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Radiation Biology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute [Y-Y. E. C., G. V. R. C., J. A. C., D. C., M-H. T., W. D., H. Y., S. Z., A. R., J. B. M.], and Cancer Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute [Y. C.], NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, and Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore 117528 [E. T. L.]
| ABSTRACT |
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| INTRODUCTION |
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Whereas considerable information has accumulated from studying individual genes and associated gene products or specific signal transduction pathways after treatment with various oxidants, microarray technology affords the opportunity to interrogate the expression of thousands of genes in a single experiment (6) . Not surprisingly, the simultaneous study of expression profiles of a huge population of genes present on microarrays is challenging. Historically, gene expressions, monitored at different time points or under different conditions, were analyzed by clustering genes having similar expression profiles (7 , 8) and by a comparison of distributions, line graphs of a clustered gene expressions (9) . However, none of these reports critically address the statistical significance of the observed differences with respect to measurement accuracy. A single time course study involves multiple arrays measured under the same conditions at different time points. Systematic study of expressions of successive time points can provide an estimate of reliability in principle. However, a true replicate would additionally cover the variations that can occur within biological samples.
Here, we report time course experiments with multiple replicates to obtain the statistical significance for every measured expression ratio and to verify reproducibility. The global gene expression of a single cell type exposed to three different oxidants: MEN, HP, and TBH was followed by microarray analysis. HP can be reduced by metals to generate OH radicals leading to cellular damage and cytotoxicity (10) . In addition, HP has been implicated in the induction of various signal transduction pathways (11) . MEN through redox cycling may generate superoxide, HP, and semiquinone radicals (12) . TBH is a known tumor promoter in which OH and lipid radicals have been implicated (13) . Collectively, the selected oxidants may generate a broad spectrum of free radicals in different intracellular compartments and would be expected to evoke common and perhaps disparate gene expression responses.
| MATERIALS AND METHODS |
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Microarray Fabrication.
The microarrays used for the experiments contained 17,600 human cDNA clones and were prepared from two different clone sets including Incyte UniGEM2 set (Fremont, CA) and Research Genetics Named Genes set (Huntsville, AL). These cDNA clones are enriched for known genes. All 17,000 cDNAs were spotted onto poly-L-lysine-coated slides (NCI ROSP 17,000 Human Array) according to Eisen & Brown (15)
using an OmniGrid arrayer (GeneMachines, San Carlos, CA).
RNA Extraction.
For each collection point, the cell monolayer was washed once with PBS (4°C) and cells (
15 x 106) were scraped in 10 ml of PBS (4°C) followed by centrifugation (1000 rpm at 4°C, 5 min). Total RNA was extracted with the use of Trizol reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) and the Qiagen RNAeasy Mini kit according to the manufacturers instructions (Valencia, CA).
Probe Labeling and Microarray Hybridization.
The methods for probe labeling reaction and microarray hybridization were used as described previously (16)
with a few modifications. For all experiments, the cDNA probes from untreated and treated MCF7 cells were compared with a reference probe that was generated from a universal human reference RNA (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA), which consisted of RNAs isolated from 10 cell lines. Forty µg of MCF-7 RNA or 20 µg of universal reference RNA were labeled with Cy5 and Cy3, respectively, by using Superscript II Reverse Transcriptase (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA).
The arrays were prehybridized with buffer (5x SSC, 0.1% SDS, 1% BSA) at 42°C for 1 h. Slides were washed in deionized water followed by 2-propanol. Cy5- and Cy3-labeled cDNA samples were mixed with 1 µl of COT1-DNA (10 µg/µl; Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA), polyadenylate (810 µg/µl; Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Piscataway, NJ), and yeast tRNA (4 µg/µl; Ambion, Austin, TX) for hybridization. The mixed samples were denatured and after the addition of 20 µl of 2x hybridization buffer (50% formamide, 10x SSC, 0.2% SDS) the entire sample was loaded onto the slides for overnight hybridization at 42°C. After hybridization, the hybridized slides were then washed in 2x SSC, 0.1%, 1x SSC, 0.1% SDS, and 0.2x SSC, for 4 min each, followed by a 1-min wash in 0.05x SSC. Slides were then placed in 2-propanol followed by spin drying.
