Project description:To explore factors contributing to radioresistance in GBM, we established GBM radioresistant cell line using U87MG human GBM cells.
Project description:Assess gene expression patterns upon HOXA9 ectopic expression in U87MG GBM cell line and hTERT/E6/E7 immortalized human astrocytes, and HOXA9 silencing in U251 and GBML18 GBM cell lines.
Project description:miR-490 is robustly downregulated in GBM tumour samples. This study identifies the genes differentially expressed upon miR-490 overexpression in U87MG glioblastoma cell line. GeneChip PrimeView Human Gene Expression Array was used to assess mRNA expression profile in response to miR-490 overexpression in U87MG cell line.
Project description:Assess gene expression patterns upon HOXA9 ectopic expression in U87MG GBM cell line and hTERT/E6/E7 immortalized human astrocytes, and HOXA9 silencing in U251 and GBML18 GBM cell lines. U87MG and hTERT/E6/E7 were retrovirally-infected with an MSCV control vector (MSCV-Control) or with a construct containing the coding region of HOXA9 (MSCV-HOXA9), resulting in U87MG-Control, U87MG-HOXA9, hTERT/E6/E7-Control and hTERT/E6/E7-HOXA9 cell lines. GBML18 and U251 cells were transfected with HOXA9 gene-specific shRNA sequences (shHOXA9) or a non-efective shRNA (shControl) in pGFP-V-RS plasmid, resulting in U251-shControl, U251-shHOXA9, GBML18-shControl and GBML18-shHOXA9 cell lines. Four experimental replicates for HOXA9 overexpression cell lines, and three for HOXA9 silencing cell lines were performed.
Project description:We present a computational method for building a regulatory network from global phosphoproteomic and transcription profiling data. To recover the critical missing links between signaling events and transcriptional responses, we relate changes in chromatin accessibility to changes in expression and then uses these links to connect proteomic and transcriptome data. We applied our approach to integrate epigenomic, phosphoproteomic and transcriptome changes induced by the variant III mutation of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFRvIII) in a cell line model of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Genome-wide DNase I hypersensitivity followed by sequencing (DNase-Seq) to measure chromatin accessibility in a cell line derived from the U87MG glioblastoma cell line to express high level of EGFRvIII (U87H; 2 million copies of EGFRvIII per cell) and a control cell line expressing kinase dead EGFRvIII (U87DK; 2 million kinase dead EGFRvIII per cell). A prediction from the computational method, the transcriptional co-regulator p300, was experimentally validated by chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-Seq).
Project description:cell culture:The human glioma cell line U87MG was obtained from the Cell Resource Center, Peking Union Medical College (Beijing, China), and U251MG was acquired from the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA). Temozolomide (TMZ) resistant U87MG cells (U87TR) and TMZ resistant U251MG cells (U251TR) of glioblastoma (GBM) sub-cell lines, were established through repetitive exposure to increasing TMZ concentrations in vitro in our laboratory. Cells were cultured in DMEM culture medium supplemented with 10% FBS with a standard humidified incubator under 5% CO2 at 37°C.
Project description:Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most lethal primary brain cancer that lacks effective molecular targeted therapies. PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway is activated in 90% of all Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) tumors. To gain insight into the impact of the PI3K Pathway on GBM metabolism, we treated U87MG GBM cells with 50nM NVP-BEZ235 (PI3K and mTOR a dual inhibitor) for four days and identified differentially expressed genes with RNA-seq analysis.
Project description:To understand the changes in the expression of genes in U87MG cells due to LMO2, we analyzed the transcriptome of U87MG cells overexpressing LMO2. As a result, we identify differentially expressed genes patterns so that the signaling mechanism regulated by LMO2 in GBM and changes in cells were observed. These RNA sequencing analysis results enable an understanding of the signaling mechanism by LMO2 in GBM.
