scholarly journals Matrix metalloproteinase 14 (MMP14) is differentially expressed in breast cancer metastases.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahan Mamoor

Breast cancer is a leading cause of death for women (1, 2). We mined public datasets to understand the most significant transcriptional and epigenomic changes between primary tumors of the breast and the metastases that they generate (3-6). In metastases to both the brain (3) and the bones (4), the matrix metalloproteinase 14 (MMP14) was among the genes whose expression changes most significantly between the transcriptomes of metastatic tissue to that of primary breast tumor. In metastases to the lymph nodes, a site at the MMP14 genomic locus contained significantly less methyl marks than the same site in primary tumors. The MMP14 gene was hypomethylated during spread of the breast cancer to the lymph node, MMP14 among the genes whose expression changed most significantly across the entire brain and bone transcriptome, and MMP14 messenger RNA was expressed at significantly lower levels in metastases across both tissues. Interestingly, primary tumors with metastatic potential expressed higher levels of MMP14 than primary tumors without metastatic potential. MMP14 is a target of interest in metastatic breast cancer.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahan Mamoor

Trastuzumab (Herceptin) is a monoclonal antibody targeting the extracellular domain of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) (1) utilized for the treatment of adjuvant and metastatic breast cancer (2) in the United States and worldwide. We mined published microarray and gene expression data (3, 4) to discover in an unbiased manner the most striking transcriptional features of trastuzumab treatment. We identified the deleted in colorectal cancer locus DCC (5, 6) as among the genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with breast cancer treated with trastuzumab. The primary tumors of breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab expressed higher levels of DCC messenger RNA than did patients not treated with trastuzumab, and a single administration of trastuzumab was sufficient to result in differential expression of DCC in primary tumors of the breast, demonstrating that a gene encoding for a netrin receptor, cellular machinery utilized for axon guidance in the central nervous system (5-9), is transcriptionally induced in primary tumors of the breast following treatment with trastuzumab.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahan Mamoor

Trastuzumab (Herceptin) is a monoclonal antibody targeting the extracellular domain of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) (1) utilized for the treatment of adjuvant and metastatic breast cancer (2) in the United States and worldwide. We mined published microarray and gene expression data (3, 4) to discover in an unbiased manner the most significant transcriptional changes associated with trastuzumab treatment. We identified myelin transcription factor 1, encoded by MYT1 among the genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with breast cancer treated with trastuzumab. The primary tumors of breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab expressed higher levels of MYT1 messenger RNA than did patients not treated with trastuzumab, and a single administration of trastuzumab was sufficient to result in differential expression of MYT1 in primary tumors of the breast, demonstrating increased expression of a zinc finger DNA-binding protein and neuronal-specific members of the LSD1 complex with the capacity to interact with Sin3B and with functions in neurogenesis (5-9) as a direct transcriptional consequence of treatment with trastuzumab.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahan Mamoor

Trastuzumab (Herceptin) is a monoclonal antibody targeting the extracellular domain of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) (1) utilized for the treatment of adjuvant and metastatic breast cancer (2) in the United States and worldwide. We mined published microarray and gene expression data (3, 4) to discover in an unbiased manner the most striking transcriptional features of trastuzumab treatment. We identified the megakaryocyte-associated tyrosine kinase MATK (5, 6) as among the genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with breast cancer treated with trastuzumab. The primary tumors of breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab expressed higher levels of MATK messenger RNA than did patients not treated with trastuzumab, and a single administration of trastuzumab was sufficient to result in differential expression of MATK in primary tumors of the breast, demonstrating that a platelet-expressed tyrosine kinase (5, 6) that interacts with the receptor for the stem cell factor (7) is likely transcriptionally induced in primary tumors of the breast by trastuzumab.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahan Mamoor

Trastuzumab (Herceptin) is a monoclonal antibody targeting the extracellular domain of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) (1) utilized for the treatment of adjuvant and metastatic breast cancer (2) in the United States and worldwide. We mined published microarray and gene expression data (3, 4) to discover in an unbiased manner the most significant transcriptional changes associated with trastuzumab treatment. We identified NEUROD4 among the genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with breast cancer treated with trastuzumab. The primary tumors of breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab expressed higher levels of NEUROD4 messenger RNA than did patients not treated with trastuzumab, and a single administration of trastuzumab was sufficient to result in differential expression of NEUROD4 in primary tumors of the breast, demonstrating increased expression of a transcription factor with neurogenic potential (5, 6) as a direct transcriptional consequence of treatment with trastuzumab.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahan Mamoor

Trastuzumab (Herceptin) is a monoclonal antibody targeting the extracellular domain of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) (1) utilized for the treatment of adjuvant and metastatic breast cancer (2) in the United States and worldwide. We mined public microarray data (3, 4) to discover in an unbiased manner the most significant transcriptional changes associated with trastuzumab treatment. We identified arachidonate 12-lipoxygenase, encoded by ALOX12, as among the genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with breast cancer treated with trastuzumab. The primary tumors of breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab expressed higher levels of ALOX12 messenger RNA than did patients not treated with trastuzumab, demonstrating that in patients with breast cancer, administration of trastuzumab is associated with increased expression of an enzyme (5) whose inhibition results in enhanced responsiveness of breast cancer cells to chemotherapeutics in vitro (6).


