Project description:To identify genes that are influenced by the catalytic and non-catalytic functions of Tet2 in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), we analyzed the gene expression profiles of Tet2 catalytic mutant (Tet2 Mut), Tet2 knockout (Tet2 KO) and wild-type HSPCs (or LSK, Lin–Sca-1+c-Kit+) and multi-potent progenitor (or MPP, Lin–) cells by RNA-seq.
Project description:Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), including the multipotent progenitors (MPPs), are responsible for replenishing immune cells. They reside in bone marrow (BM) endosteal and (peri)-vascular niches, which provide all cellular and molecular components required for their lifelong maintenance and fate. Among them, the CXCL12 chemokine and one of its receptor, CXCR4, exert a dominant role in promoting HSPC retention and quiescence. These processes are deregulated in the WHIM Syndrome (WS), a rare immunodeficiency caused by inherited heterozygous autosomal gain-of-function CXCR4 mutations that affect homologous desensitization of the receptor. Clinically, WS is notably characterized by severe, chronic circulating lymphopenia whose mechanisms remain to be elucidated. Using a mouse model carrying a naturally occurring WS-linked Cxcr4 mutation, we explored the possibility that the lymphopenia in WS originates from defects at the MPP level in BM. The global strategy consists in performing high-throughput RNA-seq analyses of the different MPP subsets bearing or not the WS-linked Cxcr4 mutation to investigate the impact of the gain-of-Cxcr4-function on the molecular identity of MPP subsets.
Project description:Bone marrow (BM) mesenchymal stem and progenitor cells (MSPCs) are a critical constituent of the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) niche. Previous studies have suggested that the zinc-finger epithelial-mesenchymal transition transcription factor Snai2 (also known as Slug) regulated HSCs autonomously. Here, we show that Snai2 expression in the BM is restricted to the BM stromal compartment where it regulates the HSC niche. Germline or MSPC-selective Snai2 deletion reduces the functional MSPC pool, their mesenchymal lineage output, and impairs HSC niche function during homeostasis and after stress. RNA-sequencing analysis revealed that Spp1 (osteopontin) expression is markedly upregulated in Snai2-deficient MSPCs. Genetic deletion of Spp1 in Snai2-deficient mice, rescues MSPCs’ functions. Thus, SNAI2 is a critical regulator of the transcriptional network maintaining MSPCs by the suppression of osteopontin expression.
Project description:Secretome containing extracellular vesicles (EV) seem to mediate the benefits of cell therapy for ischemic heart failure. Our project has the objective of comparing the secretome containing extracellular vesicles (EV) from cardiac progenitor cells (EV-CPC) vs the secretome containing EV from Fibroblasts (EV-FB) in order to stablish a protein cartography of EV-CPC and the biological pathways that they are involved. seem to mediate the benefits of cell therapy for ischemic heart failure. Our project has the objective of comparing the secretome containing extracellular vesicles (EV) from cardiac progenitor cells (EV-CPC) vs the secretome containing EV from Fibroblasts (EV-FB) in order to stablish a protein cartography of EV-CPC and the biological pathways that they are involved.
Project description:Haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and multipotent progenitors (MPPs), the precursors of all blood cells, reside predominantly in the bone marrow (BM). Recent evidence suggests that other anatomical sites may contribute significantly to blood production, but the cellular, molecular and functional composition of extramedullary HSC/MPP pools remains unexplored. Here, we have compared the transcriptomes of single cells sorted from the phenotypic HSC/MPP pool of adult bone marrows and spleens from the same donors.
Project description:Circulating osteoprogenitor (COP) are a population of cell in the peripheral circulation that possess functional and phenotypical characteristics of multipotent stromal cells (MSCs). While there is functional overlap, it is not known how COP cells are related to bone marrow (BM)-derived MSCs (BM-MSCs) and other better characterized stromal progenitor populations such as adipose-derived stromal cells (ASCs). This study compares COP cells to BM-MSCs and ASCs through detailed transcriptomic and proteomic analyses. COP cells have a distinct gene and protein expression pattern to BM-MSCs and ASCs, with a significantly stronger immune footprint, likely owing to their hematopoietic lineage. However, they also have a similar pattern of expression BM-MSCs and ASCs, in genes and proteins in progenitor cell differentiation and proliferation pathways. This study shows COP cells to be a unique but functionally similar population to BM-MSCs and ASCs, sharing their proliferation and differentiation capacity, but with a strong immune phenotype, with potential for translational regenerative medicine strategies.
Project description:We applied high-throughput sequencing of the IGH repertoire in peripheral blood and bone marrow (BM) of a primary immunodeficiency patient. We obtained 325994 IGH sequences from the BM sample and 72597 IGH sequences from the peripheral blood. After comparing with IMGT/GENE-DB database (http://www.imgt.org), we found obviously increased CDR3 clonality in the patient BM as compared to his peripheral blood. Furthermore, the frequency of IgG transcripts in the patient BM was higher than that in the peripheral blood while the frequency of IgM transcripts was similar.
Project description:This model reproduces a solution (at a=1, b=20.8, eta=1e-4) of the parameter scan in Fig. 4b of the referenced paper. Equations and other parameter values are as published. Notch signaling in competition with lateral stabilization, both mediated by cell–cell interactions, can control the cell fate decision of multi-potent pancreatic progenitor cells between the exocrine and endocrine lineages and yield a scattered spatial distribution of endocrine cells, major constituents of the later islets of Langerhans. The model file is in MorpheusML format and can be opened in the free, open-source multicellular modeling software Morpheus (download from https://morpheus.gitlab.io) to simulate the time course (movie) of lineage specification in 10.000 coupled cells in the early pancreatic tissue.
Project description:Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) constitute a rare cell population in bone-marrow and are capable of live-long self-renewal and production of all mature blood cell types. Cell differentiation processes are governed by epigenetic mechanisms whose study during early differentiation steps will provide insights into stem cell function and differentiation. We performed whole-genome bisulfite sequencing on HSCs and their immediate progeny, namely three different multipotent progenitor subpopulations (MPP1, MPP2, and MPP). Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and 3 different multipotent progenitor subpopulations (MPP). Three independent biological replicates each were analyzed.