Project description:Metformin is a drug used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Various studies have elucidated its anticancer properties. In this study, the effect of metformin on the differentiation and tumor microenvironment of colorectal cancer cells (CRC) was evaluated. For our study, we have used HCT116 colorectal cancer cell line and treated the cells with Metformin. Maximum tolerable non-toxic dose of metformin on HCT116 cells was determined by MTT assay. Cells were treated with 2.5 mM Metformin for 2 weeks. Analysis of apoptosis was done by flow cytometry using Annexin V / PI. CSC population was determined by flow cytometry using CSC markers CD44 and CD166. Metformin's ability to induce differentiation in CSC was assessed by analyzing Cytokeratin 20 (CK20) by flow cytometry and CDX1 (transcription factor for CK20), by RT-QPCR. Expression of Ki67 (proliferation marker) was done by RT-QPCR. RNA was isolated from 2.5 mM Metformin-treated and untreated cells populations. Microarray of untreated and 2.5 mM Metformin-treated RNA was done to study the whole genome transcriptomic changes.
Project description:Differential gene expression analysis of C. glutamicum ATCC 13032 in presence of 2.5 mM indole compared to control conditions without indole. C. glutamicum ATCC 13032 cells were cultivated in CGXII minimal medium with 40 g per litre glucose in presence of 2.5 mM indole and harvested during exponential phase (o.d.600 4).
Project description:The biguanide drug metformin is a safe and widely prescribed drug for type 2 diabetes. Interestingly, hundreds of clinical trials were set to evaluate the potential role of metformin in the prevention and treatment of cancer including colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the metformin-induced cell signaling remains controversial. To interrogate cell signaling events and networks in CRC and explore the druggability of the metformin-rewired phosphorylation network, we performed a proteomic and phosphoproteomic analysis on a panel of 12 molecularly heterogeneous CRC cell lines. Using in-depth data-independent analysis mass spectrometry (DIA-MS), we profiled a total of 10,142 proteins and 56,080 phosphosites (P-sites) in CRC cells treated with metformin for 30 minutes and 24 hours. Our results indicate that metformin tends to not trigger or inhibit significant immediate phosphorylation events. Instead, it primarily remodels cell signaling in the long-term. Strikingly, the phosphorylation response to metformin was highly heterogeneous in the CRC panel. We further performed a network analysis to systematically estimate kinase/phosphatase activities and reconstruct signaling cascades in each cell line. We created a “MetScore” which catalogs the most consistently perturbed P-sites among CRC cells for future studies. Finally, we leveraged the metformin P-site signature to identify pharmacodynamic interactions, revealing and confirming a number of candidate metformin-interacting drugs, including navitoclax, a BCL-2/BCL-xL inhibitor. Together, we provide a state-of-the-art phosphoproteomic resource to explore the metformin-induced cell signaling for potential cancer therapeutics.
Project description:We report the single-cell RNA sequencing data obtained from MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells cultured in standard DMEM (high glucose) media, or adapted to culture in standard DMEM (high glucose) media containing 2 mM metformin, and then cultured as mammospheres
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of hPTTG1-/- HCT116 human colorectal cancer cells comparing hPTTG1-/- HCT116 cells transfected with pcDNA3.1, and with hPTTG1-/- HCT116 cells transfected with pcDNA3.1-hPTTG1 plasmid.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of hPTTG1-/- HCT116 human colorectal cancer cells comparing hPTTG1-/- HCT116 cells transfected with pcDNA3.1, and with hPTTG1-/- HCT116 cells transfected with pcDNA3.1-hPTTG1 plasmid. Two-condition experiment, pchyg vs. 7-2 and 18-2 cells. 1 control, 2 different transfected cells.
Project description:Determination of the ion channel and transporters gene expression profile of Bevacizumab-adapted colorectal adenocarcinoma cells HCT116
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of HCT116 cells transfected with either control siRNA or TET1 siRNA was analyzed using whole human genome microarrays. To identify genes regulated by TET1 in colorectal cancer, HCT116 cells were transfected with either control siRNA or TET1 siRNA, and total RNA was extracted from biologically duplicated samples.
Project description:The experiment was to study the gene expression changes in human colorectal cell HCT116 DICER Exon5 knockout cells comparing to that in parental HCT116 cellls. Experiment Overall Design: Experiment includes using of two Agilent human 44K microarrays with dye-swap replication.