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Natalija Buza-Vidas,
Valeriu B Cismasiu,
Susan Moore,
Adam J Mead,
Petter S Woll,
Michael Lutteropp,
Luca Melchiori,
Sidinh Luc,
Tiphaine Bouriez-Jones,
Deborah Atkinson,
Donal O'Carroll,
Sten Eirik W Jacobsen, Claus Nerlov
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ABSTRACT: MicroRNAs (miRs) are involved in many aspects of normal and malignant hematopoiesis, including hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) self-renewal, proliferation, and terminal differentiation. However, a role for miRs in the generation of the earliest stages of lineage committed progenitors from HSCs has not been identified. Using Dicer inactivation, we show that the miR complex is not only essential for HSC maintenance but is specifically required for their erythroid programming and subsequent generation of committed erythroid progenitors. In bipotent pre-MegEs, loss of Dicer up-regulated transcription factors preferentially expressed in megakaryocyte progenitors (Gata2 and Zfpm1) and decreased expression of the erythroid-specific Klf1 transcription factor. These results show a specific requirement for Dicer in acquisition of erythroid lineage programming and potential in HSCs and their subsequent erythroid lineage differentiation, and in particular indicate a role for the miR complex in achieving proper balance of lineage-specific transcriptional regulators necessary for HSC multilineage potential to be maintained.
Blood 08/2012; 120(12):2412-6. · 9.90 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Pontin is a highly conserved DNA helicase/ATPase which is a component of several macromolecular complexes with functions that include DNA repair, telomere maintenance and tumor suppression. While Pontin is known to be essential in yeast, fruit flies and frogs, its physiological role in mammalian organisms remains to be determined. We here find that Pontin is highly expressed in embryonic stem cells and hematopoietic tissues. Through germline inactivation of Ruvbl1, the gene encoding Pontin, we found it to be essential for early embryogenesis, as Ruvbl1 null embryos could not be recovered beyond the blastocyst stage where proliferation of the pluripotent inner cell mass was impaired. Conditional ablation of Ruvbl1 in hematopoietic tissues led to bone marrow failure. Competitive repopulation experiments showed that this included the loss of hematopoietic stem cells through apopotosis. Pontin is, therefore, essential for the function of both embryonic pluripotent cells and adult hematopoietic stem cells.
Haematologica 02/2012; 97(9):1291-4. · 6.42 Impact Factor
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Sidinh Luc,
Tiago C Luis,
Hanane Boukarabila,
Iain C Macaulay,
Natalija Buza-Vidas,
Tiphaine Bouriez-Jones,
Michael Lutteropp,
Petter S Woll,
Stephen J Loughran,
Adam J Mead, [......],
Alison Farley,
Alejandra Sanjuan-Pla,
Cintia Carella,
Roger Patient,
Marella de Bruijn,
Tariq Enver, Claus Nerlov,
Clare Blackburn,
Isabelle Godin,
Sten Eirik W Jacobsen
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ABSTRACT: The stepwise commitment from hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow to T lymphocyte-restricted progenitors in the thymus represents a paradigm for understanding the requirement for distinct extrinsic cues during different stages of lineage restriction from multipotent to lineage-restricted progenitors. However, the commitment stage at which progenitors migrate from the bone marrow to the thymus remains unclear. Here we provide functional and molecular evidence at the single-cell level that the earliest progenitors in the neonatal thymus had combined granulocyte-monocyte, T lymphocyte and B lymphocyte lineage potential but not megakaryocyte-erythroid lineage potential. These potentials were identical to those of candidate thymus-seeding progenitors in the bone marrow, which were closely related at the molecular level. Our findings establish the distinct lineage-restriction stage at which the T cell lineage-commitment process transits from the bone marrow to the remote thymus.
