ABSTRACT: NGS whole genome sequencing from five murine lymphoid tumours (m137, m189, m191, m209, m313 and m97) and one control sample C57B1/6 Sca1+ progenitor cells.
Project description:Microarray data from five murine T cell malignant clones (m137, m189, m191, m209 and m313) and thymocytes and splenic T cells from wild-type C57Bl/6 control mice
Project description:In early gene therapy trials for SCID-X1, using γ-retroviral vectors, T cell leukemias developed in a subset of patients secondary to insertional proto-oncogene activation. In contrast, we have reported development of T cell leukemias in SCID-X1 mice following lentivirus-mediated gene therapy independent of insertional mutagenesis. A distinguishing feature in our study was that only a proportion of transplanted γc-deficient progenitors were transduced and therefore competent for reconstitution. We hypothesized that reconstitution of SCID-X1 mice with limiting numbers of hematopoietic progenitors might be a risk factor for lymphoid malignancy. To test this hypothesis, in the absence of transduction, SCID-X1 mice were reconstituted with serially fewer wild-type hematopoietic progenitors. A robust inverse correlation between hematopoietic progenitor cell dose and T-lymphoid malignancy was observed, with earlier disease onset at lower cell doses. Malignancies were of donor origin and carried activating Notch1 mutations. These findings align with emerging evidence that thymocyte self-renewal induced by progenitor deprivation carries an oncogenic risk that is modulated by intra-thymic competition from differentiation-committed cells. Although insertional proto-oncogene activation is required for the development of malignancy in humans, failure of γc-deficient thymocytes to effectively compete with this at-risk cell population may have also contributed to oncogenesis observed in early SCID-X1 trials.
Project description:To study the effect of miR-221/222-deficiency on early hematopoietic lineage differentiation pathways on sorted multipotent progenitor (MPP), common lymphoid progenitor (CLP), lineage-ckit+Sca1- and lineage-ckit-Sca1- populations of miRNA-proficient and deficient mice.
Project description:We used microarrays to investigate gene expression changes in tumor-bearing Sca1-TOMATO-Lmo2 mice and in preleukemic cells from Sca1-TOMATO-Lmo2 mice.
Project description:We used microarrays to investigate gene expression changes in tumor-bearing Sca1-TOMATO-Lmo2 mice and in preleukemic cells from Sca1-TOMATO-Lmo2 mice. Tumor-bearing thymus of eleven Sca1-TOMATO-Lmo2 mice compared with thymus cells from 4 WT mice, with TOMATO-positive thymus preleukemic T cells from 5 Sca1-TOMATO-Lmo2 mice and with TOMATO-negative thymus preleukemic T cells from 5 Sca1-TOMATO-Lmo2 mice GSM2209749 - GSM220975 and GSM2209757 - GSM2209759 were re-analyzed by GSE83571 (GSM2209767 - GSM2209776).
Project description:We used microarrays to investigate gene expression changes in tumor-bearing Sca1-TOMATO-Lmo2 Nu/Nu mice Tumor-bearing bone marrows of three Sca1-TOMATO-Lmo2 Nu/Nu mice compared with bone marrow cells from four Control Nude mice and with thymus leukemic cells from ten Sca1-TOMATO-Lmo2 mice. GSM2209767 - GSM2209776 are re-analyses of GSE83570 (GSM2209749 - GSM220975 and GSM2209757 - GSM2209759).
Project description:Ongoing CAG expansions in Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) and Huntington disease (HD) brains exacerbate disease. Expansions involve aberrant repair of mutagenic slipped-DNAs, formed from single-stranded DNAs. Whether singlestranded DNA-binding proteins prevent or facilitate expansions is unknown. We assessed canonical RPA (RPA1-RPA2-RPA3) and Alternative-RPA (RPA1-RPA4- RPA3), containing primate-specific RPA4. RPA is essential for all DNA metabolism. Alt-RPA has undefined functions. Alt-RPA is upregulated 10-fold in HD and SCA1 patient brains. RPA enhances, while Alt-RPA blocks, correct repair of slipped-CAGs. RPA, but not Alt-RPA, efficiently binds and melts slipped-DNAs. RPA enhances, while Alt-RPA blocks, removal of excess slipped-DNAs by FAN1 nuclease. Protein-protein interactomes reveal unique and shared partners of RPA and Alt-RPA, including expansion-driving proteins. RPA-overexpression in SCA1 mice inhibits CAG expansions in brains, rescuing neuron morphology and motor phenotypes. Modulating repeat mutations is one example involving antagonistic Alt-RPA↔RPA interactions, illuminating questions as to which RPA-mediated processes are also modulated by AltRPA.
Project description:Attempts at modeling chromosomal translocations involving MALT1 gene, hallmarks of human mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma, have failed to reproduce the disease in mice. Here we describe a transgenic model in which MALT1 expression was targeted to mouse hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. In Sca1-MALT1 mice, MALT1 deregulation activated the NF-kappaB pathway in Sca1+ cells, promoting selective B-cell differentiation and mature lymphocyte accumulation in extranodal tissues, progressively leading to the development of clonal B-cell lymphomas. These tumors recapitulated the histopathological features of human MALT lymphomas, presenting typical lymphoepithelial lesions and plasmacytic differentiation. Transcriptional profiling of Sca1-MALT1 murine lymphomas revealed overlapping molecular signatures with human MALT lymphomas, including MALT1-mediated NFkappaB activation, pro-inflammatory signaling and XBP1-induced plasmacytic differentiation. Moreover, murine Malt1 showed proteolytic activity by cleaving Bcl10 in Sca1-MALT1 lymphomas. Our novel technological approach has allowed modeling human MALT lymphoma in mice, which represent unique tools study MALT lymphoma biology and evaluate anti-MALT1 therapies. Keywords: Genetic modification, wt vs. transgenic, MALT1 expression 8 sorting purified Sca1+Lin- samples were analized of which 5 were from Sca1-MALT1 transgenic mice and 3 were from WT mice.
Project description:Comparison of gene expression profiling analysis of bone marrow isolated CD34+ cells from patients with MALT lymphoma vs. healthy individuals revealed a large number of differentially expressed genes that included NF-kB target genes, genes involved in inflamatory signalling and immunoglobulin genes, suggesting an early lymphoid B-cell priming. Chromosomal translocations involving MALT1 gene are hallmarks of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma. However, targeting these translocations to mouse B-cells has failed to reproduce human disease. Here, we induced MALT1 expression in mouse Sca1+Lin- hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HS/PCs), leading to the development of tumors recapitulating the clinical, histopathological and molecular features of human MALT lymphomas. Ablation of the p53 gene induced transformation of MALT lymphoma to diffuse large-cell lymphoma of activated B-cell type (ABC-DLBCL). Human CD34+ cells isolated from MALT lymphoma patients displayed an abnormal transcriptional program that was shared by MALT lymphoma cells, transgenic mouse Sca1+Lin- cells and Sca1-MALT1-induced lymphomas. Our study shows that MALT lymphoma can be modeled in mice by targeting MALT1 oncogene to HS/PCs.