Project description:We report the gene expression of human chronic myelomonocytic leukemia by performing whole transcriptome shotgun sequencing of peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.
Project description:We report the gene expression of human chronic myelomonocytic leukemia by performing whole transcriptome shotgun sequencing of bone marrow mononuclear cells of patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.
Project description:We report the chromatin characteristics of human chronic myelomonocytic leukemia by performing chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing of histone modifications (ChIP-seq), immunoprecipitation sequencing of (hydroxy-)methylated residues (DIP-seq), and transposase accessibility sequencing (ATAC-seq) of bone marrow mononuclear cells of patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.
Project description:In this study, institutional IRB approval was obtained and peripheral blood and bone marrow samples on patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia were collected. On the samples, we performed chromatin immuno-precipitation and next generation sequencing to assess histone modifications and epigenetic changes associated with proliferative and dysplastic phenotypes.
Project description:RNA-seq of bone marrow samples of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) patients and healthy donors to identify the molecular DNA repair pathways involved in CMML pathogenic
Project description:Chronic myelomonocyticleukemia (CMML) is a clinically heterogeneous stem cell malignancy with overlapping features of myelodysplasiaand myeloproliferation. CMML is further subclassified according to percentage of leukemic blasts present in blood or bone marrow, reflecting its intrinsic tendency to progression towards acute myeloid leukemia. Over 90% of CMML patients carry founding mutations in epigenetic and/or splicing genes, which typically involve the primitive stem cell compartment. Thus, transcriptional dysregulation at the stem cell level is likely fundamental to disease onset and progression. However, the critical early hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) subpopulation has not been studied in CMML. We performed single cell RNA sequencing on>6,800 Lin-CD34+CD38-primitive HSPCs from seven CMML patients and three healthy controls. We found substantial inter-and intra-patient heterogeneity, with CMML stem cells displaying distinct transcriptional programs, differentiation potential and cellular signaling pathway priming. Pseudotime analyses revealed that CMML-1/CMML-2 HSPCs have distinct cellular trajectories, indicating that transformation events initiate early within the hematopoietic hierarchy and suggesting against a simple linear clonal evolution dynamic in acute leukemic transformation. We further identified several transcription factors uniquely active in distinct sample subsets. Together our findings provide novel insights into the CMML stem cell compartment, revealing an unexpected degree of transcriptional and subclonal heterogeneity and highlighting early mediators of disease initiation and transformation, of potential translational importance
Project description:RAS pathway mutations, which are present in 30% of patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) at diagnosis, confer a high risk of resistance to and progression after hypomethylating agent (HMA) therapy, the current standard of care for the disease. Using single-cell, multi-omics technologies, we sought to dissect the biological mechanisms underlying the initiation and progression of RAS pathway–mutated CMML. We found that RAS pathway mutations induced the transcriptional reprogramming of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), which underwent proliferation and monocytic differentiation in response to cell-intrinsic and -extrinsic inflammatory signaling that also impaired immune cells’ functions. HSPCs expanded at disease progression and relied on the NF-KB pathway effector MCL1 to maintain their survival, which explains why patients with RAS pathway–mutated CMML do not benefit from BCL2 inhibitors such as venetoclax. Our study has implications for developing therapies to improve the survival of patients with RAS pathway–mutated CMML.