Expression profiling of cortex from embryonic day (E) 17.5 telencephalon of Sox11(+/+) and Sox11(-/-) mouse embryos. Sox11 is implicated in regulating proliferation, neuronal migration and differentiation.
Transcription factor Sox11 is essential for both embryonic and adult neurogenesis.
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View SamplesActivation of b-catenin has been causatively linked to the etiology of colon cancer. Conditional stabilization of this molecule in pro-T-cells promotes thymocyte development without the requirement for preTCR signaling. We show here that activated b-catenin stalls the developmental transition from the double-positive (DP) to the single-positive (SP) thymocyte stage and predisposes DP thymocytes to transformation. b-Catenin induced thymic lymphomas have a leukemic arrest at the early DP stage. Lymphomagenesis requires Rag activity, which peaks at this developmental stage, as well as additional secondary genetic events. A consistent secondary event is the transcriptional upregulation of c-Myc, whose activity is required for transformation since its conditional ablation abrogates lymphomagenesis. In contrast, the expression of Notch receptors as well as targets is reduced in DP thymocytes with stabilized b-catenin and remains low in the lymphomas indicating that Notch activation is not required or selected for in b-catenin induced lymphomas. Thus, b-catenin activation may provide a mechanism for the induction of T-ALL that does not depend on Notch activation.
Beta-catenin stabilization stalls the transition from double-positive to single-positive stage and predisposes thymocytes to malignant transformation.
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MLL rearrangements impact outcome in HOXA-deregulated T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a Children's Oncology Group Study.
Specimen part, Disease
View SamplesThe clinical and cytogenetic features associated with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) are not predictive of early treatment failure or relapse. We used the Affymetrix U133 Plus 2.0 chip to profile 100 newly diagnosed patients who were treated in the Children's Oncology Group (COG) T-ALL AALL0434. We performed unsupervised hierarchical clustering of 25 HOXA probe sets within the cohort of 100 T-ALL cases. We identified a cluster of 20 cases (20%) characterized by increased expression of HOXA3, 5, 7, 9, and 10. In samples with HOXA9/10 deregulation, the presence of specific molecular lesions were confirmed through a systematic review of cytogenetic databases, FISH and PCR testing, and by RNA sequence analysis. Because MLL and AF10 genes rearrangements (MLL-R, AF10-R) are hallmarks of HOXA-deregulated leukemias, we sought to identify specific genes that are enriched with these genomic abnormalities.
MLL rearrangements impact outcome in HOXA-deregulated T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a Children's Oncology Group Study.
Specimen part, Disease
View SamplesPrimary xenografts were made from a variety of different high-risk childhood BCP-ALL leukemia samples.
Evaluation of the in vitro and in vivo efficacy of the JAK inhibitor AZD1480 against JAK-mutated acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Specimen part
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Genome-wide analysis reveals conserved transcriptional responses downstream of resting potential change in Xenopus embryos, axolotl regeneration, and human mesenchymal cell differentiation.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesPregnant C57Bl6N mice were treated with 0 (corn oil), 1.5, 3.0, or 6.0 ug/kg TCDD on gd14.5. Fetal hearts were collected on gd17.5. Hearts from each litter were pooled onto one chip. 4 replicates of each condition were run on affymetrix MG_U74Av2 chips, using standard affymetrix protocols and controls.
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View SamplesEndogenous bioelectric signaling via changes in cellular resting potential (Vmem) is a key regulator of patterning during regeneration and embryogenesis in numerous model systems. Depolarization of Vmem has been functionally implicated in de-differentiation, tumorigenesis, anatomical re-specification, and appendage regeneration. However, no unbiased analyses have been performed to understand genome-wide transcriptional responses to Vmem change in vivo. Moreover, it is unknown which genes or gene networks represent conserved targets of bioelectrical signaling across different patterning contexts and species. Here, we use microarray analysis to comparatively analyze transcriptional responses to specific Vmem depolarization. We compare the response of the transcriptome during embryogenesis (Xenopus development), regeneration (Axolotl regeneration), and stem cell differentiation (human mesenchymal stem cells in culture) to identify common networks across model species that are associated with depolarization. Both sub-network enrichment and PANTHER analyses identified a number of key genetic modules as targets of Vmem change, and also revealed important (well-conserved) commonalities in bioelectric signal transduction, despite highly diverse experimental contexts and species. Depolarization regulates specific transcriptional networks across all three germ layers (ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm) such as cell differentiation and apoptosis, and this information will be used for developing mechanistic models of bioelectric regulation of patterning. Moreover, our analysis reveals that Vmem change regulates transcripts related to important disease pathways such as cancer and neurodegeneration, which may represent novel targets for emerging electroceutical therapies.
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Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesDespite widespread knowledge that bone marrow-resident breast cancer cells (BMRCs) affect tumor progression, signaling mechanisms of BMRCs implicated in maintaining long-term dormancy have not been characterized. To overcome these hurdles, we developed a novel experimental model of tumor dormancy employing circulating tumor cells (CTCs) derived from metastatic breast cancer patients (de novo CTCs), transplanted them in immunocompromised mice, and re-isolated these cells from xenografted mice bone marrow (ex vivo BMRCs) and blood (ex vivo CTCs) to perform downstream transcriptomic analyses.
Molecular Interplay between Dormant Bone Marrow-Resident Cells (BMRCs) and CTCs in Breast Cancer.
Sex, Specimen part, Disease stage
View SamplesIn this study, we examine gene expression changes through microarray analysis in spheroid versus monolayer ovarian cancer cells treated with TGF to induce EMT. Interestingly, EMT, stress response, and stem cell differentiation pathways were all significantly affected by 3D growth. These findings support the hypothesis that three dimensional ovarian cell culturing is physiologically different from its monolayer counterpart.
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