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Atanasova KR, Perkins CM, Ratnayake R, Jiang J, Chen QY, Schmittgen TD, Luesch H. Epigenetic small-molecule screen for inhibition and reversal of acinar ductal metaplasia in mouse pancreatic organoids. Front Pharmacol 2024; 15:1335246. [PMID: 38510657 PMCID: PMC10953826 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2024.1335246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2023] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 03/22/2024] Open
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Background: Acinar ductal metaplasia (ADM) is among the earliest initiating events in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) development. Methods: We developed a novel morphology-based screen using organoids from wildtype and p48Cre/+ (Cre) mice to discover epigenetic modulators that inhibit or reverse pancreatic ADM more effectively than the broad-spectrum HDAC inhibitor trichostatin A (TSA). Results: Of the 144 compounds screened, nine hits and two additional natural product HDAC inhibitors were validated by dose-response analysis. The class I HDAC inhibitors apicidin and FK228, and the histone methyltransferase inhibitor chaetocin demonstrated pronounced ADM inhibition and reversal without inducing significant cytotoxicity at 1 µM. Thioester prodrug class I HDAC inhibitor largazole attenuated ADM while its disulfide homodimer was effective in both ADM inhibition and reversal. Prioritized compounds were validated for ADM reversal in p48Cre/+; LSL-KrasG12D/+ (KC) mouse organoids using both morphological and molecular endpoints. Molecular index analysis of ADM reversal in KC mouse organoids demonstrated improved activity compared to TSA. Improved prodrug stability translated into a stronger phenotypic and molecular response. RNA-sequencing indicated that angiotensinogen was the top inhibited pathway during ADM reversal. Conclusion: Our findings demonstrate a unique epigenetic mechanism and suggest that the phenotypic screen developed here may be applied to discover potential treatments for PDAC.
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- Kalina R. Atanasova
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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Greenberg ZF, Ali S, Schmittgen TD, Han S, Hughes SJ, Graim KS, He M. Peptide-based capture-and-release purification of extracellular vesicles and statistical algorithm enabled quality assessment. bioRxiv 2024:2024.02.06.578050. [PMID: 38370748 PMCID: PMC10871196 DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.06.578050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2024]
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Circulating extracellular vesicles (EVs) have gained significant attention for discovering tumor biomarkers. However, isolating EVs with well-defined homogeneous populations from complex biological samples is challenging. Different isolation methods have been found to derive different EV populations carrying different molecular contents, which confounds current investigations and hinders subsequent clinical translation. Therefore, standardizing and building a rigorous assessment of isolated EV quality associated with downstream molecular analysis is essential. To address this need, we introduce a statistical algorithm (ExoQuality Index, EQI) by integrating multiple EV characterizations (size, particle concentration, zeta potential, total protein, and RNA), enabling direct EV quality assessment and comparisons between different isolation methods. We also introduced a novel capture-release isolation approach using a pH-responsive peptide conjugated with NanoPom magnetic beads (ExCy) for simple, fast, and homogeneous EV isolation from various biological fluids. Bioinformatic analysis of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data of EV total RNAs from pancreatic cancer patient plasma samples using our novel EV isolation approach and quality index strategy illuminates how this approach improves the identification of tumor associated molecular markers. Results showed higher human mRNA coverage compared to existing isolation approaches in terms of both pancreatic cancer pathways and EV cellular component pathways using gProfiler pathway analysis. This study provides a valuable resource for researchers, establishing a workflow to prepare and analyze EV samples carefully and contributing to the advancement of reliable and rigorous EV quality assessment and clinical translation.
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- Zachary F. Greenberg
- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, United States
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- Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, United States
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- Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, United States
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- Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32610, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, United States
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Datta J, Kutay H, Nasser MW, Nuovo GJ, Wang B, Majumder S, Liu CG, Volinia S, Croce CM, Schmittgen TD, Ghoshal K, Jacob ST. Retraction: Methylation Mediated Silencing of MicroRNA-1 Gene and Its Role in Hepatocellular Carcinogenesis. Cancer Res 2023; 83:4181. [PMID: 38098455 PMCID: PMC10762719 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-23-2365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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Atanasova KR, Perkins CM, Ratnayake R, Jiang J, Chen QY, Schmittgen TD, Luesch H. Epigenetic Small-Molecule Screen for Inhibition and Reversal of Acinar Ductal Metaplasia in Mouse Pancreatic Organoids. bioRxiv 2023:2023.11.27.567685. [PMID: 38077007 PMCID: PMC10705242 DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.27.567685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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Background Acinar ductal metaplasia (ADM) is among the earliest initiating events in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) development. Methods We developed a novel morphology-based screen using organoids from wildtype and p48 Cre/+ (Cre) mice to discover epigenetic modulators that inhibit or reverse pancreatic ADM more effectively than the broad-spectrum HDAC inhibitor trichostatin A (TSA). Results Of the 144 compounds screened, nine hits and two additional natural product HDAC inhibitors were validated by dose-response analysis. The class I HDAC inhibitors apicidin and FK228, and the histone methyltransferase inhibitor chaetocin demonstrated pronounced ADM inhibition and reversal without inducing significant cytotoxicity at 1 µM. Thioester prodrug class I HDAC inhibitor largazole attenuated ADM while its disulfide homodimer was effective in both ADM inhibition and reversal. Prioritized compounds were validated for ADM reversal in p48 Cre/+ ;LSL-Kras G12D/+ (KC) mouse organoids using both morphological and molecular endpoints. Molecular index analysis of ADM reversal in KC mouse organoids demonstrated improved activity compared to TSA. Improved prodrug stability translated into a stronger phenotypic and molecular response. RNA-sequencing indicated that angiotensinogen was the top inhibited pathway during ADM reversal. Conclusion Our findings demonstrate a unique epigenetic mechanism and suggest that the phenotypic screen developed here may be applied to discover potential treatments for PDAC.
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Untergasser A, Hellemans J, Pfaffl MW, Ruijter JM, van den Hoff MJB, Dragomir MP, Adamoski D, Dias SMG, Reis RM, Ferracin M, Dias-Neto E, Marsh I, Kubista M, Fabbri M, Goel A, Slabý O, Knutsen E, Chen B, Negrini M, Mimori K, Pichler M, Papatriantafyllou M, Anfossi S, Schmittgen TD, Huggett J, Bustin S, Vandesompele J, Calin GA. Disclosing quantitative RT-PCR raw data during manuscript submission:a call for action. Mol Oncol 2023; 17:713-717. [PMID: 36916500 PMCID: PMC10158759 DOI: 10.1002/1878-0261.13418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 03/16/2023] Open
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Accuracy and transparency of scientific data are becoming more and more relevant with the increasing concern regarding the evaluation of data reproducibility in many research areas. This concern is also true for quantifying coding and non-coding RNAs, with the remarkable increase in publications reporting RNA profiling and sequencing studies. To address the problem, we propose the following recommendations: 1) accurate documentation of experimental procedures in Materials and Methods (and not only in the supplementary information, as many journals have a strict mandate for making Materials and Methods as visible as possible in the main text); 2) submission of RT-qPCR raw data for all experiments reported; and 3) adoption of a unified, simple format for submitted RT-qPCR raw data. The Real-time PCR Data Essential Spreadsheet Format (RDES) was created for this purpose.
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- Andreas Untergasser
- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 329, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany.,European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genomics Core Facility, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, 85354, Freising, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biology, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Biology, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Pathology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Health, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.,German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio), Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Zip Code 13083-970, Sao Paulo, Campinas, Brazil
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- Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio), Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Zip Code 13083-970, Sao Paulo, Campinas, Brazil
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- Molecular Oncology Research Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, SP, Brazil.,Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.,3B's- PT, Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.,IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Centro Internacional de Pesquisa, AC Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.,Laboratory of Neurosciences (LIM27), Institute of Psychiatry, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Macarthur Agricultural Institute, PMB 4008, Narellan, New South Wales, 2567, Elizabeth, Australia
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- TATAA Biocenter AB, Sofierogatan 3A:2 412 51, Göteborg, Sweden.,Institute of Biotechnology CAS, v. v. i., Vestec, Czech Republic
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- Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children's National Hospital, 20010, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Molecular Diagnostics and Experimental Therapeutics, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Monrovia, CA, USA.,City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.,Department of Comprehensive Cancer Care, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China
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- Laboratory for Technologies of Advanced Therapies (LTTA), Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, 4546 Tsurumihara, Beppu, 874-0838, Japan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.,Translational Oncology, University Hospital of Augsburg Stenglinstrasse 2 86156, Augsburg, Germany
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- Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, Unites States
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Florida College of Pharmacy, Gainesville, Florida
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- National Measurement Laboratory, LGC, Teddington, United Kingdom; School of Biosciences and Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
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- Molecular Diagnostics Unit, Medical Technology Research Centre, Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom
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- CellCarta, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium.,Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; OncoRNALab, Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, Unites States.,The Center for Non-codingRNAs, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States
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Jiang J, Hakimjavadi H, Bray JK, Perkins C, Gosling A, daSilva L, Bulut G, Ali J, Setiawan VW, Campbell-Thompson M, Chamala S, Schmittgen TD. Transcriptional Profile of Human Pancreatic Acinar Ductal Metaplasia. Gastro Hep Adv 2023; 2:532-543. [PMID: 37425649 PMCID: PMC10328139 DOI: 10.1016/j.gastha.2023.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Aberrant acinar to ductal metaplasia (ADM), one of the earliest events involved in exocrine pancreatic cancer development, is typically studied using pancreata from genetically engineered mouse models. METHODS We used primary, human pancreatic acinar cells from organ donors to evaluate the transcriptional and pathway profiles during the course of ADM. RESULTS Following 6 days of three-dimensional culture on Matrigel, acinar cells underwent morphological and molecular changes indicative of ADM. mRNA from 14 donors' paired cells (day 0, acinar phenotype and day 6, ductal phenotype) was subjected to whole transcriptome sequencing. Acinar cell specific genes were significantly downregulated in the samples from the day 6 cultures while ductal cell-specific genes were upregulated. Several regulons of ADM were identified including transcription factors with reduced activity (PTF1A, RBPJL, and BHLHA15) and those ductal and progenitor transcription factors with increased activity (HNF1B, SOX11, and SOX4). Cells with the ductal phenotype contained higher expression of genes increased in pancreatic cancer while cells with an acinar phenotype had lower expression of cancer-associated genes. CONCLUSION Our findings support the relevancy of human in vitro models to study pancreas cancer pathogenesis and exocrine cell plasticity.
