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GSE74874
Homo sapiens
5 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (hgu133plus2)
Description
Trans fatty acids (tFAs) may have deleterious, long-term transcriptional effects. To explore that issue, we assessed the effects of the tFA elaidic acid and its cis isomer oleic acid on transcription and, in parallel, on DNA methylation.
Publication Title
The trans fatty acid elaidate affects the global DNA methylation profile of cultured cells and in vivo.
Sample Metadata Fields
Cell line, Treatment
View Samples- Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- 26 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Yeast Genome S98 Array (ygs98)
Description
Cells were grown to saturation in YPD (YEP + 2% glucose) for 24 hours, diluted into YPA (YEP + 2% potassium acetate) at OD600= 0.3 and grown over night at 30C. Cells were washed with sterilized water the next day and re-suspended in SPII medium (0.3% potassium acetate, pH = 7.0) at OD600= 1.9 to induce sporulation. Cells were sporulated at room temperature or 30C as indicated. Sporulation medium containing benomyl was always prepared freshly on the day of the experiment following the directions in {Shonn, 2000 #90}. Briefly, DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide, Sigma-Aldrich) or benomyl [Methyl 1-(butylcarbamoyl)-2-benzimidazolecarbamate, Sigma-Aldrich; 30 mg/ml stock in DMSO] was dissolved in near-boiling SPII medium to avoid precipitation. The medium was then allowed to slowly cool to 30C or room temperature. At the time of drug treatment, cells were filtered and immediately re-suspended in the medium containing benomyl or DMSO.
Publication Title
Novel response to microtubule perturbation in meiosis.
Sample Metadata Fields
No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 12 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HumanHT-12 V4.0 expression beadchip
Description
Current preclinical models in tumor biology are limited in their ability to recapitulate relevant (patho-) physiological processes, including autophagy. Three-dimensional (3D) growth cultures have frequently been proposed to overcome the lack of correlation between two-dimensional (2D) monolayer cell cultures and human tumors in preclinical drug testing. Besides 3D growth, it is also advantageous to simulate shear stress, compound flux and removal of metabolites, e.g. via bioreactor systems, through which culture medium is constantly pumped at a flow rate reflecting physiological conditions. Here, we show that both Staticic 3D growth and 3D growth within a bioreactor system modulate key hallmarks of cancer cells, including proliferation and cell death as well as macroautophagy, a recycling pathway often activated by highly proliferative tumors to cope with metabolic stress. The autophagy-related gene expression profiles of 2D- and 3D-grown cells are substantially different, with the 3D-grown cells exhibiting an expression profile closely resembling the (patho-) physiological Statice of a tumor. Underscoring the importance of this pathway, autophagy-controlling transcription factors, such as TFEB and FOXO3, are upregulated in tumors, and 3D-grown cells have increased expression compared with cells grown in 2D conditions. Three-dimensional cultures depleted of the autophagy mediators BECN1, ATG5 or ATG7 or the transcription factor FOXO3, are more sensitive to cytotoxic treatment. Accordingly, combining cytotoxic treatment with compounds affecting late autophagic flux, such as chloroquine, renders the 3D-grown cells more susceptible to therapy and increases intracellular doxorubicin concentration to the level of 2D-grown cells. Altogether, 3D cultures are a valuable tool to study drug response of tumor cells, as these models recapitulate (patho-) physiologically relevant pathways, such as autophagy.
Publication Title
Three-dimensional tumor cell growth stimulates autophagic flux and recapitulates chemotherapy resistance.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Cell line
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 6 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HumanHT-12 V4.0 expression beadchip
Description
The prognosis of advanced stage neuroblastoma patients remains poor and, despite intensive therapy, the 5-year survival rate remains less than 50%. We previously identified histone deacetylase (HDAC) 8 as an indicator of poor clinical outcome and a selective drug target for differentiation therapy in vitro and in vivo. Here we performed kinome-wide RNAi screening to identify genes that are synthetically lethal with HDAC8 inhibitors. These experiments identified the neuroblastoma predisposition gene ALK as a candidate gene. Accordingly, the combination of the ALK/MET inhibitor crizotinib and selective HDAC8 inhibitors (3-6M PCI-34051 or 10M 20a) efficiently killed neuroblastoma cell lines carrying wildtype ALK (SK-N-BE(2)-C, IMR5/75), amplified ALK (NB-1), and those carrying the activating ALK F1174L mutation (Kelly), and, in cells carrying the activating R1275Q mutation (LAN-5), combination treatment decreased viable cell count. The effective dose of crizotinib in neuroblastoma cell lines ranged from 0.05M (ALK-amplified) to 0.8M (wildtype ALK). The combinatorial inhibition of ALK and HDAC8 also decreased tumor growth in an in vivo zebrafish xenograft model. Bioinformatic analyses revealed that the mRNA expression level of HDAC8 was significantly correlated with that of ALK in two independent patient cohorts, the Academic Medical Center cohort (n=88) and the German Neuroblastoma Trial cohort (n=649), and co-expression of both target genes identified patients with very poor outcome. Mechanistically, HDAC8 and ALK converge at the level of receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) signaling and their downstream survival pathways, such as ERK signaling. Combination treatment of HDAC8 inhibitor with crizotinib efficiently blocked the activation of growth receptor survival signaling and shifted the cell cycle arrest and differentiation phenotype toward effective cell death of neuroblastoma cell lines, including sensitization of resistant models, but not of normal cells. These findings reveal combined targeting of ALK and HDAC8 as a novel strategy for the treatment of neuroblastoma.
