Project description:PTPRD is a tumor suppressor of glioma that is frequently co-deleted with CDKN2A/p16. We show that Ptprd and p16 cooperate to promote gliomagenesis in the RCAS PDGFB / Nestin tv-A glioma mouse model. We found unique gene expression changes within tumor cells of Ptprd+/-p16-/- vs. Ptprd+/+p16-/- and Ptprd-/-p16-/- tumor cells. Neonatal mice were injected with RCAS PDGFB GFP. At symptoms, or at 12 weeks post injection, GFP+DAPI- tumor cells were sorted for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. The mouse strain used was a mixed background of C57/BL6 and FVB/N. Ptprd mice were from Uetani et al. 2000 and p16/Nestin-tvA mice were from Tchouganouva et al. 2007.
Project description:PTPRD is a tumor suppressor of glioma that is frequently co-deleted with CDKN2A/p16. We show that Ptprd and p16 cooperate to promote gliomagenesis in the RCAS PDGFB / Nestin tv-A glioma mouse model. We found unique gene expression changes within tumor cells of Ptprd+/-p16-/- vs. Ptprd+/+p16-/- and Ptprd-/-p16-/- tumor cells.
Project description:Using the RCAS/tv-a system, we induced murine brainstem gliomas (PDGF-B; p53 loss using RCAS-Cre with and without H3.3K27M) in Nestin tv-a; p53 floxed mice
Project description:Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) arises in the brainstem of children, leading tumor-related death among children. A heterozygous histone H3.3K27M mutation has been shown to occur in ~80% of DIPGs, and results in brainstem gliomagenesis. There is no clinical trial for the patients with DIPG that proved to prolong survival time so far. Recently, CDK4/6 inhibitor showed feasibility and early therapeutic effect against DIPG. Also, recent research with human DIPG specimens have detected the MAPK pathway highly activated. Here, we evaluated a novel combination therapy with CDK4/6 inhibitor and MEK inhibitor to the mouse DIPG model. In order to generate DIPG‐bearing mice, we are using the RCAS/Tv‐a system, with which we are able to target specific genetic alterations in RCAS viruses (avian retroviruses) to specific cells‐of‐origin using transgenic Tv‐a‐expressing mice (Tv‐a being the receptor for RCAS viruses). We injected P3‐P5 Nestin-Tv-a;p53fl/fl mice (C56Bl/6 background) with RCAS‐PDGF‐A + RCAS‐H3.3K27M, and RCAS-Cre. The mice are treated with vehicle (methylcellurose), ribociclib as monotherapy, trametinib as monotherapy, and ribociclib and combination as combination. For short-term use, tumor tissues treated with ribociclib showed cytostatic effect, and those treated with trametinib showed cytotoxic effect, and those with combination showed both. Long-term use showed that combination therapy modestly prolonged mice survival compared with vehicle. Therefore, we need to find how DIPG showed registence to the long-term chemotherapy.
Project description:One healthy mouse brain and one glioblastoma tumor derived in the RCAS/Nestin-Tv-a mouse model were processed using the 10x Genomics Visium HD Spatial Gene Expression chemistry.
Project description:Two primary and two post-radiotherapy recurrent glioblastoma tumors derived in the RCAS/Nestin-Tv-a mouse model were processed using the 10x Genomics Visium Spatial Gene Expression v1 chemistry.
Project description:Pediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGGs) are an aggressive pediatric CNS tumor, often characterized by mutations in H3F3A, the gene that encodes Histone H3.3 (H3.3). Substitution of the Glycine at position 34 of H3.3 with either Arginine or Valine (H3.3G34R/V), was recently described and characterized in a large cohort of pHGG samples as occurring in 5-20% of pHGGs. We developed a genetically engineered mouse model (GEMM) that incorporates PDGF-A activation, TP53 loss and the H3.3G34R mutation both in the presence and loss of Alpha thalassemia/mental retardation syndrome X-linked (ATRX), which is commonly mutated in H3.3G34 mutant pHGGs. Nestin Tv-a; p53 fl/fl and Nestin Tv-a; p53 fl/fl; ATRX fl/fl mice were injected with DF-1 cells transfected with RCAS-Cre, RCAS-PDGFA, and either RCAS-H3.3WT-GFP or RCAS-H3.3G34R-GFP. By 210 days old, a majority of mice develop symptoms of tumor growth (erratic behavior, domed head, ataxia) or have 20% weight loss and are euthanized. Our goal is to develop a biologically relevant animal model of pHGG in order to probe the downstream effects of the H3.3G34R mutation in the context of vital co-occurring mutations.
Project description:This study characterizes the single-cell transcriptional landscape of murine glioblastoma generated using the RCAS/Nestin-Tv-a system, in which hPDGFB and shTP53 transgenes drive tumor initiation. We profiled primary and post-irradiation recurrent tumors, along with healthy brain controls, using the 10x Genomics Flex (GEM-X) gene expression platform and custom probe addon sets targeting the RCAS transcripts. A total of 16 samples were included after QC filtering (primary tumors, recurrent tumors, and control brains). The data set provides genome-wide single-cell RNA-seq measurements at probe-level resolution.
Project description:Here we describe the use of a high-throughput pipeline coupled to the commonly used tissue-specific retroviral RCAS-TVA mouse tumor model system. Utilizing next generation sequencing, we show that retroviral integration sites can be reproducibly detected in malignant stem cell lines generated from RCAS-PDGFB-driven glioma biopsies.
