Project description:During metastasis, cancer cells travel the circulation to colonise distant sites. Due to the rarity of these events, the immediate cell fate decisions of metastasising tumour cells (mTC) are poorly understood and the role of the endothelium, as dissemination interface, remains elusive. Using a novel combinatorial mTC enrichment approach, we provide a first transcriptional blueprint of the early colonisation process
Project description:Analysis of the time courses of gene expression profiles of breast cancer cell line MCF7 treated by 16 differentiation-inducing drugs at day 1, day 3 and day 5. The drugs are the screening results from the the JHCCL library (1,500 drugs). The hypothesis tested in the present study was that cancer cells exit the proliferative state via multiple paths. Results showed that cell state transition trajectories firstly diverged and later converged to a quiescient differentiated state MCF7 cells were cultured in 150mm dishes and treated 1/5/10 μM of each of the 16 drugs (see details in Table S1-2). 14 plates of cells were left untreated as control samples. Cells were collected after 1, 3 and 5 days of drug treatment in RNeasy (Qiagen) lysis buffer and RNA was isolated according to the manufactureâs protocol and sent to Vancouver Prostate Center for transcript profiling.
Project description:Analysis of the time courses of gene expression profiles of breast cancer cell line MCF7 treated by 16 differentiation-inducing drugs at day 1, day 3 and day 5. The drugs are the screening results from the the JHCCL library (1,500 drugs). The hypothesis tested in the present study was that cancer cells exit the proliferative state via multiple paths. Results showed that cell state transition trajectories firstly diverged and later converged to a quiescient differentiated state
Project description:Comprehensive Profiling of Epstein-Barr Virus-Encoded miRNAome Associated with Specific Latent Type in Tumor Cells Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is an etiological cause of many human lymphocytic and epithelial malignancies. EBV expressed different genes associated with three latent types. So far as many as 44 EBV-encoded miRNA species have been found but their comprehensive and comparative profiling is not well documented in three latent infection states linked to various tumor cells. In this study, we utilized the polyA-tailed quantitative real time RT-PCR procedure to measure the relative abundance of viral miRNA species that linked to individual viral genome locations in combination with microarray evaluation in a subset of representative lymphoid and epithelial tumor cells undergoing various types of EBV latent infection. The results showed that miR-BHRF1 family and miR-BART family are expressed differentially in a tissue-dependent and latency-dependent manner. In particular, in NPC tissue and the only EBV consistently harboring cell line C666-1 with latency type II, there were highly abundant miR-BART family but not miR-BHRF1 family members that accounted for more than 10% of the whole known human miRNA library, implicating their important roles in maintaining EBV latent infection and driving NPC tumorigenesis. In addition, EBV miRNAome-based clustering analysis could classify three distinct EBV latency types, meanwhile, for the first time, we found and subsequently evaluated a novel secret latent switch in BL cell line Daudi from type I to III, which was unable to be identified by traditional latent biomarkers. Together, our data provided an in-depth and comparative profiling of EBV miRNA transcriptome in correspondence with three EBV latent infections, suggesting that different viral miRNA species were involved in divergent host cell carcinogenesis. Finally, EBV miRNAome, as a cluster of novel latency biomarkers expressed variedly in tumor cells, greatly complements and improves the classical typing criteria in conjunction with other latently expressed marker genes. 2 NPC tissue samples and 2 NPC cell lines and 5 lymphocytic cell lines
Project description:The epidermal stem cell transition from inflammation to proliferation is a crucial process in tissue repair. However, the molecular mechanism underlying this process is poorly understood. Combined with lncRNA expression profiling of human acute wounds and functional screening, we identified SNHG26 as a pivotal regulator of inflammatory to proliferative state transition of keratinocyte progenitor cells. Snhg26-deficient mice showed impaired wound healing characterized by increased inflammatory response and decreased reepithelization in the wound. Consistently, single-cell transcriptomic analysis of the wound-edge tissue identified proliferative, migratory, and proinflammatory basal progenitors, which were dramatically changed in Snhg26 deficient mice. Mechanically, SNHG26 binds with ILF2 to relocate this transcription factor from the inflammatory gene loci (such as JUN) to the LAMB3 genomic loci. Collectively, this work identified a conserved lncRNA SNHG26 as a master regulator of epidermal stem cell state transition from inflammation to proliferation, highlighting the importance of lncRNAs in tissue repair and regeneration.