Microarray Image Analysis.
Hybridized arrays were scanned at 10-µm resolution on a GenePix 4000A scanner (Axon Instruments, Inc., Foster City, CA). The Cy5- and the Cy3-labeled cDNA samples were scanned at 635 nm and 532 nm, respectively. The resulting TIFF images were analyzed by GenePix Pro 3.0 software (Axon Instruments, Inc., Foster City, CA). The ratios of the sample intensity to the reference red (Cy5)/green (Cy3) intensity for all targets were determined, and ratio normalization was performed to normalize the center of ratio distribution to 1.0.
TaqMan Assay.
After initial expression analysis, 11 clones were selected based on the following criteria: (a) >2-fold induction; (b) high correlation among the three replicates; and (c) signal intensities >4000 for both channels. In addition, one clone (GADPH) was selected as a control gene. Quantitative RT-PCR was performed using 1 µg of total RNA. After RT, all of the samples were diluted 1:9 with sterile water and 4 µl were used for each SYBR Green PCR assay. Real-time PCR was performed using the ABI Prism 7900HT sequence detection system according to the manufacturers instructions.
Statistical Analyses of Microarray Data.
The raw fluorescent intensities were initially subjected to a spot quality filter to ensure the accuracy of the expression ratios. The spot quality filter was defined as follows: (a) signal:background ratios higher than 3; (b) a minimum background corrected signal of 250 counts; and (c) 70% of pixels in the spot have greater than a SD plus background. The local median pixel intensity level of the unspotted area around the spot was considered as background. MDS was performed to visualize the similarity of gene expression profile between any pair of samples by Pearson correlation coefficients of the log-transformed expression ratios of 446 genes. Samples with similar gene expression profiles (shorter distances) were thereby placed near each other in the MDS plot and separated from other dissimilar groups (longer distances).
Template-based Clustering and Gene Selection.
A template-based clustering algorithm was used to study the temporal changes of gene expression after oxidant treatment (17)
. First, a set of templates (12)
that corresponded to possible gene expression response for a given treatment was designed (see website)3
to ensure that the temporal changes of selected genes were not attributable to random phenomena, at the expense of excluding some unexplainable expression profiles. In addition, we selected genes with higher maximum ratio fold-change during the time course or, equivalently, eliminated genes with no significant ratio changes or no response to the treatment. To assess the significance of the selection criteria, a bootstrap method was designed as follows. First the SD for each gene was estimated. Then the temporal profiles were simulated by randomly drawing five data points, 1,000,000 times, to provide the P of a gene being selected by random chance. The P for each gene was estimated based on the three replicated ratio profiles, which assumed independence between the experiments.
Selected genes satisfied the following criteria in at least one of the treatments: (a) at least 60% of data points (at least three time points) in each profile had a maximum intensity >500 and a minimum intensity >200 (gray-levels); (b) correlation coefficient of fitting
k > 0.85; (c) maximum fold-change >2; and (d) total P of three replicates <0.001. Among 17,000 genes, 421 genes were selected after removing 4 duplicated clones. Also selected were 25 genes that had importance in oxidative stress-related gene expression or that were related to the other 421 genes but failed one of the aforementioned selection criterion. Therefore, 446 genes were chosen for further statistical analysis.
| RESULTS |
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Validation of Microarray Data.
To further confirm the results of microarray analysis, quantitative RT-PCR (TaqMan) analysis was conducted for 12 selected genes at the 7-h time point for each oxidant. Both over- and underexpressed genes were selected. Fig. 2
shows that there was excellent agreement between the microarray and TaqMan analyses. GADPH had expression ratios <1.5-fold for all three of the oxidants, and MT2A had expression ratios <1.5-fold for HP-treated cells; however, even with these small differences, the TaqMan results were in excellent agreement with the microarray ratios for these genes.
