Project description:We performed single-cell RNA sequencing of a lymphoma (OCI-Ly18) subcutaneous tumor harvested from NSG mice two weeks after infusion with CART19 plus DMSO or CART19 plus Venetoclax (Suppl. Fig. 3A). Lymphoma cells with shared gene expression profiles were clustered using uniform manifold and approximation (UMAP) analysis. We identified six clusters characterized by different cell-cycle phases (Suppl. Fig. 3B), including one G1-dominant cluster, two S clusters, one G1/G2 cluster, one G2/M cluster, and an M cluster with high Ki67 expression. First, we observed a substantially lower proportion of cells assigned to G1-dom in the CART19/venetoclax-treated condition (8.4%) than in the CART19-treated condition (24%). These indicated a prevalent depletion of the G1-dom cluster by the addition of venetoclax (Suppl. Fig. 4C). In accordance with recent reports that venetoclax can induce cell cycle arrest and death in tumor cells in G1 39, these results suggest that venetoclax treatment also enhances CART’s anti-tumor efficacy by hindering the progression of cell cycle. Interestingly, the “G1-dominant (G1-dom)” and the additional “MKI67hi” cluster (high proliferative cells) showed significant enrichment of genes corresponding to interferon-gamma responsiveness, suggesting that the cells of these two clusters might have been interacting with CART cells (Suppl. Fig. 4D). Of note, by performing GO enrichment analysis with differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between CART19 and CART19/venetoclax combination in the MKI67hi cluster that represent a rapidly proliferating tumor subpopulation, we identified several pathways, including enrichment of the negative regulation of the G2/M phase transition in the CART19/venetoclax-treatment condition in the MKI67hi cluster (Suppl. Fig. 4E and 4F). Taken together, these data implicate that venetoclax treatment enhances CART-mediated tumor killing by promoting tumor apoptosis and inhibiting the cell cycle in cancer cells while also enhancing the interferon responses in neoplastic B-cells when engaging CART cells.
Project description:30 million OCI-AML2 cells were infected with CRISPR/Cas9 library, selected for puromycin resistance for integration events and exposed DMSO, venetoclax (0.5 uM) or venetoclax (0.1 uM) plus ruxolitinib (1 uM). Cells were collected at day 14 and 21 , DNA was extracted and sgRNA barcodes were amplified. PCR library was deep sequenced using Novaseq 6000 high throughput Illumina platform.
Project description:We established acquired venetoclax resistant OCI-LY1R cell line by treating venetoclax sensitive parental OCI-Ly1 cell line with increasing doses of venetoclax up till 1µM. Parental OCI-Ly1 and venetoiclax-resistant OCI-Ly1R cells were treated with vehicle control or decitabine at 1uM for 3 days. We found that decitabine differantially regulated gene expression in venetoclax sensitive and resistant cells. With gene set enrichment analysis, we identified two pathways that were deregulated by decitabine in both cell lines.
Project description:Single-cell gene expression of 4-1BBzeta CART19 cells in both the peripheral blood (model 1) and tumor-infiltrating (model 2) of OCI-Ly18 DLBCL-bearing mice. Cells were captured and processed using 10X 5' v2 Chemistry GEX
Project description:RNA sequencing was performed on three biological replicates of CART19 (GM-CSF wildtype), GM-CSF knockout CART19, and Ctrl gRNA CART19 produced from normal donors.
Project description:Therapy resistance represents a major clinical challenge in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Here we define a “MitoScore” signature that identifies high mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OxPHOS) in vivo and in AML patients. Primary AML cells with cytarabine (AraC) resistance and high MitoScore relied on mitochondrial Bcl2 and were highly sensitive to venetoclax (VEN) plus AraC (but not to VEN plus azacytidine, AZA). Single-cell transcriptomics of VEN+AraC-residual cell populations revealed adaptive resistance associated with changes in OxPHOS, electron transport chain complex (ETC) and the TP53 pathway.
Project description:RNA sequencing was performed on three biological replicates of DMSO treated CART19 (control) and TP0903 treated CART19 produced from normal donors.