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- Jinmai Jiang
- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
- Florida-California Cancer Research, Education and Engagement (CaRE), Health Equity Center, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
- Florida-California Cancer Research, Education and Engagement (CaRE), Health Equity Center, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- Florida-California Cancer Research, Education and Engagement (CaRE), Health Equity Center, Gainesville, Florida
- Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Tallahassee, Florida
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- Florida-California Cancer Research, Education and Engagement (CaRE), Health Equity Center, Gainesville, Florida
- Department of Epidemiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
- Florida-California Cancer Research, Education and Engagement (CaRE), Health Equity Center, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
- Florida-California Cancer Research, Education and Engagement (CaRE), Health Equity Center, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
- Florida-California Cancer Research, Education and Engagement (CaRE), Health Equity Center, Gainesville, Florida
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Reams RR, Odedina FT, Carpten JD, Redda K, Stern MC, Krieger JL, Aparicio J, Hensel B, Askins N, Abreu A, Adams A, Agyare E, Ali J, Allen JM, Aló R, Baezconde-Garbanati L, Brant J, Brown CP, Buxbaum SG, Cohen P, Cozen W, Ezenwa MO, Falzarano S, Fillingim RB, Flores-Rozas H, Fredenburg KM, George T, Han B, Huang Y, Hughes Halbert C, Kiros GE, Lamango NS, Lee JH, Lyon DE, Mitchell DA, Mochona B, Nieva JJ, Offringa IA, Okunieff P, Parker A, Rhie SK, Richey JM, Rogers SC, Salhia B, Schmittgen TD, Segal R, Setiawan VW, Smith U, Su LM, Suther S, Trevino J, Velazquez-Villarreal EI, Webb FJ, Wu AH, Yao Y, Wilkie DJ. Florida-California Cancer Research, Education and Engagement (CaRE 2) Health Equity Center: Structure, Innovations, and Initial Outcomes. Cancer Control 2023; 30:10732748231197878. [PMID: 37703814 PMCID: PMC10501072 DOI: 10.1177/10732748231197878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Revised: 07/21/2023] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023] Open
Abstract
INTRODUCTION The Florida-California Cancer Research, Education, and Engagement (CaRE2) Health Equity Center is a triad partnership committed to increasing institutional capacity for cancer disparity research, the diversity of the cancer workforce, and community empowerment. This article provides an overview of the structure, process innovations, and initial outcomes from the first 4 years of the CaRE2 triad partnership. METHODS CaRE2 serves diverse populations in Florida and California using a "molecule to the community and back" model. We prioritize research on the complex intersection of biological, environmental, and social determinants health, working together with scientific and health disparities communities, sharing expertise across institutions, bidirectional training, and community outreach. Partnership progress and outcomes were assessed using mixed methods and four Program Steering Committee meetings. RESULTS Research capacity was increased through development of a Living Repository of 81 cancer model systems from minority patients for novel cancer drug development. CaRE2 funded 15 scientific projects resulting in 38 publications. Workforce diversity entailed supporting 94 cancer trainees (92 URM) and 34 ESIs (32 URM) who coauthored 313 CaRE2-related publications and received 48 grants. Community empowerment was promoted via outreaching to more than 3000 individuals, training 145 community cancer advocates (including 28 Community Scientist Advocates), and publishing 10 community reports. CaRE2 members and trainees together have published 639 articles, received 61 grants, and 57 awards. CONCLUSION The CaRE2 partnership has achieved its initial aims. Infrastructure for translational cancer research was expanded at one partner institution, and cancer disparities research was expanded at the two cancer centers.
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- R. Renee Reams
- College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Translational Genomics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Departments of Population and Public Health Sciences, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Advertising, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Behavioral Nursing Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Urology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
- Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmacotherapy & Translational Research, University of Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
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- College of Science and Technology, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Departments of Population and Public Health Sciences, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Behavioral Nursing Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Medicine in the College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Departments of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Departments of Population and Public Health Sciences, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Behavioral Nursing Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Departments of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- College of Medicine, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Physiology and Neuroscience, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine in the College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Translational Genomics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Outcome and Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Urology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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- Department of Translational Genomics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Behavioral Nursing Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Behavioral Nursing Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Perkins C, Jiang J, Hakimjavadi H, Quashie D, Mao Y, Ali J, Schmittgen TD. Abstract PR003: Race plays a role on the rate of transdifferentiation in human pancreatic acinar ductal metaplasia and its' drug response. Cancer Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.panca22-pr003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Pancreatic diseases (acute/chronic pancreatitis, type 2 diabetes, pancreatic cancer) disproportionately affect the Black/African American community in comparison to non-White Hispanics and Whites. Acinar to ductal metaplasia (ADM), the process by which pancreatic acinar cells transdifferentiate into ductal epithelial cells, is believed to be an initiating event of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Our lab has developed a 3D organoid assay to display ADM using primary, human pancreatic acinar cells to study the rate of transdifferentiation among these three different races. Preliminary data shows that the rate of ADM is occurring significantly faster (p < 0.05) in Blacks/African Americans (White=11, Hispanic=10, Black/African American=5), which may explain the disproportionately behind the incidence and mortality rates for this race in pancreatic diseases. We additionally use nanoparticles to study the biomechanical properties (I.e., viscoelasticity, storage modulus) of the ADM microenvironment which shows a stiffer microenvironment in Blacks/African Americans than for the other races (White=4, Hispanic=4, Black/African American=1). Furthermore, I study the use of histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors in reversing the process of ADM, which has consequently shown race-related outcomes, with Blacks/African Americans displaying a significant chemoresistance (p < 0.05) to HDAC treatment (White=6, Hispanic=6, Black/AA=3) by utilizing an ADM reversal index (ADMRI). Through further analysis, the plan is to continue procuring human samples from these three races to isolate an ADM-specific biomarker in relation race and drug reversal by studying the expression/activity of pancreatic associated genes by bulk-RNA and single-cell sequencing.
Citation Format: Corey Perkins, Jinmai Jiang, Hesam Hakimjavadi, David Quashie Jr, Yating Mao, Jamel Ali, Thomas D. Schmittgen. Race plays a role on the rate of transdifferentiation in human pancreatic acinar ductal metaplasia and its' drug response [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR Special Conference on Pancreatic Cancer; 2022 Sep 13-16; Boston, MA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(22 Suppl):Abstract nr PR003.
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- 2Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL
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- 2Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL
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- 2Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL
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da Silva L, Jiang J, Perkins C, Atanasova KR, Bray JK, Bulut G, Azevedo-Pouly A, Campbell-Thompson M, Yang X, Hakimjavadi H, Chamala S, Ratnayake R, Gharaibeh RZ, Li C, Luesch H, Schmittgen TD. Pharmacological inhibition and reversal of pancreatic acinar ductal metaplasia. Cell Death Discov 2022; 8:378. [PMID: 36055991 PMCID: PMC9440259 DOI: 10.1038/s41420-022-01165-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2022] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/11/2022] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Pancreatic acinar cells display a remarkable degree of plasticity and can dedifferentiate into ductal-like progenitor cells by a process known as acinar ductal metaplasia (ADM). ADM is believed to be one of the earliest precursor lesions toward the development of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and maintaining the pancreatic acinar cell phenotype suppresses tumor formation. The effects of a novel pStat3 inhibitor (LLL12B) and the histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor trichostatin A (TSA) were investigated using 3-D cultures from p48Cre/+ and p48Cre/+LSL-KrasG12D/+ (KC) mice. LLL12B and TSA inhibited ADM in both KC and p48Cre/+ mouse pancreatic organoids. Furthermore, treatment with LLL12B or TSA on dedifferentiated acini from p48Cre/+ and KC mice that had undergone ADM produced morphologic and gene expression changes that suggest a reversal of ADM. Validation experiments using qRT-PCR (p48Cre/+ and KC) and RNA sequencing (KC) of the LLL12B and TSA treated cultures showed that the ADM reversal was more robust for the TSA treatments. Pathway analysis showed that TSA inhibited Spink1 and PI3K/AKT signaling during ADM reversal. The ability of TSA to reverse ADM was also observed in primary human acinar cultures. We report that pStat3 and HDAC inhibition can attenuate ADM in vitro and reverse ADM in the context of wild-type Kras. Our findings suggest that pharmacological inhibition or reversal of pancreatic ADM represents a potential therapeutic strategy for blocking aberrant ductal reprogramming of acinar cells.
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Affiliation(s)
- Lais da Silva
- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
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Perkins CM, Jiang J, Hakimjavadi H, Bray JK, Gosling A, da Silva L, Bulut G, Ali J, Setiawan W, Campbell-Thompson M, Chamala S, Schmittgen TD. Abstract 780: Transcriptional profile of human pancreatic acinar ductal metaplasia. Cancer Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2022-780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Aberrant acinar to ductal metaplasia (ADM), one of the earliest events involved in exocrine pancreatic cancer development, is typically studied using pancreata from transgenic mouse models. We used primary, human pancreatic acinar cells to evaluate the transcriptional profile during the course of ADM. Following six days of culture on Matrigel, acinar cells underwent morphological and molecular changes reminiscent of ADM. RNA was sequenced from 14 donor’s paired pancreata (day 0 and 6 of culture). Unsupervised hierarchical clustering demonstrated complete separation of the gene expression profile between culture day 0 (acinar phenotype) and day 6 (ductal phenotype). By and large, acinar-specific genes were downregulated in the samples from day 6 ADM while ductal-specific genes were upregulated. Using a gene set enrichment approach, we identified regulons that are involved in regulating ADM including downregulated, acinar-associated transcription factors (including PTF1A, RBPJL, and XBP1) and upregulated, ductal- and progenitor-associated transcription factors (SOX11, SOX4, and YAP1). The expression of pancreatic cancer associated genes significantly correlated with the gene expression/regulon activity observed in normal pancreas undergoing ADM. We reported a detail analysis of the transcriptional profile during human ADM. Our findings confirm that many ADM-related transcription factors and signaling pathways discovered in transgenic mouse models are applicable to human ADM and highlights the relevancy of in vitro models of pancreas plasticity using human tissue.
Citation Format: Corey Melissa Perkins, Jinmai Jiang, Hesamedin Hakimjavadi, Julie K. Bray, Alyssa Gosling, Lais da Silva, Gamze Bulut, Jamel Ali, Wendy Setiawan, Martha Campbell-Thompson, Srikar Chamala, Thomas D. Schmittgen. Transcriptional profile of human pancreatic acinar ductal metaplasia [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr 780.
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- 2Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL
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Brock AA, Powell K, Schmittgen TD, Sempere LF. Abstract 5821: Enhanced tumorigenesis in a novel miR-216a knockout/KPC mouse model of pancreatic cancer. Cancer Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2022-5821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) originates from both ductal and acinar cells of the pancreas. The highly abundant and acinar cell-enriched miR-216a is reduced during in vitro acinar ductal metaplasia (ADM), throughout PanIN progression, during the development of pancreatitis in mice and humans, and during development of mouse and human PDAC. To investigate the contribution of miR-216a in the development of PDAC, we generated a miR-216a germline knockout mouse (216aKO) via CRISPR genetic editing of a minimal and precise deletion of the miR-216a precursor sequence without affecting the host gene. We crossed this 216aKO mouse to the LSL-KrasG12D; LSL-Trp53Flox/+; Pdx1Cre/+ (KPC) mice to produce a transgenic mouse with an activating Kras mutation, p53 deletion, and knockout of miR-216a (referred to here as miR216aKPC). miR216aKPC displayed an increase in tumor progression compared to KPC and had reduced survival - median 15 weeks miR216aKPC vs. 25 weeks for KPC. miR216aKPC produced lung metastasis by 12 weeks of age which were not present in the lungs of similarly aged KPC mice. Transfection of miR-216a mimetic oligo into cell lines derived from KPC or 216aKPC mice did not reduce viability or alter cellular morphology, suggesting that a potential tumor suppressive role of miR-216a functions during the early stages of PDAC development. A three dimensional ADM assay using acinar cells derived from both mouse and human pancreata will be applied to investigate the contributions of miR-216a on the development of ADM and cell polarity. To discover miR-216a target genes that are responsible for the increased tumorigenesis, cell lines derived from miR216aKPC will be transfected with miR-216a mimetic or scrambled control oligo followed by RNA sequencing. Our results thus far suggest a tumor suppressive role for miR-216a in the early development of PDAC and future studies will investigate molecular and cellular mechanisms driving acinar cell-induced PDAC.