Nature Immunology 02/2012; 13(4):412-9. · 26.01 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Transcription factors play a key role in lineage commitment and differentiation of stem cells into distinct mature cells. In hematopoiesis, they regulate lineage-specific gene expression in a stage-specific manner through various physical and functional interactions with regulatory proteins that are simultanously recruited and activated to ensure timely gene expression. The transcription factor CCAAT/enhancer binding protein α (C/EBPα) is such a factor and is essential for the development of granulocytic/monocytic cells. The activity of C/EBPα is regulated on several levels including gene expression, alternative translation, protein interactions and posttranslational modifications, such as phosphorylation. In particular, the phosphorylation of serine 248 of the transactivation domain has been shown to be of crucial importance for granulocytic differentiation of 32Dcl3 cells in vitro.
Here, we use mouse genetics to investigate the significance of C/EBPα serine 248 in vivo through the construction and analysis of Cebpa(S248A/S248A) knock-in mice. Surprisingly, 8-week old Cebpa(S248A/S248A) mice display normal steady-state hematopoiesis including unaltered development of mature myeloid cells. However, over time some of the animals develop a hematopoietic disorder with accumulation of multipotent, megakaryocytic and erythroid progenitor cells and a mild impairment of differentiation along the granulocytic-monocytic lineage. Furthermore, BM cells from Cebpa(S248A/S248A) animals display a competitive advantage compared to wild type cells in a transplantation assay.
Taken together, our data shows that the substitution of C/EBPα serine 248 to alanine favors the selection of the megakaryocytic/erythroid lineage over the monocytic/granulocytic compartment in old mice and suggests that S248 phosphorylation may be required to maintain proper hematopoietic homeostasis in response to changes in the wiring of cellular signalling networks. More broadly, the marked differences between the phenotype of the S248A variant in vivo and in vitro highlight the need to exert caution when extending in vitro phenotypes to the more appropriate in vivo context.
PLoS ONE 01/2012; 7(6):e38841. · 4.09 Impact Factor
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You-Ying Chau,
David Brownstein,
Heidi Mjoseng,
Wen-Chin Lee,
Natalija Buza-Vidas, Claus Nerlov,
Sten Eirik Jacobsen,
Paul Perry,
Rachel Berry,
Anna Thornburn,
David Sexton,
Nik Morton,
Peter Hohenstein,
Elisabeth Freyer,
Kay Samuel,
Rob van't Hof,
Nicholas Hastie
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ABSTRACT: There is much interest in the mechanisms that regulate adult tissue homeostasis and their relationship to processes governing foetal development. Mice deleted for the Wilms' tumour gene, Wt1, lack kidneys, gonads, and spleen and die at mid-gestation due to defective coronary vasculature. Wt1 is vital for maintaining the mesenchymal-epithelial balance in these tissues and is required for the epithelial-to-mesenchyme transition (EMT) that generates coronary vascular progenitors. Although Wt1 is only expressed in rare cell populations in adults including glomerular podocytes, 1% of bone marrow cells, and mesothelium, we hypothesised that this might be important for homeostasis of adult tissues; hence, we deleted the gene ubiquitously in young and adult mice. Within just a few days, the mice suffered glomerulosclerosis, atrophy of the exocrine pancreas and spleen, severe reduction in bone and fat, and failure of erythropoiesis. FACS and culture experiments showed that Wt1 has an intrinsic role in both haematopoietic and mesenchymal stem cell lineages and suggest that defects within these contribute to the phenotypes we observe. We propose that glomerulosclerosis arises in part through down regulation of nephrin, a known Wt1 target gene. Protein profiling in mutant serum showed that there was no systemic inflammatory or nutritional response in the mutant mice. However, there was a dramatic reduction in circulating IGF-1 levels, which is likely to contribute to the bone and fat phenotypes. The reduction of IGF-1 did not result from a decrease in circulating GH, and there is no apparent pathology of the pituitary and adrenal glands. These findings 1) suggest that Wt1 is a major regulator of the homeostasis of some adult tissues, through both local and systemic actions; 2) highlight the differences between foetal and adult tissue regulation; 3) point to the importance of adult mesenchyme in tissue turnover.
