sPLA2-IIA is involved in lipid catabolism and is deregulated in various human cancers. Our data showed that over expression of sPLA2-IIA in skin disrupts various epidermal lineages, loss of ortho-parakeratotic organization, stem cell depletion/quiescence and increased differentiation potentially associated with global differences in epigenetic status. Our study has provided significant contribution to over existing knowledge of sPLA2-IIA by showing the unexplored role of sPLA2-IIA in hair follicle stem cells and skin homeostasis mediated through JNK/c-Jun signaling mechanism.
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Specimen part
View SamplesMedulloblastoma is a malignant brain tumor that occurs predominantly in children. Current risk stratification based on the clinical parameters is inadequate for accurate prognostication. In order to get a better understanding of medulloblastoma biology, miRNA profiling of medulloblastomas was carried out in parallel with the expression profiling of protein- coding genes.
Distinctive microRNA signature of medulloblastomas associated with the WNT signaling pathway.
Sex
View SamplesThe objective of the experiment was to compare changes in the transcriptome induced by direct X-irradiation of cells and by factors released by irradiated cells into the culture medium (irradiation conditioned medium, ICM), using the K562 human erythroleukemic cell line. Two culture flasks with K562 cells (5 x 105 cells/ml) were irradiated with X-rays at the dose of 4 Gy and in both the culture medium was changed immediately after irradiation, after 1 hour of recovery in fresh medium in standard growth conditions medium containing factors released by irradiated cells was collected from one flask, filtered from cell debris and untreated control K 562 cells were grown in this medium in standard conditions for 36h. The irradiated cells of the second flask were incubated for 36 hours in parallel and RNA was isolated from both irradiated and Irradiation Conditioned Medium-exposed samples. The transcript levels were measured in these RNA samples using Affymetrix HGU 133A microarrays and compared to the levels in RNA from control cells grown for 36h or control cells collected after 1h after change of medium. Experiments were repeated twice.
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Specimen part, Cell line, Time
View SamplesExpression profiling of a panel of 101 adult male germ cell tumors and 5 normal testis specimens was performed on Affymetrix U133A and U133B microarrays. This data has been used to:
Down-regulation of stem cell genes, including those in a 200-kb gene cluster at 12p13.31, is associated with in vivo differentiation of human male germ cell tumors.
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View SamplesThis series represents expression profiles of 34 non-seminoma germ cell tumors (NSGCTs) from patients who received cisplatin based chemotherarpy for treatment of their disease for whom full clinical follow-up information was available. These specimens were used as a validation set to test outcome prediction models using a subset of previously profiled GCT specimens (see GEO accession #GSE3218).
Identification and validation of a gene expression signature that predicts outcome in adult men with germ cell tumors.
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Dissecting the unique role of the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor during cellular senescence.
Cell line
View SamplesThe action of RB as a tumor suppressor has been difficult to define, in part, due to the redundancy of the related proteins p107 and p130. By coupling advanced RNAi technology to suppress RB, p107 or p130 with a genome wide analysis of gene expression in growing, quiescent or ras-senescent cells, we identified a unique and specific activity of RB in repressing DNA replication as cells exit the cell cycle into senescence, a tumor suppressive program.
Dissecting the unique role of the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor during cellular senescence.
Cell line
View SamplesThe chromosomal translocation t(12;21) resulting in the ETV6-RUNX1 fusion gene is the most common genetic abnormality in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). As the emergence of microarray technology, finding subtype-specific genes becomes one of the main objectives in most ALL studies. However, the list of differentiated genes derived by comparing patients in the subtype versus the others contains many false positives, which are not really subtype-specific. In order to refine the list of subtype-specific genes for ALL with ETV6-RUNX1, this study conducted microarray experiments on patients in both diagnosis and remission status.
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Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage
View SamplesIn acute myeloid leukemia (AML), the mixed lineage leukemia (MLL) gene may be rearranged to generate a partial tandem duplication (PTD), or fused to partner genes through a chromosomal translocation (tMLL). In this study, we first explored the differentially expressed genes between MLL-PTD and tMLL using gene expression profiling of our cohort (15 MLL-PTD and 10 tMLL) and one published data set. The top 250 probes were chosen from each set, resulting in 29 common probes (21 unique genes) to both sets. The selected genes include four HOXB genes, HOXB2, B3, B5, and B6. The expression values of these HOXB genes significantly differ between MLL-PTD and tMLL cases. Clustering and classification analyses were thoroughly conducted to support our gene selection results. Second, as MLL-PTD, FLT3-ITD, and NPM1 mutations are identified in AML with normal karyotypes, we briefly studied their impact on the HOXB genes. Another contribution of this study is to demonstrate that using public data from other studies enriches samples for analysis and yields more conclusive results.
Expression of HOXB genes is significantly different in acute myeloid leukemia with a partial tandem duplication of MLL vs. a MLL translocation: a cross-laboratory study.
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H3K4 demethylation by Jarid1a and Jarid1b contributes to retinoblastoma-mediated gene silencing during cellular senescence.
Specimen part, Cell line
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