Citation Format: Andrew A. Brock, Katherine Powell, Thomas D. Schmittgen, Lorenzo F. Sempere. Enhanced tumorigenesis in a novel miR-216a knockout/KPC mouse model of pancreatic cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr 5821.
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Schmittgen TD, Sempere LF. Acinar Cell-Enriched-MicroRNA-802 Connects the Dots Between Kras Signaling, Acinar Ductal Metaplasia, and Pancreatic Cancer. Gastroenterology 2022; 162:48-50. [PMID: 34662582 DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2021.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 10/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Thomas D Schmittgen
- Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Florida College of Pharmacy, Gainesville, Florida.
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- Precision Health Program and Department of Radiology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
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Koopaei NN, Chowdhury EA, Jiang J, Noorani B, da Silva L, Bulut G, Hakimjavadi H, Chamala S, Bickel U, Schmittgen TD. Enrichment of the erythrocyte miR-451a in brain extracellular vesicles following impairment of the blood-brain barrier. Neurosci Lett 2021; 751:135829. [PMID: 33727125 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2021.135829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2020] [Revised: 02/11/2021] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Extracellular RNAs (exRNAs) are present in all biofluids and incorporate many types of RNAs including miRNA. To enhance their stability outside of the cell, exRNAs are bound within ribonucleoprotein complexes or packaged into extracellular vesicles (EVs). The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a dynamic interface between the systemic circulation and the CNS and is responsible for maintaining a stable extracellular environment for CNS cells. The intent of this study was to determine if EVs and their contents are transferred from the peripheral circulation to the CNS under conditions of an impaired BBB. The BBB of mice was disrupted by unilateral intracarotid artery infusion with hyperosmolar mannitol solution. To validate barrier opening, the uptake clearance of [13C12]-sucrose in the left forebrain (i.e. the ipsilateral, mannitol injected hemisphere) was quantified and revealed a 14-fold increase in the mannitol perfused hemisphere compared to sham treated mice. EVs were isolated from the extracellular spaces of the left forebrain following gentle tissue lysis and differential ultracentrifugation. EVs were confirmed using nanotracking analysis, electron microscopy and western blotting. qRT-PCR showed that the erythrocyte-enriched miR-451a in brain tissue EVs increased with mannitol treatment by 24-fold. Small RNA sequencing performed on the EVs isolated from the sham and mannitol treated mice showed that miR-9-5p was the most abundant miRNA contained within the brain EVs. qRT-PCR analysis of plasma EVs did not produce a statistically significant difference in the expression of the CNS-enriched miR-9-5p or miR-9-3p, suggesting that transfer of CNS EVs to the peripheral circulation did not occur under the conditions of our experiment. We demonstrate that EVs containing miR-451a, a highly abundant miRNA present within erythrocytes and erythrocyte EVs, are enhanced in the CNS upon BBB disruption.
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- Nasser Nassiri Koopaei
- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Center for Blood-Brain Barrier Research, Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Center for Blood-Brain Barrier Research, Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Center for Blood-Brain Barrier Research, Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
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Behar-Horenstein L, Warren RC, Setiawan VW, Perkins C, Schmittgen TD. Enhancing African American Participation in Biospecimens: A Case in Point for Pancreatic Cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2020; 29:10.1158/1538-7755.DISP20-PO-236. [PMID: 34296063 PMCID: PMC8294622 DOI: 10.1158/1538-7755.disp20-po-236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Diseases of the pancreas (i.e. chronic pancreatitis, diabetes, and pancreatic cancer) disproportionally affect the African American community. Challenges associated with engaging the African American community in biospecimen research are longstanding. We surveyed a number of pancreas-related biobanks, and data repositories for African American representation. While some of the biobanks and databases surveyed contain biospecimens and data from African American donors at levels that reflect minority representation among the general population, others do not. A number of factors have historically contributed to reduced participation of the African Americans community in biospecimen donation including medical mistrust, lack of transparency, fear, and a poor knowledge and understanding about the use of biospecimens for research. Suggestions for increasing African American participation in organ and biospecimen donation include educational interventions, particularly in community groups, and providing printed and online recruitment materials to patients, patient advocates, and care partners. Increasing awareness of the many benefits of biospecimen donation among African Americans will positively affect health disparities research into pancreatic cancer and other diseases.
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- Linda Behar-Horenstein
- Colleges of Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Florida-California Cancer Research, Education and Engagement (CaRE), Health Equity Center
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- College of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Florida-California Cancer Research, Education and Engagement (CaRE), Health Equity Center
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- Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Florida-California Cancer Research, Education and Engagement (CaRE), Health Equity Center
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Azari H, Koopaei NN, Nouri MZ, Hall JD, Denslow ND, Schmittgen TD, Reynolds BA. DDRE-14. HEMP DERIVED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES (EVS): A POTENTIAL ANTI-GLIOMA THERAPY. Neuro Oncol 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa215.259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have been harvested from many plant sources, some of which have anti-cancer effects and some could be used as therapeutic nanodelivery vectors. Hemp plant is a natural source of cannabinoids, of which delta 9-tetrahydroxicannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) have proven anti-cancer proprieties.
HYPOTHESIS
We hypothesized that hemp EVs are enriched in cannabinoids and their application will reduce glioblastoma (GBM) tumor progression.
APPROACH
EVs were isolated from the hemp plant using ultracentrifugation. Nanotracking analysis, electron microscopy and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) were utilized to characterize EVs. GBM cell lines were cultured in the neuropshere assay to evaluate hemp EVs anti-glioma effects. Fluorescent-labelled EVs were used to evaluate their brain tissue distribution in orthotopic patient-derived GBM xenografts.
RESULTS
Hemp EVs have a median diameter of 112.6nm with a typical lipid-bilayer structure. LC-MS/MS have shown that while cannabidiolic, cannabigerolic, and tetrahydroxicannabinolic acids represent 69.1 ± 2.1%, 19.1 ± 1.6%, 6.5 ± 0.54% of the total cannabinoids in hemp EVs, CBD and THC only make 4.75 ± 0.26%, and 0.5 ± 0.3%. Hemp EVs are potent anti-glioma agents with a 7-day LD-50 of 1.04µM and 2.4µM [based on EVs total cannabinoid content] for KR-158 and L0 GBM lines, respectively. Compared to the vehicle, overnight incubation of L0 cells with 1µM hemp EVs significantly reduced GBM cell migration (630.3 ± 61.43 vs 143.7 ± 8.7). Intranasal administration of hemp EVs led to a widespread distribution in tumor bearing brain including GBM tumor core.
CONCLUSION
Based on these results, hemp EVs with enriched cannabinoid content exert antiglioma effect in-vitro and when delivered intranasally, are widely distributed throughout the brain and within the tumor of PDX animals. Further experiments are ongoing to address the impact of nasally-delivered hemp EVs on tumor progression and compare to the application of purified acidic cannabinoids.
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Da Silva L, Bray JK, Bulut G, Jiang J, Schmittgen TD. Method for improved integrity of RNA isolated from Matrigel cultures. MethodsX 2020; 7:100966. [PMID: 32637337 PMCID: PMC7327238 DOI: 10.1016/j.mex.2020.100966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2020] [Accepted: 06/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Matrigel is a commercially available substrate that is derived from the extracellular matrix. Matrigel is widely used in cell culture experiments such as the transdifferentiation of primary pancreatic acini to ductal epithelial-like cells. Difficulty arises during gene expression analysis for cells cultured on Matrigel because residual RNA in the Matrigel will not only contribute to the poor integrity of RNA isolated from Matrigel cultures, but also will impact the gene expression data. We report here a simple method of removing Matrigel from primary cultures of human or mouse pancreatic acini. Following the experiment, the cultures are placed on wet ice to liquefy the Matrigel. The cell and Matrigel mixture is then centrifuged at low speed to separate the pancreatic cells from the Matrigel solution that resides in the supernatant. RNA isolated from the pelleted cells has high integrity and may be readily used for gene expression analysis such as quantitative reverse transcription PCR.
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- Lais Da Silva
- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA
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Bray J, Ait-Oudhia S, Campbell-Thompson M, Schmittgen TD. Abstract D112: Development of an organoid assay for studying racial disparity in pancreatic acinar ductal metaplasia. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2020. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7755.disp19-d112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Blacks have a higher rate of incidence and mortality of pancreatic cancer compared to whites. In an effort to identify a biological basis for this disparity, we propose examining the early events in the development of pancreatic cancer. The process by which pancreatic acini transdifferentiate into ductal epithelial cells (i.e. acinar ductal metaplasia or ADM) is one of the earliest events in the development of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. We adapted the classic in vitro ADM assay, by which primary mouse pancreatic acini undergo ADM once plated onto the extracellular matrix matrigel, to an assay to culture and transdifferentiate human pancreatic organoids. Human pancreatic acini was received from black (n=5), white (n=3) and Hispanic (n=6) donors from pancreatic islet transplantation centers. The gender distribution was 8 males and 6 females. The acinar cells were cultured on matrigel and allowed to undergo ADM over a 5 to 6 day period. The number of ductal epithelial cells were microscopically counted and the rate of transdifferentiation was determined. Using this technique, we successfully cultured and transdifferentiated 14 of 14 human pancreatic acinar cells. Preliminary data from our study suggests that females undergo ADM at a greater rate than males. Data on race was inconclusive due to the low number of samples. In summary, we have developed an assay to culture and study pancreatic ADM using human specimens. Future studies using increased sample size will investigate if racial disparity exists for pancreatic ADM.
Citation Format: Julie Bray, Sihem Ait-Oudhia, Martha Campbell-Thompson, Thomas D Schmittgen. Development of an organoid assay for studying racial disparity in pancreatic acinar ductal metaplasia [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Twelfth AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; 2019 Sep 20-23; San Francisco, CA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2020;29(6 Suppl_2):Abstract nr D112.
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- Julie Bray
- University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Wilkerson JL, Jiang J, Felix JS, Bray JK, da Silva L, Gharaibeh RZ, McMahon LR, Schmittgen TD. Alterations in mouse spinal cord and sciatic nerve microRNAs after the chronic constriction injury (CCI) model of neuropathic pain. Neurosci Lett 2020; 731:135029. [PMID: 32380144 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2020.135029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2019] [Revised: 04/28/2020] [Accepted: 04/30/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Pain is one of the most common reasons to seek medical attention and chronic pain is a worldwide epidemic. There are currently no relevant biomarkers for the diagnosis of chronic pain, and new therapeutic strategies for chronic pain treatment are desperately needed. The chronic constriction injury (CCI) of the sciatic nerve is a widely used preclinical model of pathological neuropathic pain. Over the past decade, investigators have come to appreciate the many contributions of noncoding RNA including microRNA (miRNA), and other long and short noncoding (nc) RNAs. The development and/or maintenance of chronic pain could be controlled epigenetically through ncRNAs. Here we seek to characterize CNS tissues in a mouse model of neuropathic pain as this may serve to elucidate potential biomarkers relevant to pathological pain in humans. Male C57BL6/J mice (6 CCI and 6 sham procedure) underwent surgery for sciatic nerve ligation with chromic gut sutures. Following 7 days, mechanical allodynia was quantified using the von Frey assay. Mice were then euthanized for collection of spinal cord and sciatic nerve. cDNA was synthesized to 627 unique mature miRNAs from the total RNA. In the CCI mice that displayed mechanical allodynia, 11 and 125 miRNAs were differentially expressed (i.e., greater than 1.5-fold increase or decrease; P < 0.05) in the spinal cord and sciatic nerve, respectively, as compared to sham controls. Among those differentially expressed miRNAs in the sciatic nerve of CCI mice, the following passed the more stringent Bonfferoni correction: miR-138-3p, miR-138-5p and miR-676-3p, reduced and miR-142-5p, increased. Our data support miRNAs as promising therapeutic targets for the treatment of pathological pain.
