Project description:Treatment of MV4;11 cells with CU-T12-9 increased ubiquitination of c-Myc compared to control and correspondingly resulted in reduced K148 acetylation. Chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled to high-throughput sequencing (Chip-Seq) revealed a significant loss of c-Myc occupancy in the genome following TLR1/2 activation with CU-T12-9. As expected, diminished c-Myc binding resulted in gene downregulation of well-establish c-Myc targets. These findings suggest that TLR-mediated K63-linked ubiquitination of c-Myc at K148 inhibits activation of c-Myc by interfering with its acetylation at the same residue.
Project description:HepG2 cell line was co-cultured with 1ml/L Fat emulsion, after 24h treatment with agonist (2-APB) or inhibitor (SKF-96365). RNA-seq was performed.
Project description:The goal of this study is to define the global gene expression profile of primary leukemic blasts from patients with different forms of myeloid leukemia and different FAB subtypes. Here we report the global gene expression profile of 2 patients with AML FAB M5, 2 patients with AML FAB M7, 3 patients with Down syndrome AML FAB M7 and 3 patients with Down syndrome transient leukemia.
Project description:Biologic characterization of SB-559457 (SB), a non-peptidyl hydrazone class of thrombopoietin receptor (Mpl) agonist, revealed toxicity towards human leukemia cells. Anti-proliferative effects followed by significant, non-apoptotic, cell death within 72 hours occurred in 24/26 AML, 0/6 ALL, and 3/6 CML patient samples exposed to SB, but not recombinant human thrombopoietin (rhTpo), in liquid suspension culture. Further investigation revealed increased phosphorylation of p70S6/S6 kinases in SB, but not in rhTpo, treated cells. Expression profiling of cells exposed to SB vs rhTpo revealed statistically significant, ~2-fold changes in GAPDH and REDD1 gene expression, confirmed by QRT-PCR. These genes, induced in energy or hypoxia stressed cells, have been implicated in cell death pathways, and may provide important clues to the mechanism of SB induced, leukemic cell death. These results suggest that nonpeptidyl, hydrazone class Mpl agonists may be clinically useful anti-leukemic agents by virtue of their combined thrombopoietic and anti-leukemic effects. Experiment Overall Design: Primary cells collected from 5 patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) were stimulated stimulated with MPL receptor agonist (SB559457) or recombinant human Tpo (rhTpo) for 6 hours. Next, RNA was isolated from these cells. RNA was used for gene profile analyis to compare genes regulated in AML cells by SB559457 verus rhTpo. For each sample half of the cells were stimulated with Mpl agonist and half with rhTpo.
Project description:Immunocompromised mice were inoculated with human lung adenocarcinoma cell line PC9 and with human PBMCs. Tumors were treated with osimertinib/vehicle of RIG-I agonist IVT4/unspecific control IVT-GAC to assess response.