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Karengera A, Bao C, Bovee TFH, Dinkla IJT, Murk AJ. A Multiplex Gene Expression Assay for Direct Measurement of RNA Transcripts in Crude Lysates of the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans Used as a Bioanalytical Tool. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY 2023; 42:130-142. [PMID: 36282018 PMCID: PMC10107722 DOI: 10.1002/etc.5505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2022] [Revised: 07/19/2022] [Accepted: 10/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Gene expression profiling in Caenorhabditis elegans has been demonstrated to be a potential bioanalytical tool to detect the toxic potency of environmental contaminants. The RNA transcripts of genes responding to toxic exposure can be used as biomarkers for detecting these toxins. For routine application in environmental quality monitoring, an easy-to-use multiplex assay is required to reliably quantify expression levels of these biomarkers. In the present study, a bead-based assay was developed to fingerprint gene expression in C. elegans by quantitating messenger RNAs (mRNAs) of multiple target genes directly from crude nematode lysates, circumventing RNA extraction and purification steps. The assay uses signal amplification rather than target amplification for direct measurement of toxin-induced RNA transcripts. Using a 50-gene panel, the expression changes of four candidate reference genes and 46 target mRNAs for various contaminants and wastewaters were successfully measured, and the expression profiles indicated the type of toxin present. Moreover, the multiplex assay response was in line with previous results obtained with more time-consuming reverse-transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction and microarray analyses. In addition, the transcriptomic profiles of nematodes exposed to wastewater samples and extracts prepared from tissues of swimming crabs were evaluated. The profiles indicated the presence of organic pollutants. The present study illustrates the successful development of a multiplex fluorescent bead-based approach using nematode C. elegans crude lysates for gene expression profiling of target RNAs. This method can be used to routinely fingerprint the presence of toxic contaminants in environmental samples and to identify the most biologically active fraction of the contaminant mixture in a toxicity identification and evaluation approach. Environ Toxicol Chem 2023;42:130-142. © 2022 The Authors. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of SETAC.
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- Antoine Karengera
- Department of Animal Sciences, Marine Animal Ecology GroupWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
- Wetsus, European Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water TechnologyLeeuwardenThe Netherlands
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- Department of Animal Sciences, Marine Animal Ecology GroupWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
- Department of Analysis and Testing CenterYangtze Delta Region Institute of Tsinghua UniversityJiaxingChina
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- Wageningen Food Safety Research, Team Bioassays & BiosensorsWageningen University & ResearchWageningenThe Netherlands
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- Wetsus, European Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water TechnologyLeeuwardenThe Netherlands
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- Department of Animal Sciences, Marine Animal Ecology GroupWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
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Library adaptors with integrated reference controls improve the accuracy and reliability of nanopore sequencing. Nat Commun 2022; 13:6437. [PMID: 36307482 PMCID: PMC9616880 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34028-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2021] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Library adaptors are short oligonucleotides that are attached to RNA and DNA samples in preparation for next-generation sequencing (NGS). Adaptors can also include additional functional elements, such as sample indexes and unique molecular identifiers, to improve library analysis. Here, we describe Control Library Adaptors, termed CAPTORs, that measure the accuracy and reliability of NGS. CAPTORs can be integrated within the library preparation of RNA and DNA samples, and their encoded information is retrieved during sequencing. We show how CAPTORs can measure the accuracy of nanopore sequencing, evaluate the quantitative performance of metagenomic and RNA sequencing, and improve normalisation between samples. CAPTORs can also be customised for clinical diagnoses, correcting systematic sequencing errors and improving the diagnosis of pathogenic BRCA1/2 variants in breast cancer. CAPTORs are a simple and effective method to increase the accuracy and reliability of NGS, enabling comparisons between samples, reagents and laboratories, and supporting the use of nanopore sequencing for clinical diagnosis.
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Snyder M, Iraola-Guzmán S, Saus E, Gabaldón T. Discovery and Validation of Clinically Relevant Long Non-Coding RNAs in Colorectal Cancer. Cancers (Basel) 2022; 14:cancers14163866. [PMID: 36010859 PMCID: PMC9405614 DOI: 10.3390/cancers14163866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2022] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Simple Summary Recent efforts in biomedical research have focused on the identification of molecular biomarkers to improve the diagnosis, prognosis and eventually treatment of the most common human diseases worldwide, including cancer. In this context, a large number of studies point to a pivotal role of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in the pathophysiology of carcinogenesis, suggesting diagnostic or therapeutic potential. However, for most of them, supporting evidence is scarce and often based on a single large-scale analysis. Here, focusing on colorectal cancer (CRC), we present an overview of the main approaches for discovering and validating lncRNA candidate molecules, and provide a curated list of the most promising lncRNAs associated with this malignancy. Abstract Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most prevalent cancer worldwide, with nearly two million newly diagnosed cases each year. The survival of patients with CRC greatly depends on the cancer stage at the time of diagnosis, with worse prognosis for more advanced cases. Consequently, considerable effort has been directed towards improving population screening programs for early diagnosis and identifying prognostic markers that can better inform treatment strategies. In recent years, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been recognized as promising molecules, with diagnostic and prognostic potential in many cancers, including CRC. Although large-scale genome and transcriptome sequencing surveys have identified many lncRNAs that are altered in CRC, most of their roles in disease onset and progression remain poorly understood. Here, we critically review the variety of detection methods and types of supporting evidence for the involvement of lncRNAs in CRC. In addition, we provide a reference catalog that features the most clinically relevant lncRNAs in CRC. These lncRNAs were selected based on recent studies sorted by stringent criteria for both supporting experimental evidence and reproducibility.
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- Madison Snyder
- Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC-CNS), Plaça Eusebi Güell, 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Baldiri Reixac, 10, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC-CNS), Plaça Eusebi Güell, 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Baldiri Reixac, 10, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC-CNS), Plaça Eusebi Güell, 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Baldiri Reixac, 10, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC-CNS), Plaça Eusebi Güell, 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Baldiri Reixac, 10, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), 08010 Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Correspondence:
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Agretti P, De Marco G, Ferrarini E, Di Cosmo C, Montanelli L, Bagattini B, Chiovato L, Tonacchera M. Gene expression profile in functioning and non-functioning nodules of autonomous multinodular goiter from an area of iodine deficiency: unexpected common characteristics between the two entities. J Endocrinol Invest 2022; 45:399-411. [PMID: 34405392 PMCID: PMC8783917 DOI: 10.1007/s40618-021-01660-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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PURPOSE Toxic multinodular goiter is a heterogeneous disease associated with hyperthyroidism frequently detected in areas with deficient iodine intake, and functioning and non-functioning nodules, characterized by increased proliferation but opposite functional activity, may coexist in the same gland. To understand the distinct molecular pathology of each entity present in the same gland, the gene expression profile was evaluated by using the Affymetrix technology. METHODS Total RNA was extracted from nodular and healthy tissues of two patients and double-strand cDNA was synthesized. Biotinylated cRNA was obtained and, after chemical fragmentation, was hybridized on U133A and B arrays. Each array was stained and the acquired images were analyzed to obtain the expression levels of the transcripts. Both functioning and non-functioning nodules were compared versus healthy tissue of the corresponding patient. RESULTS About 16% of genes were modulated in functioning nodules, while in non-functioning nodules only 9% of genes were modulated with respect to the healthy tissue. In functioning nodules of both patients and up-regulation of cyclin D1 and cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1 was observed, suggesting the presence of a possible feedback control of proliferation. Complement components C1s, C7 and C3 were down-regulated in both types of nodules, suggesting a silencing of the innate immune response. Cellular fibronectin precursor was up-regulated in both functioning nodules suggesting a possible increase of endothelial cells. Finally, Frizzled-1 was down-regulated only in functioning nodules, suggesting a role of Wnt signaling pathway in the proliferation and differentiation of these tumors. None of the thyroid-specific gene was deregulated in microarray analysis. CONCLUSION In conclusion, the main finding from our data is a similar modulation for both kinds of nodules in genes possibly implicated in thyroid growth.
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- P Agretti
- Endocrinology Unit 1, University Hospital of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy
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- Endocrinology Unit 1, University Hospital of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy
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- Unit of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Laboratory for Endocrine Disruptors, IRCCS Maugeri, 27100, Pavia, Italy
- Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pavia, 27100, Pavia, Italy
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- Endocrinology Unit 1, University Hospital of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
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Hoshino Y, Sonoda H, Mikoda N, Ikeda M. Upregulation of NADPH Oxidase 2 Contributes to Renal Fibrosis in pcy Mice: An Experimental Model of Nephronophthisis. Nephron Clin Pract 2021; 146:393-403. [DOI: 10.1159/000520697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2021] [Accepted: 10/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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<b><i>Background:</i></b> DBA/2FG-<i>pcy</i> (<i>pcy</i>) mice harbor a homozygous <i>Nphp3</i> missense mutation and develop nephronophthisis with renal interstitial fibrosis. Previous studies have shown that aberrant oxygen homeostasis contributes to the renal pathology in <i>pcy</i> mice, but the underlying molecular mechanism remains largely unknown. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> <i>pcy</i> mice and a control strain, DBA/2N (DBA) mice, were used. Renal levels of 62 mRNAs involved in oxygen homeostasis were investigated by real-time PCR, and the resulting data were used for extraction of pathological pathways. On the basis of the genes found to be upregulated and pathway analysis, further studies were performed using immunoblotting, immunohistochemistry, and pharmacological intervention. <b><i>Results:</i></b> In comparison with DBA mice, the levels of 18 mRNAs were altered by >2-fold in <i>pcy</i> mice. Pathway analysis extracted molecular pathways related to oxidative stress, inflammation, and cell adhesion. As the levels of mRNAs relevant to the NADPH oxidase 2 (NOX2) pathway were prominently (4 genes >5-fold) increased in <i>pcy</i> mice, we further analyzed the molecules related to this pathway. A time course study suggested that the pathway was gradually activated in <i>pcy</i> mice from at least 5 weeks of age. Immunohistochemistry study revealed that NOX2 protein was colocalized with a macrophage marker protein in the renal interstitium. Moreover, treatment of <i>pcy</i> mice with apocynin, an inhibitor of the NOX2 pathway, ameliorated the renal fibrosis. <b><i>Conclusion:</i></b> Our findings suggest that the activation of the NOX2 pathway, possibly mediated by macrophage infiltration, plays a pivotal role in progressive renal fibrosis in <i>pcy</i> mice.
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Archer M, Xu J. Current Practices for Reference Gene Selection in RT-qPCR of Aspergillus: Outlook and Recommendations for the Future. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:genes12070960. [PMID: 34202507 PMCID: PMC8307107 DOI: 10.3390/genes12070960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2021] [Revised: 06/20/2021] [Accepted: 06/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Aspergillus is a genus of filamentous fungi with vast geographic and ecological distributions. Species within this genus are clinically, agriculturally and biotechnologically relevant, leading to increasing interest in elucidating gene expression dynamics of key metabolic and physiological processes. Reverse-transcription quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-qPCR) is a sensitive and specific method of quantifying gene expression. A crucial step for comparing RT-qPCR results between strains and experimental conditions is normalisation to experimentally validated reference gene(s). In this review, we provide a critical analysis of current reference gene selection and validation practices for RT-qPCR gene expression analyses of Aspergillus. Of 90 primary research articles obtained through our PubMed query, 17 experimentally validated the reference gene(s) used. Twenty reference genes were used across the 90 studies, with beta-tubulin being the most used reference gene, followed by actin, 18S rRNA and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase. Sixteen of the 90 studies used multiple reference genes for normalisation. Failing to experimentally validate the stability of reference genes can lead to conflicting results, as was the case for four studies. Overall, our review highlights the need to experimentally validate reference genes in RT-qPCR studies of Aspergillus.
