Project description:We used ATAC-seq to evaluate the global programme of chromtain accessibility after Dox inducible Yamanaka factors ectopic expression during this biological process.
Project description:We used RNA-seq to evaluate the global programme of gene expression after Dox inducible Yamanaka factors ectopic expression during this biological process.
Project description:Applying somatic cell reprogramming strategies in cancer cell biology is a powerful approach to analyze mechanisms of malignancy and develop new therapeutics. Here, we test whether leukemia cells can be reprogrammed in vivo using the canonical reprogramming transcription factors-Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc (termed as OSKM). Unexpectedly, we discover that OSKM can eradicate leukemia cells and dramatically improve survival of leukemia-bearing mice. By contrast, OSKM minimally impact normal hematopoietic cells. Using ATAC-seq, we find OSKM induce chromatin accessibility near genes encoding apoptotic regulators in leukemia cells. Moreover, this selective effect also involves downregulation of H3K9me3 as an early event. Dissection of the functional effects of OSKM shows that Klf4 and Sox2 play dominant roles compared to c-Myc and Oct4 in elimination of leukemia cells. These results reveal an intriguing paradigm by which OSKM-initiated reprogramming induction can be leveraged and diverged to develop novel anti-cancer strategies.
Project description:Recent reports have proposed a new paradigm for obtaining mature somatic cell types from fibroblasts without going through a pluripotent state, by briefly expressing canonical iPSC reprogramming factors Oct4, Sox2, Klf4 and c-Myc (abbreviated as OSKM), in cells expanded in lineage differentiation promoting conditions. Here we apply genetic lineage tracing for endogenous Nanog, Oct4 and X chromosome reactivation during OSKM induced trans-differentiation, as these molecular events mark final stages for acquisition of induced pluripotency. Remarkably, the vast majority of reprogrammed cardiomyocytes or neural stem cells derived from mouse fibroblasts via OSKM mediated trans-differentiation were attained after transient acquisition of pluripotency, and followed by rapid differentiation. Our findings underscore a molecular and functional coupling between inducing pluripotency and obtaining “trans-differentiated” somatic cells via OSKM induction, and have implications on defining molecular trajectories assumed during different cell reprogramming methods. poly RNA-Seq and Chromatin accesibility (ATAC-seq) were measured during conversion of mouse embryonic fibroblasts to neural stem cells using OSKM trans-differentiation method, as well as in mouse emrbyonic fibroblasts, iPSCs and mouse ESCs.
Project description:To investigate the molecular mechanism for the elimination of leukemia cells after Dox induced OSKM expression, we sorted MLL-AF9 leukemia cells from Dox untreated and treated groups (48h and 72h) leukemic mice for gene expression profiling analysis.
Project description:Chemically reprogramming somatic cells to iPSCs is time-consuming and low-efficiency. Here, we discribe a rapid chemical reprogramming condition enabling generating iPSCs from MEFs in 12 days. To further investigate the mechemisms and draw an epigenetic maps during the rapid chemical reprogramming, we performed time-course RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, RRBS and CUT&Tag (H3K4me3, H3K18la, H3K9me3, H3K27me3 and H3K27ac).