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- Jenny L Wilkerson
- Department of Pharmacodynamics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmacodynamics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmacodynamics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
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Tomkovich S, Gharaibeh RZ, Dejea CM, Pope JL, Jiang J, Winglee K, Gauthier J, Newsome RC, Yang Y, Fodor AA, Schmittgen TD, Sears CL, Jobin C. Human Colon Mucosal Biofilms and Murine Host Communicate via Altered mRNA and microRNA Expression during Cancer. mSystems 2020; 5:e00451-19. [PMID: 31937674 PMCID: PMC6967385 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00451-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2019] [Accepted: 12/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Disrupted interactions between host and intestinal bacteria are implicated in colorectal cancer (CRC) development. However, activities derived from these bacteria and their interplay with the host are unclear. Here, we examine this interplay by performing mouse and microbiota RNA sequencing on colon tissues and 16S and small RNA sequencing on stools from germfree (GF) and gnotobiotic ApcMin Δ 850/+ ;Il10-/- mice associated with microbes from biofilm-positive human CRC tumor (BF+T) and biofilm-negative healthy (BF-bx) tissues. The bacteria in BF+T mice differentially expressed (DE) >2,900 genes, including genes related to bacterial secretion, virulence, and biofilms but affected only 62 host genes. Small RNA sequencing of stools from these cohorts revealed eight significant DE host microRNAs (miRNAs) based on biofilm status and several miRNAs that correlated with bacterial taxon abundances. Additionally, computational predictions suggest that some miRNAs preferentially target bacterial genes while others primarily target mouse genes. 16S rRNA sequencing of mice that were reassociated with mucosa-associated communities from the initial association revealed a set of 13 bacterial genera associated with cancer that were maintained regardless of whether the reassociation inoculums were initially obtained from murine proximal or distal colon tissues. Our findings suggest that complex interactions within bacterial communities affect host-derived miRNA, bacterial composition, and CRC development.IMPORTANCE Bacteria and bacterial biofilms have been implicated in colorectal cancer (CRC), but it is still unclear what genes these microbial communities express and how they influence the host. MicroRNAs regulate host gene expression and have been explored as potential biomarkers for CRC. An emerging area of research is the ability of microRNAs to impact growth and gene expression of members of the intestinal microbiota. This study examined the bacteria and bacterial transcriptome associated with microbes derived from biofilm-positive human cancers that promoted tumorigenesis in a murine model of CRC. The murine response to different microbial communities (derived from CRC patients or healthy people) was evaluated through RNA and microRNA sequencing. We identified a complex interplay between biofilm-associated bacteria and the host during CRC in mice. These findings may lead to the development of new biomarkers and therapeutics for identifying and treating biofilm-associated CRCs.
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- Sarah Tomkovich
- Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute of Immunotherapy, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Oncology and Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute of Immunotherapy, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Oncology and Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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Sutaria DS, Jiang J, Azevedo-Pouly AC, Wright L, Bray JA, Fredenburg K, Liu X, Lu J, Torres C, Mancinelli G, Grippo PJ, Coppola V, Schmittgen TD. Knockout of Acinar Enriched microRNAs in Mice Promote Duct Formation But Not Pancreatic Cancer. Sci Rep 2019; 9:11147. [PMID: 31367007 PMCID: PMC6668398 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47566-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2018] [Accepted: 07/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The pancreatic acinar-enriched miR-216a, miR-216b and miR-217 are encoded within the miR217HG. These miRNAs have been purported to play a tumor suppressive role as their expression is reduced in both human and mouse pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). To examine this possibility, we generated individual, germline knockout (KO) mice of miR-216a, miR-216b or miR-217. Unlike our previous study showing germline deletion of the miR217HG was embryonic lethal, CRISPR-Cas9 deleted portions of the 5' seed region of the miRNAs produced live births. To investigate possible phenotypes during pancreatic acinar ductal metaplasia (ADM), pancreatic acini from wild type and KO mice were plated on collagen and allowed to transdifferentiate over 4 days. Acini from each of the three miRNA KO mice produced greater numbers of ducts compared to controls. Evaluation of the gene expression during in vitro ADM demonstrated an increase in Krt19 and a reduction in acinar genes (Carboxypeptidase A1, Amylase2a) on day 4 of the transdifferentiation. Recovery was delayed for the miR-216a and miR-216b KOs following caerulein-induced acute pancreatitis. Also predominate in the caerulein treated miR-216a and miR-216b KO mice was the presence of pancreatic duct glands (PDGs). To further establish a phenotype, miRNA KO mice were crossed with EL-KRASG12D (EK) mice and followed up to 13 months of age. While all mice developed severe dysplasia and cystic papillary neoplasms, there existed no apparent phenotypic difference in the miRNA KO/EK mice compared to EK mice. Our data does not support a tumor suppressor role for miR-216a, miR-216b or miR-217 in PDAC and emphasizes the need for phenotypic evaluation of miRNAs in complex in vivo models beyond that performed using cell culture.
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- Dhruvitkumar S Sutaria
- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, AR, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, College of Medicine and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
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Both natural killer (NK) cells and exosomes released from these cells induce tumor cell cytotoxicity by way of the cell killing proteins perforin and granzyme. TGFβ1 protein in the tumor microenvironment generates an immune escape mechanism rendering NK cells inactive. The tumor-suppressive miR-186 that is downregulated in neuroblastoma and in TGFβ-treated NK cells represses oncogenic proteins in neuroblastoma (MYCN and AURKA) and components of the TGFβ pathway. Restoration of miR-186 levels in neuroblastoma through NK cell-derived exosomes or by nanoparticle delivery reduces tumor burden, promotes survival, and restores the cell-killing abilities of NK cells, demonstrating the therapeutic potential of tumor-suppressive miRNAs in neuroblastoma.See related article by Neviani and colleagues; Cancer Res 79(6):1151-64.
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- Thomas D Schmittgen
- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. .,
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Bray JK, Elgamal O, Silva LD, Sutaria D, Liu X, Fredenburg K, Schmittgen TD. Abstract 5222: Repression of neuronal genes protects the pancreas from certain injuries and aberrant plasticity. Cancer Res 2019. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2019-5222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Among the major cancer types, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma has one of the lowest survival rates with little improvement over the past 3 decades. To address this dire clinical need, this study explores the unique and underexploited neuronal property of the pancreas that correlates with greater injury and pancreatic cancer development. The pancreas has a remarkable innate plasticity, and a shift toward neuroendocrine transdifferentiation has been shown to correlate with poor survival and tumor progression in numerous cancers, such as lung and prostate cancers. Recent reports show a subpopulation of cells within pancreatic tumors that express neuroendocrine-related genes correlate with poor outcome and chemoresistance. We hypothesize one regulator of this ductal-neuroendocrine lineage plasticity may be REST, a transcriptional repressor most known for orchestrating neuronal development. Tissue microarray of human pancreatic cancer shows patients negative for REST had a lower overall survival than patients positive for REST. To investigate the role of REST in the pancreas, we developed a novel transgenic mouse model with REST conditionally knocked out of the pancreas. REST KO resulted in an increase of neuroendocrine markers and an increase of zymogen granules, resulting in a lighter, cloudy appearance of the pancreas. When pancreatic injury was introduced by injections of cholecystokinin analog caerulein to induce acute pancreatitis, the REST KO mice show greater serum amylase levels and higher pancreatic edema indicating greater pancreatitis. Furthermore, an increase in neuronal-related genes was observed within REST KO pancreas relative to control. We then investigated the role of REST during cancer-promoting injuries such as chronic pancreatitis. Mice were administered a 10-week series of caerulein injections, and histology was evaluated. As expected, REST KO mice experienced greater inflammation, injury, and pre-neoplastic lesions. Further directions include investigating REST KO during later stages of pancreatic cancer injury by crossing REST KO mice with mutant KRAS mice, as oncogenic KRAS is a leading driver of pancreatic cancer. We expect REST KO to increase neuroendocrine properties that will accelerate KRAS-induced pancreatic cancer development. In conclusion, we hypothesize that loss of REST increases neuroendocrine-like properties of the pancreas that leads to a greater injury, suggesting that REST plays a protective effect against pancreatic damage and pancreatic cancer development. Furthermore, our novel REST KO mice may prove to be a useful model to investigate how neuroendocrine properties may promote pancreatic cancer development and drug resistance. Understanding neuronal influences during pancreatic cancer development could have multiple implications for cancer patients and warrants further investigation.
Citation Format: Julie K. Bray, Ola Elgamal, Lais Da Silva, Dhruvit Sutaria, Xiuli Liu, Kristianna Fredenburg, Thomas D. Schmittgen. Repression of neuronal genes protects the pancreas from certain injuries and aberrant plasticity [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2019; 2019 Mar 29-Apr 3; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 5222.
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- University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a critical part of the RNA silencing machinery, are known to play important regulatory roles in cancer. However, the consequence of miRNA deregulation in cancer is unknown for many miRNAs. Here, we define that miRNAs, miR-17-5p, miR-132-3p/-212-3p, and miR-337-3p are significantly up-regulated in the pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDAC) compared to the normal and benign tissues. Furthermore, by using PANC-1 cells, we demonstrate that overexpressed miR-337-3p and miR-17-5p/miR-132-3p/-212-3p can regulate executioner caspases-3 and -7, respectively. In addition, over-expression of miRNAs, especially miR-337-3p, attenuates tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) cytotoxicity in PANC-1 cells. Our findings unveil an important biological function for miRNAs up-regulated in PDAC in coordinately regulating caspases, potentially contributing to the malignant progression of PDAC.
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- Jong Kook Park
- Department of Biomedical Science and Research Institute for Bioscience & Biotechnology, Hallym University, Chuncheon 24252, Korea.
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- Department of Physiology and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.
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Jiang J, Azevedo-Pouly ACP, Redis RS, Lee EJ, Gusev Y, Allard D, Sutaria DS, Badawi M, Elgamal OA, Lerner MR, Brackett DJ, Calin GA, Schmittgen TD. Globally increased ultraconserved noncoding RNA expression in pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Oncotarget 2018; 7:53165-53177. [PMID: 27363020 PMCID: PMC5288176 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.10242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2015] [Accepted: 05/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Transcribed ultraconserved regions (T-UCRs) are a class of non-coding RNAs with 100% sequence conservation among human, rat and mouse genomes. T-UCRs are differentially expressed in several cancers, however their expression in pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has not been studied. We used a qPCR array to profile all 481 T-UCRs in pancreatic cancer specimens, pancreatic cancer cell lines, during experimental pancreatic desmoplasia and in the pancreases of P48Cre/wt; KrasLSL-G12D/wt mice. Fourteen, 57 and 29% of the detectable T-UCRs were differentially expressed in the cell lines, human tumors and transgenic mouse pancreases, respectively. The vast majority of the differentially expressed T-UCRs had increased expression in the cancer. T-UCRs were monitored using an in vitro model of the desmoplastic reaction. Twenty-five % of the expressed T-UCRs were increased in the HPDE cells cultured on PANC-1 cellular matrix. UC.190, UC.233 and UC.270 were increased in all three human data sets. siRNA knockdown of each of these three T-UCRs reduced the proliferation of MIA PaCa-2 cells up to 60%. The expression pattern among many T-UCRs in the human and mouse pancreases closely correlated with one another, suggesting that groups of T-UCRs are co-activated in PDAC. Successful knockout of the transcription factor EGR1 in PANC-1 cells caused a reduction in the expression of a subset of T-UCRs suggesting that EGR1 may control T-UCR expression in PDAC. We report a global increase in expression of T-UCRs in both human and mouse PDAC. Commonalties in their expression pattern suggest a similar mechanism of transcriptional upregulation for T-UCRs in PDAC.