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- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-905-525-9140 (ext. 27934); Fax: +1-905-522-6066
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Rimola V, Osthues T, Königs V, Geißlinger G, Sisignano M. Oxaliplatin Causes Transient Changes in TRPM8 Channel Activity. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:4962. [PMID: 34066977 PMCID: PMC8125753 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22094962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2021] [Revised: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/05/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Oxaliplatin is a third-generation platinum-based anticancer drug that is widely used as first-line treatment for colorectal carcinoma. Patients treated with oxaliplatin develop an acute peripheral pain several hours after treatment, mostly characterized by cold allodynia as well as a long-term chronic neuropathy. These two phenomena seem to be causally connected. However, the underlying mechanisms that trigger the acute peripheral pain are still poorly understood. Here we show that the activity of the transient receptor potential melastatin 8 (TRPM8) channel but not the activity of any other member of the TRP channel family is transiently increased 1 h after oxaliplatin treatment and decreased 24 h after oxaliplatin treatment. Mechanistically, this is connected with activation of the phospholipase C (PLC) pathway and depletion of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) after oxaliplatin treatment. Inhibition of the PLC pathway can reverse the decreased TRPM8 activity as well as the decreased PIP2-concentrations after oxaliplatin treatment. In summary, these results point out transient changes in TRPM8 activity early after oxaliplatin treatment and a later occurring TRPM8 channel desensitization in primary sensory neurons. These mechanisms may explain the transient cold allodynia after oxaliplatin treatment and highlight an important role of TRPM8 in oxaliplatin-induced acute and neuropathic pain.
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- Vittoria Rimola
- Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmazentrum Frankfurt/ZAFES, University Hospital, Goethe-University, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; (V.R.); (G.G.)
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; (T.O.); (V.K.)
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; (T.O.); (V.K.)
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- Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmazentrum Frankfurt/ZAFES, University Hospital, Goethe-University, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; (V.R.); (G.G.)
- Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; (T.O.); (V.K.)
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- Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmazentrum Frankfurt/ZAFES, University Hospital, Goethe-University, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; (V.R.); (G.G.)
- Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; (T.O.); (V.K.)
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Lu L, Townsend KA, Daigle BJ. GEOlimma: differential expression analysis and feature selection using pre-existing microarray data. BMC Bioinformatics 2021; 22:44. [PMID: 33535967 PMCID: PMC7860207 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-020-03932-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2019] [Accepted: 12/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Background Differential expression and feature selection analyses are essential steps for the development of accurate diagnostic/prognostic classifiers of complicated human diseases using transcriptomics data. These steps are particularly challenging due to the curse of dimensionality and the presence of technical and biological noise. A promising strategy for overcoming these challenges is the incorporation of pre-existing transcriptomics data in the identification of differentially expressed (DE) genes. This approach has the potential to improve the quality of selected genes, increase classification performance, and enhance biological interpretability. While a number of methods have been developed that use pre-existing data for differential expression analysis, existing methods do not leverage the identities of experimental conditions to create a robust metric for identifying DE genes. Results In this study, we propose a novel differential expression and feature selection method—GEOlimma—which combines pre-existing microarray data from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) with the widely-applied Limma method for differential expression analysis. We first quantify differential gene expression across 2481 pairwise comparisons from 602 curated GEO Datasets, and we convert differential expression frequencies to DE prior probabilities. Genes with high DE prior probabilities show enrichment in cell growth and death, signal transduction, and cancer-related biological pathways, while genes with low prior probabilities were enriched in sensory system pathways. We then applied GEOlimma to four differential expression comparisons within two human disease datasets and performed differential expression, feature selection, and supervised classification analyses. Our results suggest that use of GEOlimma provides greater experimental power to detect DE genes compared to Limma, due to its increased effective sample size. Furthermore, in a supervised classification analysis using GEOlimma as a feature selection method, we observed similar or better classification performance than Limma given small, noisy subsets of an asthma dataset. Conclusions Our results demonstrate that GEOlimma is a more effective method for differential gene expression and feature selection analyses compared to the standard Limma method. Due to its focus on gene-level differential expression, GEOlimma also has the potential to be applied to other high-throughput biological datasets.
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- Liangqun Lu
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, USA.,Department of Computer Science, University of Memphis, Memphis, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Memphis, Memphis, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, USA. .,Department of Computer Science, University of Memphis, Memphis, USA.
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Supplitt S, Karpinski P, Sasiadek M, Laczmanska I. Current Achievements and Applications of Transcriptomics in Personalized Cancer Medicine. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:1422. [PMID: 33572595 PMCID: PMC7866970 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22031422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2020] [Revised: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Over the last decades, transcriptome profiling emerged as one of the most powerful approaches in oncology, providing prognostic and predictive utility for cancer management. The development of novel technologies, such as revolutionary next-generation sequencing, enables the identification of cancer biomarkers, gene signatures, and their aberrant expression affecting oncogenesis, as well as the discovery of molecular targets for anticancer therapies. Transcriptomics contribute to a change in the holistic understanding of cancer, from histopathological and organic to molecular classifications, opening a more personalized perspective for tumor diagnostics and therapy. The further advancement on transcriptome profiling may allow standardization and cost reduction of its analysis, which will be the next step for transcriptomics to become a canon of contemporary cancer medicine.
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- Stanislaw Supplitt
- Department of Genetics, Wroclaw Medical University, Marcinkowskiego 1, 50-368 Wroclaw, Poland; (P.K.); (M.S.); (I.L.)
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- Department of Genetics, Wroclaw Medical University, Marcinkowskiego 1, 50-368 Wroclaw, Poland; (P.K.); (M.S.); (I.L.)
- Laboratory of Genomics and Bioinformatics, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Weigla 12, 53-114 Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Wroclaw Medical University, Marcinkowskiego 1, 50-368 Wroclaw, Poland; (P.K.); (M.S.); (I.L.)
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- Department of Genetics, Wroclaw Medical University, Marcinkowskiego 1, 50-368 Wroclaw, Poland; (P.K.); (M.S.); (I.L.)
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Wang Y, Huang XX, Leng D, Li JF, Liang Y, Jiang T. Effect of EZH2 on pulmonary artery smooth muscle cell migration in pulmonary hypertension. Mol Med Rep 2020; 23:129. [PMID: 33313943 PMCID: PMC7751464 DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2020.11768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2019] [Accepted: 10/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a life‑threatening disease that often involves vascular remodeling. Although pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells (PASMCs) are the primary participants in vascular remodeling, their biological role is not entirely clear. The present study analyzed the role of enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) in vascular remodeling of PH by investigating the behavior of PASMCs. The expression levels of EZH2 in PASMCs in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), a type of PH, were detected. The role of EZH2 in PASMC migration was investigated by wound‑healing assay following overexpression and knockdown. Functional enrichment analysis of the whole‑genome expression profiles of PASMCs with EZH2 overexpression was performed using an mRNA Human Gene Expression Microarray. Quantitative (q)PCR was performed to confirm the results of the microarray. EZH2 expression levels increased in CTEPH cell models. The overexpression of EZH2 enhanced PASMC migration compared with control conditions. Functional enrichment analysis of the differentially expressed genes following EZH2 overexpression indicated a strong link between EZH2 and the immune inflammatory response and oxidoreductase activity in PASMCs. mRNA expression levels of superoxide dismutase 3 were verified by qPCR. The results suggested that EZH2 was involved in the migration of PASMCs in PH, and may serve as a potential target for the treatment of PH.
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- Ying Wang
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Beijing Chao‑Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100020, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Respiratory and Pulmonary Circulation Disorders, Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing 100020, P.R. China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Beijing Chao‑Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100020, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Respiratory and Pulmonary Circulation Disorders, Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing 100020, P.R. China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Beijing Chao‑Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100020, P.R. China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100070, P.R. China
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Rajan JV, Semitala FC, Mehta T, Seielstad M, Montalvo L, Andama A, Asege L, Nakaye M, Katende J, Mwebe S, Kamya MR, Yoon C, Cattamanchi A. A Novel, 5-Transcript, Whole-blood Gene-expression Signature for Tuberculosis Screening Among People Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Clin Infect Dis 2020; 69:77-83. [PMID: 30462176 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciy835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2018] [Accepted: 11/15/2018] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Gene-expression profiles have been reported to distinguish between patients with and without active tuberculosis (TB), but no prior study has been conducted in the context of TB screening. METHODS We included all the patients (n = 40) with culture-confirmed TB and time-matched controls (n = 80) enrolled between July 2013 and April 2015 in a TB screening study among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV) in Kampala, Uganda. We randomly split the patients into training (n = 80) and test (n = 40) datasets. We used the training dataset to derive candidate signatures that consisted of 1 to 5 differentially-expressed transcripts (P ≤ .10) and compared the performance of our candidate signatures with 4 published TB gene-expression signatures, both on the independent test dataset and in 2 external datasets. RESULTS We identified a novel, 5-transcript signature that met the accuracy thresholds recommended for a TB screening test. On the independent test dataset, our signature had an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.87 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.72-0.98), with sensitivity of 94% and specificity of 75%. None of the 4 published TB signatures achieved desired accuracy thresholds. Our novel signature performed well in external datasets from both high (AUC 0.81, 95% CI 0.74-0.88) and low (0.81, 95% CI 0.77-0.85) TB burden settings. CONCLUSIONS We identified the first gene-expression signature for TB screening. Our signature has the potential to be translated into a point-of-care test to facilitate systematic TB screening among PLHIV and other high-risk populations.
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- Jayant V Rajan
- Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco
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- Department of Medicine, Makerere University School of Medicine, Kampala, Uganda
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco
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- Institute for Human Genetics, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
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- Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California
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- Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda
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- Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda
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- Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda
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- Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda
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- Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda
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- Department of Medicine, Makerere University School of Medicine, Kampala, Uganda
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco
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HYAL1 Is Downregulated in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Inhibits HFL-1 Fibroblast Proliferation When Upregulated. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2020; 2020:3659451. [PMID: 32258117 PMCID: PMC7086424 DOI: 10.1155/2020/3659451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2019] [Revised: 02/05/2020] [Accepted: 02/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), the most common interstitial lung disease, arises from transforming growth factor beta 1- (TGFβ1-) induced aberrant fibroproliferation in response to epithelial injury. The TGFβ1-) induced aberrant fibroproliferation in response to epithelial injury. The TGF Methods We first performed microarray data mining of previously published gene expression datasets to identify key gene signatures in IPF lung tissues. HYAL1 expression levels in IPF and normal lung tissues were then characterized using immunohistochemistry followed by real-time quantitative reverse transcription-PCR (qRT-PCR) and western blot analysis on isolated fibroblasts from fresh lung tissues of IPF and healthy donors. A human fetal lung fibroblast HFL-1 cell line, which was used in place of primary lung fibroblasts, was used to assess the proliferative or apoptotic effects associated with lentiviral-induced HYAL1 overexpression using CCK-8 cell proliferation assay and Annexin V-APC staining. The identification of potentially associated molecular pathways was performed using microarray analysis followed by qRT-PCR and western blot analysis. Results Lung tissue microarray data mining and immunohistochemistry revealed significantly downregulation of HYAL1 in IPF lung tissue. However, HYAL1 in IPF lung tissue. However, HYAL1 in IPF lung tissue. However, HYAL1 in IPF lung tissue. However, β1-) induced aberrant fibroproliferation in response to epithelial injury. The TGFβ1-) induced aberrant fibroproliferation in response to epithelial injury. The TGF Conclusions We showed that HYAL1 overexpression could prevent HFL-1 fibroproliferation. Furthermore, our findings suggest that transcriptional regulators and BMP receptor signaling may be involved in HYAL1 modulation in IPF therapy.HYAL1 in IPF lung tissue. However,
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Kaluzhny Y, Kinuthia MW, Lapointe AM, Truong T, Klausner M, Hayden P. Oxidative stress in corneal injuries of different origin: Utilization of 3D human corneal epithelial tissue model. Exp Eye Res 2019; 190:107867. [PMID: 31705899 DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2019.107867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2019] [Revised: 10/10/2019] [Accepted: 11/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The purpose of the current work was to utilize a three dimensional (3D) corneal epithelial tissue model to study dry eye disease and oxidative stress-related corneal epithelial injuries for the advancement of ocular therapeutics. Air-liquid interface cultures of normal human corneal epithelial cells were used to produce 3D corneal epithelial tissues appropriate for physiologically relevant exposure to environmental factors. Oxidative stress was generated by exposing the tissues to non-toxic doses of ultraviolet radiation (UV), hydrogen peroxide, vesicating agent nitrogen mustard, or desiccating conditions that stimulated morphological, cellular, and molecular changes relevant to dry eye disease. Corneal specific responses, including barrier function, tissue viability, reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation, lipid peroxidation, cytokine release, histology, and gene expression were evaluated. 3D corneal epithelial tissue model structurally and functionally reproduced key features of molecular responses of various types of oxidative stress-induced ocular damage. The most pronounced effects for different treatments were: UV irradiation - intracellular ROS accumulation; hydrogen peroxide exposure - barrier impairment and IL-8 release; nitrogen mustard exposure - lipid peroxidation and IL-8 release; desiccating conditions - tissue thinning, a decline in mucin expression, increased lipid peroxidation and IL-8 release. Utilizing a PCR gene array, we compared the effects of corneal epithelial damage on the expression of 84 oxidative stress-responsive genes and found specific molecular responses for each type of damage. The topical application of lubricant eye drops improved tissue morphology while decreasing lipid peroxidation and IL-8 release from tissues incubated at desiccating conditions. This model is anticipated to be a valuable tool to study molecular mechanisms of corneal epithelial damage and aid in the development of therapies against dry eye disease, oxidative stress- and vesicant-induced ocular injuries.
