Project description:This clinical trial studies fludarabine phosphate, low-dose total-body irradiation, and donor stem cell transplant followed by cyclosporine, mycophenolate mofetil, and donor lymphocyte infusion in treating patients with hematopoietic cancer. Giving low doses of chemotherapy, such as fludarabine phosphate, and total body irradiation (TBI) before a donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells. It may also keep the patient’s immune response from rejecting the donor’s stem cells. The donated stem cells may replace the patient’s immune cells and help destroy any remaining cancer cells (graft-versus-tumor effect). Giving an infusion of the donor’s T cells (donor lymphocyte infusion) after the transplant may help increase this effect. Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can also make an immune response against the body’s normal cells. Giving cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil after the transplant may stop this from happening.
Project description:Unique traits of pluripotent stem cells are not fully known. Using thermal proteome profiling, we identified reduced stability of ribosomes in induced pluripotent cells (iPSCs) compared to that in somatic cells. Also, iPSCs exhibited lower protein synthesis rate and lower expression of a ribosome maturation factor, the Shwachman-Bodian-Diamond Syndrome protein (SBDS). Differentiation of iPSCs led to upregulation of SBDS and knock-down of SBDS slowed the differentiation while increasing expression of master pluripotency markers NANOG and Oct-4. Mutations in the SBDS gene have been shown to impair ribosome assembly and to inhibit differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells causing the Shwachman- Diamond syndrome. Physiological SBDS-dependent destabilization of ribosomes appears to be a tool for translational control providing robustness to the state of pluripotency.
Project description:Unique traits of pluripotent stem cells are not fully known. Using thermal proteome profiling, we identified reduced stability of ribosomes in induced pluripotent cells (iPSCs) compared to that in somatic cells. Also, iPSCs exhibited lower protein synthesis rate and lower expression of a ribosome maturation factor, the Shwachman-Bodian-Diamond Syndrome protein (SBDS). Differentiation of iPSCs led to upregulation of SBDS and knock-down of SBDS slowed the differentiation while increasing expression of master pluripotency markers NANOG and OCT4. Mutations in the SBDS gene have been shown to impair ribosome assembly and to inhibit differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells causing the Shwachman-Diamond syndrome. Physiological SBDS-dependent destabilization of ribosomes appears to be a tool for translational control providing robustness to the state of pluripotency.
Project description:This is a mathematical model describing the hematopoietic lineages with leukemia lineages, as controlled by end-product negative feedback inhibition. Variables include hematopoietic stem cells, progenitor cells, terminally differentiated HSCs, leukemia stem cells, and terminally differentiated leukemia stem cells.
Project description:Transient leukemia (TL) is evident in 5-10% of all neonates with Down syndrome (DS) and associated with N-terminal truncating GATA1-mutations (GATA1s). Here we analyzed the effect of on gene expression upon ectopic expression of Gata1s or Gata1, while simultaneously knocking down endogenous GATA1, in wild-type CD34+-hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells during myeloid differentiation. Ectopic expression of Gata1s, but not Gata1, in wild-type CD34+-hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells induced hyperproliferation of eosinophil promyelocytes in vitro. While GATA1s retained the function of GATA1 to induce eosinophil genes by occupying their promoter regions, GATA1s was impaired in its ability to repress oncogenic MYC and the pro-proliferative E2F transcription network. We lentivirally transduced wild-type CD34+-hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells to ectopically express Gata1s or Gata1, while simultaneously knocking down endogenous GATA1, and cultured them in myeloid differentiation for 0, 4 and 14 days.