Project description:Metabolic switch from oxidative phosphorylation to glycolysis is required for tumorigenesis by providing cancer cells with energy and substrates of biosynthesis, and also plays a key role in inducing immune suppressive tumor microenvironment that inhibits tumor immunotherapy. Therefore, to develop more effective cancer therapy, it is important to elucidate mechanisms that control cancer metabolic switch. MTR4 is a RNA helicase associated with nuclear exosome that plays key roles in RNA processing and surveillance. We demonstrated that MTR4 is frequently overexpressed in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and this predicts poor prognosis of HCC patients. MTR4 is required for HCC tumorigenesis by maintaining cancer metabolic switch. Mechanistically, MTR4 is required for the expression of critical glycolytic proteins such as GLUT1 and PKM2 by binding to their pre-mRNA and ensuring correct alternative splicing. c-Myc binds to the promoter of MTR4 gene and is required for MTR4 expression, indicating that MTR4 is a key mediator of c-Myc function in promoting cancer metabolism. These findings reveal an important pathway to drive cancer metabolic switch and present MTR4 as a promising therapeutic target for treating HCC.
Project description:To investigate functional transcripts in metastatic HCC, we performed high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) of tumors from 3 metastatic HCC and 3 non-metastatic HCC. And we performed RIP-seq human PLC/PRF/5 cells to investigate the HNRNPD binding transcripts. To investigate function of circLARP1B on AMPK pathway, we performed high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) of WT (DMSO or Compound C) and circLARP1B-Def (DMSO) PLC/PRF/5 cells.
Project description:To investigate the role of the helicases Dbp2 and Mtr4 in the decay of Xrn1-sensitive lncRNAs, we performed RNA-Seq in yeast cells lacking Dbp2 or depleted for Mtr4.
Project description:til-ath-2011_3 - tiling hen2 and mtr4 - Identification and comparison of the RNA substrates that accumulate in hen2 and mtr4 mutants. Total RNA extracted from WT, hen2 and mtr4 mutants was used for oligo-dT primed cDNA preparation. Samples were hybridised to NimbleGen whole genome tiling arrays. 8 dye-swapped samples. Gene knockout, genotype comparison, normal vs. transgenic comparison.
Project description:To demonstrate RIPSeeker program that is developed for RIP-seq analyses, we generated RIP-seq data corresponding to the protein CCNT1 in HEK293 cell line using standard RIP-seq protocols described in Zhao et al., (2010). We performed two in-house RIP-seq experiments both for CCNT1 in human HEK293 cells. Briefly, we generated tagged CCNT1 using a triple tag system that supports lentiviral stable expression and mammalian affinity purification (MAPLE) Mak et al (2010). The HEK293 cells stably expressing tagged CCNT1 was purified by M2 agarose beads, followed by RNA extraction by Trizol. The library synthesis was carried out according to the RIP-seq protocol described in Zhao et al., (2010) except that one of the two experiments was done with non-strand-specific sequencing.
Project description:The RNA-seq of HCC specimens and the RIP-seq of HNRNPD in PLC cells and WT (DMSO or Compound C) and circLARP1B-Def (DMSO) PLC/PRF/5 cells