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- Yulia Kaluzhny
- MatTek Corporation, 200 Homer Avenue, Ashland, MA, 01721, USA.
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- MatTek Corporation, 200 Homer Avenue, Ashland, MA, 01721, USA.
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- MatTek Corporation, 200 Homer Avenue, Ashland, MA, 01721, USA.
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Lv J, Liu J, Guo L, Zhang J, Cheng Y, Chen C, Zhao H, Wang J. Bioinformatic analyses of microRNA-targeted genes and microarray-identified genes correlated with Barrett's esophagus. Cell Cycle 2019; 17:792-800. [PMID: 29417867 DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2018.1431597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Barrett's esophagus (BE) is defined as a metaplasia condition in the distal esophagus, in which the native squamous epithelium lining is replaced by a columnar epithelium with or without intestinal metaplasia. It is commonly accepted that BE is a precancerous lesion for esophageal adenocarcinoma. The aim of this study was to investigate the aberrant microRNAs (miRNAs) and differentially expressed genes (DEGs) associated with BE based on online microarray datasets. One miRNA and five gene expression profiling datasets were retrieved from the Gene Expression Omnibus Database. Aberrant microRNAs and DEGs were obtained using R/Bioconductor statistical analysis language and software. 23 dysregulated miRNAs and 632 DEGs demonstrating consistent expression tendencies in the five gene microarrays were identified in BE. Moreover, 1962 target genes of aberrant miRNAs were predicted using three bioinformatic tools, namely TargetScan, RNA22-HSA and miRDB. Ultimately, 93 target DEGs were obtained, after which functional annotation was performed on DAVID Bioinformatics Resources. Among Gene Ontology (GO) biological processes, digestive tract development and epithelial cell differentiation have demonstrated significant associations with BE pathogenesis. In addition, analysis of the KEGG pathways has revealed associations with cancer. To enable further study, one miRNA-target DEGs regulatory network was constructed using Cytoscape. 6 target DEGs demonstrated higher-degree distributions in the network, and ROC analysis indicated that FNDC3B may be the best potential biomarker for BE diagnosis. The data presented herein may provide new perspectives for exploring BE pathogenesis and may offer hits with regard to potential biomarkers in BE diagnosis, prediction and therapeutic evaluation.
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- Jing Lv
- a Honghui Hospital , Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an , China.,b Department of Gastroenterology , the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an , China
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- a Honghui Hospital , Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an , China
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- a Honghui Hospital , Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an , China
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- b Department of Gastroenterology , the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an , China
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- b Department of Gastroenterology , the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an , China
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- a Honghui Hospital , Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an , China
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- a Honghui Hospital , Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an , China
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- a Honghui Hospital , Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an , China
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Gómez-Carballa A, Cebey-López M, Pardo-Seco J, Barral-Arca R, Rivero-Calle I, Pischedda S, Currás-Tuala MJ, Gómez-Rial J, Barros F, Martinón-Torres F, Salas A. A qPCR expression assay of IFI44L gene differentiates viral from bacterial infections in febrile children. Sci Rep 2019; 9:11780. [PMID: 31409879 PMCID: PMC6692396 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-48162-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2019] [Accepted: 07/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The diagnosis of bacterial infections in hospital settings is currently performed using bacterial culture from sterile site, but they are lengthy and limited. Transcriptomic biomarkers are becoming promising tools for diagnosis with potential applicability in clinical settings. We evaluated a RT-qPCR assay for a 2-transcript host expression signature (FAM89A and IFI44L genes) inferred from microarray data that allow to differentiate between viral and bacterial infection in febrile children. This assay was able to discriminate viral from bacterial infections (P-value = 1.04 × 10-4; AUC = 92.2%; sensitivity = 90.9%; specificity = 85.7%) and showed very high reproducibility regardless of the reference gene(s) used to normalize the data. Unexpectedly, the monogenic IFI44L expression signature yielded better results than those obtained from the 2-transcript test (P-value = 3.59 × 10-5; AUC = 94.1%; sensitivity = 90.9%; specificity = 92.8%). We validated this IFI44L signature in previously published microarray and whole-transcriptome data from patients affected by different types of viral and bacterial infections, confirming that this gene alone differentiates between both groups, thus saving time, effort, and costs. Herein, we demonstrate that host expression microarray data can be successfully translated into a fast, highly accurate and relatively inexpensive in vitro assay that could be implemented in the clinical routine.
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- Alberto Gómez-Carballa
- Genetics, Vaccines and Infections Research Group (GENVIP), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
- Translational Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
- Unidade de Xenética, Instituto de Ciencias Forenses, Facultade de Medicina, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, and GenPoB Research Group, Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitarias (IDIS), Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago (SERGAS), Galicia, Spain.
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- Genetics, Vaccines and Infections Research Group (GENVIP), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Translational Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Genetics, Vaccines and Infections Research Group (GENVIP), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Translational Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Unidade de Xenética, Instituto de Ciencias Forenses, Facultade de Medicina, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, and GenPoB Research Group, Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitarias (IDIS), Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago (SERGAS), Galicia, Spain
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- Genetics, Vaccines and Infections Research Group (GENVIP), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Translational Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Genetics, Vaccines and Infections Research Group (GENVIP), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Translational Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Genetics, Vaccines and Infections Research Group (GENVIP), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Translational Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Genetics, Vaccines and Infections Research Group (GENVIP), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Translational Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Genetics, Vaccines and Infections Research Group (GENVIP), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Translational Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Unidad de Medicina Molecular, Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica, CIBERER, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Genetics, Vaccines and Infections Research Group (GENVIP), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Translational Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Genetics, Vaccines and Infections Research Group (GENVIP), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Translational Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Unidade de Xenética, Instituto de Ciencias Forenses, Facultade de Medicina, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, and GenPoB Research Group, Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitarias (IDIS), Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago (SERGAS), Galicia, Spain
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Parapouli M, Sfakianaki A, Monokrousos N, Perisynakis A, Hatziloukas E. Comparative transcriptional analysis of flavour-biosynthetic genes of a native Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain fermenting in its natural must environment, vs. a commercial strain and correlation of the genes' activities with the produced flavour compounds. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 26:5. [PMID: 31406688 PMCID: PMC6683356 DOI: 10.1186/s40709-019-0096-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2019] [Accepted: 07/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Background During alcoholic fermentation, Saccharomyces cerevisiae synthesizes more than 400 different compounds with higher alcohols, acetate esters of higher alcohols and ethyl esters of medium-chain fatty acids being the most important products of its metabolism, determining the particular flavour profile of each wine. The concentration of the metabolites produced depends to a large extent on the strain used. The use of indigenous strains as starting cultures can lead to the production of wines with excellent organoleptic characteristics and distinct local character, superior in quality when compared to their commercial counterparts. However, the relationship of these wild-type genotypes, linked to specific terroirs, with the biosynthetic profiles of flavour metabolites is not completely clarified and understood. To this end, qRT-PCR was employed to examine, for the first time on the transcriptional level, the performance of an indigenous Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain (Z622) in its natural environment (Debina grape must). The expression of genes implicated in higher alcohols and esters formation was correlated with the concentrations of these compounds in the produced wine. Furthermore, by applying the same fermentation conditions, we examined the same parameters in a commercial strain (VL1) and compared its performance with the one of strain Z622. Results Strain Z622, exhibited lower concentrations of 2-methylbutanol, 3-methylbutanol and 2-phenyl ethanol, than VL1 correlating with the elevated expression levels of transaminase and decarboxylase genes. Furthermore, the significantly high induction of ADH3 throughout fermentation of Z622 probably explains the larger population numbers reached by Z622 and reflects the better adaptation of the strain to its natural environment. Regarding acetate ester biosynthesis, Z622 produced higher concentrations of total acetate esters, compared with VL1, a fact that is in full agreement with the elevated expression levels of both ATF1 and ATF2 in strain Z622. Conclusions This study provides evidence on the transcriptional level that indigenous yeast Z622 is better adapted to its natural environment able to produce wines with desirable characteristics, i.e. lower concentrations of higher alcohol and higher ester, verifying its potential as a valuable starter for the local wine-industry. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s40709-019-0096-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Maria Parapouli
- 1Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Applications & Technologies, University of Ioannina, 451 10 Ioannina, Greece
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- 2Laboratory of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, 451 10 Ioannina, Greece
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- Department of Soil Science of Athens, Institute of Soil and Water Resources, Hellenic Agricultural Organization-DEMETER, 141 23 Athens, Greece
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- 2Laboratory of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, 451 10 Ioannina, Greece
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- 1Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Applications & Technologies, University of Ioannina, 451 10 Ioannina, Greece
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Farizano JV, Masías E, Hsu FF, Salomón RA, Freitag NE, Hebert EM, Minahk C, Saavedra L. PrfA activation in Listeria monocytogenes increases the sensitivity to class IIa bacteriocins despite impaired expression of the bacteriocin receptor. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2019; 1863:1283-1291. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2019.04.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2018] [Revised: 04/29/2019] [Accepted: 04/30/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Lee MY, Kim TK, Walters KA, Wang K. A biological function based biomarker panel optimization process. Sci Rep 2019; 9:7365. [PMID: 31089177 PMCID: PMC6517383 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-43779-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2018] [Accepted: 04/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Implementation of multi-gene biomarker panels identified from high throughput data, including microarray or next generation sequencing, need to be adapted to a platform suitable in a clinical setting such as quantitative polymerase chain reaction. However, technical challenges when transitioning from one measurement platform to another, such as inconsistent measurement results can affect panel development. We describe a process to overcome the challenges by replacing poor performing genes during platform transition and reducing the number of features without impacting classification performance. This approach assumes that a diagnostic panel reflects the effect of dysregulated biological processes associated with a disease, and genes involved in the same biological processes and coordinately affected by a disease share a similar discriminatory power. The utility of this optimization process was assessed using a published sepsis diagnostic panel. Substitution of more than half of the genes and/or reducing genes based on biological processes did not negatively affect the performance of the sepsis diagnostic panel. Our results suggest a systematic gene substitution and reduction process based on biological function can be used to alleviate the challenges associated with clinical development of biomarker panels.
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- Min Young Lee
- Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
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Transcriptome analysis of Burkholderia pseudomallei SCV reveals an association with virulence, stress resistance and intracellular persistence. Genomics 2019; 112:501-512. [PMID: 30980902 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2019.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2018] [Revised: 03/18/2019] [Accepted: 04/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Differences in expression of potential virulence and survival genes were associated with B. pseudomallei colony morphology variants. Microarray was used to investigate B. pseudomallei transcriptome alterations among the wild type and small colony variant (SCV) pre- and post-exposed to A549 cells. SCV pre- and post-exposed have lower metabolic requirements and consume lesser energy than the wild type pre- and post-exposed to A549. However, both the wild type and SCV limit their metabolic activities post- infection of A549 cells and this is indicated by the down-regulation of genes implicated in the metabolism of amino acids, carbohydrate, lipid, and other amino acids. Many well-known virulence and survival factors, including T3SS, fimbriae, capsular polysaccharides and stress response were up-regulated in both the wild type and SCV pre- and post-exposed to A549 cells. Microarray analysis demonstrated essential differences in bacterial response associated with virulence and survival pre- and post-exposed to A549 cells.
