Project description:10e6 tumor cells were plated in 10 cm cell cuture dish overnight before treatment. For methotrexate selection, cells were treated with the dosage around IC85 in culture medium. The medium with MTX were replaced in 2nd and 3rd day and then every 2-3 days. The treatment was continued for up to 2 weeks until single colonies os surviving cells were visible.
Project description:Novel therapies targeting cancer stem cells (CSCs), which play critical roles in chemo- and radio-resistance, metastasis, and possibly resistance against cancer immunotherapy including granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) gene-transduced tumor cell vaccines, may provide beneficial clinical outcomes. Here, we used syngeneic immunocompetent mice that allowed precise evaluation of the immunogenicity of the side population (SP) isolated from 4T1 murine breast carcinoma (4T1-SP) cells as putative CSCs. 4T1-SP cells showed various stem cell properties including high capacities for colony formation and tumorigenicity as well as high expression of phosphorylated signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 and vascular endothelial growth factor that are inductive of immune tolerance. Despite these progressive malignant characteristics of 4T1-SP cells, subcutaneous injection of non-transmissible Sendai virus-mediated GM-CSF gene-transduced 4T1-SP (4T1-SP/GM) cells remarkably impaired their tumorigenicity compared with that of the controls. This impairment of tumorigenicity was partially dependent on CD8+ T cells in concert with CD4+ T cells and natural killer cells. Notably, therapeutic vaccinations using irradiated 4T1-SP/GM cells markedly suppressed tumor development of subcutaneously transplanted 4T1-SP cells compared with that of the controls including irradiated 4T1-non-SP/GM cells. Tumor suppression was accompanied by robust accumulation of mature dendritic cells at vaccination sites and systemic Th1-based cellular immunity. Moreover, vaccinations comprising primary 4T1-SP cells isolated from transplanted 4T1-SP tumors elicited antitumor effects. cDNA microarray analysis showed that 4T1-SP cells predominantly expressed genes of cancer-related antigens including cancer/testis antigens. Collectively, we demonstrate that SP cell-based vaccinations induce effective antitumor immunity that may improve the efficacy of SP cell-based immunotherapy. Gene expression profiles were compared between sorted 4T1-SP and 4T1-NSP cells.
Project description:Increasing pre-clinical data suggest that chemotherapy may elicit pro-metastatic responses in breast cancer models. Primary tumours release extracellular vesicles (EVs) that can facilitate the seeding and growth of metastatic cancer cells in distant organs, but the effects of chemotherapy on pro-metastatic EVs are poorly understood. The goal of the project was to analyse the protein content in EVs released by the mouse breast cancer cell line 4T1 after treatment with the chemotherapeutic agent paclitaxel (PTX) or its vehicle control cremophor (CREMO).
Project description:Microaaray data for CD44v8-10-positive / CD44v8-10-negative 4T1 cancer cells (mouse breast cancer cells) We used microarrays to detail the global programming of gene expression of 4T1 cells depending on whether CD44v is present or not. 4T1 cells, one of the mouse breast cancer cells, were selected for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. We sought to obtain the data about to which extent gene expression profile is different between CD44v-positive and CD44v-negative 4T1 cancer cells.
Project description:In this project, 4T1 parental cells (4T1/WT) were exposed to increasing concentrations of epirubicin (EPB) to establish a novel multi-drug resistant CSC-like breast cancer cell line (4T1/EPB). The ubiquitinated proteins were enriched from 4T1/WT or 4T1/EPB derived cell lysate using a-Al2O3-Vx3 nanoparticles to produce the covalently linked product UPs nanovaccine. Label-free LC-MS/MS mass spectrometry was used to detect the type and amount of enriched proteins of UPs from the 4T1/WT cells and the 4T1/EPB cells.
Project description:We used 4T1 murine breast cancer cells to establish a syngeneic tumor model and found that liver metastatic cells exhibited serveral biological and molecular characteristic that are distinct from parental 4T1 cells. We used microarrays to analyze 4T1-3R_L cells exhibited several CSC related genes compared to 4T1 cells.
Project description:Novel therapies targeting cancer stem cells (CSCs), which play critical roles in chemo- and radio-resistance, metastasis, and possibly resistance against cancer immunotherapy including granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) gene-transduced tumor cell vaccines, may provide beneficial clinical outcomes. Here, we used syngeneic immunocompetent mice that allowed precise evaluation of the immunogenicity of the side population (SP) isolated from 4T1 murine breast carcinoma (4T1-SP) cells as putative CSCs. 4T1-SP cells showed various stem cell properties including high capacities for colony formation and tumorigenicity as well as high expression of phosphorylated signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 and vascular endothelial growth factor that are inductive of immune tolerance. Despite these progressive malignant characteristics of 4T1-SP cells, subcutaneous injection of non-transmissible Sendai virus-mediated GM-CSF gene-transduced 4T1-SP (4T1-SP/GM) cells remarkably impaired their tumorigenicity compared with that of the controls. This impairment of tumorigenicity was partially dependent on CD8+ T cells in concert with CD4+ T cells and natural killer cells. Notably, therapeutic vaccinations using irradiated 4T1-SP/GM cells markedly suppressed tumor development of subcutaneously transplanted 4T1-SP cells compared with that of the controls including irradiated 4T1-non-SP/GM cells. Tumor suppression was accompanied by robust accumulation of mature dendritic cells at vaccination sites and systemic Th1-based cellular immunity. Moreover, vaccinations comprising primary 4T1-SP cells isolated from transplanted 4T1-SP tumors elicited antitumor effects. cDNA microarray analysis showed that 4T1-SP cells predominantly expressed genes of cancer-related antigens including cancer/testis antigens. Collectively, we demonstrate that SP cell-based vaccinations induce effective antitumor immunity that may improve the efficacy of SP cell-based immunotherapy.
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE19220: Expression data from TKI258 treated 4T1 cells GSE19221: Expression data from TKI258 treated 4T1 tumors Refer to individual Series
Project description:Molecular comparison between control 4T1 cells with MMP3-low 4T1 cells RNA extracted from biological triplicates of each of the above mentioned cell populations were subjected to microarray analysis