Publication Title
A kinome-wide RNAi screen identifies ALK as a target to sensitize neuroblastoma cells for HDAC8-inhibitor treatment.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 346 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Genome U133A Array (hgu133a)
Description
A reference collection of genome-wide transcriptional expression data for bioactive small molecules.
Publication Title
The Connectivity Map: using gene-expression signatures to connect small molecules, genes, and disease.
Sample Metadata Fields
No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 15 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Gene 2.1 ST Array (hugene21st)
Description
Transcriptomic profiling of breast cancer cells incubated in vitro with surgical wound fluids from patients with breast cancer reveals similarities in the biological response induced by intraoperative radiation therapy and the radiation-induced bystander effect
Publication Title
Surgical Wound Fluids from Patients with Breast Cancer Reveal Similarities in the Biological Response Induced by Intraoperative Radiation Therapy and the Radiation-Induced Bystander Effect-Transcriptomic Approach.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Cell line
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 4 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Gene 1.0 ST Array (mogene10st)
Description
Transcriptional effectors of white adipocyte-selective gene expression have not been described. TLE3 is a white-selective cofactor that acts reciprocally with the brown-selective cofactor Prdm16 to specify lipid storage and thermogenic gene programs.
Publication Title
Adipose subtype-selective recruitment of TLE3 or Prdm16 by PPARγ specifies lipid storage versus thermogenic gene programs.
Sample Metadata Fields
Sex, Age, Specimen part
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 8 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Gene 2.1 ST Array (mogene21st)
Description
Resistance towards anti-angiogenic therapy (AAT) still represents a substantial clinical challenge. We report here that tumor-infiltrating mast cells (MC) are powerful mediators decreasing efficacy of AAT in mice and cancer patients. They act in a cell-extrinsic manner by secreting granzyme B, which liberates pro-angiogenic mediators from the extracellular matrix. In addition, MC also diminish efficacy of anti-angiogenic agents in a cell-autonomous way, which can be blocked by the mast cell degranulation inhibitor cromolyn. Our findings are relevant in humans because patients harboring higher numbers of MC in their tumors have an inferior outcome after anti-angiogenic treatment in the Gepar Quinto randomized Phase 3 clinical trial. Thus, MC-targeting might represent a novel promising approach to increase efficacy of AAT.
Publication Title
Mast cells decrease efficacy of anti-angiogenic therapy by secreting matrix-degrading granzyme B.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 157 Downloadable Samples
NextSeq 500
Description
Primary RNAseq data for 103 highly purified immunocyte populations representing all lineages and several differentiation cascades, profiled using the ImmGen ULI pipeline. Overall design: These RNAseq profiles were generated by ImmGen labs in a combined study associating RNAseq and ATACseq performed on cell populations sorted in parallel (companion ATACseq datasets are found in GSE100738). The 103 cell populations include all adaptive and innate lymphocytes (B, abT, gdT, Innate-Like Lymphocytes), myeloid cells (dendritic cells, macrophages, monocytes), mast cells and neutrophils. Most were prepared from baseline unchallenged mice, some after cell activation (LPS, anti-CD3, viral infection). For B and T lymphocytes, many successive steps of their known differentiation cascades in the thymus and bone marrow are included. ---------------------------------------- Immunological Genome Project Consortium
Publication Title
The cis-Regulatory Atlas of the Mouse Immune System.
Sample Metadata Fields
Age, Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 35 Downloadable Samples
- NextSeq 500
Description
Ultra low input sequencing of FACS sorted primary murine microglia from CSF-1 or IL-34 deficient forebrain and cerebella, at P8 and 9 weeks Overall design: Csf1fl/fl vs NesCreCsf1fl/fl: 3-4 biological replicates per timepoint per group; Il34wt/wt vs Il34Lacz/Lacz: 2-3 biological replicates per timepoint per group. P8, 9weeks
Publication Title
CSF-1 controls cerebellar microglia and is required for motor function and social interaction.
Sample Metadata Fields
Age, Specimen part, Subject
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