Project description:Retinoic acid signaling regulates monocyte differentiation into dendritic cells or macrophages. We used microarrays to uncover gene expression changes associated with retinoic acid exposure in mouse monocytes. The immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) is a major barrier to immunotherapy. Within solid tumors, why monocytes preferentially differentiate into immunosuppressive tumor associated macrophages (TAMs) but not immunostimulatory dendritic cells (DCs) remains unclear. Using multiple murine sarcoma models, we found that the TME induced retinoic acid (RA) production by tumor cells, which polarized intratumoral monocyte differentiation towards TAMs and away from DCs via suppression of DC-promoting transcription factor Irf4. Genetic inhibition of RA production by tumor cells or pharmacologic inhibition of RA signaling within TME increased stimulatory monocyte-derived cells, enhanced T cell-dependent anti-tumor immunity and demonstrated striking synergy with immune checkpoint blockade. Further, RA responsive gene signature in human monocytes correlated with an immunosuppressive TME in multiple human tumors. RA has been long considered as an anti-cancer agent, but our work demonstrates its tumorigenic capability via myeloid-mediated immune suppression and provides proof of concept for targeting this pathway for tumor immunotherapy.
Project description:Analysis of genes induced in DC precursors and in BM cells and monocytes treated with GM-CSF For progenitor arrays, bone marrow progenitors (CMP, GMP, CDP, and pre-cDC) were harvested from WT C57Bl/6 mice. For culture arrays, BM was cultured in the presence of GM-CSF or M-CSF and adherent and non-adherent cells sorted. For monocyte cultures, sorted BM monocytes were treated with GM-CSF for 0, 24 or 48 hours.
Project description:Two human stromal cell lines, HS-5 and HS-27a, represent functionally distinct components of the bone marrow microenvironment. A third influential component of the microenvironment is resident monocytes and macrophages. The baseline expression profile of normal peripheral blood monocytes was determined and their effect on the gene expression of the stromal cells was investigated in a co-culture sytem. Control RNA for all samples was Stratagene Universal human reference RNA. Keywords: Cell Line Comparison and Culture Comparison
Project description:RATIONALE: Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage cancer cells. Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining chemotherapy with bone marrow transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more tumor cells.
PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of bone marrow transplantation in treating patients who have hematologic cancer.
Project description:Spleen tyrosine kinase (Syk)del/del mice suppressed atherosclerosis and Sykdeldel macrophages showed cell migration impairment. To investigate the Syk-associated genes in cell migration, we analyzed RNA-Seq of bone marrow monocytes.
Project description:Glucocorticoids (GC) are used as first line therapies for generalized suppression of inflammation (e.g. allergies or autoimmune diseases), but their long-term use is limited by severe side effects. Our previous work has revealed that GC induced a stable anti-inflammatory phenotype in monocytes, the glucocorticoid-stimulated monocytes (GCsM) that we now exploited for targeted GC-mediated therapeutic effects. We demonstrate that GCsM interact with T-cells in suppressing proliferation as well as cytokine release of CD8+ and especially CD4+ T-cells in vitro, and that they support generation of Foxp3+ cells. We therefore tested their immunosuppressive potential in CD4+ T-cell-induced colitis in vivo. We found that injection of GCsM into mice with already established severe colitis abolishes the inflammation and results in significant clinical improvement within a few days. T-cells recovered from GCsM-treated mice reveal reduced secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines IFN-M-oM-^AM-' or IL-17. Furthermore, accumulation of clusters of Foxp3+ CD4+ T-cells were detectable at local sites of inflammation in their colon. Thus, GCsM are able to modify T-cell responses in vitro and in vivo and are able to down-regulate and clinically cure an established severe T-cell mediated colitis. Bone marrow derived monocytes where cultured 16 h with media containing M-CSF (control monocytes) or media containing M-CSF and dexamethasone (GCsM). In three independent experiments, total RNA from GCsM and control monocytes was isolated and processed for microarray hybridization.