Chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells are activated and proliferate in response to specific Th cells
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ABSTRACT: Changes in gene expression profile of CLL cells in response to an antigen-specific Th cell clone that is specific for a Ckappa peptide of mouse Abs. Mouse anti human BCR mAbs were used to ligate BCR and deliver antigen to CLL cells. 32-45 x10e6 PBMC were incubated overnight with or without 2 μg/ml of Ms κ+IgG anti-kappa and anti-lambda mAbs. The PBMC were then cultured in presence or absence of 12.5 x10e6 T18 cells. On day 3, CLL cells were purified by negative selection using CD3 and CD14 Dynabeads (Invitrogen). RNA from CLL cells was controlled and quantified on a NanoDrop1000 (Thermo Scientific, Wilmington, DE, USA). 290ng per sample was amplified and labeled with the TotalPrep™-96 RNA Amplification Kit (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA). Sample quality was further tested by Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA, USA). 1500ng of biotin labeled cRNA was used to hybridize onto Illumina HumanWG-6 v3 Expression BeadChips. After scanning, the results were imported into Illumina GenomeStudio v. 2010.1, Gene Expression module v. 1.6.0 for quality control and data export. Analysis was performed utilizing GeneSpring GX v11 software (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA, USA). In GeneSpring GX, Logbase 2-transformed data were normalized to the 75 percentile with baseline transformation to median of all samples. Flag Information: Lower cutoff for 'Present' call: 0.8, Upper cutoff for 'Absent' call: 0.6 Testing antigen dependent Th cell - CLL cell collaboration, effects on gene expression of CLL cells
Project description:Changes in gene expression profile of CLL cells in response to an antigen-specific Th cell clone that is specific for a Ckappa peptide of mouse Abs. Mouse anti human BCR mAbs were used to ligate BCR and deliver antigen to CLL cells. 32-45 x10e6 PBMC were incubated overnight with or without 2 μg/ml of Ms κ+IgG anti-kappa and anti-lambda mAbs. The PBMC were then cultured in presence or absence of 12.5 x10e6 T18 cells. On day 3, CLL cells were purified by negative selection using CD3 and CD14 Dynabeads (Invitrogen). RNA from CLL cells was controlled and quantified on a NanoDrop1000 (Thermo Scientific, Wilmington, DE, USA). 290ng per sample was amplified and labeled with the TotalPrep™-96 RNA Amplification Kit (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA). Sample quality was further tested by Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA, USA). 1500ng of biotin labeled cRNA was used to hybridize onto Illumina HumanWG-6 v3 Expression BeadChips. After scanning, the results were imported into Illumina GenomeStudio v. 2010.1, Gene Expression module v. 1.6.0 for quality control and data export. Analysis was performed utilizing GeneSpring GX v11 software (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA, USA). In GeneSpring GX, Logbase 2-transformed data were normalized to the 75 percentile with baseline transformation to median of all samples. Flag Information: Lower cutoff for 'Present' call: 0.8, Upper cutoff for 'Absent' call: 0.6
Project description:The B-cell receptor (BCR) plays an important role in pathogenesis and progression of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). We investigated the BCR triggering-dependent mRNA modulation by stimulating CLL cells with immobilized anti-IgM. miRome of immobilized anti-IgM stimulated CLL cells (n=16) identified a substantial upregulation of miR-132 in both unmutated (UM) and mutated (M) IGHV subgroups. A parallel gene expression profile and an in-silico analysis to identify miR-132 target genes¸ allowed us to focus on SIRT1, that encodes for a histone deacetylase targeting several proteins including TP53. We defined a reduction of SIRT1 protein levels upon immobilized anti-IgM stimulation (P=0.001), and a concomitant increase in TP53 acetylation (P=0.0072). The TP53 target gene CDKN1A was consistently up-regulated in immobilized anti-IgM stimulated CLL cells. Of note, the miR-132 constitutive expression levels in CLL cases (n=134) were of similar magnitude of those obtained in in vitro immobilized anti-IgM stimulated CLL cells. Additionally, high miR-132 expression levels retained a favorable prognostic impact in M (P=0.005), but not in UM CLL patients (P=0.968). The described miR-132/SIRT1/TP53 axis, sequentially characterized by BCR triggering, miR-132 up-regulation, SIRT1 down-regulation and TP53 acetylation, should be considered in the light of emerging drugs targeting the BCR pathway in CLL. Investigated the BCR triggering-dependent gene expression modulation by stimulating CLL cells with immobilized anti-IgM.