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Arthurs AL, Lumbers ER, Delforce SJ, Mathe A, Morris BJ, Pringle KG. The role of oxygen in regulating microRNAs in control of the placental renin-angiotensin system. Mol Hum Reprod 2019; 25:206-217. [PMID: 30726964 DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gaz004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2018] [Revised: 01/07/2019] [Accepted: 01/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Human placental renin-angiotensin system (RAS) expression is highest in early gestation, at a time when placental oxygen tension is at its lowest (1-3%), and promotes placental development. Some miRNAs predicted to target RAS mRNAs are downregulated in early gestation. We tested the hypothesis that low oxygen suppresses expression of miRNAs that target placental RAS mRNAs, thus increasing concentrations of RAS mRNAs. HTR-8/SVneo cells were cultured in 1, 5 and 20% oxygen for 48 h. Differences in miRNA expression were measured on an Affymetrix miRNA microarray (n = 3/group). Those predicted to target RAS mRNAs, or that were decreased in early gestation, were confirmed by qPCR (n = 9/group). RAS protein levels were assessed by ELISAs or immuno-blotting. Microarray analysis identified four miRNAs predicted to target RAS mRNAs that were differentially expressed between 1 and 5% oxygen. Using qPCR, 15 miRNAs that target the RAS were measured in HTR-8/SVneo cells. Five miRNAs were downregulated in 1% compared with 5% oxygen. Expression of a number of RAS mRNAs (ATP6AP2, AGT, ACE and AGTR1) were increased in either, or both, 1 and 5% oxygen compared with 20% oxygen. AGT protein levels were increased in 1% oxygen compared with 5%. Further validation is needed to confirm that these miRNAs target RAS mRNAs directly and that placental development is partly regulated by oxygen-sensitive miRNAs that target RAS mRNAs. Since placental oxygen tension changes across gestation, changes in expression of these miRNAs may contribute to the transgestational changes in placental RAS expression and the resulting effects on placental development.
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- Anya L Arthurs
- Priority Research Centre for Reproductive Sciences, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia.,Pregnancy and Reproduction, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Lot 1, Kookaburra Cct, New Lambton Heights NSW, Australia
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- Priority Research Centre for Reproductive Sciences, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia.,Pregnancy and Reproduction, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Lot 1, Kookaburra Cct, New Lambton Heights NSW, Australia
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- Priority Research Centre for Reproductive Sciences, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia.,Pregnancy and Reproduction, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Lot 1, Kookaburra Cct, New Lambton Heights NSW, Australia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia
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- School of Medical Sciences and Bosch Institute, Anderson Stuart Building, University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
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- Priority Research Centre for Reproductive Sciences, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia.,Pregnancy and Reproduction, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Lot 1, Kookaburra Cct, New Lambton Heights NSW, Australia
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Yang M, Wu S, You W, Jaisi A, Xiao Y. Selection of Reference Genes for Expression Analysis in Chinese Medicinal Herb Huperzia serrata. Front Pharmacol 2019; 10:44. [PMID: 30774594 PMCID: PMC6367274 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2019.00044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2018] [Accepted: 01/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Huperzine A (HupA) is a powerful and selective inhibitor of acetylcholinesterase. It has attracted widespread attention endangering the ultimate plant sources of Lycopodiaceae family. In this study, we used Huperzia serrata, extensively used in Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), a slow growing vascular plant as the model plant of the Lycopodiaceae family to develop and validate the reference genes. We aim to use gene expression platform to understand the gene expression of different tissues and developmental stages of this medicinal herb. Eight candidate reference genes were selected based on RNA-seq data and evaluated with qRT-PCR. The expression of L/ODC and cytochrome P450s genes known for their involvement in lycopodium alkaloid biosynthesis, were also studied to validate the selected reference genes. The most stable genes were TBP, GAPDH, and their combination (TBP + GAPDH). We report for the first time the reference gene of H. serrata’s different tissues which would provide important insights into understanding their biological functions comparing other Lycopodiaceae plants and facilitate a good biopharming approach.
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- Mengquan Yang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,CAS-JIC Centre of Excellence in Plant and Microbial Sciences, Shanghai, China
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Martin LJ, Meng Q, Blencowe M, Lagarrigue S, Xiao S, Pan C, Wier J, Temple WC, Devaskar SU, Lusis AJ, Yang X. Maternal High-Protein and Low-Protein Diets Perturb Hypothalamus and Liver Transcriptome and Metabolic Homeostasis in Adult Mouse Offspring. Front Genet 2018; 9:642. [PMID: 30619467 PMCID: PMC6297185 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2018] [Accepted: 11/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Early life nutritional imbalances are risk factors for metabolic dysfunctions in adulthood, but the long term effects of perinatal exposure to high versus low protein diets are not completely understood. We exposed C57BL/6J offspring to a high protein/low carbohydrate (HP/LC) or low protein/high carbohydrate (LP/HC) diet during gestation and lactation, and measured metabolic phenotypes between birth and 10 months of age in male offspring. Perinatal HP/LC and LP/HC exposures resulted in a decreased ability to clear glucose in the offspring, with reduced baseline insulin and glucose concentrations in the LP/HC group and a reduced insulin response post-glucose challenge in the HP/LC group. The LP/HC diet group also showed reduced birth and weanling weights, whereas the HP/LC offspring displayed increased weanling weight with increased adiposity beyond 5 months of age. Gene expression profiling of hypothalamus and liver revealed alterations in diverse molecular pathways by both diets. Specifically, hypothalamic transcriptome and pathway analyses demonstrated perturbations of MAPK and hedgehog signaling, processes associated with neural restructuring and transmission, and phosphate metabolism by perinatal protein imbalances. Liver transcriptomics revealed changes in purine and phosphate metabolism, hedgehog signaling, and circadian rhythm pathways. Our results indicate maternal protein imbalances perturbing molecular pathways in central and peripheral metabolic tissues, thereby predisposing the male offspring to metabolic dysfunctions.
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- Lisa J Martin
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States.,Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States.,Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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MicroRNAs as Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers in Ischemic Stroke-A Comprehensive Review and Bioinformatic Analysis. Cells 2018; 7:cells7120249. [PMID: 30563269 PMCID: PMC6316722 DOI: 10.3390/cells7120249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2018] [Revised: 12/01/2018] [Accepted: 12/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Stroke is the second-most common cause of death worldwide. The pathophysiology of ischemic stroke (IS) is related to inflammation, atherosclerosis, blood coagulation, and platelet activation. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play important roles in physiological and pathological processes of neurodegenerative diseases and progression of certain neurological diseases, such as IS. Several different miRNAs, and their target genes, are recognized to be involved in the pathophysiology of IS. The capacity of miRNAs to simultaneously regulate several target genes underlies their unique value as diagnostic and prognostic markers in IS. In this review, we focus on the role of miRNAs as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in IS. We discuss the most common and reliable detection methods available and promising tests currently under development. We also present original results from bioinformatic analyses of published results, identifying the ten most significant genes (HMGB1, YWHAZ, PIK3R1, STAT3, MAPK1, CBX5, CAPZB, THBS1, TNFRSF10B, RCOR1) associated with inflammation, blood coagulation, and platelet activation and targeted by miRNAs in IS. Additionally, we created miRNA-gene target interaction networks based on Gene Ontology (GO) information derived from publicly available databases. Among our most interesting findings, miR-19a-3p is the most widely modulated miRNA across all selected ontologies and might be proposed as novel biomarker in IS to be tested in future studies.
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Jung M, Russell AJ, Kennedy C, Gifford AJ, Mallitt KA, Sivarajasingam S, Bowtell DD, DeFazio A, Haber M, Norris MD, Henderson MJ. Clinical Importance of Myc Family Oncogene Aberrations in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer. JNCI Cancer Spectr 2018; 2:pky047. [PMID: 31360864 PMCID: PMC6649713 DOI: 10.1093/jncics/pky047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2017] [Revised: 05/24/2018] [Accepted: 06/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Background The Myc oncogene family has been implicated in many human malignancies and is often associated with particularly aggressive disease, suggesting Myc as an attractive prognostic marker and therapeutic target. However, for epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), there is little consensus on the incidence and clinical relevance of Myc aberrations. Here we comprehensively investigated alterations in gene copy number, expression, and activity for Myc and evaluated their clinical significance in EOC. Methods To address inconsistencies in the literature regarding the definition of copy number variations, we developed a novel approach using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) coupled with a statistical algorithm to estimate objective thresholds for detecting Myc gain/amplification in large cohorts of serous (n = 150) and endometrioid (n = 80) EOC. MYC, MYCN, and MYCL1 mRNA expression and Myc activity score for each case were examined by qPCR. Kaplan–Meier and Cox-regression analyses were conducted to assess clinical significance of Myc aberrations. Results Using a large panel of cancer cell lines (n = 34), we validated the statistical algorithm for determining clear thresholds for Myc gain/amplification. MYC was the most predominantly amplified of the Myc oncogene family members, and high MYC mRNA expression levels were associated with amplification in EOC. However, there was no association between prognosis and increased copy number or gene expression of MYC/MYCN/MYCL1 or with a pan-Myc transcriptional activity score, in EOC, although MYC amplification was associated with late stage and high grade in endometrioid EOC. Conclusion A systematic and comprehensive analysis of Myc genes, transcripts, and activity levels using qPCR revealed that although such aberrations commonly occur in EOC, overall they have limited impact on outcome, suggesting that the biological relevance of Myc oncogene family members is limited to certain subsets of this disease.
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- MoonSun Jung
- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, UNSW Australia, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, UNSW Australia, Kensington, NSW, Australia.,Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Gynecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital and Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, UNSW Australia, Kensington, NSW, Australia.,Department of Anatomical Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia
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- Centre for Big Data Research in Health/School of Women's and Children's Health, UNSW Australia, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, UNSW Australia, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, UNSW Australia, Kensington, NSW, Australia.,Department of Gynecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital and Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.,Department of Anatomical Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia.,Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia (Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group).,Centre for Big Data Research in Health/School of Women's and Children's Health, UNSW Australia, Kensington, NSW, Australia.,University of New South Wales Centre for Childhood Cancer Research, UNSW Australia, Kensington, NSW, Australia.,Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Gynecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital and Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, UNSW Australia, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, UNSW Australia, Kensington, NSW, Australia.,University of New South Wales Centre for Childhood Cancer Research, UNSW Australia, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, UNSW Australia, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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Zhang M, Liu YH, Chang CS, Zhi H, Wang S, Xu W, Smith CW, Zhang HB. Quantification of gene expression while taking into account RNA alternative splicing. Genomics 2018; 111:1517-1528. [PMID: 30366041 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2018.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2018] [Accepted: 10/16/2018] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Gene expression has been widely used in functional genomics research; however, the gene expressions quantified with different methods have been frequently inconsistent, thus challenging the conclusions from such research. Here we have addressed this issue, while taking into account RNA alternative splicing. We found that when a gene was subjected to RNA alternative splicing, it was impossible or difficult to properly quantify the expression of a transcript of the gene or its overall expression using quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR), Northern hybridization, microarray, or serial analysis of gene expression. Shot-gun RNA-seq was the most proper to quantify the expression of a transcript or a gene in such cases. Moreover, the expressions of individual transcripts quantified by shot-gun RNA-seq were highly reproducible (r = 0.90-0.98) between individuals. Therefore, shot-gun or full-length RNA-seq should be the method of choice to properly quantify the expression of a transcript or a gene.
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- Meiping Zhang
- Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2474, United States.
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- Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2474, United States.
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- Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2474, United States
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- Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2474, United States
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- Genomics and Bioinformatics Service, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, College Station, TX, 77845, United States.
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- Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Lubbock, TX 79403, United States.
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- Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2474, United States.
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- Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2474, United States.