PLoS Genetics 12/2011; 7(12):e1002404. · 8.69 Impact Factor
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Elena Mancini,
Alejandra Sanjuan-Pla,
Luisa Luciani,
Susan Moore,
Amit Grover,
Agnes Zay,
Kasper D Rasmussen,
Sidinh Luc,
Daniel Bilbao,
Donal O'Carroll,
Sten Eirik Jacobsen, Claus Nerlov
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ABSTRACT: The transcription factors that control lineage specification of haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) have been well described for the myeloid and lymphoid lineages, whereas transcriptional control of erythroid (E) and megakaryocytic (Mk) fate is less understood. We here use conditional removal of the GATA-1 and FOG-1 transcription factors to identify FOG-1 as required for the formation of all committed Mk- and E-lineage progenitors, whereas GATA-1 was observed to be specifically required for E-lineage commitment. FOG-1-deficient HSCs and preMegEs, the latter normally bipotent for the Mk and E lineages, underwent myeloid transcriptional reprogramming, and formed myeloid, but not erythroid and megakaryocytic cells in vitro. These results identify FOG-1 and GATA-1 as required for formation of bipotent Mk/E progenitors and their E-lineage commitment, respectively, and show that FOG-1 mediates transcriptional Mk/E programming of HSCs as well as their subsequent Mk/E-lineage commitment. Finally, C/EBPs and FOG-1 exhibited transcriptional cross-regulation in early myelo-erythroid progenitors making their functional antagonism a potential mechanism for separation of the myeloid and Mk/E lineages.
The EMBO Journal 11/2011; 31(2):351-65. · 9.20 Impact Factor
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Shabnam Kharazi,
Adam J Mead,
Anna Mansour,
Anne Hultquist,
Charlotta Böiers,
Sidinh Luc,
Natalija Buza-Vidas,
Zhi Ma,
Helen Ferry,
Debbie Atkinson,
Kristian Reckzeh,
Kristina Masson,
Jörg Cammenga,
Lars Rönnstrand,
Fumio Arai,
Toshio Suda, Claus Nerlov,
Ewa Sitnicka,
Sten Eirik W Jacobsen
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ABSTRACT: Acquisition of homozygous activating growth factor receptor mutations might accelerate cancer progression through a simple gene-dosage effect. Internal tandem duplications (ITDs) of FLT3 occur in approximately 25% cases of acute myeloid leukemia and induce ligand-independent constitutive signaling. Homozygous FLT3-ITDs confer an adverse prognosis and are frequently detected at relapse. Using a mouse knockin model of Flt3-internal tandem duplication (Flt3-ITD)-induced myeloproliferation, we herein demonstrate that the enhanced myeloid phenotype and expansion of granulocyte-monocyte and primitive Lin(-)Sca1(+)c-Kit(+) progenitors in Flt3-ITD homozygous mice can in part be mediated through the loss of the second wild-type allele. Further, whereas autocrine FLT3 ligand production has been implicated in FLT3-ITD myeloid malignancies and resistance to FLT3 inhibitors, we demonstrate here that the mouse Flt3(ITD/ITD) myeloid phenotype is FLT3 ligand-independent.
Blood 08/2011; 118(13):3613-21. · 9.90 Impact Factor
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Olga Ermakova,
Lukasz Piszczek,
Luisa Luciani,
Florence M G Cavalli,
Tiago Ferreira,
Dominika Farley,
Stefania Rizzo,
Rosa Chiara Paolicelli,
Mumna Al-Banchaabouchi, Claus Nerlov,
Richard Moriggl,
Nicholas M Luscombe,
Cornelius Gross
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ABSTRACT: The identification of susceptibility genes for human disease is a major goal of current biomedical research. Both sequence and structural variation have emerged as major genetic sources of phenotypic variability and growing evidence points to copy number variation as a particularly important source of susceptibility for disease. Here we propose and validate a strategy to identify genes in which changes in dosage alter susceptibility to disease-relevant phenotypes in the mouse. Our approach relies on sensitized phenotypic screening of megabase-sized chromosomal deletion and deficiency lines carrying altered copy numbers of ∼30 linked genes. This approach offers several advantages as a method to systematically identify genes involved in disease susceptibility. To examine the feasibility of such a screen, we performed sensitized phenotyping in five therapeutic areas (metabolic syndrome, immune dysfunction, atherosclerosis, cancer and behaviour) of a 0.8 Mb reciprocal chromosomal duplication and deficiency on chromosome 11 containing 27 genes. Gene dosage in the region significantly affected risk for high-fat diet-induced metabolic syndrome, antigen-induced immune hypersensitivity, ApoE-induced atherosclerosis, and home cage activity. Follow up studies on individual gene knockouts for two candidates in the region showed that copy number variation in Stat5 was responsible for the phenotypic variation in antigen-induced immune hypersensitivity and metabolic syndrome. These data demonstrate the power of sensitized phenotypic screening of segmental aneuploidy lines to identify disease susceptibility genes.
