Project description:High ploidy large cytoplasmic megakaryocytes (LCM) are critical negative regulators of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) and are responsible for platelet formation. Using a mouse knockout model with normal megakaryocyte numbers but essentially devoid of LCM (MK-LCM KO), we demonstrated a pronounced increase in bone marrow HSC concurrent with endogenous mobilization and extramedullary hematopoiesis. When HSC isolated from a MK-LCM KO microenvironment were transplanted in lethally irradiated mice, the absence of LCM increased HSC in BM, blood and spleen. Severe thrombocytopenia was observed in animals with diminished LCM, although there was no change in megakaryocyte ploidy distribution. In contrast, WT HSC-generated LCM regulated a normal HSC pool and prevented thrombocytopenia. The present label-free quantitative LC-MSMS data was used to determine proteins that are differentially expressed in bone marrow cells of MK-LCM WT versus MK-LCM KO mice.
Project description:Gene expression profile of LSK-enriched population of hematopoietic progenitor cells from Abi-1 KO mice indicates activation of the NFκB pathway. In this dataset, we include the expression data obtained from Lineage-, Sca-1+, cKit+ (LSK)-enriched population of hematopoietic progenitor cells isolated from the bone marow of Abi-1 KO and WT animals. Abi1(fl/fl);Tg (Mx1- cre(-)) or Abi1(fl/fl);Tg (Mx1-cre(+)) mice were subjected to polyinosinic:polycytidylic acid [poly(I:C)]-induced activation of the Cre recombinase under control of the Mx1 promoter to obtain animals with an Abi1(fl/fl);Tg (Mx1-cre(-)) (Abi-1 WT) or Abi1(-/-);Tg (Mx1-cre(+)) (Abi-1 KO) genotype.
Project description:Zeb2 has been shown to influence hematopoietic differentiation and loss thereof leads to complex differentiation defects in multiple hematopoietic lineages. We used microarrays to compare the expresssion profile of Zeb2-defective with WT hematopoietic stem cells and identified several dinstict classes of up-regulated genes during this process.
Project description:T-bet is critical for cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) differentiation, but it is unclear how it operates in a graded manner in the formation of both terminal effector and memory precursor cells during infection. We find that at high concentrations T-bet induced expression of Zeb2 mRNA, which then triggered CTLs to adopt terminally differentiated states. ZEB2 and T-bet cooperate to switch on a terminal CTL differentiation program, while simultaneously repressing genes necessary for central memory CTL development. Chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) showed that a large proportion of these genes were bound by T-bet, and this binding was altered by ZEB2 deficiency. Furthermore, T-bet overexpression could not fully bypass ZEB2 function. Thus, the coordinated actions of T-bet and ZEB2 outline a novel genetic pathway that forces commitment of CTLs to terminal differentiation, thereby restricting their memory cell potential. Splenocyte derived CD8+ T cells from C57BL/6 mice with either a wildtype (WT) (GzmB-Cre Zeb2+/+) or GzmB-Cre Zeb2-fl/fl (Zeb2-/-) backgrounds, following 8 days post infection with LCMV-Armstrong, were subsetted into KLRG1-hi/IL-7R-lo populations (terminal effectors, TE) or KLRG1-lo/IL-7R-hi (memory precursors, MP) populations. Four experimental groups, each with 3 samples, comprised of TE+WT, MP+WT, TE+ZEB2-/-, and MP+ZEB2-/-, were profiled for gene expression utilizing a polyA RNA prep and hybridized to the Illumina microarray platform IlluminaWG-v2.0.
Project description:Examining the effects of PRMT5 loss on the gene expression profile of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells We established the PRMT5 conditional KO mice, and bred the mice with Mx1 cre transgenic mice to delete PRMT5 in hematopoietic cells. We isolated hematopoetic stem and progenitor cells 3 days after PRMT5 deletion, and examined the gene expression files using RNA-sequencing.
Project description:To identify microRNAs which differentially expressed in hematopoietic stem cells from wt mice and ApoE KO mice We used microRNA microarrays to identify miroRNAs which can directly regulate tet1 expression in hematopoietic stem cells
