Project description:To examine the differences between bone marrow (BM) and peripheral blood (PB) myeloblasts in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), we compared CD34+ myeloblasts of paired BM and peripheral blood (PB) samples from AML patients using microarray.
Project description:To examine the differences between bone marrow (BM) and peripheral blood (PB) myeloblasts in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), we compared CD34+ myeloblasts of paired BM and peripheral blood (PB) samples from AML patients using microarray. Experiment Overall Design: 5 paired BM and PB leukaemic samples from 5 AML patients
Project description:Label-free quantitation dataset from 44 representative Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) patients from the LAML TCGA dataset, and 6 healthy bone marrow derived controls including 3 lineage-depleted and 3 CD34+ selected bone marrows.
Project description:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a hematopoietic malignancy with a dismal outcome in the majority of cases. A detailed understanding of the genetic alterations and gene expression changes that contribute to its pathogenesis is important to improve prognostication, disease monitoring, and therapy. The expression of 636 human miRNAs was compared between samples from 52 patients with AML and 13 healthy individuals by locked nucleic acid (LNA) based microarray technology. 143 miRNAs were expressed at detectable levels, and 64 of these were significantly differentially expressed between AML and healthy peripheral blood, bone marrow, and/or CD34+ cells. Reference: A Rommer et al, Overexpression of primary microRNA 221/222 in acute myeloid leukemia, BMC Cancer, 2013. 52 AML, 5 peripheral blood (PB), 5 bone marrow (BM), and 3 CD34+ cell samples from healthy donors were subjected to miRNA microarray analysis.
Project description:A deep-scale proteome and phosphoproteome database from 44 representative Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) patients from the LAML TCGA dataset, and 6 healthy bone marrow derived controls including 3 lineage-depleted and 3 CD34+ selected bone marrows.
Project description:Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is an aggressive haematological malignancy characterised by the clonal proliferation of myeloid progenitor cells in the bone marrow and peripheral blood. Dysregulation of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway has been implicated in the establishment and maintenance of leukaemic stem cells in AML, where higher expression of β-catenin promotes clonogenic capacity, drug resistance and inferior survival. The finding that low levels of Wnt signalling are necessary to maintain normal haematopoiesis makes β-catenin an attractive therapeutic target, however drug design has been hampered by a poor understanding of its molecular interactions in leukaemia cells. To address this, we previously characterised the β-catenin interactome in myeloid cells and identified a plethora of novel interacting proteins. One such validated interactor was Target of EGR1 (TOE1), a 510-amino acid member of the Asp-Glu-Asp-Asp (DEDD) family of deadenylases with previously uncharacterised function in haematopoietic cells. The β-catenin:TOE1 interaction was detected in the nuclear and cytosolic compartments of myeloid cell lines and primary AML samples, and β-catenin knockdown via short hairpin RNA (shRNA) was found to promote the cytosolic stabilisation of TOE1. Furthermore, TOE1 levels were found to be overexpressed in primary AML blasts versus normal cord-blood derived CD34+ haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), suggesting that TOE1 levels may be dysregulated in leukaemia. TOE1 depletion using shRNA abrogated Wnt signalling capacity (TCF/LEF activity) through suppression of the Wnt transcription factor lymphoid enhancing factor 1 (LEF-1), likely via post-transcriptional mechanisms. TOE1 shRNA further suppressed the proliferation and survival of myeloid leukaemia cell lines (HEL and OCI-AML2) and primary human CD34+ HSPC, however this could not be fully explained through LEF-1 alone, since OCI-AML2 do not express LEF-1. Therefore, to explore a more unifying mechanism mediating the growth promoting phenotype of TOE1 we performed tandem mass tag (TMT)-labelling coupled to mass spectrometry analysis in TOE1 deficient HEL and OCI-AML2 cells. From this analysis we identified validated p21 (RAC1) activated kinase 2 (PAK2) as a consistently downregulated target across both cell lines, and demonstrated PAK2 knockdown alone was sufficient to reduce the proliferation (but not survival) of AML cell lines. Finally, expression of ectopic PAK2 was able to partially rescue the suppressed proliferation mediated by TOE1 depletion in myeloid cell lines, and primary human CD34+ HSPC. In summary, these data reveal TOE1 as novel interacting partner for β-catenin in haematological cells capable of modulating Wnt signalling output via LEF-1, and as a novel mediator of growth and survival in human HSPC and AML cells partly through PAK2 regulation.
Project description:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive cancer which causes the rapid proliferation of immature myeloid-lineage blood cells (myeloblasts) in the bone marrow. These leukemic cells receive trophic signals from the bone marrow micro-environment (BMM) in which they reside, that are essential to the initiation and maintenance of the disease. Because this is a complex and heterogeneous tissue, many aspects of this environment remain poorly characterised due to experimental hurdles. Here we performed single-cell RNA-sequencing of bone marrow aspirates from 10 AML patients across multiple key timepoints in disease progression (diagnosis, post-treatment, relapse).
Project description:Expression profiles of acute myeloid leukemia patient samples. Blasts and mononuclear cells were purified from bone marrow or peripheral blood aspirates of acute myeloid patients. Samples contained 80-100 percent blast cells. Total RNA was extracted by lyses with guanidium isothiocyanate followed by cesium chloride gradient purification
Project description:Gene expression of patient samples with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) were compared to normal controls to study dysregulated signalling pathways. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from primary AML patient samples were isolated using the Ficoll-Paque gradient separation method. RNA from CD34+ bone marrow cells of healthy donors were purchased from AllCells LLC (Alameda, CA; catalog number RNA-BM003C). Total RNA were harvested from patient samples using Trizol and subjected to microarray-based gene expression analysis.
Project description:The Illumina Human Methylation EPIC array was used to assess methylation status at initial diagnosis in bone marrow or peripheral blood specimens from children with acute myeloid leukemia.