EMBO Molecular Medicine 01/2011; 3(1):50-66. · 10.33 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: We here use knockin mutagenesis in the mouse to model the spectrum of acquired CEBPA mutations in human acute myeloid leukemia. We find that C-terminal C/EBPalpha mutations increase the proliferation of long-term hematopoietic stem cells (LT-HSCs) in a cell-intrinsic manner and override normal HSC homeostasis, leading to expansion of premalignant HSCs. However, such mutations impair myeloid programming of HSCs and block myeloid lineage commitment when homozygous. In contrast, N-terminal C/EBPalpha mutations are silent with regards to HSC expansion, but allow the formation of committed myeloid progenitors, the templates for leukemia-initiating cells. The combination of N- and C-terminal C/EBPalpha mutations incorporates both features, accelerating disease development and explaining the clinical prevalence of this configuration of CEBPA mutations.
Cancer cell 11/2009; 16(5):390-400. · 25.29 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Macrophages play an essential role in the resolution of tissue damage through removal of necrotic cells, thus paving the way
for tissue regeneration. Macrophages also directly support the formation of new tissue to replace the injury, through their
acquisition of an anti-inflammatory, or M2, phenotype, characterized by a gene expression program that includes IL-10, the
IL-13 receptor, and arginase 1. We report that deletion of two CREB-binding sites from the Cebpb promoter abrogates Cebpb induction upon macrophage activation. This blocks the downstream induction of M2-specific Msr1, Il10, II13ra, and Arg-1 genes, whereas the inflammatory (M1) genes Il1, Il6, Tnfa, and Il12 are not affected. Mice carrying the mutated Cebpb promoter (βΔCre) remove necrotic tissue from injured muscle, but exhibit severe defects in muscle fiber regeneration. Conditional
deletion of the Cebpb gene in muscle cells does not affect regeneration, showing that the C/EBPβ cascade leading to muscle repair is muscle-extrinsic.
While βΔCre macrophages efficiently infiltrate injured muscle they fail to upregulate Cebpb, leading to decreased Arg-1 expression. CREB-mediated induction of Cebpb expression is therefore required in infiltrating macrophages for upregulation of M2-specific genes and muscle regeneration,
providing a direct genetic link between these two processes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 10/2009; 106(41):17475-17480. · 9.68 Impact Factor
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Ann-Marie Bröske,
Lena Vockentanz,
Shabnam Kharazi,
Matthew R Huska,
Elena Mancini,
Marina Scheller,
Christiane Kuhl,
Andreas Enns,
Marco Prinz,
Rudolf Jaenisch, Claus Nerlov,
Achim Leutz,
Miguel A Andrade-Navarro,
Sten Eirik W Jacobsen,
Frank Rosenbauer
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ABSTRACT: DNA methylation is a dynamic epigenetic mark that undergoes extensive changes during differentiation of self-renewing stem cells. However, whether these changes are the cause or consequence of stem cell fate remains unknown. Here, we show that alternative functional programs of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are governed by gradual differences in methylation levels. Constitutive methylation is essential for HSC self-renewal but dispensable for homing, cell cycle control and suppression of apoptosis. Notably, HSCs from mice with reduced DNA methyltransferase 1 activity cannot suppress key myeloerythroid regulators and thus can differentiate into myeloerythroid, but not lymphoid, progeny. A similar methylation dosage effect controls stem cell function in leukemia. These data identify DNA methylation as an essential epigenetic mechanism to protect stem cells from premature activation of predominant differentiation programs and suggest that methylation dynamics determine stem cell functions in tissue homeostasis and cancer.
