Project description:Genone wide differential gene expression analysis Identification of gene linked to mouse colorectal cancer cell response to EPA treatment through differential gene expression analysis in an EPA-sensitive cell line.
Project description:Genone wide differential gene expression analysis Identification of gene linked to mouse colorectal cancer cell resistance to EPA treatment through differential gene expression analysis in an isogenic cell line pair
Project description:Eicosapentaenoic acid in its free fatty acid form (EPA-FFA), 2g daily, is safe and well-tolerated in patients undergoing liver resection surgery for colorectal liver metastasis.Oral EPA incorporates into colorectal liver metastasis tissue. EPA-FFA treatment is associated with reduced vascularity of liver metastases in ω-3 PUFA-naïve patients. Preoperative (median 30 days) EPA-FFA treatment may have prolonged benefit on postoperative overall and disease-free survival. We used whole genome expression array to study whether systemic CCL2 level changes were linked to a specific tumour gene expression profile in colorectal liver metastasis patients treated with EPA-FFA.
Project description:Eicosapentaenoic acid in its free fatty acid form (EPA-FFA), 2g daily, is safe and well-tolerated in patients undergoing liver resection surgery for colorectal liver metastasis.Oral EPA incorporates into colorectal liver metastasis tissue. EPA-FFA treatment is associated with reduced vascularity of liver metastases in Ï-3 PUFA-naïve patients. Preoperative (median 30 days) EPA-FFA treatment may have prolonged benefit on postoperative overall and disease-free survival. We used whole genome expression array to study whether systemic CCL2 level changes were linked to a specific tumour gene expression profile in colorectal liver metastasis patients treated with EPA-FFA. 15 tumour RNA samples from colorectal liver metastasis patients treated with EPA-FFA during the EMT study (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01070355) were extracted from formalin-fixed paraffin-wax embedded tissue blocks. The RNA samples were used for whole genome expression microarray experiments. We then performed a differential gene expression analysis to compare the tumour expression profile of patients with increased or decreased plasma CCL2 levels after intervention.
Project description:To investigate the effect of different tumor-associated glycans, mouse colorectal cancer cells (MC38 cell line) were genetically modified using CRISPR-Cas9 and CRISPR-dCas-VPR technology targeting different genes involved in glycosylation pathways. To study the effect of altered glycosylation at the transcriptional level, next generation sequencing was performed on the entire panel of glycovariant MC38 cell lines. The MC38 knockout cell lines created with the CRISPR-Cas9 technology are: MC38-MOCK#1, MC38-CMAS KO, MC38-COSMC KO, MC38-CMAS+COSMC KO. The MC38 overexpressing cell lines generated with the CRISPR-dCas9-VPR technology are: MC38-MOCK#2, MC38-FUT4, MC38-FUT9. Details on the cell lines can be found in the corresponding manuscript(s).
Project description:Dissemination of primary tumors to distant anatomical sites has a substantial negative impact on patient prognosis. The liver is a common site for metastases from colorectal cancer, and patients with hepatic metastases have generally much shorter survival, raising a need to develop and implement novel strategies for targeting metastatic disease. The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a meshwork of highly crosslinked, insoluble, high molecular weight proteins maintaining tissue integrity and establishing cell-cell interactions. Emerging evidence identifies the importance of the ECM in cancer cell migration, invasion, intravasation, and metastasis. Here, we isolated the extracellular matrix from MC38 mouse liver metastases using our optimized method of mild detergent solubilization followed by biochemical enrichment. The matrices were subjected to label-free quantitative mass spectrometry analysis, revealing proteins highly abundant in the metastatic matrisome. The resulting list of differentially expressed proteins significantly predicted survival in patients with colorectal cancer but not other cancers with strong involvement of the extracellular matrix component. One of the proteins upregulated in liver metastatic ECM, Annexin A1, was not previously studied in the context of cancer-associated matrisome. Here we show that Annexin A1 was markedly upregulated in colon cancer cell lines compared to cancer cells of other origin, and also overrepresented in human primary colorectal lesions as well as hepatic metastases in comparison with their adjacent healthy tissue counterparts. In conclusion, our study provides a comprehensive ECM characterization of MC38 experimental liver metastases and proposes Annexin A1 as a putative target for this disease.
Project description:Murine colorectal cancer MC38 cells were injected in the flank of C57BL/6 mice to form tumor grafts over 7 days. Tumor-bearing mice were treated with daily injections of vanoxerine (25mg/kg) or vehichle control (saline) over 10 consecutive days. Tumors were excised and RNA sequencing profiling was performed on both experimental condition.
Project description:To explore the role of Dusp18 in regulating the immune microenvironment of colorectal cancer (CRC), we established MC38 knockdown via shRNA and performed the proteomics.