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Methods Protoc ; 4(2)2021 May 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34066513

RESUMO

Cellular Indexing of Transcriptomes and Epitopes by Sequencing (CITE-seq) is a recently established multimodal single cell analysis technique combining the immunophenotyping capabilities of antibody labeling and cell sorting with the resolution of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq). By simply adding a 12-bp nucleotide barcode to antibodies (cell hashing), CITE-seq can be used to sequence antibody-bound tags alongside the cellular mRNA, thus reducing costs of scRNA-seq by performing it at the same time on multiple barcoded samples in a single run. Here, we illustrate an ideal CITE-seq data analysis workflow by characterizing the transcriptome of SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cell line, a widely used model to study neuronal function and differentiation. We obtained transcriptomes from a total of 2879 single cells, measuring an average of 1600 genes/cell. Along with standard scRNA-seq data handling procedures, such as quality checks and cell filtering procedures, we performed exploratory analyses to identify most stable genes to be possibly used as reference housekeeping genes in qPCR experiments. We also illustrate how to use some popular R packages to investigate cell heterogeneity in scRNA-seq data, namely Seurat, Monocle, and slalom. Both the CITE-seq dataset and the code used to analyze it are freely shared and fully reusable for future research.

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Biomolecules ; 11(2)2021 01 28.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33525507

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Neuroblastoma (NBL) is a pediatric cancer responsible for more than 15% of cancer deaths in children, with 800 new cases each year in the United States alone. Genomic amplification of the MYC oncogene family member MYCN characterizes a subset of high-risk pediatric neuroblastomas. Several cellular models have been implemented to study this disease over the years. Two of these, SK-N-BE-2-C (BE2C) and Kelly, are amongst the most used worldwide as models of MYCN-Amplified human NBL. Here, we provide a transcriptome-wide quantitative measurement of gene expression and transcriptional network activity in BE2C and Kelly cell lines at an unprecedented single-cell resolution. We obtained 1105 Kelly and 962 BE2C unsynchronized cells, with an average number of mapped reads/cell of roughly 38,000. The single-cell data recapitulate gene expression signatures previously generated from bulk RNA-Seq. We highlight low variance for commonly used housekeeping genes between different cells (ACTB, B2M and GAPDH), while showing higher than expected variance for metallothionein transcripts in Kelly cells. The high number of samples, despite the relatively low read coverage of single cells, allowed for robust pathway enrichment analysis and master regulator analysis (MRA), both of which highlight the more mesenchymal nature of BE2C cells as compared to Kelly cells, and the upregulation of TWIST1 and DNAJC1 transcriptional networks. We further defined master regulators at the single cell level and showed that MYCN is not constantly active or expressed within Kelly and BE2C cells, independently of cell cycle phase. The dataset, alongside a detailed and commented programming protocol to analyze it, is fully shared and reusable.


Assuntos
Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Proteína Proto-Oncogênica N-Myc/genética , Neuroblastoma/metabolismo , Análise de Célula Única/métodos , Transcrição Gênica , Ciclo Celular , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Amplificação de Genes , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Redes Reguladoras de Genes , Genoma Humano , Humanos , Proteínas Oncogênicas/genética , RNA Mensageiro/genética , RNA-Seq , Transcriptoma , Regulação para Cima
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Implant Dent ; 24(2): 134-41, 2015 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25706263

RESUMO

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to investigate the earlier phase of the osseointegration of a laser-treated implant surface in terms of human protein adsorption. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Titanium surfaces were divided into machined (M), sandblasted (SB), and laser-treated (LT). The LT surfaces were created with an Nd diode-pumped laser in Q-switching, whereas the SB were treated with Al2O3. An x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis of titanium surface was performed. Titanium discs were used for albumin and fibronectin adsorption evaluation through fluorescence intensity. Fibronectin evaluation was also made with Western Blot analysis on experimental implants. RESULTS: LT discs appeared to trigger a higher albumin and fibronectin adsorption with a regular pattern. The mean count of albumin adsorption was 0.29 and 3.8 for SB and LT, respectively (P = 0.016), whereas fibronectin values were 0.67 and 4.9 for (SB) and (LT) titanium (P = 0.02). XPS analysis showed that titanium, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen were found on all 3 surfaces. CONCLUSION: Laser-engineered porous titanium surface seems to promote, in vitro, the adsorption of albumin and fibronectin more than sandblasted (SB) or machined (M) implants.


Assuntos
Albuminas/metabolismo , Fibronectinas/metabolismo , Osseointegração , Titânio , Adsorção , Western Blotting , Implantes Dentários , Humanos , Técnicas In Vitro , Lasers , Espectroscopia Fotoeletrônica , Propriedades de Superfície
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Cancer Res ; 66(18): 9235-44, 2006 Sep 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16982768

RESUMO

Identification of alternative pathways of caspase activation is an important step to develop new antitumor treatments. We report here the result of a screening with a small chemical library, the Developmental Therapeutics Program-National Cancer Institute "challenge set," on cells expressing mutated caspase-9. We have identified two molecules capable of activating an apoptosome-independent apoptotic pathway. These compounds, named F6 and G5, target the ubiquitin-proteasome system by inhibiting the ubiquitin isopeptidases. We have shown that F6 and G5 induce a rather unique apoptotic pathway, which includes a Bcl-2-dependent but apoptosome-independent mitochondrial pathway with up-regulation of the BH3-only protein Noxa, stabilization of the inhibitor of apoptosis antagonist Smac, but also the involvement of the death receptor pathway. Noxa plays an important role in the induction of mitochondrial fragmentation and caspase activation, whereas the death receptor pathway becomes critical in the absence of a functional apoptosome. This study suggests that screening of chemical libraries on cancer cells with defined mutations in apoptotic key elements can lead to the identification of compounds that are useful to characterize alternative pathways of caspase activation.


Assuntos
Apoptose/efeitos dos fármacos , Caspases/metabolismo , Óxidos S-Cíclicos/farmacologia , Ativadores de Enzimas/farmacologia , Nitrobenzenos/farmacologia , Piperidonas/farmacologia , Apoptose/fisiologia , Proteínas Reguladoras de Apoptose , Caspase 9/genética , Ciclina D1/metabolismo , Ensaios de Seleção de Medicamentos Antitumorais , Ativação Enzimática/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Peptídeos e Proteínas de Sinalização Intracelular/metabolismo , Mitocôndrias/efeitos dos fármacos , Mitocôndrias/fisiologia , Proteínas Mitocondriais/metabolismo , Mutação , Complexo de Endopeptidases do Proteassoma/metabolismo , Inibidores de Proteassoma , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas c-bcl-2/metabolismo , Ubiquitina/antagonistas & inibidores , Ubiquitina/metabolismo
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