Nature Genetics 10/2009; 41(11):1207-15. · 35.53 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The transcriptional regulators that couple interfollicular basal keratinocyte proliferation arrest to commitment and differentiation are yet to be identified. Here we report that the basic region leucine zipper transcription factors C/EBPalpha and C/EBPbeta are co-expressed in basal keratinocytes, and are coordinately upregulated as keratinocytes exit the basal layer and undergo terminal differentiation. Mice lacking both C/EBPalpha and beta in the epidermis showed increased proliferation of basal keratinocytes and impaired commitment to differentiation. This led to ectopic expression of keratin 14 (K14) and DeltaNp63 in suprabasal cells, decreased expression of spinous and granular layer proteins, parakeratosis and defective epidermal water barrier function. Knock-in mutagenesis revealed that C/EBP-E2F interaction was required for control of interfollicular epidermis (IFE) keratinocyte proliferation, but not for induction of spinous and granular layer markers, whereas C/EBP DNA binding was required for DeltaNp63 downregulation and K1/K10 induction. Finally, loss of C/EBPalpha/beta induced stem cell gene expression signatures in the epidermis. C/EBPs, therefore, couple basal keratinocyte cell cycle exit to commitment to differentiation through E2F repression and DNA binding, respectively, and may act to restrict the epidermal stem cell compartment.
Nature Cell Biology 09/2009; 11(10):1181-90. · 19.49 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Macrophages play an essential role in the resolution of tissue damage through removal of necrotic cells, thus paving the way for tissue regeneration. Macrophages also directly support the formation of new tissue to replace the injury, through their acquisition of an anti-inflammatory, or M2, phenotype, characterized by a gene expression program that includes IL-10, the IL-13 receptor, and arginase 1. We report that deletion of two CREB-binding sites from the Cebpb promoter abrogates Cebpb induction upon macrophage activation. This blocks the downstream induction of M2-specific Msr1, Il10, II13ra, and Arg-1 genes, whereas the inflammatory (M1) genes Il1, Il6, Tnfa, and Il12 are not affected. Mice carrying the mutated Cebpb promoter (betaDeltaCre) remove necrotic tissue from injured muscle, but exhibit severe defects in muscle fiber regeneration. Conditional deletion of the Cebpb gene in muscle cells does not affect regeneration, showing that the C/EBPbeta cascade leading to muscle repair is muscle-extrinsic. While betaDeltaCre macrophages efficiently infiltrate injured muscle they fail to upregulate Cebpb, leading to decreased Arg-1 expression. CREB-mediated induction of Cebpb expression is therefore required in infiltrating macrophages for upregulation of M2-specific genes and muscle regeneration, providing a direct genetic link between these two processes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 09/2009; 106(41):17475-80. · 9.68 Impact Factor
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Jens M Nygren,
Karina Liuba,
Martin Breitbach,
Simon Stott,
Lina Thorén,
Wilhelm Roell,
Caroline Geisen,
Philipp Sasse,
Deniz Kirik,
Anders Björklund, Claus Nerlov,
Bernd K Fleischmann,
Stefan Jovinge,
Sten Eirik W Jacobsen
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ABSTRACT: Recent studies have suggested that regeneration of non-haematopoietic cell lineages can occur through heterotypic cell fusion with haematopoietic cells of the myeloid lineage. Here we show that lymphocytes also form heterotypic-fusion hybrids with cardiomyocytes, skeletal muscle, hepatocytes and Purkinje neurons. However, through lineage fate-mapping we demonstrate that such in vivo fusion of lymphoid and myeloid blood cells does not occur to an appreciable extent in steady-state adult tissues or during normal development. Rather, fusion of blood cells with different non-haematopoietic cell types is induced by organ-specific injuries or whole-body irradiation, which has been used in previous studies to condition recipients of bone marrow transplants. Our findings demonstrate that blood cells of the lymphoid and myeloid lineages contribute to various non-haematopoietic tissues by forming rare fusion hybrids, but almost exclusively in response to injuries or inflammation.
