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Context-dependent Regulation of Notch Signaling in Glial Development and Tumorigenesis [Bulk RNA-seq]

ABSTRACT: In the mammalian brain, Notch signaling maintains the cortical stem cell pool and regulates the glial cell fate choice and differentiation. However, the function of Notch in regulating glial development and its involvement in tumorigenesis have not been well understood. Here, we show that Notch inactivation by genetic deletion of Rbpj in stem cells decreases astrocytes but increases oligodendrocytes with altered internal states. Interestingly, inhibiting Notch in glial progenitors does not affect cell generation but instead accelerates the growth of Notch-deprived oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs), and OPC-related glioma. We also identified a crosstalk between oligodendrocytes and astrocytes, with premyelinating oligodendrocytes secreting Bmp4, which is repressed by Notch, to upregulate GFAP expression in adjacent astrocytes. Moreover, Notch inactivation in stem cells causes a glioma subtype shift from astroglia-associated to OPC-correlated patterns, and vice versa. Our study reveals Notch's context-dependent function, promoting astrocytes and astroglia-associated glioma in stem cells and repressing OPCs and related glioma in glial progenitors.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE240223 | GEO | 2023/08/12

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Astrocytes are instrumental in both maintaining CNS homeostasis and responding to tissue injury. While astrocyte activation may be a beneficial response to acute pathologies, prolonged reactive gliosis is thought to be injurious in neurodegenerative diseases, including multiple sclerosis (MS). A major limitation of studying neurodegenerative diseases is lack of human pathological specimens obtained during the acute stages, thereby relegating research to post mortem specimens often obtained years after the initiation of pathology. Rodent reactive astrocytes have been shown to be cytotoxic to neurons and oligodendrocytes but may differ from human cells, especially in diseases with known genetic susceptibility. Herein, we purified human CD49f+ astrocytes from differentiated induced pluripotent stem cells derived from individual patient and control peripheral white blood cell samples. We compared TNF and IL1a stimulated human reactive astrocytes from 7 persons with MS and 6 non-MS controls and show their specific astrocyte transcriptomic profiles are remarkably similar to those described in rodents. The functional effect of astrocyte conditioned media (ACM) was examined in a human oligodendrocyte precursor cell (OPC) line differentiation assay using a transgenic secreted reporter of myelin basic protein (MBP) expression. ACM was not cytotoxic to the OPCs but robustly inhibited the MBP reporter. No differences were seen between MS and control stimulated astrocytes at either the transcript level or in functional OPC suppression assays. We next used RNAseq to interrogate differentially expressed genes in the OPC lines that had suppressed differentiation from the human ACM. Remarkably, not only was OPC differentiation and myelin gene expression suppressed, but we observed induction of several immune pathways and Nf-κB signaling in OPCs exposed to the ACM. These data support the notion that reactive astrocytes can inhibit OPC differentiation thereby limiting their remyelination capacity, and that OPCs take on an immune profile in the context of inflammatory cues.

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