Project description:Cytokines control the biology of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in part through the transcription factors STAT5a/b. CCN3/NOV has been reported as a positive regulator of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. We report microarray analyses of Lineage- Sca-1+ c-Kit+ (KSL) cells in the presence and absence of STAT5a/b. Expression of the ccn3 gene was induced over 100-fold in control, but not STAT5a/b-null cells, upon stimulation with a cocktail containing IL-3, IL-6, SCF, TPO and Flt3 ligand. Among the cytokines, IL-3 elevated ccn3 mRNA level in Lineage- c-Kit+ (KL) cells and 32D cells. ChIP assays using 32D cells revealed IL-3-induced binding of STAT5a/b to a GAS site in the ccn3 gene promoter. This is the first report to link two molecules with importance in the regulation of HSCs, CCN3 and STAT5a/b. We report that the regulation and expression of the ccn3 gene is directly controlled by IL-3 through the transcription factors STAT5a/b. Six Control and Six Stat5a/b-null KSL cells, including three biological replications, were unstimulated or stimulated with a cocktail containing IL-3, IL-6, SCF, TPO and FL.
Project description:Cytokines control the biology of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in part through the transcription factors STAT5a/b. CCN3/NOV has been reported as a positive regulator of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. We report microarray analyses of Lineage- Sca-1+ c-Kit+ (KSL) cells in the presence and absence of STAT5a/b. Expression of the ccn3 gene was induced over 100-fold in control, but not STAT5a/b-null cells, upon stimulation with a cocktail containing IL-3, IL-6, SCF, TPO and Flt3 ligand. Among the cytokines, IL-3 elevated ccn3 mRNA level in Lineage- c-Kit+ (KL) cells and 32D cells. ChIP assays using 32D cells revealed IL-3-induced binding of STAT5a/b to a GAS site in the ccn3 gene promoter. This is the first report to link two molecules with importance in the regulation of HSCs, CCN3 and STAT5a/b. We report that the regulation and expression of the ccn3 gene is directly controlled by IL-3 through the transcription factors STAT5a/b.
Project description:The formation of hematopoietic cells relies on the chromatin remodeling activities of ISWI ATPase SMARCA5 (SNF2H) and its complexes. The Smarca5 null and conditional alleles have been used to study its functions in embryonic and organ development in mice. These mouse model phenotypes vary from embryonic lethality of constitutive knockout to less severe phenotypes observed in tissue-specific Smarca5 deletions, e.g., in the hematopoietic system. Here we show that, in a gene dosage-dependent manner, the hypomorphic allele of SMARCA5 (S5tg) can rescue not only the developmental arrest in hematopoiesis in the hCD2iCre model but also the lethal phenotypes associated with constitutive Smarca5 deletion or Vav1iCre-driven conditional knockout in hematopoietic progenitor cells. Interestingly, the latter model also provided evidence for the role of SMARCA5 expression level in hematopoietic stem cells, as the Vav1iCre S5tg animals accumulate stem and progenitor cells. Furthermore, their hematopoietic stem cells exhibited impaired lymphoid lineage entry and differentiation. This observation contrasts with the myeloid lineage which is developing without significant disturbances. Our findings indicate that animals with low expression of SMARCA5 exhibit normal embryonic development with altered lymphoid entry within the hematopoietic stem cell compartment.
Project description:We performed RNA sequencing analyses of adult mouse bone marrow lineage-negative, Sca-1-positive, and c-kit-positive (LSK) hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell population. Especially, we investigated gene expression profiling of LSK cells before and after haloperidol treatment.
Project description:Analysis of Ythdf3-/- and WT hematopoietic stem cell (lineage-, c-kit+ Sca-1+ CD150+, CD34-). The hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) were purified from the bone marrow of WT and Ythdf3-/- mice.
Project description:We reported the tRNA-m1A sequencing results performed in young and aged hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Our results defined aging-associated alterations of tRF in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells and identifed a subset of tRF as hallmark of HSC aging.RNA-seq data analysis of WT v.s. Trmt6/61a-TG hematopoietic stem cell (lineage-, c-kit+ Sca-1+ CD135-, CD34-), the two population of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) were purified from the bone marrow of WT and Trmt6/61a-TG mice, revealed that differnent expression of WT v.s. Trmt6/61a-TG hematopoietic stem cell.Results provide insight into the role of TRMT6/61A complex in HSC.
Project description:Bmi1 is a component of the Polycomb-repressive complexes (PRC) and essential for maintaining the pool of adult stem cells. PRC are key regulators for embryonic development by modifying chromatin architecture and maintaining gene repression. To assess the role of Bmi1 in pluripotent stem cells and upon exit from pluripotency during differentiation, we studied forced Bmi1 expression in mouse embryonic stem cells (ESC). We found that ESC do not express detectable levels of Bmi1 RNA and protein and that forced Bmi1 expression had no obvious influence on ESC self-renewal. However, upon ESC differentiation Bmi1 effectively enhanced development of hematopoietic cells. Global transcriptional profiling identified a large array of genes that were differentially regulated during ESC differentiation by Bmi1. Importantly, we found that Bmi1 induced a prominent up-regulation of Gata2, a zinc finger transcription factor, which is essential for primitive hematopoietic cell generation from mesoderm. In addition, Bmi1 caused sustained growth and a more than 100-fold expansion of ESC-derived hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells within 2-3 weeks of culture. The enhanced proliferative capacity was associated with reduced Ink4a/Arf expression in Bmi1-transduced cells. Taken together, our experiments demonstrate distinct activities of Bmi1 in ESC and ESC-derived hematopoietic progenitor cells. In addition, Bmi1 enhances the propensity of ESC in differentiating towards the hematopoietic lineage. Thus, Bmi1 could be a candidate gene for engineered adult stem cell derivation from ESC. 8 samples in total. Bmi1 embryonic stem cells sample_1 (Bmi1_ESC_1) Bmi1 embryonic stem cells sample_2 (Bmi1_ESC_2) Untreated CCE embryonic stem cells (CCE_ESC_Control) Empty vector CCE embryonic stem cells (CCE_ESC_Vector) Bmi1 embryoid body sample_1 (Bmi1_EB_1) Bmi1 embryoid body sample_2 (Bmi1_EB_2) Empty vector control embryoid body sample_1 (Vector_EB_1) Empty vector control embryoid body sample_2 (Vector_EB_2)
Project description:Peripheral inflammation affects hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) in the bone marrow and induce myeloid lineage skewing of the progenitor cells. In this study, we performed single cell ATAC-sequencing in LSK (Lin—Sca-1+cKit+ ) and GMP (Lin—c-Kit+Sca1—CD16/32+CD34+) cells to determine the impact of ligature-induced periodontitis (LIP) on the epigenomic profile of these BM cells.
Project description:Gene editing using engineered nucleases frequently produces unintended genetic lesions in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Gene-edited HSC cultures thus contain heterogenous populations, the majority of which either do not carry the desired edit or harbor unwanted mutations. In consequence, transplanting edited HSCs carries the risks of suboptimal efficiency and of unwanted mutations in the graft. Here, we present an approach for expanding gene-edited HSCs at clonal density, allowing for genetic profiling of individual clones before transplantation. We achieved this by developing a defined, polymer-based expansion system and identifying long-term expanding clones within the CD201+CD150+CD48-c-Kit+Sca-1+Lin-(KSL) population of pre-cultured HSCs. This dataset compares the gene expression in three different populations: (1) CD201+CD150+CD48-KSL (2) CD201+CD150+CD48+KSL and (3) CD201-KSL cells.