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- Jinmai Jiang
- College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.,Present address: Department of Molecular Biology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.,Present address: College of Pharmacy and Wonkwang Oriental Medicines Research Institute, Wonkwang University, Republic of Korea
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- Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.,Department of Surgery, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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- Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.,Department of Surgery, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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- University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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Sutaria DS, Jiang J, Azevedo-Pouly ACP, Lee EJ, Lerner MR, Brackett DJ, Vandesompele J, Mestdagh P, Schmittgen TD. Expression Profiling Identifies the Noncoding Processed Transcript of HNRNPU with Proliferative Properties in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma. Noncoding RNA 2017; 3:ncrna3030024. [PMID: 29657295 PMCID: PMC5831917 DOI: 10.3390/ncrna3030024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2017] [Revised: 08/10/2017] [Accepted: 08/21/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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A gene array was used to profile the expression of 22,875 long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and a large number of protein coding genes in 47 specimens of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), adjacent benign pancreas and the pancreas from patients without pancreatic disease. Of the lncRNAs profiled, the expression of 126 were significantly increased and 260 were decreased in the tumors (p < 0.05, 2-fold). The expression of one lncRNA in particular, heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein U (HNRNPU) processed transcript (also known as ncRNA00201) was among the most significantly deregulated (increased four-fold) in the tumors compared to normal/adjacent benign tissues. Increased expression of HNRNPU processed transcript was associated with poor prognosis for patients with PDAC. The expression of HNRNPU processed transcript was increased in PDAC cell lines compared to noncancerous pancreatic cell lines. LNATM gapmer mediated inhibition of HNRNPU processed transcript reduced cell proliferation in Patu-T and PL45 pancreatic cancer cell lines. Reduced invasion and migration was reported upon HNRNPU processed transcript knockdown in Patu-T cells. Small interfering RNA (siRNA) knockdown of the HNRNPU protein coding gene correlated with a 55% reduction in the HNRNPU processed transcript expression and a corresponding reduction in proliferation of Patu-T and PL45 cells. However, gapmer inhibition of HNRNPU processed transcript did not affect HNRNPU mRNA levels. The lncRNA HNRNPU processed transcript expression is increased in both PDAC tissues and cell lines; knockdown of this lncRNA further reduces proliferation and invasion/migration of pancreatic carcinoma cells.
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- Dhruvitkumar S Sutaria
- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida Gainesville, 32608 Florida, USA.
- Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University Columbus, 43210 Ohio, USA.
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida Gainesville, 32608 Florida, USA.
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- Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University Columbus, 43210 Ohio, USA.
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- College of Pharmacy and Wonkwang Oriental Medicines Research Institute, Wonkwang University, 54538 Iksan, Korea.
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- Department of Surgery, University of Oklahoma Heath Science Center, 73104 Oklahoma, USA.
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- Department of Surgery, University of Oklahoma Heath Science Center, 73104 Oklahoma, USA.
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- Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
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- Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida Gainesville, 32608 Florida, USA.
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Han S, Gonzalo DH, Feely M, Delitto D, Behrns KE, Beveridge M, Zhang D, Thomas R, Trevino JG, Schmittgen TD, Hughes SJ. The pancreatic tumor microenvironment drives changes in miRNA expression that promote cytokine production and inhibit migration by the tumor associated stroma. Oncotarget 2017; 8:54054-54067. [PMID: 28903323 PMCID: PMC5589562 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.10722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2016] [Accepted: 06/13/2016] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) microenvironment is largely comprised of fibrotic tumor associated stroma (TAS) that contributes to the lethal biology of PDAC. microRNA (miRNA) are small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression. We hypothesized that interactions between PDAC cells and TAS cells within the microenvironment modulate miRNA expression and thus, tumor biology. We observed that miR-205 and members of the miR-200 family (miR-200a, -200b, -200c, -141 and miR-429) were exclusively expressed in PDAC cells, consistent with an epithelial miRNA signature, while miR-145 and miR-199 family members (miR-199a and -199b) were solely expressed in TAS cells, consistent with a stromal miRNA signature. This finding was confirmed by qRT-PCR of RNA obtained by laser-capture microdissection of surgical specimens. Using an in vitro co-culture model, we further demonstrated regulation of miRNA expression by cell-cell contact. Forced expression in TAS cells of miR-200b/-200c and miR-205 to mimic these observed changes in miRNA concentrations induced secretion of GM-CSF and IP10, and notably inhibited migration. These data suggest interactions within the tumor microenvironment alter miRNA expression, which in turn have a functional impact on TAS.
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- Song Han
- Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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Han S, Belsare S, Zhang D, Beveridge M, Rinaldi C, Trevino JG, Schmittgen TD, Hughes SJ. Abstract 4322: Exosomal delivery of stroma-derived miR-145 inhibits pancreatic cancer cell proliferation. Cancer Res 2017. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2017-4322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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We previously reported that within the pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) microenvironment, miR-145 and miR-199a are exclusively expressed in tumor-associated stroma (TAS) cells, but these miRNAs are present in PDAC cells following co-culture with TAS cells. We hypothesized that miRNAs function as paracrine signals via exosomal exchange between TAS cells and adjacent PDAC cells.
Primary cultures of human TAS and PDAC cells were employed. Membrane-bound microparticles were isolated from TAS conditioned, serum-free culture media by sequential ultracentrifugation followed by ultrafiltration. Exosomes and microvesicles were then assayed for particle size distribution using nanoparticle tracking analysis and electronic microscopy. miRNA expression levels were determined using quantitative PCR. miRNA transfection was performed with RNAiMax reagents. Cell viability was measured by Alamar Blue. Statistics were performed using Prism 6 software.
Following transfection of human TAS cells with cel-miR-39, a nonhuman miRNA, we demonstrated that miRNA exchanges occurred between TAS cells and neighboring PDAC cells via a process that is not dependent upon cell-cell contact. We next confirmed the presence and enrichment of miR-145-5p in TAS-cell-derived exosomes (8-fold higher concentrations in exosomes than parental cells, p<0.05). Feeding of TAS-derived exosomes or transfection of miR-145-5p mimics into PDAC cells led to dose-dependent decreases in PDAC cell viability (p<0.05).
Taken together, our data suggest that stroma derived exosomes deliver miRNAs to adjacent PDAC cells and may function as tumor-suppressing paracrine signals in the case of miR-145. This finding provides a potential explanation for the observation that stroma depletion paradoxically accelerates PDAC progression in murine models.
Citation Format: Song Han, Sayali Belsare, DongYu Zhang, Mark Beveridge, Carlos Rinaldi, Jose G. Trevino, Thomas D. Schmittgen, Steven J. Hughes. Exosomal delivery of stroma-derived miR-145 inhibits pancreatic cancer cell proliferation [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2017; 2017 Apr 1-5; Washington, DC. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2017;77(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 4322. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2017-4322
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- Song Han
- University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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Sutaria DS, Jiang J, Elgamal OA, Pomeroy SM, Badawi M, Zhu X, Pavlovicz R, Azevedo-Pouly ACP, Chalmers J, Li C, Phelps MA, Schmittgen TD. Low active loading of cargo into engineered extracellular vesicles results in inefficient miRNA mimic delivery. J Extracell Vesicles 2017; 6:1333882. [PMID: 28717424 PMCID: PMC5505005 DOI: 10.1080/20013078.2017.1333882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Extracellular vesicles (EVs) hold great potential as novel systems for nucleic acid delivery due to their natural composition. Our goal was to load EVs with microRNA that are synthesized by the cells that produce the EVs. HEK293T cells were engineered to produce EVs expressing a lysosomal associated membrane, Lamp2a fusion protein. The gene encoding pre-miR-199a was inserted into an artificial intron of the Lamp2a fusion protein. The TAT peptide/HIV-1 transactivation response (TAR) RNA interacting peptide was exploited to enhance the EV loading of the pre-miR-199a containing a modified TAR RNA loop. Computational modeling demonstrated a stable interaction between the modified pre-miR-199a loop and TAT peptide. EMSA gel shift, recombinant Dicer processing and luciferase binding assays confirmed the binding, processing and functionality of the modified pre-miR-199a. The TAT-TAR interaction enhanced the loading of the miR-199a into EVs by 65-fold. Endogenously loaded EVs were ineffective at delivering active miR-199a-3p therapeutic to recipient SK-Hep1 cells. While the low degree of miRNA loading into EVs through this approach resulted in inefficient distribution of RNA cargo into recipient cells, the TAT TAR strategy to load miRNA into EVs may be valuable in other drug delivery approaches involving miRNA mimics or other hairpin containing RNAs.
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- Dhruvitkumar S Sutaria
- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.,Divisions of Pharmaceutics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.,Divisions of Pharmaceutics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Divisions of Pharmaceutics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Divisions of Pharmaceutics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Divisions of Pharmaceutics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Zhu X, Badawi M, Pomeroy S, Sutaria DS, Xie Z, Baek A, Jiang J, Elgamal OA, Mo X, Perle KL, Chalmers J, Schmittgen TD, Phelps MA. Comprehensive toxicity and immunogenicity studies reveal minimal effects in mice following sustained dosing of extracellular vesicles derived from HEK293T cells. J Extracell Vesicles 2017; 6:1324730. [PMID: 28717420 PMCID: PMC5505007 DOI: 10.1080/20013078.2017.1324730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 325] [Impact Index Per Article: 46.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are under evaluation as therapeutics or as vehicles for drug delivery. Preclinical studies of EVs often use mice or other animal models to assess efficacy and disposition. However, as most EVs under evaluation are derived from human cells, they may elicit immune responses which may contribute to toxicities or enhanced EV clearance. Furthermore, EVs from different cell sources or EVs comprising various cargo may differ with respect to immunogenicity or toxicity. To assess EV-induced immune response and toxicity, we dosed C57BL/6 mice with EVs intravenously and intraperitoneally for 3 weeks. EVs were harvested from wild type or engineered HEK293T cells which were modified to produce EVs loaded with miR-199a-3p and chimeric proteins. Blood was collected to assess hematology, blood chemistry, and immune markers. Spleen cells were immunophenotyped, and tissues were harvested for gross necropsy and histopathological examination. No signs of toxicity were observed, and minimal evidence of changes in immune markers were noted in mice dosed with engineered, but not with wild type EVs. This study provides a framework for assessment of immunogenicity and toxicity that will be required as EVs from varying cell sources are tested within numerous animal models and eventually in humans.
