important signal-transduction pathways that are known to play major roles during colon carcinogenesis, the wnt and the ki-ras signaling pathways. We found both a prototypic beta-catenin (Ctnnb1) mutation (Thr(41)Ile) and a ki-ras (G12D) mutation, providing unambiguous evidence for the constitutive activation of these pathways in CC531 cells. We further established comprehensive gene expression profiles of CC531 cells and investigated the molecular response to 2 antitumor drugs, butyrate and aspirin. Using oligonucleotide microarrays, we screened the expression levels of 7,700 genes and identified a total of 398 genes whose expression was significantly changed upon treatment with butyrate. When using aspirin, 121 genes were significantly altered. Interestingly, 36 genes were regulated by both butyrate and aspirin and 35 of them were regulated in the same direction. We found 7 differentially expressed genes, cyclin D1, cyclin E, c-myc, Fosl1, c-fos, Cd44 and follistatin, which are known targets of the beta-catenin and/or the ras pathway. In all cases, butyrate and aspirin reversed the changes in expression normally found in response to active signaling of these oncogenic pathways. Keywords: other
Project description:Aspirin, or acetylsalicylic acid is widely used to control pain, inflammation and fever. Important to this function is its ability to irreversibly acetylate cyclooxygenases at active site serines. Aspirin has the potential to acetylate other amino-acid side-chains, leading to speculation that aspirin-mediated lysine acetylation could explain some of its drug actions or side-effects. Using a labeled form of aspirin, aspirin-d3, we identified over 12000 sites of lysine acetylation from cultured human cells. Although aspirin amplifies acetylation signals at thousands of sites, cells tolerate aspirin mediated acetylation very well unless endogenous deacetylases are inhibited. Apart from a limited number of cellular proteins that are substantially acetylated under endogenous conditions, aspirin mediated acetylation leads to a large increase in the acetylation of many proteins even although they remain at very low stoichiometry. This reinforces the idea that a major function of cellular deacetylases is the suppression of non-specific or non-enzymatic protein acetylation.
Project description:Theoretically, the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) into either adipocytic or osteoblastic phenotype can be deemed as a seesaw, where induction of one lineage comes at the expense of the other. Previously, researchers, including our team, found that aspirin promoted osteoblast differentiation of bone mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) whereas inhibiting adipogenic differentiation. However, the precise mechanisms, that is, which pathways, what biological process or key genes involved during this process, had not been systematically studied. In the present study, we tend to analyze the whole transcriptome of the anti-adipogenic and promote-osteoblastic effects of aspirin in BMSCs. Our results showed that aspirin’s presence restored or further strengthened the expression of an important part of the gene population repressed during adipogenesis or increased during osteogenesis. Besides, classical pathways related to osteogenic differentiation (p53 signaling pathway, focal adhesion, osteoclast differentiation, PI3K-Akt signaling pathway, MAPK signaling pathway, and Wnt signaling pathway) and the fat metabolism were also disturbed during the promote-osteoblastic and anti-adipogenic effects of aspirin. Therefore, our whole-genome transcriptomic results shed new light and open the door to more specific “omics” studies. Our results allow a better understanding of the anti-adipogenic and promote-osteoblastic effects of aspirin and pave the way to aspirin clinical use for the prevention and treatment of diseases like tissue defect and osteoporosis.
Project description:Aspirin, or acetylsalicylic acid is widely used to control pain, inflammation and fever. Important to this function is its ability to irreversibly acetylate cyclooxygenases at active site serines. Aspirin has the potential to acetylate other amino-acid side-chains, leading to speculation that aspirin-mediated lysine acetylation could explain some of its drug actions or side-effects. Using a labeled form of aspirin, aspirin-d3, we identified over 12000 sites of lysine acetylation from cultured human cells. Although aspirin amplifies acetylation signals at thousands of sites, cells tolerate aspirin mediated acetylation very well unless endogenous deacetylases are inhibited. Apart from a limited number of cellular proteins that are substantially acetylated under endogenous conditions, aspirin mediated acetylation leads to a large increase in the acetylation of many proteins even although they remain at very low stoichiometry. This reinforces the idea that a major function of cellular deacetylases is the suppression of non-specific or non-enzymatic protein acetylation.
Project description:Aspirin is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. Till date there is no information on the molecular mechanism of aspirin on oral cancer cells. In this study, treated oral cancer cells were compared with untreated ones for gene expression for finding the effect of aspirin on biological process and significant pathways involved. Aspirin plays an important role in inducing apoptotic effect by activating regulators and further inhibits cell cycle progression.
Project description:Oral aspirin challenge may induce different global CpG methylation patterns between aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD) and aspirin-tolerant asthma (ATA), which may affect gene expression several hours later. Therefore, in the present study, we compared global CpG methylation profiles before and after an oral aspirin challenge in patients with asthma. In addition, we compared differences in methylation profiles between AERD and ATA using an Illumina 860K Infinium Methylation EPIC BeadChip array platform, which had greater coverage than in the previous study (26,485 CpGs) to discover new methylated CpGs in PBLs associated with aspirin-induced bronchospasm.
Project description:Temporal analysis of colon carcinoma cell line CC531 response to 4.5 mM butyrate or 3 mM aspirin. Samples taken at 2, 6, 12, 16 and 24 hours. The CC531 cell line has been widely used to study different aspects of tumor growth and metastasis and provides an excellent experimental platform to develop novel antitumor strategies. To characterize the CC531 model at the molecular level, we screened for mutations in genes covering important signal-transduction pathways that are known to play major roles during colon carcinogenesis, the wnt and the ki-ras signaling pathways. We found both a prototypic beta-catenin (Ctnnb1) mutation (Thr(41)Ile) and a ki-ras (G12D) mutation, providing unambiguous evidence for the constitutive activation of these pathways in CC531 cells. We further established comprehensive gene expression profiles of CC531 cells and investigated the molecular response to 2 antitumor drugs, butyrate and aspirin. Using oligonucleotide microarrays, we screened the expression levels of 7,700 genes and identified a total of 398 genes whose expression was significantly changed upon treatment with butyrate. When using aspirin, 121 genes were significantly altered. Interestingly, 36 genes were regulated by both butyrate and aspirin and 35 of them were regulated in the same direction. We found 7 differentially expressed genes, cyclin D1, cyclin E, c-myc, Fosl1, c-fos, Cd44 and follistatin, which are known targets of the beta-catenin and/or the ras pathway. In all cases, butyrate and aspirin reversed the changes in expression normally found in response to active signaling of these oncogenic pathways.