Project description:The B-cell receptor (BCR) plays an important role in pathogenesis and progression of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). We investigated the BCR triggering-dependent microRNA modulation by stimulating CLL cells with immobilized anti-IgM. miRome of immobilized anti-IgM stimulated CLL cells (n=16) identified a substantial upregulation of miR-132 in both unmutated (UM) and mutated (M) IGHV subgroups. A parallel gene expression profile and an in-silico analysis to identify miR-132 target genes¸ allowed us to focus on SIRT1, that encodes for a histone deacetylase targeting several proteins including TP53. We defined a reduction of SIRT1 protein levels upon immobilized anti-IgM stimulation (P=0.001), and a concomitant increase in TP53 acetylation (P=0.0072). The TP53 target gene CDKN1A was consistently up-regulated in immobilized anti-IgM stimulated CLL cells. Of note, the miR-132 constitutive expression levels in CLL cases (n=134) were of similar magnitude of those obtained in in vitro immobilized anti-IgM stimulated CLL cells. Additionally, high miR-132 expression levels retained a favorable prognostic impact in M (P=0.005), but not in UM CLL patients (P=0.968). The described miR-132/SIRT1/TP53 axis, sequentially characterized by BCR triggering, miR-132 up-regulation, SIRT1 down-regulation and TP53 acetylation, should be considered in the light of emerging drugs targeting the BCR pathway in CLL. investigated the BCR triggering-dependent gene expression modulation by stimulating CLL cells with immobilized anti-IgM.
Project description:The aim is to identify the differential miRNA expression profile of B-CLL stimulated with different type of stimulation CPG One color design, 36 samples, Two-condition experiment, CPG-stimulated B-CLL unmutated and mutated vs. Unstimulated B-CLL unmutated and mutated. Biological replicates: 18 unstimulated replicates, 18 CPG-stimulated replicates.
Project description:Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) cells multiply in secondary lymphoid tissue but the mechanisms leading to their proliferation are still uncertain. In addition to BCR-triggered signals, other microenvironmental factors might well be involved. In proliferation centres, leukemic B cells are in close contact with CD4+CD40L+ T cells. Therefore, we here dissected the signals provided by autologous activated T cells (Tact) to CLL cells. Although the gene expression profile induced by Tact was highly similar to that induced by sole CD40 signaling, an obvious difference was that Tact induced proliferation of CLL cells. We determined that stimulation with only CD40L+IL-21 was sufficient to induce robust proliferation in CLL cells. We then defined an IL-21-induced gene signature in CLL, containing components of JAK-STAT and apoptosis pathways, and this signature could be detected in lymph node (LN) samples from patients. Finally, we could detect IL-21 RNA and protein in LN, and IL-21 production ex vivo by LN CD4+CXCR5+ follicular helper T cells. These results indicate that, in addition to BCR signaling, activated T cells might contribute to CLL cell proliferation via CD40 and IL-21. Targeting these signaling pathways might offer new venues for treatment of CLL. CLL cells were cultured under different conditions for 16 hours and then sorted to purity as CD20+ CD5+ cells.
Project description:The profiling of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) cells at the protein level is still a major goal for advancing targeted personalized therapies. Understanding how B cells become malignant would be supported by the description of predicted responses to kinase inhibitors as nearly all cancers are guided by deregulation of protein kinase networks. In this sense, the present project looks for the profiling of the phosphopetides present in the B-CLL proteins together with the full characterization of their proteome.
Project description:Tumor cell survival critically depends on heterotypic communication with benign cells in the microenvironment. Here we describe a novel survival signaling pathway activated in stromal cells by contact to B-cells from chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients. The expression of PKC-M-NM-2II and the subsequent activation of NF-M-NM-:B in bone marrow stromal cells is a prerequisite to support the survival of malignant B-cells. PKC-M-NM-2 knockout mice are insusceptible to CLL-transplantations, underscoring the in vivo significance of the PKC-M-NM-2II- NF-M-NM-:B signaling pathway in the tumor microenvironment. Upregulated stromal PKC-M-NM-2II in biopsies from CLL, breast- and pancreatic- cancer patients suggest that this pathway may commonly be activated in a variety of malignancies. We used microarrays to determine gene expression changes induced by co-culturing with leukemic B-cells (CLL) in EL08-1D2 cells. We compared EL08-1D2 cells co-cultured for 5 days with leukemic B-cells to EL08-1D2 mono-cultured cells by microarray analysis on Affymetrix MG-430_2.0 arrays.
Project description:Tumor cell survival critically depends on heterotypic communication with benign cells in the microenvironment. Here we describe a novel survival signaling pathway activated in stromal cells by contact to B-cells from chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients. The expression of PKC-M-NM-2II and the subsequent activation of NF-M-NM-:B in bone marrow stromal cells is a prerequisite to support the survival of malignant B-cells. PKC-M-NM-2 knockout mice are insusceptible to CLL-transplantations, underscoring the in vivo significance of the PKC-M-NM-2II- NF-M-NM-:B signaling pathway in the tumor microenvironment. Upregulated stromal PKC-M-NM-2II in biopsies from CLL, breast- and pancreatic- cancer patients suggest that this pathway may commonly be activated in a variety of malignancies. We used microarrays to determine Nemo/ IKK-gamma dependent gene expression changes in bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) induced by co-culturing with leukemic B-cells (CLL) We compared mouse BMSC cells from Nemo knockout cells (Nemo+CRE) and Nemo wild type cells (Nemo-CRE) co-cultured for 5 days with leukemic B-cells microarray analysis on Affymetrix MG-430_2.0 arrays..