Transcriptional program induced by SCL/TAL1 in the megakaryopoietic differentiation from hESCs
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ABSTRACT: To deepen the understanding of the molecular mechanisms that regulate megakaryocytic differentiation mediated by SCL, We performed gene expression profiling (GEP) using oligonucleotide microarrays of control (EV) and SCL-overexpressing cells that were undifferentiated or at day 14 of EB differentiation. We studied the SCL-overexpression-associated transcriptomic changes during megakaryocytic differentiation from hESCs at 14 days. Two independent experiments were performed.
Project description:Human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (CMs) are a promising tool for cardiac cell therapy. To optimize graft cells for cardiac reconstruction, we compared the engraftment efficiency of intramyocardially-injected undifferentiated-induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), day4 mesodermal cells, and day8, day20, and day30 purified iPSC-CMs after initial differentiation by tracing the engraftment ratio (ER) using in vivo bioluminescence imaging. This analysis revealed the ER of day20 CMs was significantly higher compared to other cells. Transplantation of day20 CMs into the infarcted hearts of immunodeficient mice showed significant functional improvement. Moreover, the imaging signal and ratio of Ki67-positive CMs at 3 months post injection indicated engrafted CMs proliferated in the host heart. Although this graft growth reached a plateau at 3 months, histological analysis confirmed progressive maturation from 3 to 6 months. These results suggested that day20 CMs had very high engraftment, proliferation, and therapeutic potential in host mouse hearts. Differentiated cells, N=10 Undifferentiated pluripotent stem cells, N=1 Heart samples, N=6
Project description:Megakaryopoiesis is a complex process that involves major cellular changes and relies on controlled coordination of cellular proliferation and differentiation. These mechanisms are orchestrated in part by transcriptional regulators. The key hematopoietic transcription factor SCL/TAL1 is required for specification of the megakaryocytic lineage from hematopoietic progenitors. Here, we report that it also critically controls terminal megakaryocyte maturation. In vivo depletion of SCL specifically in the megakaryocytic lineage affects all key attributes of megakaryocyte progenitors (MkPs), namely proliferation, ploidisation, cytoplasmic maturation, as well as platelet production. Genome-wide expression analysis reveals increased expression of the cell cycle regulator p21 in Scl-deleted MkPs. Importantly, P21 knockdown-mediated rescue assays in Scl-deleted MkPs show full restoration of cell cycle progression and partial rescue of the nuclear and cytoplasmic maturation defects. Therefore, SCL-mediated transcriptional control of p21 is critical for maturation of MkPs. Our study provides a mechanistic link between one of the major hematopoietic transcriptional regulators, cell cycle progression and megakaryocytic differentiation. Total RNA extracted from control TGPF4-CRE;SCL wt/wt sorted MK progenitors was compared to total RNA extracted from TGPF4-CRE;SCL fl/fl MK progenitors cells where Scl was completely excised
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below. Germline GATA1 mutations resulting in the production of an amino-truncated protein termed GATA1s (for M-bM-^@M-^\shortM-bM-^@M-^]) cause congenital hypoplastic anemia. Similar somatic mutations promote transient myeloproliferative disease and acute megakaryoblastic leukemia in trisomy 21 patients. Here we show that induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from patients with GATA1-truncating mutations exhibit impaired erythroid potential but enhanced megakaryopoiesis and myelopoiesis, faithfully recapitulating the major phenotypes of associated diseases. Similarly, GATA1s promotes megakaryopoiesis but not erythropoiesis in developmentally arrested Gata1- murine megakaryocyte-erythroid progenitors derived from murine embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Transcriptome studies demonstrate a selective deficiency in the ability of GATA1s to activate erythroid-expressed genes within populations of hematopoietic progenitors. Although its DNA binding domain is intact, chromatin immunoprecipitation studies show that GATA1s binding at specific erythroid regulatory regions is impaired, while binding at many non-erythroid sites, including megakaryocytic and myeloid target genes, is normal. These observations point to lineage specific GATA1 co-factor associations essential for normal chromatin occupancy and provide mechanistic insights into how GATA1s mutations cause human disease. More broadly, our studies underscore the value of ESCs and iPSCs to recapitulate and study disease phenotypes. Refer to individual Series
Project description:In embryo, few Endothelial cells from Aorta would be producing Haemogenic endothelium (HE) cells. These HE cells would then be progressing to take kind of a round shape and Undergo EHT. They then take a full round shape to make Intra-aortic haematopoietic clusters (IAHC) cells. These IAHC cells would then diassociate and turn into Hematopoitic Stem Cells (HSC) that ultimately would go to produce different lineage of hematopoitic (blood) cells. We wanted to study the heterogeneity of HE in human pluripotent stem cells.