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2 statistic (Table 1)
2 values calculated for each pair at each time point. The critical
2 value for
= 0.05 is 495. It should be noted that, although MDS analysis using correlation reveals the similarity of expression patterns, the
2 value addresses overall magnitude changes between a treatment pair. The
2 values fell below 95% significance level at the first hour of treatment (Table 1)
2 values that are much higher than the 95% significance level. The same is true between TBH and MEN treatments. Expression differences between HP and TBH treatments were below significance level at all time points except at 7 h. The results of the difference analysis agree on the conclusion from the MDS analysis, suggesting an overall similarity of expression pattern between HP and TBH, whereas both treatments differ significantly with MEN.
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Table 2
lists the genes (of the 446 genes given in Fig. 1A
) that were overexpressed more than 2-fold at each time point (boldface) after TBH, HP, and MEN treatment and also shows the distribution of these overexpressed genes at the other time points studied. For example, there were 60 genes overexpressed more than 2-fold in the 7th hour after TBH treatment. Among them, none (0) were overexpressed at 1 h, 27 were overexpressed at 3 h, only 22 were overexpressed at 7 h, and 18 continued to be overexpressed at 24 h. Clearly, if only the 7th-hour measurement were taken, we would have missed genes uniquely associated with other time points; however, we obtained many of the genes shared with other time points (60 - 22 = 38 genes).
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| DISCUSSION |
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Because HP, MEN, and TBH treatments would be expected to produce a different spectrum of, and/or a different concentration of free radical species in different intracellular compartments, it would not be surprising that different gene expression profiles would be elicited from the three oxidants. Surprisingly, the data of the present study show a greater commonality with regards to gene expression rather than highly unique mRNA expression profiles. The different magnitude of expression levels for HP, TBH and MEN treatments may result in statistical significance between three treatments as shown in Fig. 1B
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2 values (Table 1)
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Reproducibility of Replicate Experiments.
Systematic development of statistical significance of expressions measured by cDNA microarrays can be found in some recent reports (18, 19, 20)
. However, rigorous methods of analyzing time-dependent data set with relatively few time points and without obvious oscillation model are apparently lacking.
To alleviate the difficulty of assessing the significance of response to the oxidative agents used in the present study, we chose to use replicate measurements at each time point to estimate the reproducibility levels explicitly for every spot. The reproducibility of expression was interrogated by the calculation of average and variance of expression ratios using replicate experiments for all of the time points separately. The median level of variance corresponds to a ratio of
1.5-fold, which suggests that an expression ratio of >2-fold is a valid means of selecting significant response to the treatment. Averaging the replicated experiments effectively reduced noise by
n, where n is the number of replicates. The strategy appears to be reasonable as seen by the reproducible patterns of a variety of genes with similar function as shown in Fig. 3A
. Reproducibility is also evident in some cases with lower than a 2-fold change (in Fig. 3A, MEN
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Gene Expression Patterns after Oxidative Treatment.
To assess the significance of gene expression levels in response to the treatment, one may attempt to choose an optimal time point when most genes respond to the treatment. However, single-time-point measurements can reveal limited information compared with a time course pattern. A time course pattern shows gradual change in expressions giving importance to low expressions as well as high expression changes. For instance, a significant change in expression of many genes at 3 and 7 h after treatment support the expressions observed at 1 h that are consistent with the path of expression within the same gene and within a cluster of genes. Additionally, the confidence in a time course pattern increases, even at lower statistical significance level of expressions, when significant patterns of similar clones are available. To use this important observation, we chose the template-based time course analysis method because a set of preselected response-templates may possess certain characteristics of a smooth response and thereby ensure reinforcement between gene expression measurements from adjacent time points. At the same time, a smooth response pattern also eliminates noise patterns that render no biological meaning at all. To further reduce the rate of false selection of genes that respond to the treatment besides requiring matching similarity of 0.85 and minimum 2-fold change during the time course, we assessed the probability that the preselected templates may meet the same criterion when random noise (simulated, based on the parameters estimated from each gene) were presented. By requiring the probability of selecting genes with random expression values in all three replicate experiments to be small enough, we used the advantages offered by replicate experiments (template pattern for time-dependent data set, average of replicated time point for noise reduction, P assessment from three replicate experiments) to ensure consistency among three replicates.
