Project description:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and other myeloid malignancies, are frequently treated with hypomethylating agents like decitabine. Alterations in the epigenome, induced by decitabine, are likely to result in gene expression changes. The effects of decitabine have not been systemically studied using primary AML samples.
Project description:Chemotherapy-resistant cancer recurrence is a major cause of mortality. In acute myeloid leukemia (AML), chemorefractory relapses result from the complex interplay between altered genetic, epigenetic and transcriptional states in leukemic cells. We developed an experimental model system using in vitro lineage tracing coupled with exome, transcriptome and in vivo functional readouts to assess the AML population dynamics and associated molecular determinants underpinning chemoresistance development. We found that combining standard chemotherapeutic regimens with low doses of DNA methyltransferase inhibitors (DNMTi, hypomethylating drugs) prevents chemoresistant relapses. Mechanistically, DNMTi suppressed the outgrowth of a pre-determined set of chemoresistant AML clones with stemness properties, instead favoring the expansion of rarer and unfit chemosensitive clones. Importantly, we confirmed the capacity of DNMTi combination to suppress stemness-dependent chemoresistance development in both xenotransplantation models and primary AML patient samples. Together, these results support the potential of DNMTi combination treatment to circumvent the development of chemorefractory AML relapses.
Project description:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and other myeloid malignancies, are frequently treated with hypomethylating agents like decitabine. Alterations in the epigenome, induced by decitabine, are likely to result in gene expression changes. The effects of decitabine have not been systemically studied using primary AML samples. We cultured 18 different primary AML samples for 7 days, the last 3 days of which included 100 nM decitabine (DAC) or 100 nm cytarabine (AraC). We hypothesized that decitabine treatment would result in detectable and consistent gene expression changes. For comparison, we also analyzed mRNA from cells treated with DMSO control (mock) and mRNA from uncultured cells taken at the time of diagnosis.
Project description:Label-free quantitation dataset from 44 representative Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) patients from the LAML TCGA dataset, and 6 healthy bone marrow derived controls including 3 lineage-depleted and 3 CD34+ selected bone marrows.
Project description:A deep-scale proteome and phosphoproteome database from 44 representative Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) patients from the LAML TCGA dataset, and 6 healthy bone marrow derived controls including 3 lineage-depleted and 3 CD34+ selected bone marrows.
Project description:The aim of our research project is to identify microRNAs involved in chemoresistance in acute myeloid leukemia patients. We performed small RNA-sequencing on baseline bone marrow samples and compared chemoresistant versus chemosensitive patient samples.
Project description:Chemoresistance is the leading cause of acute myeloid leukemia (AML)-related deaths, and elucidation of the mechanisms of AML chemoresistance is necessary to effectively target this process. Here, we performed genome wide CRISPR-Cas9 screening to identify key molecules regulating AML chemoresistance.
