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Knockdown of TERC with siRNA in normal bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) recapitulates the defective BMSC phenotype in patients with telomere biology disorders

ABSTRACT: Dyskeratosis congenita (DC) is an inherited multi-system disorder, characterized by oral leukoplakia, nail dystrophy, and abnormal skin pigmentation, as well as high rates of bone marrow failure, solid tumors, and other medical problems such as osteopenia. DC and telomere biology disorders (collectively referred to as TBD here) are caused by germline mutations in telomere biology genes leading to very short telomeres and limited proliferative potential of hematopoietic stem cells. We found that skeletal stem cells (SSCs) within the bone marrow stromal cell population (BMSCs, also known as bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells), may contribute to the hematological phenotype. TBD-BMSCs exhibited reduced clonogenicity, reduced telomerase activity, spontaneous differentiation into adipocytes and fibrotic cells, and increased senescence in vitro. Upon in vivo transplantation into mice, TBD-BMSCs failed to form bone or support hematopoiesis, unlike normal BMSCs. TERC reduction (a TBD-associated gene) in normal BMSCs by siTERC-RNA recapitulated the TBD-BMSC phenotype by reducing proliferation and secondary colony forming efficiency, and by accelerating senescence in vitro. Microarray profiles of control and siTERC-BMSCs showed decreased hematopoietic factors at the mRNA level, and decreased secretion of factors at the protein level. These findings are consistent with defects in SSCs/BMSCs contributing to bone marrow failure in TBD. RNA (5 mg) isolated from N-BMSCs, siNC-BMSCs and siTERC-BMSCs 72hrs after transfection using an RNeasy Mini kit (Qiagen), was reverse transcribed and hybridized to an Affymetrix GeneChip Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 array (LMT, NCI-Frederick). Three independent replicates for each experimental condition were carried out to control for intra-sample variation. Genes that were under/over-represented by >2-fold were analyzed using GeneSpring software. Signal intensity values were normalized using RMA (Robust Multi-array Analysis) summarization and baseline transformation to median of all samples was performed. Entities were filtered based on their signal intensity values. Hierarchical clustering was performed on filtered signal intensity (>20.0), non-averaged, fold change >2. A fold change analysis (>10-fold) was performed to generate a list of top genes under/over represented between the groups.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Prasun Mishra

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-64023 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Project description:Bone marrow derived stromal cells (BMSCs) are a multipotent population that supports angiogenesis, wound healing, immunomodulation and plays an active role in the hematopoietic niche. On the other hand, they are also involved in the nurturing of bone marrow tumors and metastasis, showing a pro-tumorigenic behavior. BMSCs secrete a wide range of cytokines, growth factors and matrix proteins that are likely responsible for many of these effects. However, it is not clear whether this pro-tumorigenic behavior of BMSCs is induced by the tumor cells, neither in what extent the tumor cells affect the type and quantity of factors produced by BMSCs. To determine how tumor cells that arise from bone marrow affect the BMSCs, we selected three myeloid leukemia cell lines (TF-1, TF-1alpha and K562) and co-cultured them with BMSCs from healthy donors. We found that, under co-culture condition, the gene expression profiling of BMSCs revealed up-regulation of many pro-inflammatory signaling related genes, mainly IL-17 signaling-related genes. Moreover, IL-17 signaling-related cytokines CCL2 and IL8, were increased in co-culture supernatants. We conclude that BMSCs react to the presence of leukemia cells undergoing changes in the cytokine and chemokine secretion profile. Thus, BMSCs and leukemia cells both contribute to the creation of a competitive niche more favorable to leukemia stem cells. BMSCs from healthy donors were transwell co-cultured with three different myeloid leukemia cell lines: TF-1 (n=3), TF-1alpha (n=3) and K562 (n=3). A 1-um Transwell system (BDBiosciences, San Jose, CA USA) was used to maintain the cultured BMSC and leukemia cell populations separate from each other. As a control BMSCs were also transwell co-cultured under the same conditions with CD34+ cells (n=9) isolated from G-CSF-mobilized peripheral blood stem cells from healthy donors. An alternative co-culture method was used to analyze BMSCs and leukemia cells in direct contact: TF-1 (n=3), TF-alpha (n=3) and K562 (n=3). The two populations were cultured together in the same well without any membrane separation. BMSCs (n=18), TF-1 (n=3), TF-1alpha (n=3), K562 (n=3) and CD34+ (n=9) cells cultured alone (mono-cultures) were used as controls. Cells from both mono- and co-culture conditions were harvested at 4h, 10h, and 24h.

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Knockdown of TERC with siRNA in normal bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) recapitulates the defective BMSC phenotype in patients with telomere biology disorders

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