Project description:Long non-coding RNA NR2F1 antisense RNA1 (lncRNA NR2F1-AS1) was identified as the main candidate associated to late recurrence in ER-positive breast cancer clinical samples. Gain-of-function of NR2F1-AS1 induced the expression of dormancy-inducers BMP4 and DEC2, and upregulated pluripotency markers NANOG and OCT4. Representative pathways entailed to metastatic events such as HER2/Neu, hypoxia, EMT and inflammatory-response were also found enriched.
Project description:Long non-coding RNA NR2F1 antisense RNA1 (lncRNA NR2F1-AS1) was identified as the main candidate associated to late recurrence in ER-positive breast cancer clinical samples. Gain-of-function of NR2F1-AS1 induced the expression of dormancy-inducers BMP4 and DEC2, and upregulated pluripotency markers NANOG and OCT4. Representative pathways entailed to metastatic events such as HER2/Neu, hypoxia, EMT and inflammatory-response were also found enriched.
Project description:Our data showed that NR2F1-AS1 functions oncogenic roles in gastric cancer (GC), but the underlying molecular mechanism remains largely unknown to date. To explore the function of lncRNA NR2F1-AS1 in gastric cancer, loss-of-function and RNA sequencing studies were performed in SGC7901 cell line. The results showed that depletion of NR2F1-AS1 significantly decreased the expression of VAMP7. Interestingly, VAMP7 was also a target gene of miR-29a-3p. Our data showed that NR2F1-AS1 promotes GC progression through regulating miR-29a/VAMP7 axis.
Project description:We show that the epithelial-like and mesenchymal-like subpopulations of breast cancer stem-like cells (BCSCs) demonstrate different levels dormancy and tumorigenicity in lungs. The long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) molecule NR2F1-AS1 (NAS1) is up-regulated in the dormant BCSC subpopulation, and functionally promotes tumor dissemination but reduces proliferation in lungs. Mechanically, NAS1 promotes internal ribosome entry site (IRES)-mediated NR2F1 translation, leading to inhibition of ΔNp63 transcription by NR2F1. Further, ΔNp63 downregulation results in epithelial-mesenchymal transition, reduced tumorigenicity and enhanced dormancy of cancer cells in lungs.
Project description:Characterisation IER3-AS1 interacting proteins using chromatin oligo-affinity precipitation (ChOP) followed by mass spectrometry. The HeLa cell lysates was incubated with biotinylated antisense oligonucleotides (ASO), targeting an experimental target antisense long noncoding RNA IER3-AS1 or a control RNA LacZ. LacZ and IER3-AS1 interacting proteomes were pulldown using Streptavidin beads. The eluted protein samples from both LacZ control ASOs and IER3-AS1 ASOs subjected to mass-spectrometry analyses to identify IER3-AS1 interacting proteins.
Project description:NFYC-AS1 is an overlapping antisense RNA transcribed head-to-head to NFYC sense gene, encoding for the subunit C of NF-Y transcription factor, which is known as master regulator of cell cycle and proliferation in normal and tumor cells. Here we performed NFYC-AS1 silencing in lung squamous carcinoma H520 cells by Gapmer antisense oligonucleotides and CRISPR/Cas9 TSS deletion. Afterwards, we performed differentially expressed analysis and gene set enrichement analysis to investigate on NFYC-AS1 function and mechanism of action.
Project description:LncRNA Hypoxia-inducible factor 1α-antisense 1 (HIF1α-AS1) is located on the antisense strand of the important Hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF1α) gene, but being transcribed in antisense direction along the HIF1α promoter. Here we used the 3’end biotinylated HIF1a-AS1 RNA and a control RNA for RNA Pulldown and searched for interacting proteins in nuclear extracts of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC).