Project description:To further explore the expression profile of lncRNAs and mRNAs in cervical cancer, six cases of HPV-positive cervical cancer tissues (including three HPV16 and three HPV18 positive patients) and three HPV-negative normal cervical tissues were collected randomly that were confirmed by histopathological. These patients did not accept any local or systemic treatment.
Project description:The degeneration of cartilage endplate in cervical disc is considered as a basis of cervical spondylosis. Owing to the important role of post-transcriptional gene regulation in phenotypes and functions of cells, non-coding ribonucleic acid (ncRNA) molecules contributed to the regulation.Degenerated cervical vertebral endplate cartilage specimens were collected from patients with cervical intervertebral disc degeneration (CIDD) that suffered from cervical spondylosis myelopathy, who had received anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF). CE specimens of healthy subjects were obtained from patients with a cervical fracture who received ACDF at The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University (Nanchang, China) and adopted SBC human ceRNA array V1.0(4×180K). The results revealed that expressions of369 lncRNAs, 246 mRNAs, 578 circRNAs were different between degenerated cartilage endplate and healthy cartilage endplate. The functions of differentially expressed lncRNAs and co-expressed potential targeting genes were predicted by analyzing Gene ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) biological pathway analysis. Furthermore, we analyzed and find the co-expression and interaction patterns of different RNAs and possible ceRNA mechanism. The present study provided a systematic perspective on the potential function of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) in the degeneration of cartilage endplate in CIDD.
Project description:Chemoresistance is a major cause of poor prognosis of breast cancer.More and more mRNAs and lncRNAs are reported to upregulate chemoresistance in breast cancer.To explore the how mRNAs and lncRNAs involved in chemoresistance of breast cancer,we sceened upregulated mRNAs and lncRNA from parental MCF-7 , chemoresistant MCF-7 cells as well as 4 breast cancer tissue sensitive to chemotherapy and 4 resistant to chemotherapy . Total RNA was extracted using Trizol reagent. Agilent Human lncRNA Microarray V6 (4*180K) was used to analyze the global profiling of human lncRNAs and protein-coding transcripts in these samples. The microarray contains 83,835 lncRNAs and 27,233 coding genes.
Project description:Sustained hepatic inflammation can contribute to cancer initiation and progression via tumor-initiating cell expansion, but underlying mechanisms remains unknown. Expression profiles of lncRNAs/mRNAs were measured in normal, chronic hepatitis, cirrhotic and cancerous livers. We found abundant disease-related lncRNAs/mRNAs deregulated across different stages of inflammation-triggered liver disease and refined a transformation gene signature to distinguish pathological liver tissues. Amongst this signature, a conserved lncRNA DANCR was silenced in normal adult liver, but overexpressed in fetal and cancerous livers. Remarkably, increased DANCR significantly correlates with poor prognosis in multiple-center cohorts and is directly induced by inflammatory pathways including NF-κB and STAT3. DANCR could suppress cell differentiation and drive expansion of tumor-initiating cells, leading to chemoresistance. Moreover, in vitro and in vivo inhibition confirms the significance of DANCR as a therapeutic target when combined with other chemotherapy. We illustrate the role of DANCR relies on the regulation of CTNNB1 in a novel miRNA-blocking manner. Our studies reveal the expression of lncRNAs/mRNAs in normal and pathological livers and suggest the importance of oncofetal lncRNA DANCR in inflammation-induced malignant transformation, offering a potential prognostic marker and a therapeutic target for HCC. In the study, 10 normal livers (NL), 10 chronic inflammatory livers (IL), 10 cirrhotic livers (CL), 13 early HCC (eHCC) and 13 advanced HCC (aHCC) samples were profiled their lncRNA/mRNA expression
Project description:To determine the role of HNF1α on long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) and the overall mechanisms in hepatocellular carcinoma, we analyzed the expression profiles of lncRNAs and mRNAs in huh7 cells with overexpression or knockdown of HNF1α. Expression profile showed that there were 339 mRNAs and 22 intergenic lncRNAs positively regulated by HNF1α for more than 2 times. The up-regulated genes separated samples by comparing lenti-HNF1α group with lenti-ctrl group, with overlap the down-regulated genes separated in HNF1α knockdown groups were identified as the genes positived regulated by HNF1α. Expression of seven genes from these 22 intergenic lncRNAs was quantified in the same RNA samples by real-time PCR, confirming the regulatory effect of HNF1α on lncRNAs as well as the microarray analysis pattern.
Project description:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have potential applications in clinical diagnosis and targeted cancer therapies. However, the expression profile of lncRNAs in colorectal cancer (CRC) initiation and progression is still unclear.In the present study, the expression profiles of lncRNAs and mRNAs were determined by microarray at specific tumor stages in an AOM/DSS-induced primary colon cancer model.
Project description:Sustained hepatic inflammation can contribute to cancer initiation and progression via tumor-initiating cell expansion, but underlying mechanisms remains unknown. Expression profiles of lncRNAs/mRNAs were measured in normal, chronic hepatitis, cirrhotic and cancerous livers. We found abundant disease-related lncRNAs/mRNAs deregulated across different stages of inflammation-triggered liver disease and refined a transformation gene signature to distinguish pathological liver tissues. Amongst this signature, a conserved lncRNA DANCR was silenced in normal adult liver, but overexpressed in fetal and cancerous livers. Remarkably, increased DANCR significantly correlates with poor prognosis in multiple-center cohorts and is directly induced by inflammatory pathways including NF-κB and STAT3. DANCR could suppress cell differentiation and drive expansion of tumor-initiating cells, leading to chemoresistance. Moreover, in vitro and in vivo inhibition confirms the significance of DANCR as a therapeutic target when combined with other chemotherapy. We illustrate the role of DANCR relies on the regulation of CTNNB1 in a novel miRNA-blocking manner. Our studies reveal the expression of lncRNAs/mRNAs in normal and pathological livers and suggest the importance of oncofetal lncRNA DANCR in inflammation-induced malignant transformation, offering a potential prognostic marker and a therapeutic target for HCC.