Project description:The analytical validation of a 15 gene prognostic signature for early-stage, completely resected, non-small-cell lung carcinoma that distinguishes between patients with good and poor prognoses.
Project description:The tumor microenvironment strongly influences cancer development, progression and metastasis. The role of carcinoma-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in these processes and their clinical impact has not been studied systematically in non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). We established primary cultures of CAFs and matched normal fibroblasts (NFs) from 15 resected NSCLC. We demonstrate that CAFs have greater ability than NFs to enhance the tumorigenicity of lung cancer cell lines. Microarray gene expression analysis of the 15 matched CAF and NF cell lines identified 46 differentially expressed genes, encoding for proteins that are significantly enriched for extracellular proteins regulated by the TGF-beta signaling pathway. We have identified a subset of 11 genes that formed a prognostic gene expression signature, which was validated in multiple independent NSCLC microarray datasets. Functional annotation using protein-protein interaction analyses of these and published cancer stroma-associated gene expression changes revealed prominent involvement of the focal adhesion and MAPK signalling pathways. Fourteen (30%) of the 46 genes also were differentially expressed in laser-capture micro-dissected corresponding primary tumor stroma compared to the matched normal lung. Six of these 14 genes could be induced by TGF-beta1 in NF. The results establish the prognostic impact of CAF-associated gene expression changes in NSCLC patients. This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE22862: Prognostic Gene Expression Signature of Carcinoma Associated Fibroblasts in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer [expression profiling_CAFs] GSE22863: Prognostic Gene Expression Signature of Carcinoma Associated Fibroblasts in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer [expression profiling_NSCLC stroma] GSE27284: Prognostic Gene Expression Signature of Carcinoma Associated Fibroblasts in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer [methylation profiling] GSE27289: Prognostic Gene Expression Signature of Carcinoma Associated Fibroblasts in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer [genome variation profiling]
Project description:This series contain 36 samples obtained from human lung tissue and includes the following: 7 Adenocarcinoma samples. 16 Squamous cell carcinoma samples. 1 AdenoSquamous sample. 2 Renal Metastasis. 1 Colon metastasis. 7 normal lung tissue adjacent to the tumors. 2 commercial normal lung RNA. Keywords = Lung Keywords = Non Small Cell Lung Cancer Keywords = Adenocarcinoma Keywords = Squamous Cell Carcinoma Keywords = Normal Lung. Keywords: other
Project description:We systematically profiled the genome-wide alternative splicing events in Lung Adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and Lung Squomous Cell Carcinoma (LUSC) against Lung Control through Human Transcriptome Array2.0. Non-invasive Stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is heterogeneous in nature which makes it difficult to predict, diagnose and prognose owing to lower 5-year survival rate and 75-85% brain or bone metastasis. Hence, we hypothesized to develop transcript-based signature to categorize Stage IIIA-NSCLC-LUAD and LUSC, as well as identify markers which could indicate towards prognosis of disease. We were able to molecularly-categorize LUAD- and LUSC-tissue more precisely through HTA array2.0.