Project description:In an effort to identify novel drugs targeting fusion-oncogene induced acute myeloid leukemia (AML), we performed high-resolution proteomic analysis. In AML1-ETO (AE) driven AML we uncovered a deregulation of phospholipase C (PLC) signaling. We identified PLCgamma 1 (PLCG1) as a specific target of the AE fusion protein which is induced after AE binding to intergenic regulatory DNA elements. Genetic inactivation of PLCG1 in murine and human AML inhibited AML1-ETO dependent self-renewal programs, leukemic proliferation, and leukemia maintenance in vivo. In contrast, PLCG1 was dispensable for normal hematopoietic stem- and progenitor cell function. These findings are extended to and confirmed by pharmacologic perturbation of Ca++-signaling in AML1-ETO AML cells, indicating that the PLCG1 pathway poses an important therapeutic target for AML1-ETO positive leukemic stem cells.
Project description:AE-expressing murine BM cells treated with all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) in semi-solid methycellulose-based cultures show an increase in self-renewal capacity whilst treatment with a specific RARa agonist NRX195183 reduces their clonogenicity. Gene expression analysis was performed to further investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying these observations. Upregulated gene sets were identified in the ATRA-treated AE BM cells. 3 C57Bl/6 AML1-ETO-stop/+/Mx-Cre+ mice (#D203, 218 and 220) were treated with polyI:C to excise the stop codon allowing AML1-ETO expression. 2-4 weeks following completion of polyI:C administration, mice were euthanised and BM cells harvested. BM cells were cultured in semi-solid methylcellulose assays with cytokines for 2 weeks; then cells were harvested, pooled and replated in suspension cultures containing cytokines and the respective treatments - DMSO (control), ATRA and the specific RARa agonist NRX195183. At the 8 hour (8H) and 24 hour (24H) timepoints, cells were harvested for RNA extraction and processing.
Project description:MEIS2 collaborates with AML1-ETO in inducing acute myeloid leukemia in a murine bone marrow transplantation model We employed RNA-seq to assess similarities/differences among murine leukemic bone marrow samples transduced with either AML1-ETO/Meis2, AML1-ETO9a/Meis2, or AML1-ETO9a
Project description:MEIS2 collaborates with AML1-ETO in inducing acute myeloid leukemia in a murine bone marrow transplantation model We compared Gene expression profile (GEP) of murine bone marrow cells transduced with GFP, AML1-ETO, MEIS2, and AML1-ETO/MEIS2. Data from MEIS1 and AML1-ETO/MEIS1 is also included. Mouse bone marrow cells were kept in culture for 48hrs after retroviral transduction. GFP positive cells were then sorted and cells were kept for further 24 hours in culture before microarray analysis.
Project description:Purpose: The goal was to compare transcriptome profile of FACS-purified bone marrow AML1/ETO positive LSPCs from AML patients treated with rhIL-33 or controls (untreated). Methods: The transcriptomic analysis of AML1/ETO positive LSPCs were assessed in biological replicates upon treatment treated rhIL-33 or controls using Illumina NextSeq 500. Results: We mapped around 30 million sequence reads per sample to the human genome (GRCh38 - hg38) and identified differentially expressed transcripts in FACS-purified bone marrow AML1/ETO positive LSPCs from AML patients treated with rhIL-33 or controls (untreated). Differentially expressed genes between LSPCs treated with rhIL-33 or controls, were identified with a fold change ≥1.5 and FDR p-value <0.05. Conclusions: Our study represents the first detailed RNA-seq analysis of FACS-purified bone marrow AML1/ETO positive LSPCs from AML patients treated with rhIL-33 or controls. Our results show that IL-33 treatment induces the regulation of metabolic process, cell cycle, regulation of NF-κΒ, MAPK and canonical Wnt signaling pathways, as well as the regulation of stem cell division and maintenance.
Project description:To examine the effects of disrupting the AML1/ETO MYND-SMRT interaction with the W692A substitution on AML1/ETO function, the global gene expression profile of mouse bone marrow LSK cells transduced with GFP was compared to that of cells transduced with either wild-type AML1/ETO or AML1/ETO harboring the W692A substitution in the MYND domain. Three independent biological replicates were assessed for both the control (GFP/MigR1) and AML1/ETO (intact MYND-SMRT interaction) conditions, whereas four independent biological replicates were assessed for the W692A (disrupted MYND-SMRT interaction) condition. The three GFP replicates were used to establish a baseline signal for comparison to both the AML1/ETO and W692A samples. Experiment Overall Design: Global gene expression profiles of FACS-sorted Lin-Sca1+cKit+ mouse bone marrow cells transduced with empty vector (GFP-MigR1), AML1/ETO, or AML1/ETO with the W692A substitution (W692A).