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Plasma miRNA-122-5p and miRNA-151a-3p identified as potential biomarkers for liver injury among CHB patients with PNALT. Hepatol Int 2018; 12:277-287. [PMID: 29881991 DOI: 10.1007/s12072-018-9871-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2017] [Accepted: 05/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Plasma microRNA (miRNA) levels may be altered during pathological processes; therefore, they may potentially serve as biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of human diseases. This study aimed to explore whether plasma miRNAs may serve as new biomarkers for liver injury among chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients with normal or nearly normal alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels. METHODS Plasma miRNAs from each of three independent groups (no prominent liver injury and persistently normal ALT levels, NPNALT; significant liver injury with persistently normal ALT levels, SPNALT; and healthy) were profiled by miRNA microarray analysis. Differentially expressed miRNAs were then validated by a quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) assay. The area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUC) curve was used to analyze the candidate miRNAs validated by qRT-PCR for diagnostic accuracy. RESULTS Twenty differentially expressed miRNAs were identified by microarray analysis. Seven miRNAs with elevated serum levels were validated by qRT-PCR analysis, and four of them were significantly different between the SPNALT and NPNALT groups. The AUCs of hsa-miR-122-5p and hsa-miR-151-3p were 0.877 (cutoff value = 13.38; 95% CI 0.792-0.963; sensitivity = 83.3%, specificity = 80%) and 0.882 (cutoff value = 7.4; 95% CI 0.797-0.966; sensitivity = 83.3%, specificity = 73.3%), respectively, indicating early liver injury. However, there was no significant correlation of miRNAs with either necroinflammation or fibrosis. CONCLUSION Serum hsa-miR-122-5p and hsa-miR-151-3p may function as new biomarkers for liver injury in SPNALT patients. With these two biomarkers, we may be able to identify a subset of patients who are experiencing liver injury but have normal ALT levels for further evaluation with a biopsy procedure.
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Gandhi D, Sivanesan S, Kannan K. Manganese-Induced Neurotoxicity and Alterations in Gene Expression in Human Neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y Cells. Biol Trace Elem Res 2018; 183:245-253. [PMID: 28914406 DOI: 10.1007/s12011-017-1153-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2017] [Accepted: 09/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Manganese (Mn) is an essential trace element required for many physiological functions including proper biochemical and cellular functioning of the central nervous system (CNS). However, exposure to excess level of Mn through occupational settings or from environmental sources has been associated with neurotoxicity. The cellular and molecular mechanism of Mn-induced neurotoxicity remains unclear. In the current study, we investigated the effects of 30-day exposure to a sub-lethal concentration of Mn (100 μM) in human neuroblastoma cells (SH-SY5Y) using transcriptomic approach. Microarray analysis revealed differential expression of 1057 transcripts in Mn-exposed SH-SY5Y cells as compared to control cells. Gene functional annotation cluster analysis exhibited that the differentially expressed genes were associated with several biological pathways. Specifically, genes involved in neuronal pathways including neuron differentiation and development, regulation of neurogenesis, synaptic transmission, and neuronal cell death (apoptosis) were found to be significantly altered. KEGG pathway analysis showed upregulation of p53 signaling pathways and neuroactive ligand-receptor interaction pathways, and downregulation of neurotrophin signaling pathway. On the basis of the gene expression profile, possible molecular mechanisms underlying Mn-induced neuronal toxicity were predicted.
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- Deepa Gandhi
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability Division, CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur, India
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- Environmental Impact and Sustainability Division, CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur, India.
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- Environmental Impact and Sustainability Division, CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur, India
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Targeted Transcriptional Profiling of Kidney Transplant Biopsies. Kidney Int Rep 2018; 3:722-731. [PMID: 29854981 PMCID: PMC5976814 DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2018.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2018] [Accepted: 01/30/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Introduction Studies are needed to assess the quality of transcriptome analysis in paired human tissue samples preserved by different methods and different gene amplification platforms to enable data comparisons across experimenters. Methods RNA was extracted from kidney biopsies, either submerged in RNA-stabilizing solution (RSS) or stored in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) blocks. RNA quality and integrity were compared. Gene expression of the common rejection module and other immune cell genes were quantified for both tissue preservation methods in the same sample using conventional quantitative polymerase chain reaction (QPCR) by 2 different commercial platforms, (fluidigm [FD]) or barcoded-oligos (nanostring [NS]). Results RNA quality was inferior in FFPE tissues. Despite this, gene expression for 19 measured genes on the same sample, stored in FFPE or RSS, were strongly correlated on the FD (r = 0.81) or NS platforms (r = 0.82). For the same samples, interplatform gene expression correlations were excellent (r = 0.80) for RSS and moderate (r = 0.66) for FFPE. Significant differences in gene expression were confirmed on both platforms (FD: P = 1.1E-03; NS: P = 2.5E-04) for biopsy-confirmed acute rejection. Conclusion Our study provided supportive evidence that despite a low RNA quality of archival FFPE kidney transplantation tissue, small quantities of this tissue can be obtained from existing paraffin blocks to provide a viable and rich biospecimen source for focused gene expression assays. In addition, reliable and reproducible gene expression evaluation can be performed on these FFPE tissues using either a QPCR-based or a barcoded-oligo approach, which provides opportunities for collaborative analytics.
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Starobova H, S. W. A. H, Lewis RJ, Vetter I. Transcriptomics in pain research: insights from new and old technologies. Mol Omics 2018; 14:389-404. [DOI: 10.1039/c8mo00181b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Physiological and pathological pain involves a complex interplay of multiple cell types and signaling pathways.
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- H. Starobova
- Centre for Pain Research
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience
- University of Queensland
- St Lucia
- Australia
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- Centre for Pain Research
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience
- University of Queensland
- St Lucia
- Australia
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- Centre for Pain Research
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience
- University of Queensland
- St Lucia
- Australia
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- Centre for Pain Research
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience
- University of Queensland
- St Lucia
- Australia
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Zhang Q, Wang Y, Liang J, Tian Y, Zhang Y, Tao K. Bioinformatics analysis to identify the critical genes, microRNAs and long noncoding RNAs in melanoma. Medicine (Baltimore) 2017; 96:e7497. [PMID: 28723760 PMCID: PMC5521900 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000007497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Melanoma, which is usually induced by ultraviolet light exposure and the following DNA damage, is the most dangerous skin cancer. The purpose of the present study was to screen key molecules involved in melanoma.Microarray data of E-MTAB-1862 were downloaded from the ArrayExpress database, which included 21 primary melanoma samples and 11 benign nevus samples. In addition, the RNASeq version 2 and microRNA (miRNA) sequencing data of cutaneous melanoma were downloaded from The Cancer Genome Atlas database. After identifying the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) using Limma package, enrichment analysis and protein-protein interaction (PPI) network analysis were performed separately for them using DAVID software and Cytoscape software. In addition, survival analysis and regulatory network analysis were further performed by log-rank test and Cytoscape software, respectively. Moreover, real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was performed to further verify the expression patterns of several selected DEGs.A total of 382 DEGs were identified in primary melanoma samples, including 206 upregulated genes and 176 downregulated genes. Functional enrichment analysis showed that COL17A1 was enriched in epidermis development. In the PPI network, CXCL8 (degree = 29) and STAT1 (degree = 28) had higher degrees and could interact with each other. Survival analysis showed that 21 DEGs, 55 long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) and 32 miRNAs were found to be associated with prognosis. Furthermore, several regulatory relationships were found in the lncRNA-gene regulatory network (such as RP11-361L15.4 targeting COL17A1) and the miRNA-gene regulatory network (such as hsa-miR-375 targeting CCL27 and hsa-miR-375 targeting insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor [IGF1R]). Real-time RT-PCR results showed that the overall direction of differential expression was consistent except COL17A1.CXCL8 interacted with STAT1, CCL27, and IGF1R targeted by hsa-miR-375, and COL17A1 targeted by RP11-361L15.4 might function in the development and progression of melanoma, which should be verified by more detailed experiments.
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Sedlarikova L, Gromesova B, Kubaczkova V, Radova L, Filipova J, Jarkovsky J, Brozova L, Velichova R, Almasi M, Penka M, Bezdekova R, Stork M, Adam Z, Pour L, Krejci M, Kuglík P, Hajek R, Sevcikova S. Deregulated expression of long non-coding RNA UCA1 in multiple myeloma. Eur J Haematol 2017; 99:223-233. [PMID: 28543758 DOI: 10.1111/ejh.12908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/19/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are RNA transcripts longer than 200 nucleotides that are not translated into proteins. They are involved in pathogenesis of many diseases including cancer and have a potential to serve as diagnostic and prognostic markers. We aimed to investigate lncRNA expression profiles in bone marrow plasma cells (BMPCs) of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM) patients in comparison to normal BMPCs of healthy donors (HD) in a three-phase biomarker study. METHODS Expression profile of 83 lncRNA was performed by RT2 lncRNA PCR Array (Qiagen), followed by quantitative real-time PCR using specific TaqMan non-coding RNA assays analyzing 84 newly diagnosed MM patients and 25 HD. RESULTS Our analysis revealed dysregulation of two lncRNAs; NEAT1 (sensitivity of 55.0% and specificity of 79.0%) and UCA1 (sensitivity of 85.0% and specificity of 94.7%). UCA1 levels correlated with albumin and monoclonal immunoglobulin serum levels, cytogenetic aberrations, and survival of MM patients. CONCLUSION Our study suggests a possible prognostic impact of UCA1 expression levels on MM patients.
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- Lenka Sedlarikova
- Babak Myeloma Group, Department of Pathological Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Babak Myeloma Group, Department of Pathological Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Babak Myeloma Group, Department of Pathological Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Hematooncology, University Hospital Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Clinical Hematology, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Clinical Hematology, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Clinical Hematology, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology and Oncology, Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology and Oncology, Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology and Oncology, Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology and Oncology, Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Hematooncology, University Hospital Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic.,Department of Clinical Hematology, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Babak Myeloma Group, Department of Pathological Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.,Department of Clinical Hematology, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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Raddatz BB, Spitzbarth I, Matheis KA, Kalkuhl A, Deschl U, Baumgärtner W, Ulrich R. Microarray-Based Gene Expression Analysis for Veterinary Pathologists: A Review. Vet Pathol 2017. [PMID: 28641485 DOI: 10.1177/0300985817709887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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High-throughput, genome-wide transcriptome analysis is now commonly used in all fields of life science research and is on the cusp of medical and veterinary diagnostic application. Transcriptomic methods such as microarrays and next-generation sequencing generate enormous amounts of data. The pathogenetic expertise acquired from understanding of general pathology provides veterinary pathologists with a profound background, which is essential in translating transcriptomic data into meaningful biological knowledge, thereby leading to a better understanding of underlying disease mechanisms. The scientific literature concerning high-throughput data-mining techniques usually addresses mathematicians or computer scientists as the target audience. In contrast, the present review provides the reader with a clear and systematic basis from a veterinary pathologist's perspective. Therefore, the aims are (1) to introduce the reader to the necessary methodological background; (2) to introduce the sequential steps commonly performed in a microarray analysis including quality control, annotation, normalization, selection of differentially expressed genes, clustering, gene ontology and pathway analysis, analysis of manually selected genes, and biomarker discovery; and (3) to provide references to publically available and user-friendly software suites. In summary, the data analysis methods presented within this review will enable veterinary pathologists to analyze high-throughput transcriptome data obtained from their own experiments, supplemental data that accompany scientific publications, or public repositories in order to obtain a more in-depth insight into underlying disease mechanisms.
