Project description:The goal of this study is to define the molecular signatures of prednisolone and BMS-791826 in normal healthy volunteers. IM125001 (NCT03198013) is a phase I, placebo-controlled, double-blind, ascending single and multiple oral dose study to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of bms-791826 and to assess its marker specific pharmacodynamics in relation to prednisolone in healthy males, sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv after 4 hours of combination isoniazid and cysteine treatment relative to treatment with isoniazid alone.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis mc2 7000 surviving 4 days of isoniazid treatment relative to untreated to investigate genes relevant to survival in genotypically isoniazid-sensitive cells
Project description:Current antibiotic regimen to treat tuberculosis (TB) is ineffective in fully eliminating the bacterial load and in alleviating disease pathology. We examined the usefulness of a phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor (CC-11050) as an adjunctive to anti-TB drug Isoniazid (INH) to improve the outcome of treatment in a rabbit model of active pulmonary TB. Control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) growth, disease pathology and the global transcriptional response in Mtb-infected lungs of rabbits with or without CC-11050 treatment were studied. The microarray experiments involves comparison of changes in gene expression between uninfected and Mtb-HN878 infected (Untreated) or CC-11050 treated rabbit lungs at 8 weeks post-treatment, starting at 4 weeks of infection (i.e, 12 weeks post infection).
Project description:Objective: To assess the role of aldoketoreductases and other doxorubicin pharmacokinetic or pharmacogenomic genes in doxorubicin cytotoxicity, resistance, DNA binding activity, and subcellular localization, Methods: We conducted a whole genome microarray study to identify differences in between doxorubicin-sensitive MCF-7cc cells and doxorubicin-resistant MCF-7Dox2-12 cells in terms of their expression of genes related to doxorubicin pharmacokinetics or pharmacodynamics. Targets were then validated by pharmacologic inhibition in conjunction with drug metabolite profiling, drug localization, drug cytotoxicity, and drug DNA binding studies. Results: 2063 differentially expressed transcripts were identified, including 17% and 43% of genes or gene families associated with doxorubicin pharmacokinetics or pharmacodynamics (p values of significance of 0.05 and <0.0001, respectively). The largest changes in the expression of genes associated with doxorubicin pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics were chiefly among the aldo-keto reductases (AKRs) Akr1c2, Akr1c3 and Akr1b10 which convert doxorubicin to doxorubicinol. We observed that doxorubicinol exhibits dramatically reduced drug toxicity, reduced drug DNA-binding activity, and altered drug subcellular localization to lysosomes. Pharmacologic inhibition of these AKRs in MCF-7Dox2-12 cells restored drug cytotoxicity, and drug localization to the nucleus. Conclusion: These findings demonstrate the utility of using curated pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic knowledgebases to identify highly relevant genes associated with doxorubicin resistance. The products of one or more of these genes could effectively be shown to alter the drug’s properties, while inhibiting them restored drug DNA binding, cytotoxicity, and subcellular localization. Doxorubicin resistant cell lines of breast MCF-7 cells were generated for gene expression profilling. Two colour microarray of Agilent whole human genome nucleotide arrays was conducted with four labelling replicates of both forward and reverse labellings plus another set of 8 arrays with forward labelling. Sixteen arrays were used for this experiments. The co-cultured control cells MCF-7cc12 was generated by parallel selection process in the absence of drug.
Project description:A phase I trial of a SRC kinase Inhibitor, dasatinib, in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin in patients with advanced or recurrent ovarian cancer. Background: We conducted a phase I study of dasatinib, an oral SRC tyrosine kinase inhibitor, in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin in advanced and recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). Methods: The primary objective was to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD). Secondary objectives included toxicity, response rate (RR), pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Based on the 3+3 design, cohorts of 3-6 pts received paclitaxel 175 mg/m2 and carboplatin AUC 6 every three weeks with escalating doses of dasatinib (100, 120, 150 mg daily), followed by an 8 patient expansion cohort. Results: Twenty patients were enrolled between 06/07 and 12/09. The median age was 61 yrs (42-82) with a median of 2 prior regimens (0-6), and 71% had platinum-sensitive disease. There were 3-6 pts in each cohort, and 8 in the expansion cohort. Pharmacokinetics were observed over the first 2 cycles of therapy. One DLT was observed in the 100 mg dasatinib cohort (grade 3 myalgia. Other toxicities in all cycles included neutropenia (95% grade 3-4), thrombocytopenia (35% grade 3-4), and fatigue (10% grade 3). The RR was 45% (complete responses, 3/18(17%); partial responses, 5/18(28%)) and 56% (10/18) had stable disease. The PFS6-month actuarial estimate was 86%. The median PFS and OS were 7.8 and 16.2 months, respectively. Conclusions: Due to the high incidence of myelosuppression with subsequent cycles the recommended phase II dose is 150 mg daily of dasatinib in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin. The combination was safe with evidence of clinical activity in advanced EOC. Global profiles of expression were characterized using unsupervised clustering methods and gene- and pathway-analyses of differential expression.
Project description:Detection of species-specific proteotypic peptides for accurate and easy characterization of infectious non-tuberculous mycobacteria such as Mycobacterium kansasii is essential. Therefore, we carried out an in-depth global proteomic experiment using M. kansasii ATCC 12478 strain followed by proteome database search and spectral library generation. The lysate was subjected to in-solution proteomic sample preparation and fractionated using an offline C18 StageTip. Each fraction was acquired in technical triplicates using a 180 min data-dependent acquisition (DDA) method in Orbitrap Fusion Tribrid (Thermo Scientific) mass spectrometer. The resulting raw DDA data were searched against the M. kansasii proteome database using Proteome Discoverer and FragPipe. The resulting peptide spectrum matches were converted into a spectral library using BiblioSpec.
Project description:Bromodomain inhibitor is a known chemotherapeutic that has been shown by others to be effective in treating pulmonary hypertension in vivo. The role of JQ1, a bromodomain inhibitor has been reported to regulate vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and apoptosis but its effect on endothelial cells is not known. The objective of this experiment was to determine the effect of a similar bromodomain inhibitor I-BET762 on inflammation induced endothelial dysfunction. I-BET762 was chosen over other bromodomain inhibtors due to its favorable pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics in clinical trials. Interestingly, I-BET762 found to reverse various inflammation altered gene expression. We use Affymetrix Clairom S platform to determine the whole gene expression.