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:Ex vivo production of red blood cells (RBCs) represents a promising alternative for transfusion medicine. Several strategies were described to generate erythroid cell lines from different sources, including embryonic, induced pluripotent and hematopoietic stem cells. With imBMEP-A, we have previously generated the first erythroid cell line directly derived from reticulocyte progenitors. However, the translation of cultured RBCs into clinical use is currently impeded by the inability to scale up to clinically meaningful doses primarily due to impaired in vitro enucleation of RBC progenitor cell lines in general. To identify factors contributing to the inefficient enucleation in immortalized RBC progenitor cell lines, we conducted a proteome analysis of the imBMEP cell line in comparison to hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). For a detailed description of the cell culture condition, please see linked publication.
Project description:<p>The human neocortex is created from diverse intermixed progenitors in the prenatal germinal zones. These progenitors have been difficult to characterize since progenitors - particularly radial glia (RG) - are rare, and are defined by a combination of intracellular markers, position and morphology. To circumvent these problems we developed a method called FRISCR (Fixed and Recovered Intact Single Cell RNA) for transcriptome profiling of individual fixed, stained and sorted cells. We developed and validated FRISCR on human embryonic stem cells. We then profiled primary human RG (96 - 132 days post conception) that constitute only 1% of the mid-gestation cortex. These RG could be classified into ventricular zone-enriched RG (vRG) that express ANXA1 and CRYAB, and outer subventricular zone-localized RG (oRG) that express HOPX. Our study identifies the first markers and molecular profiles of vRG and oRG cells, and provides an essential step for understanding molecular networks driving the lineage of human neocortical progenitors.</p> <p><i>Reprinted from Thomsen et. al. Nature Methods (2015), with permission from Nature Publishing.</i></p> <p>Human embryonic stem cell data may be obtained through NCBI's GEO database, using accession number <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE71858">GSE71858</a>. Raw data from one human sample that was not consented to be released to dbGaP may be obtained directly from the authors of Thomsen et. al., 2015.</p>
Project description:This dataset combines single cell transcriptome data from fetal pancreas at 7-10 wpc, embryonic stem cell-derived pancreas progenitors and spheroids generated from both fetal pancreas and human pluripotent stem cell-derived pancreas progenitors.
Project description:This dataset combines single cell transcriptome data from fetal pancreas at 7-10 wpc, embryonic stem cell-derived pancreas progenitors and spheroids generated from both fetal pancreas and human pluripotent stem cell-derived pancreas progenitors.
Project description:TPO mimetics have been shown to activate TPO receptor, the downstream JAK-STAT pathway, and induce differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells into megakaryocytes. However, the action of these TPO mimetics is initiated by binding to the transmembrane domain of the TPO receptor, which is distinct from the binding site of the native ligand, TPO. To determine whether TPO mimetics can differentiate hematopoietic stem cells into the same megakaryocytes as native TPO does, we performed a microarray experiment to compare the globe gene expression in purified CD61+ cells derived from TPO or TPO mimetic treated CD34+ bone marrow cells. Keywords: Drug Treatment
Project description:We isolated by fluorescence-activated cell sorting highly purified populations (long term hematopoietic stem cells (LT-HSCs), short term hematopoietic stem cells (ST-HSCs), multipotent progenitors (MPPs), common myeloid progenitor (CMPs), granulocyte and monocyte progenitors (GMPs), multilymphoid progenitors (MLPs), Myeloid-erythorid Progenitor (MEP), Granulocytes, Monocytes, B cells, T cells, Dendritic cells, Natural Killer cells and Erythrocyte Progenitors from 3 to 4 cord blood pools. We extracted RNA from 5K cells of each population and performed RNA-sequencing.