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahan Mamoor

Trastuzumab (Herceptin) is a monoclonal antibody targeting the extracellular domain of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) (1) utilized for the treatment of adjuvant and metastatic breast cancer (2) in the United States and worldwide. We mined published microarray and gene expression data (3, 4) to discover in an unbiased manner the most significant transcriptional changes associated with trastuzumab treatment. We identified ENHO among the genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with breast cancer treated with trastuzumab. The primary tumors of breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab expressed higher levels of ENHO messenger RNA than did patients not treated with trastuzumab, and a single administration of trastuzumab was sufficient to result in differential expression of ENHO in primary tumors of the breast, demonstrating increased expression of a molecule involved in regulation of glucose and lipid metabolism and whose expression is modulated by high-fat diet (5) as a direct transcriptional consequence of treatment with trastuzumab.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahan Mamoor

Trastuzumab (Herceptin) is a monoclonal antibody targeting the extracellular domain of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) (1) utilized for the treatment of adjuvant and metastatic breast cancer (2) in the United States and worldwide. We mined public and published microarray data (3, 4) to discover in an unbiased manner the most significant transcriptional changes associated with trastuzumab treatment. We identified the plant homeodomain (PHD) finger protein 20, PHF20, as among the genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with breast cancer treated with trastuzumab. The primary tumors of breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab expressed lower levels of PHF20 messenger RNA than did patients not treated with trastuzumab, demonstrating decreased primary tumor expression of an epigenetic molecule which is described to stabilize and activate the tumor suppressor p53 (5) as a direct or indirect transcriptional consequence of treatment with trastuzumab.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahan Mamoor

Trastuzumab (Herceptin) is a monoclonal antibody targeting the extracellular domain of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) (1) utilized for the treatment of adjuvant and metastatic breast cancer (2) in the United States and worldwide. We mined published microarray and gene expression data (3, 4) to discover in an unbiased manner the most striking transcriptional features of trastuzumab treatment. We identified the cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) (5) as among the genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with breast cancer treated with trastuzumab. The primary tumors of breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab expressed higher levels of IL-6 messenger RNA than did patients not treated with trastuzumab, and a single administration of trastuzumab was sufficient to result in differential expression of IL-6 in primary tumors of the breast, suggesting that increased primary tumor expression of IL-6 in the primary tumors of patients with breast cancer, a cytokine whose serum levels are correlated with worse patient survival outcomes in metastatic breast cancer (6), is a direct transcriptional result of treatment with trastuzumab.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahan Mamoor

Trastuzumab (Herceptin) is a monoclonal antibody targeting the extracellular domain of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) (1) utilized for the treatment of adjuvant and metastatic breast cancer (2) in the United States and worldwide. We mined published microarray and gene expression data (3, 4) to discover in an unbiased manner the most significant transcriptional changes associated with trastuzumab treatment. We identified the slit guidance ligand 1, encoded by SLIT1, as among the genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with breast cancer treated with trastuzumab. The primary tumors of breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab expressed higher levels of SLIT1 messenger RNA than did patients not treated with trastuzumab, and a single administration of trastuzumab was sufficient to result in differential expression of SLIT1 in primary tumors of the breast, demonstrating increased expression of a ligand involved in guidance of axon migration in the central nervous system (5-9) as a direct transcriptional consequence of treatment with trastuzumab.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahan Mamoor

Trastuzumab (Herceptin) is a monoclonal antibody targeting the extracellular domain of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) (1) utilized for the treatment of adjuvant and metastatic breast cancer (2) in the United States and worldwide. We mined published microarray and gene expression data (3, 4) to discover in an unbiased manner the most significant transcriptional changes associated with trastuzumab treatment. We identified the protocadherin 11, Y-linked, PCDH11Y, as among the genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with breast cancer treated with trastuzumab. The primary tumors of breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab expressed higher levels of PCDH11Y messenger RNA than did patients not treated with trastuzumab, demonstrating increased expression of a neuronal cell adhesion molecule (5, 6) as a transcriptional consequence of treatment with trastuzumab.


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