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- Xiaohua Zhu
- College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Kim J, Jiang J, Badawi M, Schmittgen TD. miR-221 regulates CD44 in hepatocellular carcinoma through the PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2017; 487:709-715. [PMID: 28442344 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.04.121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2017] [Accepted: 04/22/2017] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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CD44 and miR-221 are upregulated in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cell lines and tumors, however a connection between the two has not been identified. As the expression of miR-221 directly correlated with CD44 in HCC cells, we hypothesized that miR-221 may directly or indirectly regulate CD44 expression. Inhibition of miR-221 with antisense in Sk-Hep-1 or SNU-449 cell lines reduced CD44 protein expression while miR-221 mimic increased CD44 protein levels. miR-221 antisense did not alter the CD44 mRNA levels in Sk-Hep-1 or SNU-449 cells suggesting that regulation of CD44 protein occurs post transcriptionally. To discover miRNAs that may be involved in the miR-221 regulation of CD44, we performed miRNA profiling in SNU-449 cells treated with anti-miR-221. Several miRNAs were increased with miR-221 inhibition including miR-708-5p, a miRNA that targets CD44. As miR-221 targets several regulators of the PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway and a link between this pathway and CD44 has been previously shown in prostate cancer, we considered miR-221 regulation of CD44 may be through this pathway. Inhibition of miR-221 reduced p-4EBP1, a downstream effector of the PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway. Likewise, inhibiting the PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway with the ATP-competitive mTOR inhibitor PP242 reduced CD44 protein in SNU-423 and SNU-449 cells without altering CD44 mRNA levels.
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- Jihye Kim
- College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
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- College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
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Ghosh A, Dasgupta D, Ghosh A, Roychoudhury S, Kumar D, Gorain M, Butti R, Datta S, Agarwal S, Gupta S, Krishna Dhali G, Chowdhury A, Schmittgen TD, Kundu GC, Banerjee S. MiRNA199a-3p suppresses tumor growth, migration, invasion and angiogenesis in hepatocellular carcinoma by targeting VEGFA, VEGFR1, VEGFR2, HGF and MMP2. Cell Death Dis 2017; 8:e2706. [PMID: 28358369 PMCID: PMC5386529 DOI: 10.1038/cddis.2017.123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2016] [Revised: 01/30/2017] [Accepted: 02/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Increasing significance of tumor-stromal interaction in development and progression of cancer implies that signaling molecules in the tumor microenvironment (TME) might be the effective therapeutic targets for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Here, the role of microRNA miR-199a-3p in the regulation of TME and development of HCC has been investigated by several in vitro and in vivo assays. Expression of miR-199a-3p was observed significantly low in HCC tissues and its overexpression remarkably inhibited in vivo tumor growth and metastasis to lung in NOD-SCID mice. In vitro restoration of miR-199a-3p expression either in endothelial cells (ECs) or in cancer cells (CACs) significantly diminished migration of ECs in co-culture assay. Again incubation of miR-199a-3p transfected ECs with either conditioned media (CM) of CACs or recombinant VEGF has reduced tube formation, in ECs and it was also dropped upon growth in CM of either anti-VEGF antibody-treated or miR-199a-3p-transfected CACs. In addition, bioinformatics and luciferase-reporter assays revealed that miR-199a-3p inhibited VEGF secretion from CACs and VEGFR1 and VEGFR2 expression on ECs and thus restricted cross talk between CACs and ECs. Again, restoration of miR-199a-3p in hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) reduced migration and invasion of CACs in co-culture assay, while it was enhanced by the overexpression of HGF suggesting miR-199a-3p has hindered HSC-CACs cross talk probably by inhibiting HGF and regulating matrix metalloproteinase MMP2, which were found as targets of miR-199a-3p subsequently by luciferase-reporter assay and gelatin zymography, respectively. Thus, these findings collectively highlight that miR-199a-3p restricts metastasis, invasion and angiogenesis in HCC and hence it may be considered as one of the powerful effective therapeutics for management of HCC patients.
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- Alip Ghosh
- Center for Liver Research, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India
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- Center for Liver Research, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India
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- Center for Liver Research, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India
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- Center for Liver Research, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India
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- Laboratory of Tumor Biology, Angiogenesis and Nanomedicine Research, National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune 411007, India
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- Laboratory of Tumor Biology, Angiogenesis and Nanomedicine Research, National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune 411007, India
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- Laboratory of Tumor Biology, Angiogenesis and Nanomedicine Research, National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune 411007, India
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- Center for Liver Research, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India
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- Center for Liver and Biliary Sciences, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India
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- Center for Liver and Biliary Sciences, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Gastroenterology, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Hepatology, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India
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- Laboratory of Tumor Biology, Angiogenesis and Nanomedicine Research, National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune 411007, India
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- Center for Liver Research, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India
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Sutaria DS, Badawi M, Phelps MA, Schmittgen TD. Achieving the Promise of Therapeutic Extracellular Vesicles: The Devil is in Details of Therapeutic Loading. Pharm Res 2017; 34:1053-1066. [PMID: 28315083 DOI: 10.1007/s11095-017-2123-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2016] [Accepted: 02/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Extracellular vesicles (EVs) represent a class of cell secreted organelles which naturally contain biomolecular cargo such as miRNA, mRNA and proteins. EVs mediate intercellular communication, enabling the transfer of functional nucleic acids from the cell of origin to the recipient cells. In addition, EVs make an attractive delivery vehicle for therapeutics owing to their increased stability in circulation, biocompatibility, low immunogenicity and toxicity profiles. EVs can also be engineered to display targeting moieties on their surfaces which enables targeting to desired tissues, organs or cells. While much has been learned on the role of EVs as cell communicators, the field of therapeutic EV application is currently under development. Critical to the future success of EV delivery system is the description of methods by which therapeutics can be successfully and efficiently loaded within the EVs. Two methods of loading of EVs with therapeutic cargo exist, endogenous and exogenous loading. We have therefore focused this review on describing the various published approaches for loading EVs with therapeutics.
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- Dhruvitkumar S Sutaria
- Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.,Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
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Kim JH, Badawi M, Park JK, Jiang J, Mo X, Roberts LR, Schmittgen TD. Anti-invasion and anti-migration effects of miR-199a-3p in hepatocellular carcinoma are due in part to targeting CD151. Int J Oncol 2016; 49:2037-2045. [PMID: 27599545 DOI: 10.3892/ijo.2016.3677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2016] [Accepted: 06/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Several studies have reported reduced miR-199a-3p expression in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In an effort to discover important target genes for miR-199a-3p that may be related to HCC development or progression, we identified the tetraspanin, transmembrane glycoprotein CD151. Luciferase reporter assays and western blotting identified CD151 as a bona fide miR-199a-3p target gene. While CD151 protein was increased in the mesenchymal but not the epithelial HCC cell lines, CD151 knockdown with siRNA did not reduce HCC cell proliferation in either group of cells. miR-199a-3p reduced in vitro invasion and migration of CD151-positive HCC cells. Examination of the mRNA and protein expression in pairs of primary HCC tumors and adjacent benign tissues showed that not only was CD151 mRNA and protein increased in the tumors but also that an inverse correlation exists between the miR-199a-3p and CD151 RNA expression. We report that CD151 is a target of miR-199a-3p and that increased CD151 protein resulting from reduced miR-199a-3p could contribute to the development of metastatic HCC.
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- Ji Hye Kim
- College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Divisions of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
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Azevedo-Pouly ACP, Sutaria DS, Jiang J, Elgamal OA, Amari F, Allard D, Grippo PJ, Coppola V, Schmittgen TD. miR-216 and miR-217 expression is reduced in transgenic mouse models of pancreatic adenocarcinoma, knockout of miR-216/miR-217 host gene is embryonic lethal. Funct Integr Genomics 2016; 17:203-212. [PMID: 27541609 DOI: 10.1007/s10142-016-0512-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2016] [Revised: 07/20/2016] [Accepted: 08/02/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Mice harboring a G12D activating Kras mutation are among the most heavily studied models in the field of pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) research. miRNAs are differentially expressed in PDAC from patients and mouse models of PDAC. To better understand the relationship that Kras activation has on miRNA expression, we profiled the expression of 629 miRNAs in RNA isolated from the pancreas of control, young, and old P48+/Cre;LSL-KRASG12D as well as PDX-1-Cre;LSL-KRASG12D mice. One hundred of the differentially expressed miRNAs had increased expression in the advanced disease (old) P48+/Cre;LSL-KRASG12D compared to wild-type mice. Interestingly, the expression of three miRNAs, miR-216a, miR-216b, and miR-217, located within a ∼30-kbp region on 11qA3.3, decreased with age (and phenotype severity) in these mice. miR-216/-217 expression was also evaluated in another acinar-specific ELa-KrasG12D mouse model and was downregulated as well. As miR-216/-217 are acinar enriched, reduced in human PDAC and target KRAS, we hypothesized that they may maintain acinar differentiation or represent tumor suppressive miRNAs. To test this hypothesis, we deleted a 27.9-kbp region of 11qA3.3 containing the miR-216/-217 host gene in the mouse's germ line. We report that germ line deletion of this cluster is embryonic lethal in the mouse. We estimate that lethality occurs shortly after E9.5. qPCR analysis of the miR-216b and miR-217 expression in the heterozygous animals showed no difference in expression, suggesting haplosufficiency by some type of compensatory mechanism. We present the differential miRNA expression in KrasG12D transgenic mice and report lethality from deletion of the miR-216/-217 host gene in the mouse's germ line.
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- Ana Clara P Azevedo-Pouly
- College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
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Sutaria DS, Jiang J, Elgamal OA, Azevedo-Pouly ACP, Pavlovicz RE, Li C, Phelps MA, Schmittgen TD. Abstract 2068: Engineering of hairpin loop enhances the loading of endogenously expressed pre-miRNA into extracellular vesicles. Cancer Res 2016. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2016-2068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Extracellular vesicles (EVs) hold tremendous potential as drug delivery carriers for therapeutic nucleic acids such as microRNA (miRNA) due to their natural composition and ability to be engineered to contain targeting peptides on their surface. We have engineered HEK293T cells to secrete EVs by overexpressing Lamp-2A protein containing liver cancer targeting peptide PC94 and therapeutic pre-miR-199. The novel feature of this system is that both the cargo and the microvesicles are synthesized by the same cells, thus abrogating the need for loading synthetic oligonucleotides into EVs. The pre-miR-199a loop region was modified such that it resembled the HIV-1 transactivation response (TAR) RNA which was engineered into the Lamp2A intron. Correct splicing of the intron portion and processing of the mature miRNA was evaluated after its transfection into HEK293T cells. Computational modeling was used to study the interaction between the modified pre-miR-199a loop (TAR RNA) and the TAT peptide. This study exhibited a stable interaction between the two and also showed that the peptide is not bound to the stem portion of the RNA loop, permitting the insertion of any pre-miRNA sequence. EMSA gel shift, rDICER processing and luciferase assays were performed to study the correct binding, processing and functionality of the modified sequence. These results show that the modified loop is actively involved in binding with the TAT peptide and it enables the modified miRNA to be loaded in the microvesicles. In an effort to assess the loading of the therapeutic miR-199a-3p relative to other endogenous miRNAs contained within the EVs, we performed small RNA sequencing on RNA isolated from both the producing cells and purified EVs. Triplicate samples of RNA isolated from 3 different HEK293T producing cells were sequenced: wild type HEK293T and those stably transfected with the empty vector (empty) or the TAT/TAR pre-miR-199a (full). The expression of the miRNAs were ranked from the RNA sequenced in both the cells and EVs. Producing cells engineered to express miR-199a-3p containing the TAT/TAR loading motif ranked third when comparing the ratio of miRNAs loaded in the EVs from the full to empty cells. Interestingly, certain mature miRNAs were preferentially loaded into the EVs, including miR-451a, miR-122 and miR-1246. As reported by Villarroya-Beltri, et al., (Nature Comm., 2013) in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells, all three mature miRNAs contained 4 nucleotide “exo motifs” in their 3’ end that likely caused preferential loading into HEK293T EVs. Our data demonstrate that stably transfecting HEK293T cells with vectors expressing therapeutic miRNAs dramatically increases their loading into EVs. These mature miRNAs may be further engineered to contain exo motifs that could conceivably enhance their loading into EV drug carrier systems.