Nature Cell Biology 06/2008; 10(5):584-92. · 19.49 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a post-transcriptional surveillance process that eliminates mRNAs containing premature termination codons (PTCs). NMD has been hypothesized to impact on several aspects of cellular function; however, its importance in the context of a mammalian organism has not been addressed in detail. Here we use mouse genetics to demonstrate that hematopoietic-specific deletion of Upf2, a core NMD factor, led to the rapid, complete, and lasting cell-autonomous extinction of all hematopoietic stem and progenitor populations. In contrast, more differentiated cells were only mildly affected in Upf2-null mice, suggesting that NMD is mainly essential for proliferating cells. Furthermore, we show that UPF2 loss resulted in the accumulation of nonproductive rearrangement by-products from the Tcrb locus and that this, as opposed to the general loss of NMD, was particularly detrimental to developing T-cells. At the molecular level, gene expression analysis showed that Upf2 deletion led to a profound skewing toward up-regulated mRNAs, highly enriched in transcripts derived from processed pseudogenes, and that NMD impacts on regulated alternative splicing events. Collectively, our data demonstrate a unique requirement of NMD for organismal survival.
Genes & Development 06/2008; 22(10):1381-96. · 11.66 Impact Factor
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Marie S Hasemann,
Inge Damgaard,
Mikkel B Schuster,
Kim Theilgaard-Mönch,
Annette B Sørensen,
Alan Mrsic,
Thijs Krugers,
Bauke Ylstra,
Finn S Pedersen, Claus Nerlov,
Bo T Porse
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ABSTRACT: The CCAAT enhancer binding protein alpha (C/EBPalpha) is an important myeloid tumor suppressor that is frequently mutated in human acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We have previously shown that mice homozygous for the E2F repression-deficient Cebpa(BRM2) allele develop nonfatal AML with long latency and incomplete penetrance, suggesting that accumulation of secondary mutations is necessary for disease progression. Here, we use SRS19-6-driven retroviral insertional mutagenesis to compare the phenotypes of leukemias arising in Cebpa(+/+), Cebpa(+/BRM2), and Cebpa(BRM2/BRM2) mice, with respect to disease type, latency of tumor development, and identity of the retroviral insertion sites (RISs). Both Cebpa(+/BRM2) and Cebpa(BRM2/BRM2) mice preferentially develop myeloid leukemias, but with differing latencies, thereby demonstrating the importance of gene dosage. Determination of RISs led to the identification of several novel candidate oncogenes, some of which may collaborate specifically with the E2F repression-deficient allele of Cebpa. Finally, we used an in silico pathway analysis approach to extract additional information from single RISs, leading to the identification of signaling pathways which were preferentially deregulated in a disease- and/or genotype-specific manner.
Blood 05/2008; 111(8):4309-21. · 9.90 Impact Factor
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Peggy Kirstetter,
Mikkel B Schuster,
Oksana Bereshchenko,
Susan Moore,
Heidi Dvinge,
Elke Kurz,
Kim Theilgaard-Mönch,
Robert Månsson,
Thomas A Pedersen,
Thomas Pabst,
Evelin Schrock,
Bo T Porse,
Sten Eirik W Jacobsen,
Paul Bertone,
Daniel G Tenen, Claus Nerlov
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ABSTRACT: Mutations in the CEBPA gene are present in 7%-10% of human patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). However, no genetic models exist that demonstrate their etiological relevance. To mimic the most common mutations affecting CEBPA-that is, those leading to loss of the 42 kDa C/EBPalpha isoform (p42) while retaining the 30kDa isoform (p30)-we modified the mouse Cebpa locus to express only p30. p30 supported the formation of granulocyte-macrophage progenitors. However, p42 was required for control of myeloid progenitor proliferation, and p42-deficient mice developed AML with complete penetrance. p42-deficient leukemia could be transferred by a Mac1+c-Kit+ population that gave rise only to myeloid cells in recipient mice. Expression profiling of this population against normal Mac1+c-Kit+ progenitors revealed a signature shared with MLL-AF9-transformed AML.
