Project description:Glucocorticoids and estrogen antagonism in cardiomyocytes negatively influences cell survival in the female heart after MI by a mechanism involving GR inhibition of ERalpha-dependent transcriptional regulation.
Project description:Dysregulation of miRs has been reported in a variety of cardiac diseases. In particular, it has reported that estrogen regulates a miRs network in female cardiac fibroblasts, thereby modulating a spectrum of genes involved in cardiac fibrosis and remodeling. However, the estrogen-responsive miRs in cardiomyocytes still remain to be elucidated. We used a microRNA microarray screening approach to address the miRs expression profiling in estrogen-treated cardiomyocytes.
Project description:Transcriptomic changes and estrogen and progesterone receptor binding in multiple ER+/PR+ models (eight ER+/PR+ patient tumors, various T47Ds, ZR75) and multiple ER+/PR-negative models (four ER+/PR- patient tuumors, PR-deficient T47D and MCF7 cells) treated with various hormone combinations. Results: In isolation, estrogen and progestin act as genomic agonists by regulating the expression of common target genes in similar directions, but at different levels. Similarly, in isolation, progestin is also a weak phenotypic agonist of estrogen action. However, in the presence of both hormones, progestin behaves as a phenotypic estrogen antagonist. PR remodels nucleosomes to noncompetitively redirect ER genomic binding to distal enhancers enriched for BRCA1 binding motifs and sites that link PR and ER/PR complexes. Importantly, when both hormones are present, progestin modulates estrogen action such that responsive transcriptomes, cellular processes and ER/PR recruitment to genomic sites correlate with those observed with PR alone, but not ER alone. Conclusions: Genomic Agonism and Phenotypic Antagonism between Estrogen and Progesterone Receptors in Breast Cancer. Individual and concerted actions of ER and PR highlight the prognostic and therapeutic value of PR in ER+/PR+ breast cancers. ER+/PR+ and ER+/PR-deficient model systems were deprived of steroids by culturing them in phenol red free RPMI 1640 media that is supplemented with 10% charcoal-stripped fetal bovine serum and 1% penicillin/streptomycin. Subsequently, these steroid-deprived models were treated with either vehicle, 10 nM estradiol, 10 nM progestin R5020 or 10 nM of both the hormones and genomics (ChIP-seq and RNA-seq) was performed. ChIP-seq was done after 45 minutes of hormone treatments. For cell models, RNA-seq was done after 12 hours of hormone treatments. Tumor explants were treated with either 24 or 48 hours.
Project description:Transcriptomic changes and estrogen and progesterone receptor binding in multiple ER+/PR+ models (eight ER+/PR+ patient tumors, various T47Ds, ZR75) and multiple ER+/PR-negative models (four ER+/PR- patient tuumors, PR-deficient T47D and MCF7 cells) treated with various hormone combinations. Results: In isolation, estrogen and progestin act as genomic agonists by regulating the expression of common target genes in similar directions, but at different levels. Similarly, in isolation, progestin is also a weak phenotypic agonist of estrogen action. However, in the presence of both hormones, progestin behaves as a phenotypic estrogen antagonist. PR remodels nucleosomes to noncompetitively redirect ER genomic binding to distal enhancers enriched for BRCA1 binding motifs and sites that link PR and ER/PR complexes. Importantly, when both hormones are present, progestin modulates estrogen action such that responsive transcriptomes, cellular processes and ER/PR recruitment to genomic sites correlate with those observed with PR alone, but not ER alone. Conclusions: Genomic Agonism and Phenotypic Antagonism between Estrogen and Progesterone Receptors in Breast Cancer. Individual and concerted actions of ER and PR highlight the prognostic and therapeutic value of PR in ER+/PR+ breast cancers.
