TY - JOUR
T1 - MetaTropismDB
T2 - a database of organ-specific metastasis induced by human cancer cell lines in mouse models
AU - Giulietti, Matteo
AU - Bastianoni, Marco
AU - Cecati, Monia
AU - Ruzzo, Annamaria
AU - Bracci, Massimo
AU - Malavolta, Marco
AU - Piacenza, Francesco
AU - Giacconi, Robertina
AU - Piva, Francesco
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PY - 2020/11/25
Y1 - 2020/11/25
N2 - The organotropism is the propensity of metastatic cancer cells to colonize preferably certain distant organs, resulting in a non-random distribution of metastases. In order to shed light on this behaviour, several studies were performed by the injection of human cancer cell lines into immunocompromised mouse models. However, the information about these experiments is spread in the literature. For each xenograft experiment reported in the literature, we annotated both the experimental conditions and outcomes, including details on inoculated human cell lines, mouse models, injection methods, sites of metastasis, organs not colonized, rate of metastasis, latency time, overall survival and the involved genes. We created MetaTropismDB, a freely available database collecting hand-curated data useful to highlight the mechanisms of organ-specific metastasis. Currently, it stores the results of 513 experiments in which injections of 219 human cell lines have been carried out in mouse models. Notably, 296 genes involved in organotropic metastases have been collected. This specialized database allows the researchers to compare the current results about organotropism and plan future experiments in order to identify which tumour molecular signatures establish if and where the metastasis will develop. Database URL: http://www.introni.it/Metastasis/metastasis.html.
AB - The organotropism is the propensity of metastatic cancer cells to colonize preferably certain distant organs, resulting in a non-random distribution of metastases. In order to shed light on this behaviour, several studies were performed by the injection of human cancer cell lines into immunocompromised mouse models. However, the information about these experiments is spread in the literature. For each xenograft experiment reported in the literature, we annotated both the experimental conditions and outcomes, including details on inoculated human cell lines, mouse models, injection methods, sites of metastasis, organs not colonized, rate of metastasis, latency time, overall survival and the involved genes. We created MetaTropismDB, a freely available database collecting hand-curated data useful to highlight the mechanisms of organ-specific metastasis. Currently, it stores the results of 513 experiments in which injections of 219 human cell lines have been carried out in mouse models. Notably, 296 genes involved in organotropic metastases have been collected. This specialized database allows the researchers to compare the current results about organotropism and plan future experiments in order to identify which tumour molecular signatures establish if and where the metastasis will develop. Database URL: http://www.introni.it/Metastasis/metastasis.html.
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U2 - 10.1093/database/baaa100
DO - 10.1093/database/baaa100
M3 - Article
C2 - 33238004
AN - SCOPUS:85096818004
VL - 2020
JO - Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
JF - Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
SN - 1758-0463
ER -