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Elimination of dormant cancer stem cells by disrupting glucocorticoid mediated lipid metabolism in glioblastoma [treatment]

GSE215242 Mus musculus (mouse) RNA-seq (gene expression) 13 samples Submitted 2025/10/05 Platform GPL17021
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RNA-seq (gene expression) · mouse · 13 samples

What it is
RNA-seq (gene expression)Gene activity measured by sequencing. The summary does not mention single-cell work, so this is most likely bulk: one average per sample, the usual starting point for comparing groups.
Organism
Mus musculus (mouse)
Samples
13 samples: 5 × DEXA vs 5 × MIFE vs 3 × DMSOGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Summary (written by the submitters)
Little progress has been made in therapeutic treatment of glioblastoma (GBM) in the last decade despite rapid progress in molecular understanding of brain tumors. Targeting cancer stem cells was considered as a strategy to treat GBM. Here we show that the stress hormone glucocorticoid is essential for the maintenance of brain tumor stem cells (BTSCs), which are resistant to conventional therapy.
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The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) regulates metabolic plasticity and chemoresistance of the dormant BTSC via controlling expression of GPD1 (glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase 1), which is an essential regulator of lipid metabolism in BTSCs. Genomic, lipidomic and cellular analysis confirm that GR/GPD1 regulation is essential for BTSCs metabolic plasticity and survival. We further demonstrate that the GR agonist dexamethasone (DEXA), which is commonly used to treat GBM edema, abolishes the effect of chemotherapy drug temozolomide (TMZ) by upregulating GPD1 and thus promoting tumor cell dormancy and TMZ resistance, this provides a mechanistic explanation and thus settle the debate of steroid usage in brain tumor patient edema control. Pharmacological inhibition of GR/GPD1 pathway disrupts metabolic plasticity, induces ferroptosis and immune activation thus prolongs animal survival, which is superior to standard chemotherapy. This study identifies an important mechanism regulating cancer stem cell dormancy and provides a new opportunity for GBM treatment.
This dataset
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Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE215242_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: For RNA-seq the counts are usually a table among the supplementary files (look for 'counts', 'expression', 'FPKM' or 'TPM' in the file name). The series matrix of a sequencing study is sometimes nearly empty.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA889414 and SRA study SRP401995. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
5 × DEXA vs 5 × MIFE vs 3 × DMSO

Supports a between-group comparison across 13 samples.

How we read this: 3 replicated groups read from 13 sample titles; they account for 13 of them. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

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