Project description:Ovarian cancer is the fifth most lethal malignancy in women, and epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most common histological type. Due to the absence of specific symptoms and diagnostic biomarkers, greater than 70% of EOC patients are diagnosed with clinical stage Federation International of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) III or IV, which has a five-year survival rate of only 20% to 30%. Thus, it is crucial to identify novel molecular biomarkers and therapeutic targets for EOC. NDC80 kinetochore complex component (NUF2) is upregulated and plays an important role in various human cancers. Our results showed that NUF2 was significantly upregulated in EOC tissues. Downregulation of NUF2 decreased cell proliferation, migration, invasion and tumor growth in nude mice. However, the mechanism of NUF2 in EOC remains unclear. The mechanisms by which NUF2 regulates EOC progression were detected by RNA sequencing. Thus, OVCAR3 cells after transfection with shNC (control) and shNUF2 (NUF2i) were added puromycin for establishing stable cell lines. RNA-seq was performed to analyze the differentially expressed genes in OVCAR3 cells after NUF2 knockdown.
Project description:The identification of prognostic biomarkers is a priority for patients suffering from high-grade serous ovarian cancer (SOC), which accounts for >70% of ovarian cancer (OC) deaths. Meanwhile borderline ovarian cancer (BOC) is a low malignancy tumor and usually patients undergo surgery with low probabilities of recurrence. However, SOC remains the most lethal neoplasm due to the lack of biomarkers for early diagnosis and prognosis. In this regard BORIS (CTCFL), a CTCF paralog, is a promising cancer biomarker that is overexpressed and controls transcription in several cancer types, mainly in OC. Studies suggest that BORIS has an important function in OC by altering gene expression, but the effect and extent to which BORIS influences transcription in OC from a genome-wide perspective is unclear. Here we sought to identify BORIS target genes in an OC cell line (OVCAR3) with potential biomarker use in OC tumor samples. To achieve this, we performed in vitro knockout (KO) and knockdown (KD) experiments of BORIS in OVCAR3 cell line followed by expression microarrays and bioinformatics network enrichment analysis to identify relevant BORIS target genes.
Project description:To further development of the effects of miR-200a in ovarian cancer OVCAR3 cells,we have employed lncRNA and mRNA microarray as a discovery platform to identify lncRNA and mRNA expression in miR-200a overexpressing ovarian cancer cells. OVCAR3 cells were transfected with lentiviral vector with eGFP, encoding miR-200a and negative control vector (LV- miR-200a and LV-CON,) by using polybrene. The dysregulation of miR-200a was confirmed by using RT-PCR. RNA was extracted and detected by a lncRNA and mRNA microarray in LV-miR-200a and LV-CON OVCAR3 cells. The different expression of lncRNA and mRNA in LV-miR-200a and LV-CON OVCAR3 cells was analyzed to explore the mechanism that miR-200a affect ovarain cancer cells.
Project description:To investigate the molecular pathways underlying RNASET2-mediated tumor suppression in vivo, we investigated the gene expression profile of tumor samples obtained from control and RNASET2-silenced OVCAR3 xenografts, respectively. In order to evaluate the contribution of human cancer cells and the murine host stroma to RNASET2-mediated tumorigenesis responses, total RNA extracted from tumor xenografts derived from six independent OVCAR3 cell clones (three parental and three RNASET2-silenced clones) was fluorescently labeled and hybridized to human Agilent whole-genome microarrays. Control and RNASET2-silenced OVCAR3 were injected subcutaneously into nude mice. After 39 days mice were sacrified, tumors were extracted and total RNA purified.