Cancer cell 05/2008; 13(4):299-310. · 25.29 Impact Factor
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Jens M. Nygren,
Karina Liuba,
Martin Breitbach,
Simon Stott,
Lina Thor|[eacute]|n,
Wilhelm Roell,
Caroline Geisen,
Philipp Sasse,
Deniz Kirik,
Anders Bj|[ouml]|rklund, Claus Nerlov,
Bernd K. Fleischmann,
Stefan Jovinge,
Sten Eirik W. Jacobsen
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ABSTRACT: Recent studies have suggested that regeneration of non-haematopoietic cell lineages can occur through heterotypic cell fusion
Nature Cell Biology 04/2008; 10(5):584-592. · 19.49 Impact Factor
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Lars Nilsson,
Patrik Edén,
Eleonor Olsson,
Robert Månsson,
Ingbritt Astrand-Grundström,
Bodil Strömbeck,
Kim Theilgaard-Mönch,
Kristina Anderson,
Robert Hast,
Eva Hellström-Lindberg,
Jan Samuelsson,
Gösta Bergh, Claus Nerlov,
Bertil Johansson,
Mikael Sigvardsson,
Ake Borg,
Sten Eirik W Jacobsen
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ABSTRACT: Global gene expression profiling of highly purified 5q-deleted CD34+CD38(-)Thy1+ cells in 5q- myelodysplastic syndromes (MDSs) supported that they might originate from and outcompete normal CD34+CD38(-)Thy1+ hematopoietic stem cells. Few but distinct differences in gene expression distinguished MDS and normal stem cells. Expression of BMI1, encoding a critical regulator of self-renewal, was up-regulated in 5q- stem cells. Whereas multiple previous MDS genetic screens failed to identify altered expression of the gene encoding the myeloid transcription factor CEBPA, stage-specific and extensive down-regulation of CEBPA was specifically observed in MDS progenitors. These studies establish the importance of molecular characterization of distinct stages of cancer stem and progenitor cells to enhance the resolution of stage-specific dysregulated gene expression.
Blood 11/2007; 110(8):3005-14. · 9.90 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The transcription factor PAX5 is a critical regulator of B-cell commitment and development. Although normally not expressed in myeloid progenitors, PAX5 has recently been shown to be frequently expressed in myeloid malignancies and to suppress expression of myeloid differentiation genes, compatible with an effect on the differentiation or maintenance of myeloid progenitors. However, previous studies in which PAX5 was ectopically expressed in normal myeloid progenitors in vivo and in vitro provided conflicting results as to the effect of PAX5 on myeloid development. Herein, we demonstrate that on ectopic expression of PAX5 in bone marrow multipotent stem/progenitor cells, cells with a biphenotypic B220(+)GR-1/MAC-1(+) phenotype are produced. These remain cytokine-dependent, but unlike control-transduced cells they sustain long-term generation of myeloid progenitors in vitro and remain capable of myeloid differentiation. Notably, PAX5(+)B220(+)GR-1/MAC-1(+) myeloid progenitors coexpress, at the single-cell level, myeloid genes and otherwise B-cell-specific PAX5 target genes. These findings establish that ectopic expression of PAX5 introduces extensive self-renewal properties in otherwise short-lived myeloid progenitors. Along with the established ectopic expression of PAX5 in acute myeloid leukemia, this motivates a careful investigation of the potential involvement of ectopic PAX5 expression in myeloid and biphenotypic leukemias.
Blood 06/2007; 109(9):3697-705. · 9.90 Impact Factor
