Project description:Ashley R, Yan H, Wang N, Hale J, Dulmovits BM, Papoin J, Olive ME, Udeshi ND, Carr SA, Vlachosa A, Lipton JM, Da Costa L, Hillyer C, Kinet S, Taylor N, Mohandas N, Narla A, Blanc L. 2019. Despite the effective clinical use of steroids for the treatment of Diamond Blackfan anemia (DBA), the mechanistic bases via which glucocorticoids regulate human erythropoiesis remain poorly understood. Here, we report that the sensitivity of erythroid differentiation to dexamethasone (Dex) is dependent on the developmental origin of human CD34+ progenitor cells, specifically increasing the expansion of CD34+ progenitors from peripheral blood (PB) but not cord blood (CB). Dexamethasone treatment of erythroid-differentiated PB, but not CB, CD34+ progenitors resulted in the expansion of a novel CD34+CD36+CD71hiCD105med immature colony-forming unit-erythroid (CFU-E) population. Furthermore, proteomics analyses revealed the induction of distinct proteins in dexamethasone-treated PB and CB erythroid progenitors. Dexamethasone treatment of PB progenitors resulted in the specific upregulation of p57Kip2, a Cip/Kip cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor, and we identified this induction as critical; shRNA-mediated downregulation of p57Kip2, but not the related p27Kip1, significantly attenuated the impact of dexamethasone on erythroid differentiation and inhibited the expansion of the immature CFU-E subset. Notably, in the context of DBA, we found that steroid resistance was associated with a dysregulated p57Kip2 expression. Altogether, these data identify a novel glucocorticoid-responsive human erythroid progenitor and provide new insights into glucocorticoid-based therapeutic strategies for the treatment of patients with DBA.
Project description:Determine the effects of HDAC1/2-selective chemical inhibtion on the gene expression profiles of erythroid progenitors derived from human CD34+ bone marrow cells.
Project description:To investigate the effects of EDAG knockdown on gene exrpession profile in human cord blood CD34+ cells with EPO treatment with microarray assay. Freshly isolated human cord blood CD34+ cells were pre-activated for 24 hours and then infected with EDAG RNAi lentivirus or control lentivirus for 3 times within 24 hours. Then the cells were cultured in the presence of EPO to induce erythroid differentiation. Four days later, the cells were harvested for microarray test. The microarray showed that 3149 differentially expressed genes in siEDAG group compared to control group.The altered genes were associated with gene exrpression, cell cycle and hematopoietic differentiation. These data show that EDAG knckdown led to down-regulation of erythroid genes which are activated by GATA1. Human CD34+ cells infected with EDAG RNAi or control lentivirus were treated with EPO (5U/ml) for 4 days and gene expression were measured using Agilent human whole Genome 8*60K array. Two replicates.
Project description:Establish the DNA binding profiles of HDAC1, HDAC2 and Gata2 in erythroid progenitors derived from human CD34+ bone marrow cells. Determine the effects of HDAC1/2 inhibition on the DNA binding profiles of Gata2.
Project description:IRF2, IRF6, and MYB are candidate regulators of human erythropoiesis. We here examine primary CD34+ hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs)-derived erythroid progenitors with control, IRF2, IRF6, or MYB shRNA lentiviral transduction prior to differentiation. Gene expression microarray profiling datasets for MYB shRNA and control shRNA were obtained from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) under accession number GSE25678. The data were analyzed together with the datasets obtained in this study.
Project description:Analysis of mobilized peripheral blood CD34+ cells from a healthy volunteer under erythroid differentiation conditions with and without stimulation to the BMP or Wnt signaling pathways. For erythroid differentiation, expanded CD34+ cells were placed in Stemspan SFEM medium supplemented with 2% pen/strep, 20ng/ml SCF, 1U/ml Epo, 5ng/ml IL3, 2uM dexamethasone, and 1uM beta-estradiol. Arrays were performed 2 hours after addition of cytokines. For signaling pathway stimulation, cells were exposed to 0.5uM BIO (a GSK3 inhibitor) for Wnt pathway activation, 25ng/ml rhBMP4 for BMP pathway activation, or vehicle control for 2 hours. Three biological replicates were performed per treatment group. We used microarrays to detail the global program of gene expression changes after Wnt or BMP pathway stimulation in human CD34+ hematopoietic progenitors under erythroid differentiation conditions. To investigate the changes to gene expression in human CD34+ hematopoietic progenitors following stimulation of the Wnt or BMP pathways during the early stages of erythroid differentiation. Three biological replicates were performed per treatment group.