Project description:Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators (SERMs) are a class of structurally diverse compounds possessing unique partially agonistic and antagonistic properties and have been extensively used in treatments of hormone-responsive cancers and other diseases. Our previous studies have identified a three-dimensional SERM oxabicycloheptene sulfonate (OBHS) for estrogen receptor α (ERα), which is effective in vivo for the prevention and treatment of estrogen-dependent endometriosis. Here, using ChIP-seq and RNA-seq analysis, we found that OBHS rapidly induces genome-wide ERα occupancy behaves as a partial agonist and antagonist in ERα positive MCF-7 cells. Interestingly, OBHS downregulates the homologous recombination and repair (HRR) modules resulting in the increased DNA damage, apoptosis and cell cycle arrest, and leading to synthetic lethality with Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor olaparib and genotoxic doxorubicin through blocking of ERα. Furthermore, we found that OBHS treatment results in defects of RNA polymerase II loading at the estrogen-responsive HRR genes, providing a mechanism for the regulation of HRR genes by OBHS. Together, our studies not only reveal a novel SERM OBHS which uniquely targets the homologous recombination and repair programs through ERα antagonism, but also propose a synthetic lethal strategy by combining OBHS with PARP inhibitor olaparib or genotoxic doxorubicin for ERα-responsive cancers.
Project description:Estrogen-related receptor gamma (ERRg) has been shown to control gene expression involved in a broad range of mitochondrial energy metabolism including oxidative phosphorylation, TCA cycle, and fatty acid oxidation. However, ERRg direct targets were not identified in cardiomyocytes. With ERRg ChIP-seq, we found ERRg peaks on the promoter regions of mitochondrial energy metabolic genes as expected. Besides, ERRg extensively distributed the promoter regions of cardiac contractile, ion channels and Ca2+ handling protein genes. Surprisingly, the peaks also were found on non-cardiomyocyte genes and genes expressed in early-stage cardiomyocytes.
Project description:Transcriptomic changes and estrogen and progesterone receptor binding in multiple ER+/PR+ models (eight ER+/PR+ patient tumors, various T47Ds, ZR75) and multiple ER+/PR-negative models (four ER+/PR- patient tuumors, PR-deficient T47D and MCF7 cells) treated with various hormone combinations. Results: In isolation, estrogen and progestin act as genomic agonists by regulating the expression of common target genes in similar directions, but at different levels. Similarly, in isolation, progestin is also a weak phenotypic agonist of estrogen action. However, in the presence of both hormones, progestin behaves as a phenotypic estrogen antagonist. PR remodels nucleosomes to noncompetitively redirect ER genomic binding to distal enhancers enriched for BRCA1 binding motifs and sites that link PR and ER/PR complexes. Importantly, when both hormones are present, progestin modulates estrogen action such that responsive transcriptomes, cellular processes and ER/PR recruitment to genomic sites correlate with those observed with PR alone, but not ER alone. Conclusions: Genomic Agonism and Phenotypic Antagonism between Estrogen and Progesterone Receptors in Breast Cancer. Individual and concerted actions of ER and PR highlight the prognostic and therapeutic value of PR in ER+/PR+ breast cancers.
Project description:Transcriptomic changes and estrogen and progesterone receptor binding in multiple ER+/PR+ models (eight ER+/PR+ patient tumors, various T47Ds, ZR75) and multiple ER+/PR-negative models (four ER+/PR- patient tuumors, PR-deficient T47D and MCF7 cells) treated with various hormone combinations. Results: In isolation, estrogen and progestin act as genomic agonists by regulating the expression of common target genes in similar directions, but at different levels. Similarly, in isolation, progestin is also a weak phenotypic agonist of estrogen action. However, in the presence of both hormones, progestin behaves as a phenotypic estrogen antagonist. PR remodels nucleosomes to noncompetitively redirect ER genomic binding to distal enhancers enriched for BRCA1 binding motifs and sites that link PR and ER/PR complexes. Importantly, when both hormones are present, progestin modulates estrogen action such that responsive transcriptomes, cellular processes and ER/PR recruitment to genomic sites correlate with those observed with PR alone, but not ER alone. Conclusions: Genomic Agonism and Phenotypic Antagonism between Estrogen and Progesterone Receptors in Breast Cancer. Individual and concerted actions of ER and PR highlight the prognostic and therapeutic value of PR in ER+/PR+ breast cancers.