Sympathetic Nerve Signal is Critical for Regulating Mammary Gland Development and Mammary Stem Cell Activity
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Project description:Sympathetic activation during cold exposure increases adipocyte thermogenesis via the expression of mitochondrial protein uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1)1. The propensity of adipocytes to express UCP1 is under a critical influence of the adipose microenvironment and varies between sexes and among various fat depots2-7. Here, we report that cold-induced adipocyte UCP1 expression in a female mouse subcutaneous white adipose tissue (scWAT) is regulated by mammary gland ductal epithelial cells in the adipose niche. Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) shows that glandular luminal epithelium subtypes express transcripts that encode secretory factors in controlling adipocyte UCP1 expression under cold conditions. We term luminal epithelium secretory factors as “mammokines”. Using whole-tissue immunofluorescence 3D visualization, we reveal previously undescribed sympathetic nerve-ductal points of contact. We show sympathetic nerve-activated mammary ducts limit adipocyte UCP1 expression via lipocalin 2. Both in vivo and ex vivo ablation of mammary ductal epithelium enhances cold-induced scWAT adipocyte thermogenic gene program. Since the mammary duct network extends throughout most scWATs in female mice, females show markedly less scWAT UCP1 expression, fat oxidation, energy expenditure, and subcutaneous fat mass loss compared to male mice, implicating sex-specific roles of mammokines in adipose thermogenesis. These results show a previously uncharacterized role of sympathetic nerve-activated glandular epithelium in adipocyte UCP1 expression and suggest an evolutionary function of mammary duct luminal cells in defending glandular adiposity during cold exposure. Overall, our findings highlight mammary gland epithelium as a highly active metabolic cell type and implicate a broader role of mammokines in controlling female adipose metabolism, mammary gland physiology, and systemic energy homeostasis.
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Project description:Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) are diseases caused by mutations in the haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) compartment. Most MPN patients have a common acquired mutation of Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) gene in HSCs that renders this kinase constitutively active, leading to uncontrolled cell expansion. The bone marrow (BM) microenvironment might contribute to the clinical outcomes of this common event. We previously showed that BM nestin+ mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) innervated by sympathetic nerve fibres regulate normal HSCs. Here we demonstrate that abrogation of this regulatory circuit is essential for MPN pathogenesis. Sympathetic nerve fibres, supporting Schwann cells and nestin+ MSCs are consistently reduced in the BM of MPN patients and mice expressing the human JAK2V617F mutation in HSCs. Unexpectedly, MSC reduction is not due to differentiation but is caused by BM neural damage and Schwann cell death triggered by interleukin-1b produced by mutant HSCs. In turn, in vivo depletion of nestin+ cells or their production of CXCL12 expanded mutant HSCs and accelerated MPN progression. In contrast, administration of neuroprotective or sympathomimetic drugs prevented mutant HSC expansion. Treatment with b3-adrenergic agonists that restored the sympathetic regulation of nestin+ MSCs prevented the loss of these cells and blocked MPN progression by indirectly reducing leukaemic stem cells. Our results demonstrate that mutant HSC-driven niche damage critically contributes to disease manifestation in MPN and identify niche-forming MSCs and their neural regulation as promising therapeutic targets. Total RNA was isolated from BM CD45- CD31- Ter119- Nes-GFP+ cells obtained from Nes-gfp mice 10 weeks after transplantation with Mx1-cre;JAK2-V617F (n=3) or control cells (n=1). RNA was amplified using the NuGen Ovation system and hybridized to the Affymetrix MoGene 1.0 ST array.
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