Project description:Metabolic programs contribute to hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) fate, but it is not known whether the metabolic regulation of protein synthesis controls HSPC differentiation. Here, we show that SLC7A1/CAT1-dependent arginine uptake and its catabolism to the polyamine spermidine control human erythroid specification of HSPCs via activation of the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5A (eIF5A). eIF5A activity is dependent on its hypusination, a post-translational modification resulting from the conjugation of the aminobutyl moiety of spermidine to lysine. Notably, attenuation of hypusine synthesis in erythroid progenitors by inhibition of deoxyhypusine synthase abrogates erythropoiesis but not myeloid cell differentiation. Proteomic profiling reveals mitochondrial translation to be a critical target of hypusinated eIF5A and accordingly, progenitors with decreased hypusine activity exhibit diminished oxidative phosphorylation. This impacted pathway is critical for eIF5A-regulated erythropoiesis as interventions augmenting mitochondrial function partially rescue human erythropoiesis under conditions of attenuated hypusination. Levels of mitochondrial ribosomal proteins were especially sensitive to the loss of hypusine and we find that the ineffective erythropoiesis linked to haploinsufficiency of RPS14 in del(5q) myelodysplastic syndrome is associated with a diminished pool of hypusinated eIF5A. Moreover, patients with RPL11-haploinsufficient Diamond-Blackfan anemia as well as CD34+ progenitors with downregulated RPL11 exhibit a markedly decreased hypusination in erythroid progenitors, concomitant with a loss of mitochondrial metabolism. Thus, eIF5A-dependent protein synthesis regulates human erythropoiesis and our data reveal a novel role for RPs in controlling eIF5A hypusination in HSPC, synchronizing mitochondrial metabolism with erythroid differentiation.
Project description:Burst-forming unit-erythroid (BFU-E) and colony-forming unit-erythroid (CFU-E) cells are erythroid progenitors traditionally defined by colony assays. We developed a flow cytometry-based strategy for isolating human BFU-E and CFU-E cells based on the changes in expression of cell surface markers during in vitro erythroid cell culture. BFU-E and CFU-E are characterized by CD45+GPA-IL-3R-CD34+CD36-CD71low and CD45+GPA-IL-3R-CD34-CD36+CD71high phenotypes, respectively. Colony assays validated phenotypic assignment giving rise to BFU-E and CFU-E colonies, both at a purity ~90%. The BFU-E colony forming ability of CD45+GPA-IL-3R-CD34+CD36-CD71low cells required SCF and erythropoietin, while the CFU-E colony forming ability of CD45+GPA-IL-3R-CD34-CD36+CD71high cells required only erythropoietin. Bioinformatic analysis of the RNA-seq data revealed unique transcriptomes in each differentiation stage. The sorting strategy was validated in uncultured primary cells isolated from bone marrow and peripheral blood, indicating that marker expression is not an artifact of in vitro cell culture, but represents an in vivo characteristic of erythroid progenitor populations. The ability to isolate highly pure human BFU-E and CFU-E progenitors will enable detailed cellular and molecular characterization of these distinct progenitor populations and define their contribution to disordered erythropoiesis in inherited and acquired hematological disease. Our data provide important resource for future studies. Transcription profiles of Human erythroid progenitors at distinct developmental stages were generated by deep sequencing, in triplicate, using IlluminaHiSeq 2000. The complete dataset comprises 4 sample types: CD34, BFU, CFU, and Pro (reanalysis of GSM1304777-GSM1304779).
Project description:We investigated the miRNA expression in ex vivo human erythroid cultures from K562 cells. Hypothetically, the decline of certain miRNAs may promote erythropoiesis by unblocking expression of key functional proteins while the up-regulation of other miRNAs may block commitment to non-erythroid lineages. By comparison with the miRNA expression changes in human umbilical cord blood-derived CD34 cells, signature miRNAs for erythroid development can be discovered. Keywords: miRNA expression profiling