Project description:Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and AR downstream signalings promote prostate cancer cell proliferation. Although initially hormone-deprovation therapy is effective to inhibit cancer progression, most of cancers relapse as castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). In this study, we examined the effect of OCT4 or NRF1 knockdown in CRPC cells. In order to investigate the OCT4 and NRF1 function in CRPC cells, we performed gene expression in AR-positive CRPC cell line, 22Rv1, AR-negative CRPC cell lines, PC3-CR (Cabazitaxel resistant), DU145, and DU145-CR, after siOCT4 (10 nM) or siNRF1 (10 nM) treatment. We also treated cells with vehicle, ribavirin (riba), or dihydrotestosterone (DHT) to analyzed the effects of thiese drug treatments.
Project description:Prostate cancer is the most common, lethal malignancy in men. Although androgen withdrawal therapies are used to treat advanced disease, progression to a castration-resistant, end-stage is the usual outcome. In this study, the tested hypothesis was that the androgen receptor remains essential for the growth and viability of castration-resistant disease. Knocking down the androgen receptor in well-established tumors grown in castrated mice caused growth arrest, decreased serum PSA, and frequently regression and total eradication of tumors. Growth control of castration-resistant tumors appeared to be linked to the extent of androgen receptor knockdown, which triggers upregulation of many genes involved in apoptosis, cell cycle arrest, and inhibition of tumorigenesis and protein synthesis. Our findings provide proof of principle that in vivo knockdown of the androgen receptor is a viable therapeutic strategy to control and possibly eradicate prostate cancers that have progressed to the lethal castration-resistant state. C4-2 human prostate cancer cells stably expressing a tetracycline-inducible AR-targeted short hairpin RNA (shRNA) or scrambled shRNA were generated. These two cell lines were incubated in the absence of androgens with or without doxycycline hyclase (DOX). Comparison analysis of the gene expression profiles of C4-2 cells stably expressing AR shRNA + DOX and control cells (AR shRNA - DOX and scrambled shRNA ± DOX) was conducted to identify differentially regulated genes due to AR knockdown after normalization and data filtering. Genes were considered to be significantly different if the expression in the induced AR shRNA + DOX cells was at least 1.7-fold greater or 1.7-fold less than that seen in the control cells, with P< 0.05.
Project description:Prostate cancer is the most common, lethal malignancy in men. Although androgen withdrawal therapies are used to treat advanced disease, progression to a castration-resistant, end-stage is the usual outcome. In this study, the tested hypothesis was that the androgen receptor remains essential for the growth and viability of castration-resistant disease. Knocking down the androgen receptor in well-established tumors grown in castrated mice caused growth arrest, decreased serum PSA, and frequently regression and total eradication of tumors. Growth control of castration-resistant tumors appeared to be linked to the extent of androgen receptor knockdown, which triggers upregulation of many genes involved in apoptosis, cell cycle arrest, and inhibition of tumorigenesis and protein synthesis. Our findings provide proof of principle that in vivo knockdown of the androgen receptor is a viable therapeutic strategy to control and possibly eradicate prostate cancers that have progressed to the lethal castration-resistant state.
Project description:To identify Nrf1-dependent and Nrf2-dependent genes in the liver, we examined the gene expression profiles of Nrf1 Alb-CKO, Nrf2 knockout and Keap1 knockdown mouse livers by microarray analyses. Total RNAs from Nrf1dN/-::Alb-Cre, Nrf1dN/+, Nrf2-/-, Nrf2+/+, Keap1KD/- and Keap1KD/+ mouse livers were used for the microarray analyses.
Project description:Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and AR downstream signalings promote prostate cancer cell proliferation. Androgen-deprivation therapy is the first-line treatment strategy for advanced prostate cancer. However, many tumors develop to castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and relapse. Thus, analyzing key factors for development of CRPC is important. We found PSF functions as RNA binding protein and transcription factor to promote castration-resistant tumor growth. High expression of PSF in metastatic prostate cancer tissue indicates the clinical relevance. In order to investigate the PSF function in CRPC cells, we performed gene expression in CRPC model cells derived from AR-positive prostate cancer cell lines after siPSF treatment.
Project description:To identify Nrf1-dependent and Nrf2-dependent genes in the liver, we examined the gene expression profiles of Nrf1 Alb-CKO, Nrf2 knockout and Keap1 knockdown mouse livers by microarray analyses.
Project description:Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and AR downstream signalings promote prostate cancer cell proliferation. Although initially hormone-deprovation therapy is effective to inhibit cancer progression, most of cancers relapse as castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Therefore, we examined the effect of AR interacting partner OCT1 in CRPC cells. In order to investigate the OCT1 function in CRPC cells, we performed gene expression in AR-positive CRPC cell line, 22Rv1, after siOCT1 treatment. We also treated cells with vehicle or dihydrotestosterone (DHT) to analyzed the effects of OCT1 on AR function.
Project description:Gene regulation at the maternal-embryonic transition in the pre-implantation mouse embryo is not well understood. We knock down Ccna2 to establish proof-of-concept that antisense morpholino oligonucleotides can be used to target specific genes. We applied this strategy to study Oct4 and discovered that Oct4 is required prior to blastocyst development. Specifically, gene expression is altered as early as the 2-cell stage in Oct4-knockdown embryos. Distinct subsets of genes are differentially expressed between Oct4 and Ccna2-knockdown embryos, and indicated differential functions. Further, a large panel of genes were confirmed to be differentially-expressed in Oct4-knockdown embryos by quantitative, real time RT-PCR. Keywords: gene knockdown
Project description:We studied the genomic locations of three key regulatory proteins (OCT4, NANOG and CTCF) in human and mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells [see Series GSE20650]. To identify the conserved and unique human OCT4 targets, we performed an OCT4 RNAi knock-down experiment. We find that species-specific transposable elements have profoundly altered the transcriptional circuitry of pluripotent stem cells. To identify the mRNA targets of OCT4: 12 samples were collected in total. Each sample is done in triplicate and samples were collected at 2 different time point, 2 days and 3 days after transfection. Luciferase knockdown serves as negative control and OCT4 knockdown is the experimental sample.