Project description:This study provides gene expression profiles of bone marrow mesenchymal lineage cell and endothelial cell subsets from a CXCR4 gain-of- function mouse model of WHIM syndrome at the population level.
Project description:The aim of the study was to get insights into transcriptional alterations in bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells derived from acute myeloid leukemia patients We compared the global gene expression profile from AML BM-MSC (n=19) to healthy donor (HD) controls (HD BM-MSC n=4)
Project description:BRD4, a member of the BET family of histone readers, binds to acetylated lysine of histone H3 and promotes assembly of super-enhancer complexes that drive expression of key oncogenes in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and other cancers. ARV-825 is a proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) that targets BRD4 for CRBN-mediated ubiquitination and degradation. BM-MSCs are an important element of the bone marrow microenvironment of AML. To understand how targeting BRD4 in BM-MSCs may contribute to the overall effect on AML of targeting BRD4, we treated BM-MSCs from two normal donors with ARV-825 in vitro. Treatment of BM-MSC monocultures with ARV-825 for 24 hr caused extensive changes in gene expression, highly uniform between triplicates. Although the cultures from the two normal donors showed different profiles, their changes with ARV-825 were highly similar. These changes implicated effects on oxidative stress, osteogenic differentiation, retinoid metabolism, F-actin polymerization, CXCL12, and proliferation.
Project description:Human bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells (BM-MSC) could be committed toward a functional lymphoid-like stroma by a combination of TNFalpha (TNF) and Lymphotoxin alpha1/beta2 (LT) (Amé-Thomas et al Blood 2007). Bone marrow and lymph node stromal cells support FL malignant cell recruitment and growth in particular after comittment to a lymphoid-like differentiation in vitro. In addition, more than 70% of FL patients exhibit a bone marrow involvment at diagnosis. We delineate using Affymetrix U133+2.0 microarrays the gene expression profile of BM-MSC obtained from FL patients (FL-MSC) and age-matched healthy donors (HD-MSC) in order to identify a specific FL-MSC signature. In addition, we used Affymetrix microarrays to define the gene expression signature of lymphoid-like stromal cells obtained from HD-MSC by treatment with TNF/LT in vitro. This TNF/LT signature was then used to interpret the gene expression profile of FL-MSC.
Project description:GEP on Affymetrix HuGene-1.0-ST arrays was performed on 14 BM-MSCs and 14 autologus paired ASCs in order to explore the biological significance of tissue source (bone marrow vs adipose tissue) in MSC production.
Project description:Head Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC)- or Bone Marrow (BM)- derived mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) were analyzed either resting or following stimulation with IFN-g and TNF-a cytokines.
Project description:As an essential cellular component of the bone marrow (BM) microenvironment mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) play a pivotal role for the physiological regulation of hematopoiesis, in particular through the secretion of cytokines and chemokines. Mass spectrometry (MS) facilitates the identification and quantification of a large amount of secreted proteins (secretome), but can be hampered by the false-positive identification of contaminating proteins released from dead cells or derived from cell medium. To reduce the likelihood of contaminations we applied an approach combining secretome and proteome analysis to characterize the physiological secretome of BM derived human MSC. Our analysis revealed a secretome consisting of 315 proteins. Pathway analyses of these proteins revealed a high abundance of proteins related to cell growth and/or maintenance, signal transduction and cell communication thereby representing key biological functions of BM derived MSC on protein level. Within the MSC secretome we identified several cytokines and growth factors such as VEGFC, TGF-β1, TGF-β2 and GDF6 which are known to be involved in the physiological regulation of hematopoiesis. By comparing the peptide patterns of secretomes and cell lysates 17 proteins were identified as candidates for proteolytic processing. Taken together, our combined MS work-flow reduced the likelihood of contaminations and enabled us to carve out a specific overview about the composition of the secretome from human BM derived MSC. This methodological approach and the specific secretome signature of BM derived MSC may serve as basis foffuture comparative analyses of the interplay of MSC and HSPC in patients with hematological malignancies.
