Project description:1. Evaluate the diagnostic value of long noncoding RNA (CCAT1) expression by RT-PCR in peripheral blood in colorectal cancer patients versus normal healthy control personal.
2. Evaluate the clinical utility of detecting long noncoding RNA (CCAT1) expression in diagnosis of colorectal cancer patients & its relation to tumor staging.
3. Evaluate the clinical utility of detecting long noncoding RNA (CCAT1) expression in precancerous colorectal diseases.
4. Compare long noncoding RNA (CCAT1) expression with traditional marker; carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and Carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) in diagnosis of colorectal cancer.
Project description:GM0637 cell were treated with or without DNA damaging agent neocarzinostatin (NCS), and cells were harvested after 4 hours and 8 hours for the microarray analyses of whole-genome long noncoding RNAs. To examine how long noncoding RNAs are regulated in the DNA damage response, we assessed the genome-wide long noncoding RNA expression in GM0637 cells treated with or without DNA damage
Project description:Tumour DNA contains thousands of somatic single nucleotide variants (SNVs) in non-protein-coding elements, yet their functional significance remains poorly understood. Amongst the most highly mutated elements are long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), functional transcripts with known roles in carcinogenesis. To search for driver mutations in lncRNAs, we apply an integrative driver discovery algorithm to SNVs from 2583 primary tumours and 3527 metastases to reveal 54 potential “driver lncRNAs”. Our algorithm confirms a particularly high mutation rate in the iconic cancer lncRNA, NEAT1, which has been ascribed by recent studies to passenger effects. We directly test the functionality of NEAT1 SNVs using in cellulo mutagenesis, identifying discrete regions where mutations reproducibly increase cell proliferation in diverse cell backgrounds, both cancerous and normal. In particular, mutations in the 5’ region alter ribonucleoprotein assembly and boost the population of subnuclear paraspeckles, thus mechanistically linking mutations to cellular proliferation. We then used RNA-pull down followed by mass spectrometry to identify the protein interactor changing between the wild type and mutant form of NEAT1.
Project description:To understand the role of long non-coding RNAs and interaction with coding RNAs in bladder urothelial cell carcinoma (BUCC), we performed genome-wide screening long non-coding RNAs and coding RNAs expression on primary BUCC tissues and normal tissues using long non-coding RNA array (Agilent plateform (GPL13825). By comparing these two groups, significantly differentially expressed lncRNAs and coding RNAs were identified. We further identifed a subset of long noncoding RNAs and their correlation with neighboring coding genes using bioinformatic tools. This analysis provides foundamental understaning of transcriptomic landscape changing during bladder carcinogenesis. 12 BUCC primary tumors and 3 normal tissues were used for long noncoding RNA array experiments which including long non-coding RNAs and coding RNAs. The differential expression of subset of long noncoding RNAs and their interaction with coding RNAs in BUCC compared with normal tissue will be identified with comtational analysis.