Project description:Aggressive systemic mastocytosis with associated hematologic neoplasm (ASM-AHN) represents a complex myeloid neoplasm, in which KIT D816V is the phenotype-defining but not the only driver mutation. Avapritinib is a potent and specific KIT D816V inhibitor recently approved for ASM treatment. To understand the effects of inhibiting KIT D816V on MC and Non-MC compartments, we combined single cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) with deep whole genome sequencing (WGS) to map clonal dynamics in successive blood samples from 4 ASM-AHN patients treated with avapritinib (T1 as pretreatment sample, T2 and T3 as posttreatment samples). Since CMML is the most common AHN associated with ASM, we included samples from three treatment-naïve KIT wild type CMML patients for comparison. We also included 3 age-matched healthy donor as controls.
Project description:RNA-seq of bone marrow samples of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) patients and healthy donors to identify the molecular DNA repair pathways involved in CMML pathogenic
Project description:Interleukin (IL)-17 plays an important and protective role in host defence and has been demonstrated to orchestrate airway inflammation by cooperating with and inducing proinflammatory cytokines. Mircoarrays were used to identify immediate-early/ primary response IL-17A-dependent gene transcripts in primary human bronchial ASM cells from mild asthmatic and healthy individuals. To evaluate IL-17A-inducible gene transcripts, primary human bronchial ASM cells from 3 mild asthmatic and 3 healthy donors were treated for 2h with IL-17 [10ng/ml] and were probed with the Affymetrix GeneChip array. The 2h time point was carefully chosen in order to identify primary response gene targets and to avoid confounding autocrine mechanisms mediating indirect, or late-phase gene expression responses. Non-stimulated ASM cells from the same patients were used as controls.
Project description:This study includes 2 cohorts of samples. First cohort consists out of BM aspirates from 4 healthy individuals and 12 patients diagnosed with AML, MDS or CMML. Second cohort includes 5 healthy individuals and 17 patients diagnosed with AML, MDS or CMML. MDS and CMML patients were treated with 5-AZA on 6 cycles and samples were obtained before the treatment and 15 days after 1 and 6 rounds of treatment.
Project description:Myeloblast expansion is a hallmark of disease progression in leukemias and comprises of CD34+ hematopoeitic stem and progeneitor cells. We used single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) to analyze the transcriptional states of HSPCs in CMML.
Project description:mRNA samples from bone marrow CD34+ cells (HSC) from healthy donors after co-culture assays (Control condition, with hMSCs and CD34+ cells from healthy donors; and AML condition, with hMSCs-AML and CD34+ cells from donors) were amplified, labeled and hybridized to the ClariomTM S Array human (Thermo Scientific, USA). Normalization and analysis of microarray data was performed using the Transcriptome Analysis Console (TAC) software (Affymetrix, USA).
Project description:Identification of EGR1 chromatin localization in human primary monocytes (2 donors), in human primary monocytes from 2 CMML patients with TET2 truncating mutations (high VAF) and in human primary monocytes from 1 CMML patients with TET2 truncating mutations with low VAF.
Project description:Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) is an aggressive myeloid neoplasm of older individuals characterized by persistent monocytosis. Somatic mutations in CMML are heterogeneous and only partially explain the variability in clinical outcomes. Recent data suggest that cardiovascular morbidity is increased in CMML and contributes to reduced survival. Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), the presence of mutated blood cells in hematologically normal individuals, is a precursor of age-related myeloid neoplasms and associated with increased cardiovascular risk. To isolate CMML-specific alterations from those related to aging, we performed RNA sequencing and DNA methylation profiling on purified monocytes from CMML patients and from age-matched (old) and young healthy controls. We found that the transcriptional signature of CMML monocytes is highly pro-inflammatory, with upregulation of multiple inflammatory pathways, including tumor necrosis factor, IL-6 and IL-17 signaling, while age per se does not significantly contribute to this pattern. We observed no consistent correlations between aberrant gene expression and CpG island methylation, suggesting that pro-inflammatory signaling in CMML monocytes is governed by multiple and complex regulatory mechanisms. We propose that pro-inflammatory monocytes may contribute to cardiovascular morbidity in CMML patients, and promote progression by selection of mutated cell clones. Our data raise questions whether asymptomatic CMML patients may benefit from monocyte-depleting or anti-inflammatory therapies.