Project description:We generated human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from trisomy 21 (T21) and euploid patient tissues with and without GATA1 mutations causing exclusive expression of truncated GATA1, termed GATA1short (GATA1s). Transcriptome analysis comparing expression levels of genes in GATA1s vs. wtGATA1-expressing progenitors demonstrated that GATA1s impairs erythropoiesis and enhances megakaryopoiesis and myelopoiesis in both T21 and euploid contexts in the iPSC-model system. We analyzed the transcriptome of (i) T21 iPSC-derived heamtopoietic progenitors expressing wtGATA1 (6 replicates) or GATA1s (3 replicates), as well as of (ii) euploid iPSC-derived progenitors expressing wtGATA1 (2 replicates) or GATA1s (2 replicates).
Project description:We performed RNA-sequencing on human embryonic stem cell samples grown on soft (400Pa) and stiff (60kPa) hydrogels under self-renewal and differentiation conditions Whole-transcriptome RNA sequencing in the conditions described
Project description:To investigate the effects of ZIKV infection or ZIKV-NS4B-transduction on the global proteome scale at early stages of hNPC differentiation into neurons, hNPC cells were infected with ZIKV (Asian strain: H/PF/2013; MOI=0.01) or transduced with ZIKV-NS4B or HCV-NS4B and one day later cells were either left under proliferative conditions or neuronal differentiation was induced with ROCK inhibitors treatment and growth factors withdrawals. Five days later samples were harvested and processed for quantitative label-free proteomics.
Project description:Megakaryopoiesis is a complex process that involves major cellular changes and relies on controlled coordination of cellular proliferation and differentiation. These mechanisms are orchestrated in part by transcriptional regulators. The key hematopoietic transcription factor SCL/TAL1 is required for specification of the megakaryocytic lineage from hematopoietic progenitors. Here, we report that it also critically controls terminal megakaryocyte maturation. In vivo depletion of SCL specifically in the megakaryocytic lineage affects all key attributes of megakaryocyte progenitors (MkPs), namely proliferation, ploidisation, cytoplasmic maturation, as well as platelet production. Genome-wide expression analysis reveals increased expression of the cell cycle regulator p21 in Scl-deleted MkPs. Importantly, P21 knockdown-mediated rescue assays in Scl-deleted MkPs show full restoration of cell cycle progression and partial rescue of the nuclear and cytoplasmic maturation defects. Therefore, SCL-mediated transcriptional control of p21 is critical for maturation of MkPs. Our study provides a mechanistic link between one of the major hematopoietic transcriptional regulators, cell cycle progression and megakaryocytic differentiation.
Project description:Analysis of genes enriched in MIXL1+ sorted cells during primitive streak induction identified Apelin receptor (APLNR), a highly conserved member of the G-protein coupled receptor family. Depending upon the growth factor conditions used for differentiation, APLNR+ cells identified both posterior mesodermal and anterior mesendodermal components of the primitive streak. APLNR+ cells isolated from mesodermal differentiated cultures were enriched in hematopoietic blast colony forming cells (Bl-CFCs) and the addition of Apelin peptide enhanced the frequency and growth of both hematopoietic colonies and hESC-derived endothelial cells. These studies identified APLNR as a marker of primitive streak-like cells differentiated from hESCs and defined a novel role for Apelin as a regulator of early human hematopoiesis.