We integrated three transplant rejection microarray studies examining gene expression in samples from pediatric renal, adult renal, and adult heart transplants. We performed one study ourselves and retrieved two others from the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)(GSE4470 and GSE1563). We identified 45 genes that were upregulated in common in acute rejection. Half were involved in one immune-related pathway. Among ten proteins we tested by serum ELISA, three successfully distinguished acute rejection from stable transplants. These were CXCL9, PECAM1, and CD44, with areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves of 0.844, 0.802, and 0.738, respectively. Immunohistochemistry showed that the PECAM1 protein was increased in acute rejection in renal, liver and heart transplants versus normal tissues. Our results show that integrating publicly-available gene expression data sets is a fast, powerful, and cost-effective way to identify serum-detectable diagnostic biomarkers.
Integrative urinary peptidomics in renal transplantation identifies biomarkers for acute rejection.
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A systems biology approach reveals common metastatic pathways in osteosarcoma.
Specimen part, Cell line
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Cell growth in aggregates determines gene expression, proliferation, survival, chemoresistance, and sensitivity to immune effectors in follicular lymphoma.
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View SamplesFollicular Lymphomas are blood tumors growing as spheres in patients. Before this study, there was no experimental model mimicking the 3D organization of these in vivo tumors. We develop such a model, called MALC, and observed a progressive enrichment in quiescent cells in these with time of culture; these cells were sorted, as their cycling counterparts, and their transcriptomes were compared. We used microarrays to detail the differential global gene expression profile between quiescent and cycling cells isolated from MALC.
Cell growth in aggregates determines gene expression, proliferation, survival, chemoresistance, and sensitivity to immune effectors in follicular lymphoma.
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View SamplesFollicular Lymphomas are blood tumors growing as spheres in patients. Before this study, there was no experimental model mimicking the 3D organization of these in vivo tumors. We develop such a model, called MALC, and performed a pan-genomic comparative analysis between MALC and classical suspension cultures. We used microarrays to detail the global gene expression profile induced by aggregated growth of lymphoma cells.
Cell growth in aggregates determines gene expression, proliferation, survival, chemoresistance, and sensitivity to immune effectors in follicular lymphoma.
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View SamplesIisomer-specific effects of conjugated linoleic (CLA) supplementation on gene expression with particular consideration of the PPAR 2 Pro12Ala SNP in human adipose tissue.
Isomer-specific effects of CLA on gene expression in human adipose tissue depending on PPARgamma2 P12A polymorphism: a double blind, randomized, controlled cross-over study.
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View SamplesSummary: Melanoma spheroids grown under neural crest cell conditions are highly plastic migratory/invasive tumor cells endowed with immunomodulator function
Melanoma spheroids grown under neural crest cell conditions are highly plastic migratory/invasive tumor cells endowed with immunomodulator function.
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View SamplesThe synergistic regimen CT-VT-RT triggers proinflammatory antiviral signalling with activation of apoptotic cascades resulting in tumor cell death. Overall design: The experiment was designed to elicit individual treatment effects using monotherapies to understand the combinatorial sequential effect of dual and triple regimen using appropriate controls.
Measles Virus-Based Treatments Trigger a Pro-inflammatory Cascade and a Distinctive Immunopeptidome in Glioblastoma.
Specimen part, Cell line, Treatment, Subject, Time
View SamplesRNAseq analysis of CD8 T cells becoming dysfunctional in progressing tumors. The overall goal of this study was to elucidate the molecular program that mediates functional unresponsiveness in tumor-specific CD8 T cells. In comparison, we also investigated CD8 T cells differentiating to functional effector and memory T cells during an acute listeria infection. Overall design: T cells were sorted by flow cytometry and RNA-seq was performed.
Chromatin states define tumour-specific T cell dysfunction and reprogramming.
Disease, Disease stage, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesHypoxia inducible factor (HIF) is the major transcriptional regulator of cellular responses to hypoxia. The two principal HIF-a isoforms, HIF-1a and HIF-2a, are progressively stabilized in response to hypoxia and form heterodimers with HIF-1b to activate a broad range of transcriptional responses. Here we report on the pan-genomic distribution of isoform-specific HIF binding in response to hypoxia of varying severity and duration, and in response to genetic ablation of each HIF-a isoform. Our findings reveal that, despite an identical consensus recognition sequence in DNA, each HIF heterodimer loads progressively at a distinct repertoire of cell-type specific sites across the genome, with little evidence of redistribution under any of the conditions examined. Marked biases towards promoter proximal binding of HIF-1 and promoter distant binding of HIF-2 were observed under all conditions and were consistent in multiple cell type. The findings imply that each HIF isoform has an inherent property that determines its binding distribution across the genome, which might be exploited to therapeutically target the specific transcriptional output of each isoform independently. Overall design: RNA_seq analysis of hypoxic gene regulation in HKC8 and HepG2 cell lines and in RCC4 cell lines stably transfected with wtVHL
Hypoxia drives glucose transporter 3 expression through hypoxia-inducible transcription factor (HIF)-mediated induction of the long noncoding RNA NICI.
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
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