RNAseq-based bladder cancer subtyping and IPA analysis with the xenografts from C57 BL/6J

To subtype the Triple gene knockout tumor we generated and assess the similiarities with widely used MB49 cells, TKO cells were injected into bladder wall orthtopically and bladder lumen by catheter intravesically in C57 BL/6J, while MB49 intravesical injection as a control. TKO intravesical tumors, TKO orthotopic tumors and MB49 intravesical tumors were collected and sent for RNA-seq analysis. In results, both intravesical TKO and orthotopic TKO tumors demonstrates transcriptome profiles that closely resembled human basal like muscle invasive bladder cancer using a luminal/basal/neuronal classifier. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) across samples demonstrated that MB49 cells had transcriptome profiles that differed significantly from TKO tumors. Hence, this study suggest that the TKO tumors closely resemble basal like human bladder cancer and MB49 exhibited no expression of urothelial markers. Overall design: transcriptome profiling analysis of bladder intravesical and orthotopic tumors on C57 BL/6J The knock out genes for TKO samples are Trp53, Pten, Rb1