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- Barbara B Raddatz
- 1 Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany.,2 Center of Systems Neuroscience, Hannover, Germany
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- 1 Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany.,2 Center of Systems Neuroscience, Hannover, Germany
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- 3 Department of Nonclinical Drug Safety, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG, Biberach (Riß), Germany
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- 3 Department of Nonclinical Drug Safety, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG, Biberach (Riß), Germany
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- 3 Department of Nonclinical Drug Safety, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG, Biberach (Riß), Germany
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- 1 Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany.,2 Center of Systems Neuroscience, Hannover, Germany
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- 1 Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany.,2 Center of Systems Neuroscience, Hannover, Germany.,4 Department of Experimental Animal Facilities and Biorisk Management, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald, Germany
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Dynamic Modulation of Expression of Lentiviral Restriction Factors in Primary CD4 + T Cells following Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection. J Virol 2017; 91:JVI.02189-16. [PMID: 28100613 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02189-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2016] [Accepted: 01/11/2017] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Although multiple restriction factors have been shown to inhibit HIV/SIV replication, little is known about their expression in vivo Expression of 45 confirmed and putative HIV/SIV restriction factors was analyzed in CD4+ T cells from peripheral blood and the jejunum in rhesus macaques, revealing distinct expression patterns in naive and memory subsets. In both peripheral blood and the jejunum, memory CD4+ T cells expressed higher levels of multiple restriction factors compared to naive cells. However, relative to their expression in peripheral blood CD4+ T cells, jejunal CCR5+ CD4+ T cells exhibited significantly lower expression of multiple restriction factors, including APOBEC3G, MX2, and TRIM25, which may contribute to the exquisite susceptibility of these cells to SIV infection. In vitro stimulation with anti-CD3/CD28 antibodies or type I interferon resulted in upregulation of distinct subsets of multiple restriction factors. After infection of rhesus macaques with SIVmac239, the expression of most confirmed and putative restriction factors substantially increased in all CD4+ T cell memory subsets at the peak of acute infection. Jejunal CCR5+ CD4+ T cells exhibited the highest levels of SIV RNA, corresponding to the lower restriction factor expression in this subset relative to peripheral blood prior to infection. These results illustrate the dynamic modulation of confirmed and putative restriction factor expression by memory differentiation, stimulation, tissue microenvironment and SIV infection and suggest that differential expression of restriction factors may play a key role in modulating the susceptibility of different populations of CD4+ T cells to lentiviral infection.IMPORTANCE Restriction factors are genes that have evolved to provide intrinsic defense against viruses. HIV and simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) target CD4+ T cells. The baseline level of expression in vivo and degree to which expression of restriction factors is modulated by conditions such as CD4+ T cell differentiation, stimulation, tissue location, or SIV infection are currently poorly understood. We measured the expression of 45 confirmed and putative restriction factors in primary CD4+ T cells from rhesus macaques under various conditions, finding dynamic changes in each state. Most dramatically, in acute SIV infection, the expression of almost all target genes analyzed increased. These are the first measurements of many of these confirmed and putative restriction factors in primary cells or during the early events after SIV infection and suggest that the level of expression of restriction factors may contribute to the differential susceptibility of CD4+ T cells to SIV infection.
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Kong FY, Zhu T, Li N, Cai YF, Zhou K, Wei X, Kou YB, You HJ, Zheng KY, Tang RX. Bioinformatics analysis of the proteins interacting with LASP-1 and their association with HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma. Sci Rep 2017; 7:44017. [PMID: 28266596 PMCID: PMC5339786 DOI: 10.1038/srep44017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2016] [Accepted: 02/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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LIM and SH3 domain protein (LASP-1) is responsible for the development of several types of human cancers via the interaction with other proteins; however, the precise biological functions of proteins interacting with LASP-1 are not fully clarified. Although the role of LASP-1 in hepatocarcinogenesis has been reported, the implication of LASP-1 interactors in HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is not clearly evaluated. We obtained information regarding LASP-1 interactors from public databases and published studies. Via bioinformatics analysis, we found that LASP-1 interactors were related to distinct molecular functions and associated with various biological processes. Through an integrated network analysis of the interaction and pathways of LASP-1 interactors, cross-talk between different proteins and associated pathways was found. In addition, LASP-1 and several its interactors are significantly altered in HBV-related HCC through microarray analysis and could form a complex co-expression network. In the disease, LASP-1 and its interactors were further predicted to be regulated by a complex interaction network composed of different transcription factors. Besides, numerous LASP-1 interactors were associated with various clinical factors and related to the survival and recurrence of HBV-related HCC. Taken together, these results could help enrich our understanding of LASP-1 interactors and their relationships with HBV-related HCC.
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- Fan-Yun Kong
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Brain Disease Bioinformation, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China.,Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Brain Disease Bioinformation, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China.,Department of Pathogenic Biology and Immunology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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Fattahi S, Pilehchian Langroudi M, Samadani AA, Nikbakhsh N, Asouri M, Akhavan-Niaki H. Application of unique sequence index (USI) barcode to gene expression profiling in gastric adenocarcinoma. J Cell Commun Signal 2017; 11:97-104. [PMID: 28120184 DOI: 10.1007/s12079-017-0376-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2016] [Accepted: 01/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Accurate expression profiling is imperative for understanding the biological roles of mRNAs. Real-time PCR have been at the forefront of biological innovation in detection and monitoring of gene expression, however, fluorophore-labeled oligonucleotides and double-stranded DNA binding dyes, the two most frequently used dyes in RNA detection, are not very cost effective and have poor specificity, respectively. We have developed a cost effective and specific approach for mRNA expression profiling via added unique sequence index (USI) to cDNAs before amplification. USI is a barcode which enable the detection of each target RNA. Using this method, caudal type homeobox 1 (CDX1) and FAT atypical cadherin 4 (FAT4) expressions were investigated in tumoral and non-tumoral tissues of gastric cancer patients and compared with commercial ABI kit. Both methods indicated that FAT4 and CDX1 expression were significantly reduced in gastric cancer tissues compared with adjacent noncancerous tissues. Moreover, we have shown that this assay is highly sensitive, linear and reproducible. USI barcode not only provides a powerful tool for mRNA detection due to its sensitivity, specificity and cost-effectiveness, but also allows comfortable design for real-time qPCR assays within the least time and empowers the analysis of many transcripts of virtually any organism. Furthermore, USI barcode is highly affordable for large numbers of different samples or small sample sizes without microarray and expensive commercial platforms.
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- Sadegh Fattahi
- Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran.,North Research Center-Pasteur Institute of Iran, Amol, Iran
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- Department of Surgery, Rouhani hospital, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
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- North Research Center-Pasteur Institute of Iran, Amol, Iran
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- North Research Center-Pasteur Institute of Iran, Amol, Iran. .,Department of Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran.
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Quantitative real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) represents a benchmark technology in the detection and quantification of mRNA. Yet, accurate results cannot be realized without proper statistical analysis of RT-PCR data. Here we examine some of the issues concerning RT-PCR experiments that would benefit from rigorous statistical treatment including normalization, quantification, efficiency estimation, and sample size calculations. Examples are used to illustrate the methods.
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- Richard Khan-Malek
- Biostatistics and Programming, Sanofi US, Inc., 55 Corporate Drive, Bridgewater, NJ, 08807, USA.
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- Translational Medicine and Early Development, Sanofi US, Inc., Bridgewater, NJ, USA
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Jung M, Russell AJ, Liu B, George J, Liu PY, Liu T, DeFazio A, Bowtell DDL, Oberthuer A, London WB, Fletcher JI, Haber M, Norris MD, Henderson MJ. A Myc Activity Signature Predicts Poor Clinical Outcomes in Myc-Associated Cancers. Cancer Res 2016; 77:971-981. [PMID: 27923830 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-15-2906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2015] [Revised: 10/14/2016] [Accepted: 11/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Myc transcriptional activity is frequently deregulated in human cancers, but a Myc-driven gene signature with prognostic ability across multiple tumor types remains lacking. Here, we selected 18 Myc-regulated genes from published studies of Myc family targets in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) and neuroblastoma. A Myc family activity score derived from the 18 genes was correlated to MYC/MYCN/MYCL1 expression in a panel of 35 cancer cell lines. The prognostic ability of this signature was evaluated in neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), and EOC microarray gene expression datasets using Kaplan-Meier and multivariate Cox regression analyses and was further validated in 42 primary neuroblastomas using qPCR. Cell lines with high MYC, MYCN, and/or MYCL1 gene expression exhibited elevated expression of the signature genes. Survival analysis showed that the signature was associated with poor outcome independently of well-defined prognostic factors in neuroblastoma, breast cancer, DLBCL, and medulloblastoma. In EOC, the 18-gene Myc activity signature was capable of identifying a group of patients with poor prognosis in a "high-MYCN" molecular subtype but not in the overall cohort. The predictive ability of this signature was reproduced using qPCR analysis of an independent cohort of neuroblastomas, including a subset of tumors without MYCN amplification. These data reveal an 18-gene Myc activity signature that is highly predictive of poor prognosis in diverse Myc-associated malignancies and suggest its potential clinical application in the identification of Myc-driven tumors that might respond to Myc-targeted therapies. Cancer Res; 77(4); 971-81. ©2016 AACR.
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- MoonSun Jung
- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of New South Wales Australia, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
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- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of New South Wales Australia, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
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- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of New South Wales Australia, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
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- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of New South Wales Australia, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
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- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of New South Wales Australia, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Gynecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital and Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Children's Hospital, University of Cologne and Centre for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School Division of Hematology/Oncology and Children's Oncology Group Statistics and Data Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of New South Wales Australia, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
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- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of New South Wales Australia, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
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- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of New South Wales Australia, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia.,University of New South Wales Centre for Childhood Cancer Research, University of New South Wales Australia, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
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- Children's Cancer Institute Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of New South Wales Australia, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia.
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Leow SS, Bolsinger J, Pronczuk A, Hayes KC, Sambanthamurthi R. Hepatic transcriptome implications for palm fruit juice deterrence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in young male Nile rats. GENES AND NUTRITION 2016; 11:29. [PMID: 27795741 PMCID: PMC5075206 DOI: 10.1186/s12263-016-0545-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2016] [Accepted: 10/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Background The Nile rat (NR, Arvicanthis niloticus) is a model of carbohydrate-induced type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and the metabolic syndrome. A previous study found that palm fruit juice (PFJ) delayed or prevented diabetes and in some cases even reversed its early stages in young NRs. However, the molecular mechanisms by which PFJ exerts these anti-diabetic effects are unknown. In this study, the transcriptomic effects of PFJ were studied in young male NRs, using microarray gene expression analysis. Methods Three-week-old weanling NRs were fed either a high-carbohydrate diet (%En from carbohydrate/fat/protein = 70:10:20, 16.7 kJ/g; n = 8) or the same high-carbohydrate diet supplemented with PFJ (415 ml of 13,000-ppm gallic acid equivalent (GAE) for a final concentration of 5.4 g GAE per kg diet or 2.7 g per 2000 kcal; n = 8). Livers were obtained from these NRs for microarray gene expression analysis using Illumina MouseRef-8 Version 2 Expression BeadChips. Microarray data were analysed along with the physiological parameters of diabetes. Results Compared to the control group, 71 genes were up-regulated while 108 were down-regulated in the group supplemented with PFJ. Among hepatic genes up-regulated were apolipoproteins related to high-density lipoproteins (HDL) and genes involved in hepatic detoxification, while those down-regulated were related to insulin signalling and fibrosis. Conclusion The results obtained suggest that the anti-diabetic effects of PFJ may be due to mechanisms other than an increase in insulin secretion.
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- Soon-Sen Leow
- Malaysian Palm Oil Board, No. 6, Persiaran Institusi, Bandar Baru Bangi, 43000 Kajang, Selangor Malaysia
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- Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454 USA
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- Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454 USA
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- Malaysian Palm Oil Board, No. 6, Persiaran Institusi, Bandar Baru Bangi, 43000 Kajang, Selangor Malaysia
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Chen X, Lu P, Wang DD, Yang SJ, Wu Y, Shen HY, Zhong SL, Zhao JH, Tang JH. The role of miRNAs in drug resistance and prognosis of breast cancer formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues. Gene 2016; 595:221-226. [PMID: 27746365 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2016.10.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2016] [Revised: 09/25/2016] [Accepted: 10/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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PURPOSE Chemoresistance mediated by miRNAs in breast cancer have been already validated by previous studies in vitro, while little is known concerning the expression of them in vivo. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of miR-222, miR-29a, miR-34a, miR-130a, miR-90b, miR-200b, miR-452, miR-197, miR-138, miR-210, miR-423, miR-4298, miR-4644, miR-139, miR-1246, miR-1268a, miR-140, miR-149, miR-3178, miR-3613, miR-4258, miR-574, miR-671, miR-6780b, miR-7107, miR-744 and miR-7847 linked to drug resistance in breast cancer formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues and the association of prognosis with miRNAs, thus providing effective targets in chemotherapy, as well as potential biomarkers for guiding effective treatments of breast cancer. METHODS The relationship between the expression of diverse miRNAs and drug resistance was detected by RT-qPCR using 55 breast cancer FFPE tissues containing 26 paired FFPE specimens. RESULTS MiR-222, miR-29a, miR-34a, miR-423, miR-140, miR-3178, miR-574, miR-6780b and miR-744 exhibited significantly higher expression levels in surgically-resected specimens compared with pre-neoadjuvant chemotherapy biopsies. Evidently high expression of miR-222, miR-29a, miR-140, miR-574, miR-6780b, miR-7107 and miR-744 were found in ineffective group comparing with effective group. Further investigations revealed the significant association between several miRNAs in breast cancer patients. CONCLUSIONS This study highlights the role of numerous miRNAs in prediction of therapeutic responses and suggests that specific miRNAs could serve as valuable sources for biomarker detections and optimal chemotherapeutic choices for breast cancer patients.
