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Epidemiology Of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease And Risk Of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Progression, Krishna Chaitanya Thandra, Adam Barsouk, Kalyan Saginala, John Sukumar Aluru, Prashanth Rawla, Alexander Barsouk Dec 2020

Epidemiology Of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease And Risk Of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Progression, Krishna Chaitanya Thandra, Adam Barsouk, Kalyan Saginala, John Sukumar Aluru, Prashanth Rawla, Alexander Barsouk

Kimmel Cancer Center Faculty Papers

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become the most common chronic liver disease worldwide. Its incidence has grown alongside the increasing global prevalence of type 2 diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome. The risk of progression to hepatocellular carcinoma for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis patients over 5 years is 8%, and despite targeted and immunotherapy treatment advances, HCC maintains a bleak 5-year survival of 19%. NAFLD’s primary risk factors are components of metabolic syndrome as well as possible sleep disturbances. NAFLD is most common among men 50-60 years of age, though incidence in women catches up after menopause. In the US, Hispanics are …


Hitting The Bullseye: Are Extracellular Vesicles On Target?, Nicole Noren Hooten, María Yáñez-Mó, Rachel M. Derita, Ashley Russell, Peter Quesenberry, Bharat Ramratnam, Paul D Robbins, Dolores Di Vizio, Sicheng Wen, Kenneth W Witwer, Lucia R Languino Nov 2020

Hitting The Bullseye: Are Extracellular Vesicles On Target?, Nicole Noren Hooten, María Yáñez-Mó, Rachel M. Derita, Ashley Russell, Peter Quesenberry, Bharat Ramratnam, Paul D Robbins, Dolores Di Vizio, Sicheng Wen, Kenneth W Witwer, Lucia R Languino

Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers

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Insulin-Like Growth Factor 2 Mrna-Binding Protein 3 Modulates Aggressiveness Of Ewing Sarcoma By Regulating The Cd164-Cxcr4 Axis, Caterina Mancarella, Giulia Caldoni, Irene Ribolsi, Alessandro Parra, Maria Cristina Manara, Arthur M Mercurio, Andrea Morrione, Katia Scotlandi Jul 2020

Insulin-Like Growth Factor 2 Mrna-Binding Protein 3 Modulates Aggressiveness Of Ewing Sarcoma By Regulating The Cd164-Cxcr4 Axis, Caterina Mancarella, Giulia Caldoni, Irene Ribolsi, Alessandro Parra, Maria Cristina Manara, Arthur M Mercurio, Andrea Morrione, Katia Scotlandi

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

Ewing sarcoma (EWS) is the second most common bone and soft tissue-associated malignancy in children and young adults. It is driven by the fusion oncogene EWS/FLI1 and characterized by rapid growth and early metastasis. We have previously discovered that the mRNA binding protein IGF2BP3 constitutes an important biomarker for EWS as high expression of IGF2BP3 in primary tumors predicts poor prognosis of EWS patients. We additionally demonstrated that IGF2BP3 enhances anchorage-independent growth and migration of EWS cells suggesting that IGF2BP3 might work as molecular driver and predictor of EWS progression. The aim of this study was to further define the …


Profiling The Circulating Mrna Transcriptome In Human Liver Disease, Aejaz Sayeed, Brielle E Dalvano, David E Kaplan, Usha Viswanathan, John Kulp, Alhaji H Janneh, Lu-Yu Hwang, Adam Ertel, Cataldo Doria, Timothy Block Jun 2020

Profiling The Circulating Mrna Transcriptome In Human Liver Disease, Aejaz Sayeed, Brielle E Dalvano, David E Kaplan, Usha Viswanathan, John Kulp, Alhaji H Janneh, Lu-Yu Hwang, Adam Ertel, Cataldo Doria, Timothy Block

Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers

The human circulation contains cell-free DNA and non-coding microRNA (miRNA). Less is known about the presence of messenger RNA (mRNA). This report profiles the human circulating mRNA transcriptome in people with liver cirrhosis (LC) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) to determine whether mRNA analytes can be used as biomarkers of liver disease. Using RNAseq and RT-qPCR, we investigate circulating mRNA in plasma from HCC and LC patients and demonstrate detection of transcripts representing more than 19,000 different protein coding genes. Remarkably, the circulating mRNA expression levels were similar from person to person over the 21 individuals whose samples were analyzed by …


Microrna Expression Profiling Of Normal And Malignant Human Colonic Stem Cells Identifies, Vignesh Viswanathan, Lynn Opdenaker, Shirin Modarai, Jeremy Z Fields, Gregory Gonye, Bruce M Boman Apr 2020

Microrna Expression Profiling Of Normal And Malignant Human Colonic Stem Cells Identifies, Vignesh Viswanathan, Lynn Opdenaker, Shirin Modarai, Jeremy Z Fields, Gregory Gonye, Bruce M Boman

Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Faculty Papers

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have a critical role in regulating stem cells (SCs) during development, and because aberrant expression of miRNAs occurs in various cancers, our goal was to determine if dysregulation of miRNAs is involved in the SC origin of colorectal cancer (CRC). We previously reported that aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) is a marker for normal and malignant human colonic SCs and tracks SC overpopulation during colon tumorigenesis. MicroRNA expression was studied in ALDH-positive SCs from normal and malignant human colon tissues by Nanostring miRNA profiling. Our findings show that: (1) A unique miRNA signature distinguishes ALDH-positive CRC cells from ALDH-positive normal …


Functional Blockade Of E-Selectin In Tumor-Associated Vessels Enhances Anti-Tumor Effect Of Doxorubicin In Breast Cancer, Yoshihiro Morita, Macall Leslie, Hiroyasu Kameyama, Ganesh L R Lokesh, Norihisa Ichimura, Rachel Davis, Natalie Hills, Nafis Hasan, Roy Zhang, Yuji Kondo, David G Gorenstein, David E Volk, Inna Chervoneva, Hallgeir Rui, Takemi Tanaka Mar 2020

Functional Blockade Of E-Selectin In Tumor-Associated Vessels Enhances Anti-Tumor Effect Of Doxorubicin In Breast Cancer, Yoshihiro Morita, Macall Leslie, Hiroyasu Kameyama, Ganesh L R Lokesh, Norihisa Ichimura, Rachel Davis, Natalie Hills, Nafis Hasan, Roy Zhang, Yuji Kondo, David G Gorenstein, David E Volk, Inna Chervoneva, Hallgeir Rui, Takemi Tanaka

Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Faculty Papers

Chemotherapy is a mainstay of treatment for solid tumors. However, little is known about how therapy-induced immune cell infiltration may affect therapy response. We found substantial CD45+ immune cell density adjacent to E-selectin expressing inflamed vessels in doxorubicin (DOX)-treated residual human breast tumors. While CD45 level was significantly elevated in DOX-treated wildtype mice, it remained unchanged in DOX-treated tumors from E-selectin null mice. Similarly, intravenous administration of anti-E-selectin aptamer (ESTA) resulted in a significant reduction in CD45+ immune cell density in DOX-treated residual tumors, which coincided with a delay in tumor growth and lung metastasis in MMTV-pyMT mice. Additionally, both …


Pan-Cancer Analysis Reveals Cooperativity Of Both Strands Of Microrna That Regulate Tumorigenesis And Patient Survival, Ramkrishna Mitra, Clare M. Adams, Wei Jiang, Evan J. Greenawalt, Christine M. Eischen Feb 2020

Pan-Cancer Analysis Reveals Cooperativity Of Both Strands Of Microrna That Regulate Tumorigenesis And Patient Survival, Ramkrishna Mitra, Clare M. Adams, Wei Jiang, Evan J. Greenawalt, Christine M. Eischen

Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers

Recently, both 5p and 3p miRNA strands are being recognized as functional instead of only one, leaving many miRNA strands uninvestigated. To determine whether both miRNA strands, which have different mRNA-targeting sequences, cooperate to regulate pathways/functions across cancer types, we evaluate genomic, epigenetic, and molecular profiles of >5200 patient samples from 14 different cancers, and RNA interference and CRISPR screens in 290 cancer cell lines. We identify concordantly dysregulated miRNA 5p/3p pairs that coordinately modulate oncogenic pathways and/or cell survival/growth across cancers. Down-regulation of both strands of miR-30a and miR-145 recurrently increased cell cycle pathway genes and significantly reduced patient …


Microrna And Transcription Factor Co-Regulatory Networks And Subtype Classification Of Seminoma And Non-Seminoma In Testicular Germ Cell Tumors, Guimin Qin, Saurav Mallik, Ramkrishna Mitra, Aimin Li, Peilin Jia, Christine M. Eischen, Zhongming Zhao Jan 2020

Microrna And Transcription Factor Co-Regulatory Networks And Subtype Classification Of Seminoma And Non-Seminoma In Testicular Germ Cell Tumors, Guimin Qin, Saurav Mallik, Ramkrishna Mitra, Aimin Li, Peilin Jia, Christine M. Eischen, Zhongming Zhao

Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers

Recent studies have revealed that feed-forward loops (FFLs) as regulatory motifs have synergistic roles in cellular systems and their disruption may cause diseases including cancer. FFLs may include two regulators such as transcription factors (TFs) and microRNAs (miRNAs). In this study, we extensively investigated TF and miRNA regulation pairs, their FFLs, and TF-miRNA mediated regulatory networks in two major types of testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT): seminoma (SE) and non-seminoma (NSE). Specifically, we identified differentially expressed mRNA genes and miRNAs in 103 tumors using the transcriptomic data from The Cancer Genome Atlas. Next, we determined significantly correlated TF-gene/miRNA and miRNA-gene/TF …