Project description:De novo ASXL1 mutations are found in patients with Bohring-Opitz syndrome, a disease with severe developmental defects and early childhood fatality. The underlying pathologic mechanisms remain largely unknown. Using Asxl1-targeted murine models,we found that Asxl1 global loss or conditional deletion in osteoblasts and their progenitors in mice leads to significant bone loss and markedly decreased numbers of marrow mesenchymal stem/progenitor cells (MSPCs) compared with wild-type (WT) littermates. Asxl1-/- MSPCs displayed impaired self-renewal and skewed differentiation-away from osteoblasts and favoring adipocytes. RNA-seq analysis reveals the altered expression of genes involved in cell proliferation, skeletal development and morphogenesis. Furthermore, gene set enrichment analysis showed a decreased gene expression of stem cell self-renewal signature,suggesting the role of Asxl1 in regulating the stemness of MSPCs. Importantly, introducing Asxl1 normalized NANOG and OCT4 expression and restored the self-renewal capacity of Asxl1-/- MSPCs. Our study unveils a pivotal role of ASXL1 in maintenance of MSPC functions and skeletal development. Examination of mRNA profiles in wild type and Asxl1-/- MSPCs by deep sequencing
Project description:De novo ASXL1 mutations are found in patients with Bohring-Opitz syndrome (BOS), a disease with severe developmental defects and early childhood fatality. The underlying pathologic mechanisms remain largely unknown. Using Asxl1-targeted murine models, we found that Asxl1 global loss or conditional deletion in osteoblasts and their progenitors in mice leads to significant bone loss and markedly decreased numbers of marrow mesenchymal stem/progenitor cells (MSPCs) compared with wild-type (WT) littermates. Asxl1 null MSPCs display impaired self-renewal and skewed differentiation from osteoblasts towards adipocytes. ChIP-seq data identified that ASXL1 and H3K4me3 co-occupy the promoter regions of genes critical for MSPC self-renewal. Loss of Asxl1 diminished the genome enrichment of H3K4me3. Combined analysis of RNA-seq and ChIP-seq data revealed that Asxl1 loss in MSPCs altered the expression of ASXL1/H3K4me3 target genes controlling self-renewal/lineage commitment. Our study unveil a pivotal role of ASXL1 in H3K4me3-associated bone homeostasis
Project description:Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) resemble a multipotent adult stem cell population capable of differentiation into a number of different mesodermal cell types including adipodytes, osteoblasts, chondroblasts. Although still in debate there is some evidence, that these cells can also differentiate into cells of non-mesodermal germal layers including hepatocytes, myocytes, cardiomyocytes or neurons. Analysis of these cells in the course of differentiation makes them an intriguing model for the examination of stemness. More importantly the differentiation capacity of MSC raises high hopes for clinical applications. In this study we have isolated MSC from bone marrow under two different culture conditions, from adipose tissue and from umbilical cord blood. The genome wide gene expression profile of these different human MSC was compared with reference RNA of non-multipotent human fibroblasts HS68. The aim of this study was to elucidate common molecular characteristics of MSC as well as differences in their expression profile. These results might help for a better understanding of MSC and contribute to a reliable quality control that will be necessary for clinical applications.
Project description:To determine gene expression changes during in vitro senescence of MSC we have analyzed differential expression of the corresponding early passage (P2) and senescent passage (PX). There were global changes in the gene expression profile that were reproducible in three independent donor samples. Experiment Overall Design: Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC) were isolated from human bone marrow (BM) as described before (Wagner et al., 2005, Exp Hematol, 33, 1402-1416; Wagner et al., Exp Hematol, 34, 536-548). Cells were always replated when grown to confluency. A sample for RNA isolation was taken at every passage until the cells finally became senescent: they became much larger with irregular and flat shape. The nucleus became more circumscribed in phase contrast microscopy. The cytoplasm began to be granular with many inclusions and there was more cell debris. Global gene expression profiles were analyzed to determine molecular changes between corresponding early passage (P2) and senescent passage (PX) in three donor samples. In addition we have analyzed different passages of donor 1 (P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7, P8, P10, and P11) to determine changes in the course of cellular aging. Data were median normalized and compared to P2 of the corresponding donor sample.
Project description:To analyze the changes induced in MSC transcriptome by activated T cells, MSC were co-cultured in transwell with anti CD3/CD28 activated T cells for 48 hrs before RNA extraction IFNγ-induced plasticity of mesenchymal stem cells is regulated by STATs through inhibition of mTOR and TGFβ pathways. Vigo T, Procaccini C, Ferrara G, Baranzini S, Oksenberg J, Diaspro A, Kerlero de Rosbo N, Uccella A. The expression of MSC co-cultured with activated T cells ( two replicates) were compared to that of naive MSC (3 replicates)
Project description:Compare the behaviour of two populations of non-hematopoetic stem cells (MSC and MAPC) isolated from human bone marrow. The effect of culture conditions on the behaviour of MSC was also characterised by isolating MSC and then culturing the cells for 96h in MAPC growth conditions
Project description:Recently, mesenchymal stem cells-derived microvesicles (MMVs) attract much attention as a strategy of cell-free treatment. In our study, we found that MMVs could improve the organ dysfunction during sepsis. To investigate the mechanism, we harvested MMVs from mesenchymal stem cells to perform proteomic analysis, and chondrocyte-derived microvesicles (CMVs) were used as a negative control, and PGC-1α overexpressed-MMVs were used as a positive control. A total of 5411 proteins were identified in this study, and differentially expressed (DE) proteins were further identified with a cut-off of absolute fold change >1.5 and a significance p-value <0.05. Compared with CMV group, 321 proteins were upregulated and 209 proteins were downregulated in MMVs. This study illustrated the differences between MMVs and CMVs, and provided a sight for investigating the protective effect of MMVs.
Project description:Comparison of expression profile of Ewing's sarcoma with cell of origin, mesenchymal stem cells with the goal of identifying novel therapeutic targets. 3 Ewing's cell lines compared to 2 MSC cell lines