Project description:This is GCxGC MS data from exhaled breath from humanized mice as well as germ-free controls. Raw files in CDF format (Figure S4D-F of associated publication)
Project description:To make the human liver accessible to metabolic treatments, we employed a liver-specific humanized mouse model in which approximately 50% of the mouse hepatocytes were replaced by human ones. For the dietary treatment, the humanized mice were allowed free access to food (AL, n=4 for donor1, n=3 for donor2) or subjected to a twenty-four hours food withdrawal (Fast, n=4 for donor1, n=3 for donor2). For the transcription factor agonist treatments, the humanized mice were injected with DMSO (n=4), fenofibrate (n=4, 50mg/kg, Sigma-Aldrich, Cat. F6020), rosiglitazone (n=4,10mg/kg, Sigma-Aldrich, Cat. R2408) and GW4064 (n=4, 30mg/kg, Sigma-Aldrich, Cat. G5172) by i.p. injection. The livers were collected after 6 hours fasting and stored in liquid nitrogen immediately after mice sacrificed.
Project description:To characterize the dysregulated MSCs in the murine MDS models, we performed a single-cell RNA sequence (scRNA-seq) analysis of FACS-sorted MSCs. The proportions of subclusters comprising MSCs were discrete between controls and MDS, and Osteolineage population was reduced in MDS compared with the control. In addition, Lepr+ mesenchymal population in MDS mice exhibited the remarkable reduction of skeletal stem marker Grem1 and MSC marker genes. This transcriptome analysis suggested that the osteolineage differentiation of MSCs is suppressed in vivo in the presence of MDS cells.
Project description:Loss of function TET2 mutations are frequently seen in myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) patients. Previous studies have demonstrated that TET2 deficiency enhances maintenance of MDS hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs). Nonetheless, the pathogenic role of TET2 in MDS progression remains elusive. Here, we demonstrate Tet2 knockout (KO) markedly accelerated malignant transformation in Nup98-HoxD13 (NHD13) transgenic mice and promotes leukemogenesis of HoxA9 transduction/transplant mice. Consistently, low TET2 level cooperating with high HOXA9 level predicts poor outcome of MDS patients. Notably, Tet2 KO conferred a clonal advantage to the HSPCs of NHD13 mice. Whole-exome sequencing revealed that Tet2 KO facilitates accumulation of mutations at genes associated with leukemogenesis, including Arih2, whose loss of function promotes MDS cells proliferation. Using 5-hydroxymethylcytosine immunoprecipitation coupled with high-throughput sequencing analysis, we found while Tet2 deletion decreased overall 5hmC levels, it also increased 5hmC distribution at certain mutation loci such as Arih2. Vitamin C treatment, which mimics Tet2/Tet3 restoration, blocked disease progression in Tet2-deficient NHD13 mice. Collectively, our findings demonstrate that TET2 activity governs occurrence of secondary mutations in MDS HSPCs, providing a rationale for enhancing TETs function to block MDS-malignant transformation.
Project description:Recurrent mutations in ASXL1 are found in various hematological malignancies and are associated with poor prognosis. In particular, ASXL1 mutations are frequently found in patients with hematological malignancies associated with myelodysplasia including myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. Although loss-of-function ASXL1 mutations promote myeloid transformation, a large subset of ASXL1 mutations is thought to result in stable truncation of ASXL1. Here we demonstrate that C-terminal truncating ASXL1 mutations (ASXL1-MT) inhibit myeloid differentiation and induce MDS-like disease in mice, displaying all the features of human MDS including multi-lineage myelodysplasia, pancytopenia and occasional progression to overt leukemia. Concerning the molecular mechanisms, ASXL1-MT derepressed expression of Hoxa9 and miR-125a through inhibiting PRC2-mediated methylation of H3K27. miR-125a targeted expression of a surface receptor Clec5a, which was found to supports for myeloid differentiation. In addition, HOXA9 expression was high in MDS patients with ASXL1 mutations while Clec5a expression was generally low in MDS patients. Thus, ASXL1-MT induced MDS-like disease in mice via derepression of Hoxa9 and miR-125a, and Clec5a downregulation. Our data provide evidence for a novel axis of MDS pathogenesis (ASXL1 mutations-upregulation of HoxA9 and miR-125a-downregulation of Clec5a) and implicate both ASXL1 mutants and miR-125a as therapeutic targets in MDS. BM cells derived from mock-transplanted mice and ASXL1-MT transplanted mice were incubated with biotinylated antibodies for CD3e, B220, and TER-119, followed by incubation with streptavidin Micro Beads (Miltenyi Biotec). The marker-negative fraction was separated with LS Columns (Miltenyi Biotec). Using the sorted-BM cells, we compared the expression proliles between 3 sorted-BM cells with mock and 3 sorted-BM cells with ASXL1-MT. Total RNA was extracted by Trizol reagent (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Double-stranded cDNA was synthesized from 5 μg of total RNA with oligo (dT)24 T7 primer, amplified with T7 RNA polymerase up to approximately 50 μg of cRNA, and hybridized to Affymetrix Mouse Expression array 430A, which contains 45000 probe sets for 39000 transcripts and variants from over 34000 well-characterized mouse genes (Affymetrix). After washing and staining, the arrays were scanned on the GeneChip system confocal scanner (Affymetrix). The intensity for each feature of the array was captured with Affymetrix Microarray Suite (MAS) Version 5.0 software. Gene set enrichment analysis was performed by using Gene Ontology gene sets from the Molecular Signatures Database (http://www.broad.mit.edu/gsea/msigdb/).
Project description:Recurrent mutations in ASXL1 are found in various hematological malignancies and are associated with poor prognosis. In particular, ASXL1 mutations are frequently found in patients with hematological malignancies associated with myelodysplasia including myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. Although loss-of-function ASXL1 mutations promote myeloid transformation, a large subset of ASXL1 mutations is thought to result in stable truncation of ASXL1. Here we demonstrate that C-terminal truncating ASXL1 mutations (ASXL1-MT) inhibit myeloid differentiation and induce MDS-like disease in mice, displaying all the features of human MDS including multi-lineage myelodysplasia, pancytopenia and occasional progression to overt leukemia. Concerning the molecular mechanisms, ASXL1-MT derepressed expression of Hoxa9 and miR-125a through inhibiting PRC2-mediated methylation of H3K27. miR-125a targeted expression of a surface receptor Clec5a, which was found to supports for myeloid differentiation. In addition, HOXA9 expression was high in MDS patients with ASXL1 mutations while Clec5a expression was generally low in MDS patients. Thus, ASXL1-MT induced MDS-like disease in mice via derepression of Hoxa9 and miR-125a, and Clec5a downregulation. Our data provide evidence for a novel axis of MDS pathogenesis (ASXL1 mutations-upregulation of HoxA9 and miR-125a-downregulation of Clec5a) and implicate both ASXL1 mutants and miR-125a as therapeutic targets in MDS.
Project description:This is GCxGC MS data from exhaled breath from humanized mice as well as germ-free controls. Raw files in CDF format (Figure S5B, S5C, Figure S6D, Figure 5D of associated publication)