Extracellular signal regulated kinases, ERK1 and ERK2 are often considered as redundant due to their high homology, large number of overlapping substrates, and ability to substitute for each other in genetically engineered mouse models. We have investigated the individual contribution of ERK1 and ERK2 to the survival of human melanoma cell lines driven by oncogenic BRAF. ERK2, but not ERK1 activity, was crucial to drive survival and maintain transcriptional output of the MAPK pathway. Furthermore, we found that ERK2 DEF-domain interactions were crucial for transcriptional regulation and survival in some cells, but not in others, whereas ERK2-substrate interactions at the D-docking motif were largely dispensable.
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Cell line, Treatment, Time
View SamplesCanakinumab is a human anti-interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) monoclonal antibody neutralizing IL-1 beta. Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SJIA) is a rare, multigenic, autoinflammatory disease of unknown etiology characterized by chronic arthritis; intermittent high-spiking fever, rash, and elevated levels of acute-phase reactants. Blood samples of SJIA patients were obtained from two phase 3 clinical trials conducted by the members of the Pediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization (PRINTO) and the Pediatric Rheumatology Collaborative Study Group (PRCSG) (Clinicaltrials.gov: NCT00886769 and NCT00889863). For patients, baseline and day 3 samples were analyzed for either placebo or canakinumab (Ilaris) treatment.
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Specimen part, Disease, Treatment, Subject
View SamplesThe goal is the characterization of the off-target activity of BKM120 observed in A2058 human melanoma cell line at IC90 concentration (3.606 M) but not at lower concentrations. Controls are BEZ235, GDC0941, showing no off-target activity.
Characterization of the mechanism of action of the pan class I PI3K inhibitor NVP-BKM120 across a broad range of concentrations.
Cell line
View SamplesMLL1 WT or KO MEF with and without HSP90 inhibitor treatment
Identification of mixed lineage leukemia 1(MLL1) protein as a coactivator of heat shock factor 1(HSF1) protein in response to heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) inhibition.
Treatment
View SamplesTo understand the underlying mechanism by which Alox15 gene is required by HSCs, we performed a comparative DNA microarray analysis using total RNA isolated from wild type Lin-Sca-1+c-Kit+, SELP-/- Lin-Sca-1+c-Kit+. The result was validated by quantitative real-time PCR analysis of wild type Lin-Sca-1+c-Kit+ and SELP-/- Lin-Sca-1+c-Kit+.
Arachidonate 15-lipoxygenase is required for chronic myeloid leukemia stem cell survival.
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Phenobarbital mediates an epigenetic switch at the constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) target gene Cyp2b10 in the liver of B6C3F1 mice.
Sex, Age, Specimen part, Treatment, Subject, Time
View SamplesPDX tumors at various passages post first implantation in nude mice
High-throughput screening using patient-derived tumor xenografts to predict clinical trial drug response.
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View SamplesAssessing the carcinogenic potential of drug candidates is a costly procedure which requires the life-long treatment of rodents at different dose levels. A promising approach, which may to a certain degree reduce the need for animal studies in the future is toxicogenomics. The idea is to employ microarray platforms for the genome-wide expression profiling of compounds, which may facilitate the discovery of biomarker genes and provide insights in molecular mechanisms.
A toxicogenomic approach for the prediction of murine hepatocarcinogenesis using ensemble feature selection.
Sex, Specimen part, Treatment, Time
View SamplesThe carcinogenic potential of chemicals is currently evaluated with rodent life-time bioassays, which are time consuming, and expensive with respect to cost, number of animals and amount of compound required. Since the results of these 2-year bioassays are not known until quite late during development of new chemical entities, and since the short-term test battery to test for genotoxicity, a characteristic of genotoxic carcinogens, is hampered by low specificity, the identification of early biomarkers for carcinogenicity would be a big step forward. Using gene expression profiles from the livers of rats treated up to 14 days with genotoxic and non-genotoxic carcinogens we previously identified characteristic gene expression profiles for these two groups of carcinogens. We have now added expression profiles from further hepatocarcinogens and from non-carcinogens the latter serving as control profiles. We used these profiles to extract biomarkers discriminating genotoxic from non-genotoxic carcinogens and to calculate classifiers based on the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm. These classifiers then predicted a set of independent validation compound profiles with up to 88% accuracy, depending on the marker gene set. We would like to present this study as proof of the concept that a classification of carcinogens based on short-term studies may be feasible.
Cross-platform toxicogenomics for the prediction of non-genotoxic hepatocarcinogenesis in rat.
Specimen part
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Phenobarbital induces cell cycle transcriptional responses in mouse liver humanized for constitutive androstane and pregnane x receptors.
Age, Specimen part, Treatment, Subject, Time
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