Human Gene Set: FOURNIER_ACINAR_DEVELOPMENT_LATE_DN


Standard name FOURNIER_ACINAR_DEVELOPMENT_LATE_DN
Systematic name M13202
Brief description Genes down-regulated late in HMEC cells (mammary epithelium) during acinar development in vitro.
Full description or abstract Nonmalignant human mammary epithelial cells (HMEC) seeded in laminin-rich extracellular matrix (lrECM) form polarized acini and, in doing so, transit from a disorganized proliferating state to an organized growth-arrested state. We hypothesized that the gene expression pattern of organized and growth-arrested HMECs would share similarities with breast tumors with good prognoses. Using Affymetrix HG-U133A microarrays, we analyzed the expression of 22,283 gene transcripts in 184 (finite life span) and HMT3522 S1 (immortal nonmalignant) HMECs on successive days after seeding in a lrECM assay. Both HMECs underwent growth arrest in G0-G1 and differentiated into polarized acini between days 5 and 7. We identified gene expression changes with the same temporal pattern in both lines and examined the expression of these genes in a previously published panel of microarray data for 295 breast cancer samples. We show that genes that are significantly lower in the organized, growth-arrested HMEC than in their proliferating counterparts can be used to classify breast cancer patients into poor and good prognosis groups with high accuracy. This study represents a novel unsupervised approach to identifying breast cancer markers that may be of use clinically.
Collection C2: Curated
      CGP: Chemical and Genetic Perturbations
Source publication Pubmed 16849555   Authors: Fournier MV,Martin KJ,Kenny PA,Xhaja K,Bosch I,Yaswen P,Bissell MJ
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