Project description:Dhh negatively regulates multiple stages of erythrocyte differentiation. In Dhh-deficient bone marrow, the common myeloid progenitor (CMP) population was increased, but differentiation from CMP to granulocyte/macrophage progenitor was decreased, and the mature granulocyte population was decreased, compared with wild-type (WT). In contrast, differentiation from CMP to megakaryocyte/erythrocyte progenitor was increased, and the megakaryocyte/erythrocyte progenitor population was increased. In Dhh-deficient spleen and bone marrow, BFU-Es and erythroblast populations were increased compared with WT. During recovery of hematopoiesis after irradiation, and under conditions of stress-induced erythropoiesis, erythrocyte differentiation was accelerated in both spleen and bone marrow of Dhh-deficient mice compared with WT. To investigate possible mechanisms for its regulation of erythropoiesis we carried out RNAsequencing on Facs-sorted erythroblast population II (CD71+Ter119+) cells from Dhh-/-, Dhh+/- and WR mice.
Project description:To unravel the direct mechanism of DHH to prevent EndoMT and to identify potential DHH interacting proteins, we analyzed HUVECs treated with either adenovirus-Flag-DHH (Ad-DHH) or control adenovirus (Ad-NC) together with 3 cytokines (TGF-β1, IL-1β, and TNF-α at 10 ng/ml) for 3 days. We precipitated DHH from overexpressed ECs followed by mass spectrometry.