Antioxidant Response.
Given the importance of cell redox in maintaining protein structure and function, MCF7 cells responded to all three oxidants by overexpressing a number of genes responsible for returning cells to a more reducing state. For example, both GPX (glutathione peroxidase) and GLRX (glutaradoxin) were induced during the oxidant exposure time and remained elevated for 24 h. Genes for cystine transport (SLC7A11), glutamate transport (GRIN2C), and GSH synthesis (GCLM) were up-regulated. Finally, TXNRD1 was also significantly overexpressed, presumably to aid in the reduction of oxidized protein sulfhydryls. TBH induced the highest expression of the antioxidant genes. As noted above, we unexpectedly found neither superoxide dismutase nor catalase expression to be induced. However, a number of other ARE-containing genes were induced by the three oxidants (Table 3)
. TBH was particularly effective in inducing these genes. This robust activation of ARE by TBH could make the cells more resistant to subsequent exposure to oxidants than HP treatment. Likewise, MEN-treated cells may be more resistant by virtue of the heat shock response because it is known that overexpression of the constitutive form of HSP 70 confers oxidative protection (21)
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p53 Response.
Eleven p53-regulated genes were induced by all three of the oxidants, presumably because of DNA damage. Among the genes induced by the three oxidants were genes that heretofore have not been associated with the inducible p53 response (SLAM, LIF, PGGT1B). Nonetheless, they exhibit patterns of response consistent with genes that are known to be modulated by p53 such as PLAB (22)
, PPM1D (23)
, and BTG2 (24)
. IL-6 mRNA regulation has been linked to wild-type p53 when overexpression of wild-type p53 inhibits IL-6 expression (25)
. On the other hand, it has been reported that UV irradiation up-regulates LIF expression and secretion in human keratinocytes (26)
. This conflicting data may be explained by the differences in phosphorylation status of p53 induced by different cytotoxic conditions (27)
. PPM1D has been shown to dephosphorylate and inactivate p38 MAPK (23)
. Because p38 MAPK is known to regulate the p53 response, the induction of PPM1D may be an important mechanism that suppresses the p53 response and possibly prevents apoptosis (23)
. We cannot rule out the possibility of other mechanisms for the induction of SLAM, LIF, or PGGT1B genes based on these results alone.
IL-6 Response.
A key finding of the study was that both HP and TBH increased the LIF transcript, but only the TBH-treated cells exhibited an IL-6 like-response. IL-6 is associated with a proinflammatory response, which may result from free radical generation as a part of the inflammatory response (28)
. LIF is an IL-6 type cytokine, which can share the same receptor as IL-6 and elicits most of the responses that IL-6 generates (29)
. Genes responding to the IL-6 response included FGP, MT1, MT2, and PP2A (30, 31, 32)
. Importantly, it has been shown that LIF functions as a growth factor in MCF7 cells, presumably through the erb-b2-gp130 interaction (33)
. MT is of particular interest because others have shown that oxidants induce both MT-1 and MT-2 (34)
. It is clear from our studies, however, that HP did not induce MT1 or MT2 expression. Dalton et al. (35)
showed that HP could induce MT1 overexpression in Hepa cells; however, it was also noted that other cell lines did not respond to HP by increasing MT1 (35)
. The authors noted that the MT1 HP response was dependent on the volume of media used, the amount of serum used in the medium, and the reductive capacity of the cells (35)
. These factors can influence the amount of HP in the medium and cytosol. Although the concentration of HP used in the present study resulted in cytotoxicity, it may not have reached the concentration required to induce MT1 overexpression.