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- Xiu Chen
- The Fourth Clinical School of Nanjing Medical University, 210009 Nanjing, China; Department of General Surgery, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Baiziting42, 210009 Nanjing, China; The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Guangzhoulu300, 210029 Nanjing, China
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- School of Public Health Nanjing Medical University, 210009 Nanjing, China
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- The First Clinical School of Nanjing Medical University, 210009 Nanjing, China
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- The Fourth Clinical School of Nanjing Medical University, 210009 Nanjing, China
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- The First Clinical School of Nanjing Medical University, 210009 Nanjing, China
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- The Fourth Clinical School of Nanjing Medical University, 210009 Nanjing, China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Guangzhoulu300, 210029 Nanjing, China
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- Center of Clinical Laboratory Science, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Baiziting42, 210009 Nanjing, China.
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- Department of General Surgery, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Baiziting42, 210009 Nanjing, China; The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Guangzhoulu300, 210029 Nanjing, China.
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Dong R, Shen Z, Zheng C, Chen G, Zheng S. Serum microRNA microarray analysis identifies miR-4429 and miR-4689 are potential diagnostic biomarkers for biliary atresia. Sci Rep 2016; 6:21084. [PMID: 26879603 PMCID: PMC4754688 DOI: 10.1038/srep21084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2015] [Accepted: 01/12/2016] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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This study aimed to investigate pathogenesis and novel diagnostic biomarkers of biliary atresia (BA). Serum samples from infants with BA and non-BA neonatal cholestasis (NC) were collected for miRNA microarray analysis, and then differentially expressed miRNAs were screened. Differentially expressed miRNAs were validated by qRT-PCR using an independent serum samples from infants with BA and NC. Diagnostic utility of validated miRNAs was further analyzed using serum samples by receiver-operating characteristic curve analysis. Totally, 13 differentially expressed miRNAs were identified including 11 down-regulated and 2 up-regulated ones. Target genes of hsa-miR-4429 and hsa-miR-4689 were significantly involved in FoxO signaling pathway. Eight differentially expressed miRNAs were chosen for validation by qRT-PCR analysis, and four miRNAs (hsa-miR-150-3p, hsa-miR-4429, hsa-miR-4689 and hsa-miR-92a-3p) were differentially expressed. The area under the curve of hsa-miR-4429 and hsa-miR-4689 was 0.789 (sensitivity = 83.33%, specificity = 80.00%) and 0.722 (sensitivity = 66.67%, specificity = 80.00%), respectively. Differentially expressed miRNAs including hsa-miR-4429 and hsa-miR-4689 might play critical roles in BA by regulating their target genes, and these two miRNAs may have the potential to become diagnostic biomarkers.
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- Rui Dong
- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, and Key Laboratory of Neonatal Disease, Ministry of Health, 399 Wan Yuan Road, Shanghai 201102, China
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- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, and Key Laboratory of Neonatal Disease, Ministry of Health, 399 Wan Yuan Road, Shanghai 201102, China
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- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, and Key Laboratory of Neonatal Disease, Ministry of Health, 399 Wan Yuan Road, Shanghai 201102, China
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- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, and Key Laboratory of Neonatal Disease, Ministry of Health, 399 Wan Yuan Road, Shanghai 201102, China
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- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, and Key Laboratory of Neonatal Disease, Ministry of Health, 399 Wan Yuan Road, Shanghai 201102, China
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Cerny KL, Ribeiro RAC, Jeoung M, Ko C, Bridges PJ. Estrogen Receptor Alpha (ESR1)-Dependent Regulation of the Mouse Oviductal Transcriptome. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0147685. [PMID: 26808832 PMCID: PMC4725743 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2015] [Accepted: 01/07/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Estrogen receptor-α (ESR1) is an important transcriptional regulator in the mammalian oviduct, however ESR1-dependent regulation of the transcriptome of this organ is not well defined, especially at the genomic level. The objective of this study was therefore to investigate estradiol- and ESR1-dependent regulation of the transcriptome of the oviduct using transgenic mice, both with (ESR1KO) and without (wild-type, WT) a global deletion of ESR1. Oviducts were collected from ESR1KO and WT littermates at 23 days of age, or ESR1KO and WT mice were treated with 5 IU PMSG to stimulate follicular development and the production of ovarian estradiol, and the oviducts collected 48 h later. RNA extracted from whole oviducts was hybridized to Affymetrix Genechip Mouse Genome 430–2.0 arrays (n = 3 arrays per genotype and treatment) or reverse transcribed to cDNA for analysis of the expression of selected mRNAs by real-time PCR. Following microarray analysis, a statistical two-way ANOVA and pairwise comparison (LSD test) revealed 2428 differentially expressed transcripts (DEG’s, P < 0.01). Genotype affected the expression of 2215 genes, treatment (PMSG) affected the expression of 465 genes, and genotype x treatment affected the expression of 438 genes. With the goal of determining estradiol/ESR1-regulated function, gene ontology (GO) and bioinformatic pathway analyses were performed on DEG’s in the oviducts of PMSG-treated ESR1KO versus PMSG-treated WT mice. Significantly enriched GO molecular function categories included binding and catalytic activity. Significantly enriched GO cellular component categories indicated the extracellular region. Significantly enriched GO biological process categories involved a single organism, modulation of a measurable attribute and developmental processes. Bioinformatic analysis revealed ESR1-regulation of the immune response within the oviduct as the primary canonical pathway. In summary, a transcriptomal profile of estradiol- and ESR1-regulated gene expression and related bioinformatic analysis is presented to increase our understanding of how estradiol/ESR1 affects function of the oviduct, and to identify genes that may be proven as important regulators of fertility in the future.
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- Katheryn L. Cerny
- Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, United States of America
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- Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, United States of America
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, United States of America
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- Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61802, United States of America
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- Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, United States of America
- Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, United States of America
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A common molecular signature in ASD gene expression: following Root 66 to autism. Transl Psychiatry 2016; 6:e705. [PMID: 26731442 PMCID: PMC5068868 DOI: 10.1038/tp.2015.112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2015] [Revised: 06/04/2015] [Accepted: 06/14/2015] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Several gene expression experiments on autism spectrum disorders have been conducted using both blood and brain tissue. Individually, these studies have advanced our understanding of the molecular systems involved in the molecular pathology of autism and have formed the bases of ongoing work to build autism biomarkers. In this study, we conducted an integrated systems biology analysis of 9 independent gene expression experiments covering 657 autism, 9 mental retardation and developmental delay and 566 control samples to determine if a common signature exists and to test whether regulatory patterns in the brain relevant to autism can also be detected in blood. We constructed a matrix of differentially expressed genes from these experiments and used a Jaccard coefficient to create a gene-based phylogeny, validated by bootstrap. As expected, experiments and tissue types clustered together with high statistical confidence. However, we discovered a statistically significant subgrouping of 3 blood and 2 brain data sets from 3 different experiments rooted by a highly correlated regulatory pattern of 66 genes. This Root 66 appeared to be non-random and of potential etiologic relevance to autism, given their enriched roles in neurological processes key for normal brain growth and function, learning and memory, neurodegeneration, social behavior and cognition. Our results suggest that there is a detectable autism signature in the blood that may be a molecular echo of autism-related dysregulation in the brain.
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Williams A, Halappanavar S. Application of biclustering of gene expression data and gene set enrichment analysis methods to identify potentially disease causing nanomaterials. BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF NANOTECHNOLOGY 2015; 6:2438-48. [PMID: 26885455 PMCID: PMC4734442 DOI: 10.3762/bjnano.6.252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2015] [Accepted: 11/30/2015] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND The presence of diverse types of nanomaterials (NMs) in commerce is growing at an exponential pace. As a result, human exposure to these materials in the environment is inevitable, necessitating the need for rapid and reliable toxicity testing methods to accurately assess the potential hazards associated with NMs. In this study, we applied biclustering and gene set enrichment analysis methods to derive essential features of altered lung transcriptome following exposure to NMs that are associated with lung-specific diseases. Several datasets from public microarray repositories describing pulmonary diseases in mouse models following exposure to a variety of substances were examined and functionally related biclusters of genes showing similar expression profiles were identified. The identified biclusters were then used to conduct a gene set enrichment analysis on pulmonary gene expression profiles derived from mice exposed to nano-titanium dioxide (nano-TiO2), carbon black (CB) or carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to determine the disease significance of these data-driven gene sets. RESULTS Biclusters representing inflammation (chemokine activity), DNA binding, cell cycle, apoptosis, reactive oxygen species (ROS) and fibrosis processes were identified. All of the NM studies were significant with respect to the bicluster related to chemokine activity (DAVID; FDR p-value = 0.032). The bicluster related to pulmonary fibrosis was enriched in studies where toxicity induced by CNT and CB studies was investigated, suggesting the potential for these materials to induce lung fibrosis. The pro-fibrogenic potential of CNTs is well established. Although CB has not been shown to induce fibrosis, it induces stronger inflammatory, oxidative stress and DNA damage responses than nano-TiO2 particles. CONCLUSION The results of the analysis correctly identified all NMs to be inflammogenic and only CB and CNTs as potentially fibrogenic. In addition to identifying several previously defined, functionally relevant gene sets, the present study also identified two novel genes sets: a gene set associated with pulmonary fibrosis and a gene set associated with ROS, underlining the advantage of using a data-driven approach to identify novel, functionally related gene sets. The results can be used in future gene set enrichment analysis studies involving NMs or as features for clustering and classifying NMs of diverse properties.
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- Andrew Williams
- Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau, Environmental and Radiation Health Sciences Directorate, Health Canada, Ottawa K1A 0K9, Canada
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- Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau, Environmental and Radiation Health Sciences Directorate, Health Canada, Ottawa K1A 0K9, Canada
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Mullapudi N, Ye B, Suzuki M, Fazzari M, Han W, Shi MK, Marquardt G, Lin J, Wang T, Keller S, Zhu C, Locker JD, Spivack SD. Genome Wide Methylome Alterations in Lung Cancer. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0143826. [PMID: 26683690 PMCID: PMC4684329 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2015] [Accepted: 11/10/2015] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Aberrant cytosine 5-methylation underlies many deregulated elements of cancer. Among paired non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC), we sought to profile DNA 5-methyl-cytosine features which may underlie genome-wide deregulation. In one of the more dense interrogations of the methylome, we sampled 1.2 million CpG sites from twenty-four NSCLC tumor (T)-non-tumor (NT) pairs using a methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme- based HELP-microarray assay. We found 225,350 differentially methylated (DM) sites in adenocarcinomas versus adjacent non-tumor tissue that vary in frequency across genomic compartment, particularly notable in gene bodies (GB; p<2.2E-16). Further, when DM was coupled to differential transcriptome (DE) in the same samples, 37,056 differential loci in adenocarcinoma emerged. Approximately 90% of the DM-DE relationships were non-canonical; for example, promoter DM associated with DE in the same direction. Of the canonical changes noted, promoter (PR) DM loci with reciprocal changes in expression in adenocarcinomas included HBEGF, AGER, PTPRM, DPT, CST1, MELK; DM GB loci with concordant changes in expression included FOXM1, FERMT1, SLC7A5, and FAP genes. IPA analyses showed adenocarcinoma-specific promoter DMxDE overlay identified familiar lung cancer nodes [tP53, Akt] as well as less familiar nodes [HBEGF, NQO1, GRK5, VWF, HPGD, CDH5, CTNNAL1, PTPN13, DACH1, SMAD6, LAMA3, AR]. The unique findings from this study include the discovery of numerous candidate The unique findings from this study include the discovery of numerous candidate methylation sites in both PR and GB regions not previously identified in NSCLC, and many non-canonical relationships to gene expression. These DNA methylation features could potentially be developed as risk or diagnostic biomarkers, or as candidate targets for newer methylation locus-targeted preventive or therapeutic agents.
