Project description:An irradiated but chromosomally stable CHO clone RT210B was used a reference to find differences in gene expression compared to radiation-induced chromosomally unstable isogenic clones. Equal quantities of two unstable different unstable clones were mixed prior to RNA extraction. Each mixture was tested twice versus the stable reference clone. Two different two clone mixtures were tested against the same chromosomally stable clone Keywords: repeat sample
Project description:Protein kinases (PKs) are dynamic regulators of numerous cellular processes. Their phosphorylation activity is determined by the conserved kinase core structure, which is maintained by the interaction and dynamics with associated domains or interacting proteins. The prototype enzyme for investigations to understand the activity and regulation of PKs is the catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKAc). Major effects of functional regulation and ligand binding are driven by only minor structural modulations in protein-protein interactions. In order to resolve such minor structural differences, very high resolution structures are required. Here, the high-resolution X-ray structure of PKAc from Cricetulus griseus is reported.
Project description:In all primary cells analyzed to date, aneuploidy is associated with poor proliferation. Yet, how abnormal karyotypes affect cancer – a disease characterized by both aneuploidy and heightened proliferative capacity – is largely unknown. Here, I demonstrate that the transcriptional alterations caused by aneuploidy in primary cells are also present in chromosomally-unstable cancer cell lines, but are not common to all aneuploid cancers. Moreover, chromosomally-unstable cancer lines display increased glycolytic and TCA-cycle flux, as is also observed in primary aneuploid cells. The biological response to aneuploidy is associated with cellular stress and slow proliferation, and a 70-gene signature derived from primary aneuploid cells is a strong predictor of increased survival in several cancers. Inversely, a transcriptional signature derived from clonal aneuploidy in tumors correlates with high mitotic activity and poor prognosis. I speculate that there are two types of aneuploidy in cancer: clonal aneuploidy, which is selected during tumor evolution and is associated with robust growth, and sub-clonal aneuploidy, which is caused by chromosomal instability (CIN) and more closely resembles the stressed state of primary aneuploid cells. Nonetheless, CIN is not benign: a subset of genes upregulated in high-CIN cancers predict aggressive disease in human patients in a proliferation-independent manner. The mRNAs from 3 different mouse embryo fibroblast (MEF) lines that are chromosomally stable were compared with mRNAs from 3 different MEF lines that were chromosomally unstable due to mutations in either BUBR1 or CDC20