Heat Shock Response.
Cells treated with either MEN or TBH induced HSP-associated genes to a similar extent by 3 h; whereas, HP-treated cells did not. Xie et al. (36)
showed that the nuclear factor of IL-6 and the heat shock transcription factor 1 can interact with each other to reduce the effect of either transcription activator depending on their relative quantities. Perhaps the mutually antagonistic nature of the HSP and the IL-6 responses account for these findings. It is also well documented that a proinflammatory response can inhibit a heat shock response and vice versa (37)
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Up- and down-regulation of cytokine/hormones (LIF, EDN1, CTGF, AREG, TMPO, and SST) by each of the oxidants was most impressive. Several mechanisms of oxidative stress-mediated signal transduction pathway inhibition may be involved, but one that is currently of interest is the finding that HP inhibits tyrosine and serine/threonine phosphatases (38 , 39) . Meng et al. (40) showed that HP oxidatively modifies the SHP-2 PTPs resulting in SHP-2 inhibition. This inhibition increased phosphorylation on a number of receptor and nonreceptor tyrosine kinases (11) . Importantly, TBH could not oxidize SHP-2 PTP because of steric hindrance (38) . Moreover, the PTP cysteine oxidation was reversed by GSH or thioredoxin-mediated reduction, such that the SHP-2 protein regained full activity (40) . The SHP-2 PTP is an intricate component of both epidermal growth factor receptor signaling as well as the gp130-IL6 receptor group (29 , 40) . Unlike HP, TBH primarily partitions into membranes and perhaps this compartmentalization also prevents significant PTP oxidation.
Survival differences between the MEN and TBH or HP could explain some of the different patterns of gene expression (see MDS plot, Fig. 1B
). Although beyond the scope of the present study, experiments are planned to determine whether gene expression profiles differ for treatment with various concentrations (and survival levels) of MEN. The variability observed in the present study, with respect to both survival and gene expression profiles among experiments, serve to underscore the importance of conducting independent replicate experiments for gene expression studies. Although it is important to include intra-experimental controls (same sample run on replicate chips, and/or performing dye reversal Cy3/Cy5 studies), because of biological variability it is indeed important to replicate experiments. The present study demonstrates the statistical strength that both replicate and time course studies provide for gene expression studies. There is currently a trend in microarray-based gene expression studies to increase the stringency associated with "true" gene induction by accepting only genes that are >34-fold expressed. Whereas this convenient criterion will assure more certainty, such certainty will be gained at the expense of potentially forfeiting information that can be harvested as a result of more subtle changes that occur over time in the cellular milieu. We have introduced several methods to analyze bioinformatic data resulting from stress by three oxidants. By using replicate studies and multiple time points, we have been able to examine changes in gene expression of >2-fold and at times as low as >1.5-fold and, consequently, to evaluate more information. The ability to interrogate more subtle perturbations in gene expression and ascertain how they relate to more robust, better-defined pathways should enable a more complete understanding of the complex responses associated with oxidative stress.
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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| FOOTNOTES |
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1 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Radiation Biology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Building 10, Room B3-B69, Bethesda, Maryland 20827. Phone: (301) 496-7511; Fax: (301) 480-2238; E-mail: jbm{at}helix.nih.gov ![]()
2 The abbreviations used are: MEN, menadione; HP, hydrogen peroxide; TBH, t-butyl hydroperoxide; RT, reverse transcription; MDS, multidimensional scaling; ARE, antioxidant response element; IL, interleukin; GSH, reduced glutathione; MAPK, mitogen-activated protein kinase; MT, metallothionein; HSP, heat shock protein; PTP, protein tyrosine phosphatase; SHP, SH2-containing protein-tyrosine phosphatase. ![]()
3 Additional information regarding methods, statistical analysis, and tables can be found at https://arrayanalysis.nih.gov/resources/pub_download/CancerRes1_supplement.htm. ![]()
Received 6/11/02. Accepted 9/ 4/02.
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