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- Nandita Mullapudi
- Department of Medicine/Pulmonary, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine/Pulmonary, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine/Pulmonary, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine/Pulmonary, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Division of Biostatistics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Cardiovascular &Thoracic Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine/Pulmonary, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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Garnett DJ. Caveolae as a target to quench autoinduction of the metastatic phenotype in lung cancer. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 2015; 142:611-8. [PMID: 26573510 PMCID: PMC4751176 DOI: 10.1007/s00432-015-2074-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2015] [Accepted: 10/14/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Purpose Mevalonate pathway inhibitors are potentially useful chemotherapeutic agents showing growth inhibition and pro-apoptotic effects in cancer cells. The effects of statins and bisphosphonates on cancer growth are attributed to a reduction in protein isoprenylation. Post-translational modification and activation of GTPase binding Ras superfamily permit the recruitment of these signal proteins to membranes where they mediate the cancer phenotype. Here, the effects of three inhibitors of the mevalonate pathway and one specific inhibitor of sterol regulatory element-binding proteins were studied in both an ER-negative, Ras-inactive breast (MDA-MB-231) and lung adenocarcinoma (CaLu-1) cells in vitro. Methods Treated cells were subject to genome-wide gene expression profiling. A gene subset was established so that the epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) could be observed and compared with signalling protein shifts. Results Within the subset, some genes normally up-regulated during EMT were asymmetrically reduced by a Δ-24 DHCR inhibitor in the lung cells. Signalling proteins associated with caveolae were down-regulated by this oxidoreductase inhibitor, while those associated with membrane rafts were up-regulated. Conclusions This study decouples isoprenylation effects from cholesterol events per se. The data support a hypothesis that caveolae are abolished by Δ-24 DHCR intervention and it is revealed that these microdomains are vital EMT signalling structures for lung cells but not ER- and Ras-negative breast cells. When signalling by extracellular signals is quenched by removal of the hydrophilic conduit provided by caveolae, the transcriptome responds by moving the cellular identity towards quiescence. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00432-015-2074-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- David John Garnett
- Institute of Science Technology in Medicine, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK.
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Evolution of Mycolic Acid Biosynthesis Genes and Their Regulation during Starvation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Bacteriol 2015; 197:3797-811. [PMID: 26416833 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00433-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2015] [Accepted: 09/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the etiological agent of tuberculosis, is a Gram-positive bacterium with a unique cell envelope composed of an essential outer membrane. Mycolic acids, which are very-long-chain (up to C100) fatty acids, are the major components of this mycomembrane. The enzymatic pathways involved in the biosynthesis and transport of mycolates are fairly well documented and are the targets of the major antituberculous drugs. In contrast, only fragmented information is available on the expression and regulation of the biosynthesis genes. In this study, we report that the hadA, hadB, and hadC genes, which code for the mycolate biosynthesis dehydratase enzymes, are coexpressed with three genes that encode proteins of the translational apparatus. Consistent with the well-established control of the translation potential by nutrient availability, starvation leads to downregulation of the hadABC genes along with most of the genes required for the synthesis, modification, and transport of mycolates. The downregulation of a subset of the biosynthesis genes is partially dependent on RelMtb, the key enzyme of the stringent response. We also report the phylogenetic evolution scenario that has shaped the current genetic organization, characterized by the coregulation of the hadABC operon with genes of the translational apparatus and with genes required for the modification of the mycolates. IMPORTANCE Mycobacterium tuberculosis infects one-third of the human population worldwide, and despite the available therapeutic arsenal, it continues to kill millions of people each year. There is therefore an urgent need to identify new targets and develop a better understanding of how the bacterium is adapting itself to host defenses during infection. A prerequisite of this understanding is knowledge of how this adaptive skill has been implanted by evolution. Nutrient scarcity is an environmental condition the bacterium has to cope with during infection. In many bacteria, adaptation to starvation relies partly on the stringent response. M. tuberculosis's unique outer membrane layer, the mycomembrane, is crucial for its viability and virulence. Despite its being the target of the major antituberculosis drugs, only scattered information exists on how the genes required for biosynthesis of the mycomembrane are expressed and regulated during starvation. This work has addressed this issue as a step toward the identification of new targets in the fight against M. tuberculosis.
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Bradley WH, Eng K, Le M, Mackinnon AC, Kendziorski C, Rader JS. Comparing gene expression data from formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded tissues and qPCR with that from snap-frozen tissue and microarrays for modeling outcomes of patients with ovarian carcinoma. BMC Clin Pathol 2015; 15:17. [PMID: 26412982 PMCID: PMC4582729 DOI: 10.1186/s12907-015-0017-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2015] [Accepted: 09/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Background Previously, we have used clinical and gene expression data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) to model a pathway-based index predicting outcomes in ovarian carcinoma. This data were obtained from snap-frozen tissue measured with the Affymetrix U133 platform. In the current study, we correlate the data used to model with data derived from TaqMan qPCR both snap frozen and paraffin embedded (FFPE) samples. Methods To compare the effect of preservation methods on gene expression measured by qPCR, we assessed 18 patient and tumor sample matched snap-frozen and FFPE ovarian carcinoma samples. To compare gene measurement technologies, we correlated qPCR data from 10 patients with tumor sample matched snap-frozen ovarian carcinoma samples with the microarray data from TCGA. We normalized results to the average expression of three housekeeping genes. We scaled and centered the data for comparison to the Affymetrix output. Results For the 18 specimens, gene expression data obtained from snap-frozen tissue correlated highly with that from FFPE samples in our TaqMan assay (r > 0.82). For the 10 duplicate TCGA specimens, the reported microarray data correlated well (r = 0.6) with our qPCR data, and ranges of expression along pathways were similar. Conclusions Gene expression data obtained by qPCR from FFPE serous ovarian carcinoma samples can be used to assess in the pathway-based predictive model. The normalization procedures described control variations in expression, and the range calculated along a specific pathway can be interpreted for a patient’s risk profile. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12907-015-0017-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- William H Bradley
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226 USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53792 USA ; Current Address: Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY USA
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- Department of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226 USA
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- Department of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226 USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53792 USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226 USA
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Chepelev NL, Moffat ID, Labib S, Bourdon-Lacombe J, Kuo B, Buick JK, Lemieux F, Malik AI, Halappanavar S, Williams A, Yauk CL. Integrating toxicogenomics into human health risk assessment: lessons learned from the benzo[a]pyrene case study. Crit Rev Toxicol 2015; 45:44-52. [PMID: 25605027 DOI: 10.3109/10408444.2014.973935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The use of short-term toxicogenomic tests to predict cancer (or other health effects) offers considerable advantages relative to traditional toxicity testing methods. The advantages include increased throughput, increased mechanistic data, and significantly reduced costs. However, precisely how toxicogenomics data can be used to support human health risk assessment (RA) is unclear. In a companion paper ( Moffat et al. 2014 ), we present a case study evaluating the utility of toxicogenomics in the RA of benzo[a]pyrene (BaP), a known human carcinogen. The case study is meant as a proof-of-principle exercise using a well-established mode of action (MOA) that impacts multiple tissues, which should provide a best case example. We found that toxicogenomics provided rich mechanistic data applicable to hazard identification, dose-response analysis, and quantitative RA of BaP. Based on this work, here we share some useful lessons for both research and RA, and outline our perspective on how toxicogenomics can benefit RA in the short- and long-term. Specifically, we focus on (1) obtaining biologically relevant data that are readily suitable for establishing an MOA for toxicants, (2) examining the human relevance of an MOA from animal testing, and (3) proposing appropriate quantitative values for RA. We describe our envisioned strategy on how toxicogenomics can become a tool in RA, especially when anchored to other short-term toxicity tests (apical endpoints) to increase confidence in the proposed MOA, and emphasize the need for additional studies on other MOAs to define the best practices in the application of toxicogenomics in RA.
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- Nikolai L Chepelev
- Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau, Health Canada , Ottawa, ON , Canada
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Lee S, Seo CH, Alver BH, Lee S, Park PJ. EMSAR: estimation of transcript abundance from RNA-seq data by mappability-based segmentation and reclustering. BMC Bioinformatics 2015; 16:278. [PMID: 26335049 PMCID: PMC4559005 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-015-0704-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2015] [Accepted: 08/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background RNA-seq has been widely used for genome-wide expression profiling. RNA-seq data typically consists of tens of millions of short sequenced reads from different transcripts. However, due to sequence similarity among genes and among isoforms, the source of a given read is often ambiguous. Existing approaches for estimating expression levels from RNA-seq reads tend to compromise between accuracy and computational cost. Results We introduce a new approach for quantifying transcript abundance from RNA-seq data. EMSAR (Estimation by Mappability-based Segmentation And Reclustering) groups reads according to the set of transcripts to which they are mapped and finds maximum likelihood estimates using a joint Poisson model for each optimal set of segments of transcripts. The method uses nearly all mapped reads, including those mapped to multiple genes. With an efficient transcriptome indexing based on modified suffix arrays, EMSAR minimizes the use of CPU time and memory while achieving accuracy comparable to the best existing methods. Conclusions EMSAR is a method for quantifying transcripts from RNA-seq data with high accuracy and low computational cost. EMSAR is available at https://github.com/parklab/emsar Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12859-015-0704-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Soohyun Lee
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Emerging Technology Center, DNA link, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Emerging Technology Center, DNA link, Seoul, South Korea.,Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. .,Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital and Division of Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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Lim HS, Ha H, Shin HK, Jeong SJ. The Genome-Wide Expression Profile of Saussurea lappa Extract on House Dust Mite-Induced Atopic Dermatitis in Nc/Nga Mice. Mol Cells 2015; 38:765-72. [PMID: 26299330 PMCID: PMC4588719 DOI: 10.14348/molcells.2015.0062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2015] [Revised: 07/31/2015] [Accepted: 08/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Saussurea lappa has been reported to possess anti-atopic properties. In this study, we have confirmed the S. lappa's anti-atopic properties in Nc/Nga mice and investigated the candidate gene related with its properties using microarray. We determined the target gene using real time PCR in in vitro experiment. S. lappa showed the significant reduction in atopic dermatitis (AD) score and immunoglobulin E compared with the AD induced Nc/Nga mice. In the results of microarray using back skin obtained from animals, we found that S. lappa's properties are closely associated with cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction and the JAK-STAT signaling pathway. Consistent with the microarray data, real-time RT-PCR confirmed these modulation at the mRNA level in skin tissues from S. lappa-treated mice. Among these genes, PI3Kca and IL20Rβ were significantly downregulated by S. lappa treatment in Nc/Nga mouse model. In in vitro experiment using HaCaT cells, we found that the S. lappa components, including alantolactone, caryophyllene, costic acid, costunolide and dehydrocostus lactone significantly decreased the expression of PI3Kca but not IL20Rβ in vitro. Therefore, our study suggests that PI3Kca-related signaling is closely related with the protective effects of S. lappa against the development of atopic-dermatitis.
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- Hye-Sun Lim
- K-herb Research Center, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon 305-811,
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- Division of Allergy and Chronic Respiratory Diseases, Center for Biomedical Sciences, Korea National Institute of Health, Cheongju 361-951,
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- K-herb Research Center, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon 305-811,
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- K-herb Research Center, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon 305-811,
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- Korean Medicine Convergence Research Division, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon 305-811,
Korea
- Korea Medicine Life Science, University of Science & Technology, Daejeon 305-350,
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