Citation Format: Dhruvitkumar S. Sutaria, Jinmai Jiang, Ola A. Elgamal, Ana-Clara P. Azevedo-Pouly, Ryan E. Pavlovicz, Chenglong Li, Mitch A. Phelps, Thomas D. Schmittgen. Engineering of hairpin loop enhances the loading of endogenously expressed pre-miRNA into extracellular vesicles. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2016 Apr 16-20; New Orleans, LA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2016;76(14 Suppl):Abstract nr 2068.
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Rosas LE, Elgamal OA, Mo X, Phelps MA, Schmittgen TD, Papenfuss TL. In vitro immunotoxicity assessment of culture-derived extracellular vesicles in human monocytes. J Immunotoxicol 2016; 13:652-65. [PMID: 27075513 DOI: 10.3109/1547691x.2016.1148089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The potential to engineer extracellular vesicles (EV) that target specific cells and deliver a therapeutic payload has propelled a growing interest in their development as promising therapeutics. These EV are often produced from cultured cells. Very little is known about the interaction of cell culture-derived EV with cells of the immune system and their potential immunomodulatory effects. The present study evaluated potential immunotoxic effects of HEK293T-derived EV on the human monocytic cell lines THP-1 and U937. Incubation of cells with different doses of EV for 16-24 h was followed by assessment of cytotoxicity and cell function by flow cytometry. Changes in cell functionality were evaluated by the capacity of cells to phagocytize fluorescent microspheres. In addition, the internalization of labeled EV in THP-1 and U937 cells was evaluated. Exposure to EV did not affect the viability of THP-1 or U937 cells. Although lower doses of the EV increased phagocytic capacity in both cell lines, phagocytic efficiency of individual cells was not affected by EV exposure at any of the doses evaluated. This study also demonstrated that THP-1 and U937 monocytic cells are highly permissive to EV entry in a dose-response manner. These results suggest that, although HEK293T-derived EV are efficiently internalized by human monocytic cells, they do not exert a cytotoxic effect or alter phagocytic efficiency on the cell lines evaluated.
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- Lucia E Rosas
- a Department of Veterinary Biosciences , Ohio State University , Columbus , OH , USA
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- b College of Pharmacy , Ohio State University , Columbus , OH , USA
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- c Center for Biostatistics , Ohio State University , Columbus , OH , USA
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- b College of Pharmacy , Ohio State University , Columbus , OH , USA
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- a Department of Veterinary Biosciences , Ohio State University , Columbus , OH , USA
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Li B, Luo X, Deng B, Giancola JB, McComb DW, Schmittgen TD, Dong Y. Effects of local structural transformation of lipid-like compounds on delivery of messenger RNA. Sci Rep 2016; 6:22137. [PMID: 26916931 PMCID: PMC4768262 DOI: 10.1038/srep22137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2016] [Accepted: 02/05/2016] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Lipid-like nanoparticles (LLNs) have shown great potential for RNA delivery. Lipid-like compounds are key components in LLNs. In this study, we investigated the effects of local structural transformation of lipid-like compounds on delivery of messenger RNA. Our results showed that position change of functional groups on lipid-like compounds can dramatically improve delivery efficiency. We then optimized formulation ratios of TNT-b10 LLNs, a lead material, increasing delivery efficiency over 2-fold. More importantly, pegylated TNT-b10 LLNs is stable for over four weeks and is over 10-fold more efficient than that of its counterpart TNT-a10 LLNs. Additionally, the optimal formulation O-TNT-b10 LLNs is capable of delivering mRNA encoding luciferase in vivo. These results provide useful insights into the design of next generation LLNs for mRNA delivery.
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- Bin Li
- Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43212, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43212, USA
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- Division of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, USA
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- Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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Arango D, Diosa-Toro M, Rojas-Hernandez LS, Cooperstone JL, Schwartz SJ, Mo X, Jiang J, Schmittgen TD, Doseff AI. Dietary apigenin reduces LPS-induced expression of miR-155 restoring immune balance during inflammation. Mol Nutr Food Res 2015; 59:763-72. [PMID: 25641956 DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201400705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2014] [Revised: 12/25/2014] [Accepted: 12/29/2014] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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SCOPE High incidence of inflammatory diseases afflicts the increasing aging-population infringing a great health burden. Dietary flavonoids, including the flavone apigenin, are emerging as important anti-inflammatory nutraceuticals due to their health benefits, lack of adverse effects and reduced costs. MicroRNAs (miRs) play a central role in inflammation by regulating gene expression, yet how dietary ingredients affect miRs is poorly understood. The aim of this study was to identify miRs involved in the anti-inflammatory activity of apigenin and apigenin-rich diets and determine their immune regulatory mechanisms in macrophages and in vivo. METHODS AND RESULTS A high-throughput quantitative reverse transcriptase PCR screen of 312 miRs in macrophages revealed that apigenin reduced LPS-induced miR-155 expression. Analyses of miR-155 precursor and primary transcript indicated that apigenin regulated miR-155 transcriptionally. Apigenin-reduced expression of miR-155 led to the increase of anti-inflammatory regulators forkhead box O3a and smooth-muscle-actin and MAD-related protein 2 in LPS-treated macrophages. In vivo, apigenin or a celery-based apigenin-rich diet reduced LPS-induced expression of miR-155 and decreased tumor necrosis factor α in lungs from LPS-treated mice. CONCLUSION These results demonstrate that apigenin and apigenin-rich diets exert effective anti-inflammatory activity in vivo by reducing LPS-induced expression of miR-155, thereby restoring immune balance.
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- Daniel Arango
- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, The Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA; Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA; Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Isolation of high-quality RNA from ribonuclease-rich tissue such as mouse pancreas presents a challenge. As a primary function of the pancreas is to aid in digestion, mouse pancreas may contain as much a 75 mg of ribonuclease. We report modifications of standard phenol/guanidine thiocyanate lysis reagent protocols to isolate RNA from mouse pancreas. Guanidine thiocyanate is a strong protein denaturant and will effectively disrupt the activity of ribonuclease under most conditions. However, critical modifications to standard protocols are necessary to successfully isolate RNA from ribonuclease-rich tissues. Key steps include a high lysis reagent to tissue ratio, removal of undigested tissue prior to phase separation and inclusion of a ribonuclease inhibitor to the RNA solution. Using these and other modifications, we routinely isolate RNA with RNA Integrity Number (RIN) greater than 7. The isolated RNA is of suitable quality for routine gene expression analysis. Adaptation of this protocol to isolate RNA from ribonuclease rich tissues besides the pancreas should be readily achievable.
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- Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry, The Ohio State University
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Elgamal OA, Park JK, Gusev Y, Azevedo-Pouly ACP, Jiang J, Roopra A, Schmittgen TD. Tumor suppressive function of mir-205 in breast cancer is linked to HMGB3 regulation. PLoS One 2013; 8:e76402. [PMID: 24098490 PMCID: PMC3788717 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2013] [Accepted: 08/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Identifying targets of dysregulated microRNAs (miRNAs) will enhance our understanding of how altered miRNA expression contributes to the malignant phenotype of breast cancer. The expression of miR-205 was reduced in four breast cancer cell lines compared to the normal-like epithelial cell line MCF10A and in tumor and metastatic tissues compared to adjacent benign breast tissue. Two predicted binding sites for miR-205 were identified in the 3’ untranslated region of the high mobility group box 3 gene, HMGB3. Both dual-luciferase reporter assay and Western blotting confirmed that miR-205 binds to and regulates HMGB3. To further explore miR-205 targeting of HMGB3, WST-1 proliferation and in vitro invasion assays were performed in MDA-MB-231 and BT549 cells transiently transfected with precursor miR-205 oligonucleotide or HMGB3 small interfering RNA (siRNA). Both treatments reduced the proliferation and invasion of the cancer cells. The mRNA and protein levels of HMGB3 were higher in the tumor compared to adjacent benign specimens and there was an indirect correlation between the expression of HMGB3 mRNA and patient survival. Treatment of breast cancer cells with 5-Aza/TSA derepressed miR-205 and reduced HMGB3 mRNA while knockdown of the transcriptional repressor NRSF/REST, reduced miR-205 and increased HMGB3. In conclusion, regulation of HMGB3 by miR-205 reduced both proliferation and invasion of breast cancer cells. Our findings suggest that modulating miR-205 and/or targeting HMGB3 are potential therapies for advanced breast cancer.
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- Ola A. Elgamal
- College of Pharmacy, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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- College of Pharmacy, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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- Georgetown University Cancer Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
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- College of Pharmacy, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- College of Pharmacy, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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Collins AL, Wojcik S, Liu J, Frankel WL, Alder H, Yu L, Schmittgen TD, Croce CM, Bloomston M. A differential microRNA profile distinguishes cholangiocarcinoma from pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Ann Surg Oncol 2013; 21:133-8. [PMID: 24046106 DOI: 10.1245/s10434-013-3240-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2013] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND Cancers of the bile duct and the pancreas are virtually indistinguishable using conventional histopathological and clinical characteristics. We sought to use microRNA (miR) profiling to differentiate these two cancers. METHODS RNA was harvested from the tumors of patients undergoing curative resection for cholangiocarcinoma or pancreatic adenocarcinoma and compared with adjacent normal bile duct or pancreas, respectively. There were 31 pairs of cholangiocarcinoma with matched tumor and adjacent bile duct and nine pairs of pancreatic cancer with matched tumor and adjacent uninvolved pancreas that had sufficient quantity of RNA that were included in the final analysis. Differential microRNA expression profiles were determined using the nCounter System from nanoString Technologies (Seattle, WA,USA). RESULTS A total of 41 differentially expressed miRs were identified in cholangiocarcinoma (25 overexpressed, 16 underexpressed) and 52 differentially expressed miRs were found in pancreatic adenocarcinoma (30 overexpressed, 22 underexpressed) relative to adjacent normal tissue. Of these two profiles, 15 miRs were commonly dysregulated between tumor types. Also, eight miRs were similarly overexpressed or underexpressed in cholangiocarcinoma and pancreatic adenocarcinoma, whereas the other seven miRs had inverse expression levels. CONCLUSIONS Cholangiocarcinoma has a distinct miR profile from pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Discrimination between these two tumor types may be possible with as few as seven miRs.