Project description:Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) are of multi-differentiating potential and has been demonstrated to have the ability to differentiate into endothelial cells. Stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1) is a key enzyme in lipid metabolism, which can convert saturated fatty acids into unsaturated fatty acids. We used lentivirus to transfected SCD1 gene into BM-MSCs and found that overexpression of SCD1 could promote the differentiation of BM-MSCs into endothelial cells. We used microarrays to detect the differential gene expression profile of endothelial induced BM-MSCs with SCD1 overexpression.
Project description:Carcinoma-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) that express α-smooth-muscle-actin (αSMA+) contribute to cancer progression, but their precise origin and role in tumorigenesis is not established. Using mouse models of inflammation-induced gastric cancer, we show that at least 20% of CAFs originate from bone marrow and derive from mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Surprisingly, we find that αSMA+ myofibroblasts (MF) are niche cells normally present in bone marrow and increase markedly in the bone marrow and blood during progression to dysplasia. MSC-derived CAFs that are recruited to the dysplastic stomach express IL-6, Wnt5α and BMP4 and show DNA hypomethylation. Bone marrow (BM)-derived CAFs strongly promote tumor growth in organotypic and xenograft models. In addition, CAFs are generated from MSCs and are recruited to distant tumor sites in a TGF-β- and SDF-1α-dependent manner. Carcinogenesis therefore involves the expansion and relocation of normal bone marrow niche cells to the tumor site where they create a new niche to sustain cancer progression. Since resident (non-BM-derived) CAFs could not be cultured and directly compared to BM-derived CAFs, we additionally isolated total RFP(+) gastric CAFs from aSMA-RFP mice with Helicobacter felis-induced dysplasia, and compared them to GFP(+) BM-derived gastric CAFs from mice with H. felis-induced dysplasia mice that had been transplanted with UBC-EGFP bone marrow. The RFP+ CAFs (HF CAF) represent total CAFs (of which only 20% were BM-derived), while the latter represented only BM-derived CAFs (BM CAF). We compared their gene expression using the Illumina array (MouseWG-6v2) directly after FACS sorting. Interestingly, the GFP+ BM-derived CAFs expressed higher levels of inflammatory genes (IL-6, IL-1β, IL-33) and a number of tumor and stem cell associated factors (CCL5, SPP1, Notch3, MMP9, CD47, CXCR4, PARP10,) compared to the total (RFP+) population of gastric CAFs.
Project description:The bone marrow (BM) is the third most frequent site of metastasis for solid tumors, creating an unfavorable clinical outcome. It provides a unique microenvironment that promotes growth of tumors, however, the role of different BM cells, their molecular features, and their interactions with tumor cells, are poorly defined. Here, we investigate the BM niche in neuroblastoma (NB), a pediatric cancer of the sympathetic nervous system. NB has been molecularly defined at the primary cancer site, yet, the metastatic site is poorly characterized. We performed single-cell transcriptomics (scRNA-seq) and epigenomic profiling (scATAC-seq) of BM aspirates from 11 subjects spanning three major NB subtypes: patients with MYCN amplification (MNA), ATRX mutations (ATRXmut), and cases that lack these alterations (sporadic): NB cases were then compared to five age-matched and metastasis-free BM (controls), followed by in-depth single cell analyses of tissue diversity and cell-cell interactions. We present the first map of the epigenetic and transcriptomic effects of bone marrow metastases. Our analyses demonstrate that tumor cells in the metastatic niche display plasticity that differs among NB subtypes. NB cells via cell-cell interaction signal to the bone marrow microenvironment, rewiring specifically monocytes, which exhibit M1 and M2 features, marked by activation of pro- and anti-inflammatory programs, and express tumor-promoting factors, reminiscent of tumor-associated macrophages. Our study may provide the basis for a therapeutic approach, targeting tumor-to-microenvironment interactions.