ABSTRACT:
Hamey2017 - Blood stem cell regulatory
network (LMPP network)
This model is described in the article:
Reconstructing blood stem
cell regulatory network models from single-cell molecular
profiles
Fiona K. Hamey, Sonia Nestorowa,
Sarah J. Kinston, David G. Kent, Nicola K. Wilson, and Berthold
Göttgens
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences of the United States of America
Abstract:
Adult blood contains a mixture of mature cell types, each
with specialized functions. Single hematopoietic stem cells
(HSCs) have been functionally shown to generate all mature cell
types for the lifetime of the organism. Differentiation of HSCs
toward alternative lineages must be balanced at the population
level by the fate decisions made by individual cells.
Transcription factors play a key role in regulating these
decisions and operate within organized regulatory programs that
can be modeled as transcriptional regulatory networks. As
dysregulation of single HSC fate decisions is linked to fatal
malignancies such as leukemia, it is important to understand
how these decisions are controlled on a cell-by-cell basis.
Here we developed and applied a network inference method,
exploiting the ability to infer dynamic information from
single-cell snapshot expression data based on expression
profiles of 48 genes in 2,167 blood stem and progenitor cells.
This approach allowed us to infer transcriptional regulatory
network models that recapitulated differentiation of HSCs into
progenitor cell types, focusing on trajectories toward
megakaryocyte–erythrocyte progenitors and lymphoid-primed
multipotent progenitors. By comparing these two models, we
identified and subsequently experimentally validated a
difference in the regulation of nuclear factor, erythroid 2
(Nfe2) and core-binding factor, runt domain, alpha subunit 2,
translocated to, 3 homolog (Cbfa2t3h) by the transcription
factor Gata2. Our approach confirms known aspects of
hematopoiesis, provides hypotheses about regulation of HSC
differentiation, and is widely applicable to other hierarchical
biological systems to uncover regulatory relationships.
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