Project description:Impact of CDK4-deficiency on Eµ-myc driven B-lymphoma By crossing mating CDK4 Knockout mice with Eµ-myc mice,We found CDK4-deficiency enhances the Eµ-myc induced B-lymphoma.We further to discover the molecular mechanism
Project description:Impact of CDK4-deficiency on EM-BM-5-myc driven B-lymphoma By crossing mating CDK4 Knockout mice with EM-BM-5-myc mice,We found CDK4-deficiency enhances the EM-BM-5-myc induced B-lymphoma.We further to discover the molecular mechanism B-lymphoma cells form the cdk4+/+ EM-BM-5-myc and cdk4-/-EM-BM-5-myc mice and then culturing for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling Myc-driven lymphomas to determine pathways by which Wrn deficiency impairs tumor development Total RNA isolated from Eµ-Myc and Eµ-Myc Wrn Δhel/Δhel murine B-cell lymphomas (n=4)
Project description:Many lymphoid malignancies arise from deregulated c-MYC expression in cooperation with additional genetic lesions. While many of these cooperative genetic lesions have been discovered and their functions characterised, DNA sequence data of primary patient samples suggest that many more do exist. However, the nature of their contributions to c-MYC driven lymphomagenesis have not yet been investigated. We identified TFAP4 as a potent suppressor of c-MYC driven lymphoma development in a previous genome-wide CRISPR knockout screen in primary cells in vivo. CRISPR deletion of TFAP4 in Eµ-MYC transgenic haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) and transplantation of these manipulated HSPCs into lethally irradiated animals significantly accelerated c-MYC-driven lymphoma development. Interestingly, TFAP4 deficient Eµ-MYC lymphomas all arose at the pre-B cell stage of B cell development. This observation prompted us to characterise the transcriptional profile of pre-B cells from pre-leukaemic mice transplanted with Eµ-MYC/Cas9 HSPCs that had been transduced with sgRNAs targeting TFAP4. This analysis revealed that TFAP4 deletion reduced expression of several master regulators of B cell differentiation, such as Spi1, SpiB and Pax5, which are direct target genes of both TFAP4 and MYC. We therefore conclude that loss of TFAP4 leads to a block in differentiation during early B cell development, thereby accelerating c-MYC-driven lymphoma development.