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- Amy L Collins
- Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Kuhn DE, Nuovo GJ, Martin MM, Malana GE, Pleister AP, Jiang J, Schmittgen TD, Terry AV, Gardiner K, Head E, Feldman DS, Elton TS. Retraction notice to "Human chromosome 21-derived miRNAs are over-expressed in down syndrome brains and hearts" [Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 370 (2008) 473-477]. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2013; 436:564. [PMID: 23986919 PMCID: PMC4370222 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2013.06.083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Martin MM, Buckenberger JA, Jiang J, Malana GE, Nuovo GJ, Chotani M, Feldman DS, Schmittgen TD, Elton TS. The human angiotensin II type 1 receptor +1166 A/C polymorphism attenuates microRNA-155 binding. J Biol Chem 2013; 288:4227. [PMID: 23690059 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.a112.701050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Martin MM, Lee EJ, Buckenberger JA, Schmittgen TD, Elton TS. MicroRNA-155 regulates human angiotensin II type 1 receptor expression in fibroblasts. J Biol Chem 2013; 288:4226. [PMID: 23690058 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.a112.601496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Park JK, Kogure T, Nuovo GJ, Jiang J, He L, Kim JH, Phelps MA, Papenfuss TL, Croce CM, Patel T, Schmittgen TD. miR-221 silencing blocks hepatocellular carcinoma and promotes survival. Cancer Res 2011; 71:7608-16. [PMID: 22009537 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-11-1144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 181] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) face a dismal prognosis because of a lack of any effective therapies. To address this situation, we conducted a preclinical investigation of the therapeutic efficacy of oligonucleotides directed against the oncogenic microRNA miR-221, which has been implicated in HCC. Of 9 chemistries evaluated, we determined that a 2'-O-methyl phosphorothioate-modified anti-miR-221 oligonucleotide was most effective at reducing proliferation in vitro. A cholesterol-modified isoform of anti-miR-221 (chol-anti-miR-221) exhibited improved pharmacokinetics and liver tissue distribution compared with unmodified oligonucleotide. Chol-anti-miR-221 significantly reduced miR-221 levels in liver within a week of intravenous administration and in situ hybridization studies confirmed accumulation of the oligonucleotide in tumor cells in vivo. Within the same period, chol-anti-miR-221 reduced tumor cell proliferation and increased markers of apoptosis and cell-cycle arrest, elevating the tumor doubling time and increasing mouse survival. Taken together, our findings offer a preclinical proof of efficacy for chol-anti-miR-221 in a valid orthotopic mouse model of HCC, suggesting that this targeted agent could benefit treatment for patients with advanced HCC.
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- College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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Henry JC, Azevedo-Pouly ACP, Schmittgen TD. microRNA Replacement Therapy for Cancer. Pharm Res 2011; 28:3030-42. [DOI: 10.1007/s11095-011-0548-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2011] [Accepted: 07/22/2011] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Azevedo ACP, Jiang J, Lee EJ, Gusev Y, Allard D, Tuveson DA, Calin GA, Schmittgen TD. Abstract 1179: Global increase in ultraconserved non-coding RNA expression in pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Cancer Res 2011. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2011-1179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Transcribed ultraconserved regions (T-UCRs) are a class of 482 non-coding RNAs with 100% sequence conservation among human, rat and mouse genomes. T-UCRs are differentially expressed in colorectal cancer, leukemia and neuroblastoma, however their expression in pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has not been studied. We used qPCR to profile all 482 T-UCRs in a variety of pancreatic cancer specimens including pancreatic adenocarcinoma, chronic pancreatitis and benign/normal pancreas and in the pancreas of genetically engineered mice (P48+/Cre;LSL-KRASG12D and PDX-1-Cre;LSL-KRASG12D). Of the 257 expressed T-UCRs in the human pancreas tissues, 166 were differentially expressed in the PDAC compared to normal and adjacent benign pancreas (≥ 1.5 fold; p < 0.05). In the genetically engineered mice, 29% of the expressed T-UCRs were differentially expressed in the pancreas of old P48+/Cre;LSL-KRASG12D mice (mean age, 231 days) compared to control. In both the patient and mouse data, the vast majority of the differentially expressed T-UCRs increased with disease progression. Interestingly, the expression pattern among groups of two T-UCRs closely correlated with each other. This was to be expected for T-UCRs directly adjacent to one another in the genome, but surprisingly we found strong correlations among T-UCRs that are located on different chromosomes. This suggests that large groups of T-UCRs are co-expressed in PDAC. In vitro models that simulate the desmoplastic reaction have been shown it to alter gene expression in PDAC. In an effort to understand the mechanism responsible for this global increase in expression in PDAC, the T-UCRs were profiled in normal pancreas (HPDE) cells that were cultured on the extracellular matrix deposited by Panc-1 cells. Ninety-one T-UCRs were increased in the HPDE co-cultures (fold-change > 1.5, p< 0.05). We report a global increase in the T-UCR expression in PDAC tissues, the pancreas of genetically engineered mice and in HPDE cells co-cultured with Panc-1 cells. The ability of the MAP kinase and TGF-β signaling pathways to regulate T-UCR expression will be investigated in the future.
Citation Format: {Authors}. {Abstract title} [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2011 Apr 2-6; Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2011;71(8 Suppl):Abstract nr 1179. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2011-1179
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Henry JC, Park JK, Jiang J, Kim JH, Roberts LR, Nagorney DM, Banerjee S, Schmittgen TD. Abstract 1183: miR-199a-3p targets CD44 and reduces proliferation of CD44 positive hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines. Cancer Res 2011. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2011-1183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Previous work by us and others reported decreased expression of miR-199a-3p in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tissues compared to adjacent benign tissue. We report here a significant reduction of miR-199a-3p expression in 7 HCC cell lines (Huh7, HepG2, SNU182, PLC/PRF/5, Hep3B, SNU423 and SNU449) compared to primary hepatocytes. To determine if miR-199a-3p has a tumor suppressive role, miR-199a-3p mimetic was transfected into the 7 HCC cell lines. miR-199a-3p mimetic reduced cell proliferation by approximately 60% compared to control oligonucleotide in only two cell lines (SNU449 and SNU423); the proliferation of the other 5 treated cell lines was similar to control oligonucleotide. A miR-199a-3p mimetic formulated with chemical modifications to enhance stability while preserving processing reduced cell proliferation in SNU449 and SNU423 to the same extent as the commercially available miR-199a-3p mimetic. Furthermore, only the duplex miR-199a-3p mimetic, and not the guide strand alone, was effective at reducing cell viability. Since a CD44 variant was essential for c-Met signaling (Orian-Rousseau, et al., Genes Dev. 2002) and c-Met is a known miR-199a-3p target, we hypothesized that miR-199a-3p may also target CD44. Indeed, miRNA target algorithms predict miR-199a-3p to be a putative target of CD44. Immunoblotting confirmed that only the HCC lines that were sensitive to the effects of miR-199a-3p mimetic (SNU449 and SNU423) were CD44+. Direct targeting of CD44 by miR-199a-3p was confirmed using luciferase reporter assays and immunoblotting. Transfection of miR-199a-3p into SNU449 cells reduced in vitro invasion and sensitized the cells to doxorubicin; both effects were enhanced when hyaluronic acid was added to the cell cultures. An inverse correlation between the expression of miR-199a-3p and CD44 protein was noted in primary HCC tissue specimens. The anti-proliferative and anti-invasive properties of miR-199a-3p mimetic on CD44+ HCC may be a useful targeted therapy for CD44+ HCC.
Citation Format: {Authors}. {Abstract title} [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2011 Apr 2-6; Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2011;71(8 Suppl):Abstract nr 1183. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2011-1183
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- 4Center for Liver Research, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, IPGMER, Kolkata, India
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Lin SH, Jiang J, Kuo CT, Ye W, Xu P, Li H, Liu JY, Zhong S, Schmittgen TD, Lin YC. Abstract 3956: Differential miR-141 expression in primary cultured human breast cancer epithelium (PCHBCEs) and normal adjacent part epithelium (PCHBNEs) correlates with tumor suppressor protein tyrosine phosphataseγ (PTPγ). Cancer Res 2011. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2011-3956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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MicroRNAs (miR) have been shown to be extensively involved in tumorigenesis by post-transcriptional inhibition of oncogenes and/or tumor-suppressor genes. The purpose of our study is to investigate the difference in miRNA expression between cancer epithelium and epithelium from normal breast adjacent tissues. The clinical samples were procured from the Tissue Procurement Program at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Hospital from breast cancer patients who underwent partial or complete mastectomy. The miRNA profiling for one pair of PCHBCEC and PCHBNEC from the same patient was carried out, and the difference of miRNA expression and potential target genes were further verified by realtime qPCR in 7 pairs of clinical samples. The miRNA profiling showed that 24 miRNAs (let-7a, let-7c, let-7f, let-7g, miR-24, miR-28, miR-29a, miR-29c, miR-30a-5p, miR-30d, miR-92, miR-125a, miR-126*, miR-132, miR-135a, miR-135b, miR-137, miR-141, miR-182, miR-200c, miR-339, miR-365, miR-425-5p, miR-391, p<0.05) are statistically up-regulated in cancer while only 1 miRNA (miR-221) is down-regulated. Based on the magnitude of change and predicted target, we selected miR-141 for further validation. Compared with its normal adjacent counterpart, 4 PCHBCECs had lower miR-141 while 2 were up-regulated and 1 unaltered. Further validation on gene expression of the samples confirmed the negative correlation of miR-141 with its putative target PTPγ. Our comparison of PCHBCECs and PCHBNECs under the same genetic background demonstrated a distinct expression of miRNAs. The dysregulation of miR-141 was shown to result in modulation of the potential tumor-suppressor gene PTPγ which might have an impact on the etiological process of tumor lesion and discriminate cancer epithelial cells from their surrounding normal breast epithelial compartments. Our results implicate that miR-141 might serve as molecular biomarker for therapy of human breast cancer patients. (Supported by NIH R01 Grant ES 015212).
Citation Format: {Authors}. {Abstract title} [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2011 Apr 2-6; Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2011;71(8 Suppl):Abstract nr 3956. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2011-3956
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Park JK, Kogure T, Nuovo GJ, He L, Kim JH, Phelps MA, Croce CM, Patel T, Schmittgen TD. Abstract 4711: Silencing of miR-221 with anti-microRNA oligonucleotides is an effective therapeutic for hepatocellular carcinoma. Cancer Res 2011. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2011-4711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) face a dismal prognosis as there are no standardized therapies to treat this stage of the disease. Inhibition of microRNAs that are overexpressed in the tumor with antisense oligonucleotides represents a novel option to treat HCC. For antisense oligonucleotides to be effective, they must reach the target tumor tissue, inhibit the miRNA, modulate the miRNAs target protein levels and prolong survival. We evaluated anti-miR-221 in normal and tumor bearing mice. Of eight different chemistries evaluated, the cholesterol labeled, 2’ O methyl, phosphorothioate modified anti-miR-221 (chol-anti-miR-221) was the most effective at reducing proliferation in vitro. In the absence of transfection reagents, the in vitro proliferation was reduced by the chol-anti-miR-221 but not the scrambled control. Non specific toxicity was observed in vitro for each of the chemically modified scrambled control oligos when transfected with lipid reagent. Chol-anti-miR-221 had improved pharmacokinetics and liver tissue distribution compared to the non cholesterol labeled oligonucleotide in C57Bl/6 mice. Endogenous miR-221 levels in the liver were reduced by chol-anti-miR-221 in C57Bl/6 mice by 90%, 7 days following the start of the dosing schedule. In situ hybridization demonstrated that chol-anti-miR-221 accumulated in the tumor cells of orthotopic mice. Chol-anti-miR-221 reduced endogenous miR-221 levels in the tumors of orthotopic xenograft mice by > 95% and increased p27Kip1 target protein by 3-fold, 7 days after dosing. Chol-anti-miR-221 produced a survival advantage in orthotopic mice compared to those mice treated with a scrambled control oligo (P < 0.05). Our data demonstrate that chol-anti-miR-221 is efficacious in an orthotopic mouse model of HCC and suggests that such a therapy may be beneficial in patients with advanced HCC.
Citation Format: {Authors}. {Abstract title} [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2011 Apr 2-6; Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2011;71(8 Suppl):Abstract nr 4711. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2011-4711
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- 1Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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