Qingsu Cheng1, Mina Khoshdeli1, Bradley S Ferguson2,3, Kosar Jabbari1, Chongzhi Zang4, Bahram Parvin1. 1. Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 22908, USA. 2. Department of Nutrition, University Of Nevada, Reno, NV 22908, USA. 3. Department of Public Health, Center of Biomedical Research Excellence for Molecular and Cellular Signal Transduction in the Cardiovascular System, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 22908, USA. 4. Center for Public Health Genomics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Abstract
MOTIVATION: Our previous study has shown that ERBB2 is overexpressed in the organoid model of MCF10A when the stiffness of the microenvironment is increased to that of high mammographic density (MD). We now aim to identify key transcription factors (TFs) and functional enhancers that regulate processes associated with increased stiffness of the microenvironment in the organoid models of premalignant human mammary cell lines. RESULTS: 3D colony organizations and the cis-regulatory networks of two human mammary epithelial cell lines (184A1 and MCF10A) are investigated as a function of the increased stiffness of the microenvironment within the range of MD. The 3D colonies are imaged using confocal microscopy, and the morphometries of colony organizations and heterogeneity are quantified as a function of the stiffness of the microenvironment using BioSig3D. In a surrogate assay, colony organizations are profiled by transcriptomics. Transcriptome data are enriched by correlative analysis with the computed morphometric indices. Next, a subset of enriched data are processed against publicly available ChIP-Seq data using Model-based Analysis of Regulation of Gene Expression to predict regulatory transcription factors. This integrative analysis of morphometric and transcriptomic data predicted YY1 as one of the cis-regulators in both cell lines as a result of the increased stiffness of the microenvironment. Subsequent experiments validated that YY1 is expressed at protein and mRNA levels for MCF10A and 184A1, respectively. Also, there is a causal relationship between activation of YY1 and ERBB2 when YY1 is overexpressed at the protein level in MCF10A. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
MOTIVATION: Our previous study has shown that ERBB2 is overexpressed in the organoid model of MCF10A when the stiffness of the microenvironment is increased to that of high mammographic density (MD). We now aim to identify key transcription factors (TFs) and functional enhancers that regulate processes associated with increased stiffness of the microenvironment in the organoid models of premalignant human mammary cell lines. RESULTS: 3D colony organizations and the cis-regulatory networks of two human mammary epithelial cell lines (184A1 and MCF10A) are investigated as a function of the increased stiffness of the microenvironment within the range of MD. The 3D colonies are imaged using confocal microscopy, and the morphometries of colony organizations and heterogeneity are quantified as a function of the stiffness of the microenvironment using BioSig3D. In a surrogate assay, colony organizations are profiled by transcriptomics. Transcriptome data are enriched by correlative analysis with the computed morphometric indices. Next, a subset of enriched data are processed against publicly available ChIP-Seq data using Model-based Analysis of Regulation of Gene Expression to predict regulatory transcription factors. This integrative analysis of morphometric and transcriptomic data predicted YY1 as one of the cis-regulators in both cell lines as a result of the increased stiffness of the microenvironment. Subsequent experiments validated that YY1 is expressed at protein and mRNA levels for MCF10A and 184A1, respectively. Also, there is a causal relationship between activation of YY1 and ERBB2 when YY1 is overexpressed at the protein level in MCF10A. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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