Project description:Expression profiling of Rag2-deficient Ets1++ and Rag2-deficient Ets1-- mature NK cells and WT bone marrow progenitors, WT T cells, and WT Pro B cells
Project description:Expression profiling of Rag2-deficient Ets1++ and Rag2-deficient Ets1-- mature NK cells and WT bone marrow progenitors, WT T cells, and WT Pro B cells WT Hematopoietic progenitors, CD4 T cells, Pro B cells, and WT and Ets1-deficient NK cells were FACs sorted. RNA was subsequently extracted, labelled, and hybridized to Affymetrix microarrays. The goal if this experiment was to identify Ets1 dependent genes in NK cells
Project description:Using scRNAseq, we identified five distinct NK cell clusters and define their relative developmental maturity in the murine bone marrow of WT mice. Transcriptome-based machine-learning classifiers revealed that half of the mTORC2-deficient NK cells belongs to the least mature NK cluster. Mechanistically, loss of mTORC2 results in an increased expression of signature genes representing immature NK cells. We further characterized the T-bet-deficient NK cells and found an augmented immature transcriptomic signature. Moreover, deletion of Foxo1 restores the expression of T-bet and corrects the abnormal expression of immature NK genes in Rictor-deficient NK cells.
Project description:We identified that synergistic and inducible expression of Runx1 and Hoxa9 in pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) gave rise to engraftable iHPC capable of developing into common helper innate lymphoid progenitors (CHILPs) in the Rag2-/-Il2rg-/- recipients. To assess the gene-expression pattern of the PSC-derived R9-iCHILPs, we performed single-cell RNA-seq on the regenerative CD45.2+GFP+Lin-CD127+CD135-α4β7+Sca1mid/-CD25- R9-iCHILPs from the bone marrow of Rag2-/-Il2rg-/- recipient mice and the CD45.2+Lin-CD127+CD135-α4β7+Sca1mid/-CD25- WT-CHILPs from the bone marrow of wild type mice (C57BL/6, CD45.2).
Project description:A large gap in our understanding of infant immunity is why natural killer (NK) cell responses are deficient, which makes infants more prone to viral infection. Here we demonstrate that transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) was responsible for NK cell immaturity during infancy. We found more fully mature NK cells in CD11cdnR mice, whose NK cells lack TGF-beta receptor (TGF-beta R) signaling. Ontogenic maturation of NK cells progressed faster in the absence of TGF-beta signaling, which results in the formation of a mature NK cell pool early in life. As a consequence, infant CD11cdnR mice efficiently controlled viral infections. These data thus demonstrate an unprecedented role for TGF-beta in ontogeny that can explain why NK cell responses are deficient early in life. Bone marrow cells were isolated from CD11cdnR (TG) and wild-type (WT) mice, and NK cells were sorted at different stages of development (stages D, E, and F) using BD Biosciences FACSAria. mNK cells from stages D, E, and F were obtained from three cell sorting analyses with samples pooled from n = 12 CD11cdnR and 25 WT mice. Equal amounts of total RNA from each stage was pooled prior to gene expression analysis. RNA was prepared using the RNeasy Micro kit (Qiagen), and cDNA was obtained using the standard protocol of reverse transcription. A customized StellARay cell cycle qPCR array (Lonza) was used. Quantitative gene expression analysis (quantitative PCR) was conducted on an ABI Prism 7900 instrument (Applied Biosystems).
Project description:The development of innate lymphoid cell (ILC) transcription factor reporter mice has shown a previously unexpected complexity in ILC haematopoiesis. Using novel polychromic mice to achieve higher phenotypic resolution we have characterised bone marrow progenitors that are committed to the group 1 ILC lineage. These common ILC1/NK progenitors, which we call ‘aceNKPs’, are defined as lineage–Id2+IL-7Ra+CD25–a4b7–NKG2A/C/E+Bcl11b–. In vitro, aceNKPs differentiate into group 1 ILCs, including NK-like cells that express Eomes without the requirement for IL-15, and produce IFN-g and perforin upon IL-15 stimulation. Following reconstitution of Rag2–/–Il2rg–/– hosts, aceNKPs give rise to a spectrum of mature ILC1/NK cells (regardless of their tissue location) that cannot be clearly segregated into the traditional ILC1 and NK subsets, suggesting that group 1 ILCs constitute a dynamic continuum of ILCs that can develop from a common progenitor. In addition, aceNKP-derived ILC1/NK cells effectively ameliorate tumour burden in a model of lung metastasis where they acquired a cytotoxic NK cell phenotype. Our results identify the primary ILC1/NK progenitor that lacks ILC2 or ILC3 potential and is strictly committed to ILC1/NK cell production irrespective of tissue homing.
Project description:Natural killer (NK) cells can be grouped into distinct subsets that are localized to different organs and exhibit different capacity to secrete cytokines and mediate cytotoxicity. Despite these hallmarks that reflect tissue-specific specialization in NK cells, little is known about the factors that control the development of these distinct subsets. The basic leucine zipper transcription factor nuclear factor interleukin 3 (Nfil3; E4bp4) is essential for bone marrow-derived NK cell development but it is not clear whether Nfil3 is equally important for all NK cell subsets nor how it induces NK lineage commitment. Here we show that Nfil3 is required for the formation of Eomesodermin (Eomes)-expressing NK cells, including conventional medullary and thymic NK cells, whereas TRAIL+ Eomes- NK cells develop independent of Nfil3. Loss of Nfil3 during the development of bone marrow-derived NK cells resulted in reduced expression of Eomes and, conversely, restoration of Eomes expression in Nfil3-/- progenitors rescued NK cell development and maturation. Collectively, these findings demonstrate that Nfil3 drives the formation of mature NK cell by inducing Eomes expression and reveal the differential requirements of NK cell subsets for Nfil3. RNA-sequencing of natural killer (NK) cell subsets
Project description:Natural killer (NK) cells represent one of three lymphoid lineages and play a vital role in controlling viral infections and cancer. In contrast to B and T lymphopoiesis where cellular and regulatory pathways have been extensively characterized, the cellular stages of early human NK-cell commitment remain poorly understood Here we described a novel NK-lineage restricted progenitor (NKP) in fetal development, umbilical cord blood and adult bone marrow. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression genes of this new progenitor. Global gene expression analysis was performed on the NKP, multipotent progenitors LMPP, common lymphoid progenitor candidate and mature NK cells purified from Cord blood CD34+ cells (3-4 replicates, 2 experiments)
Project description:The relative importance of T/B lymphocytes and NK cells during acute myeloid leukemia (AML) progression has been unclear. In this study, we compared gene expression profiles of mouse AML cells expressing MLL-AF9 collected from immunologically normal wild-type (WT) C57BL/6 mice, Rag2-/- mice lacking mature T and B cells, and NSG mice lacking T, B and NK cells.
Project description:In order to search for cell-intrinsic targets for Brg1 in ILC3s, Brg1-deficient and control ILC3s were sorted from bone marrow chimeric mice, generated by transfering mixed bone marrow cells of Thy1.1/Thy1.2Rag1-/-Smarca4f/f and Thy1.2Rag1-/-Smarca4f/fRorc-cre donors at 1:1 ratio to sub-lethally irriadiated Rag2-/-Il2rg-/- recipients.