IMMU-50. GLIOBLASTOMA MANIPULATES HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL DIFFERENTIATION OUTCOMES AND DRIVES ALTERED IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (Supplement_6) ◽  
pp. vi104-vi104
Author(s):  
Bayli DiVita Dean ◽  
Tyler Wildes ◽  
Joseph Dean ◽  
David Shin ◽  
Connor Francis ◽  
...  

Abstract INTRODUCTION Bone marrow-derived hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) give rise to the cellular components of the immune system. Unfortunately, immune reconstitution from HSPCs are negatively impacted by solid cancers, including high-grade gliomas. For example, an expansion of myeloid progenitor cells has been previously described across several cancers that originate outside the CNS. A similar expansion of MDSCs coupled with diminished T cell function has also been described in the peripheral blood of patients with newly-diagnosed GBM. Alterations in both lymphoid and myeloid compartments due to CNS malignancy led us to determine how intracranial gliomas impact HSPCs in both their capacity to reconstitute the immune compartment and in their cell fate determination. This is important to better understand the impact of gliomas on immunity and how we can leverage these findings to better develop cellular immunotherapeutics. METHODS HSPCs were isolated from bone marrow of C57BL/6 mice with orthotopic KR158B glioma, or age-matched naïve mice. Experiments were conducted to compare relative changes in: gene expression (RNA-sequencing), precursor frequencies, cell fate determination, and cellular function of cells derived from HSPCs of glioma-bearing mice. RESULTS RNA-sequencing revealed 700+ genes whose expression was significantly up- or downregulated in HSPCs from glioma-bearing mice, particularly those involved with stemness and metabolic activity. Importantly, HSPCs from glioma-bearing mice expressed upregulation of genes involved in myelopoiesis relative to naïve mice. This was coupled with an expansion of granulocyte macrophage precursors (GMPs), the progenitors to gMDSCs. Next, differentiation assays revealed that HSPCs from glioma-bearing mice had higher propensity of differentiating into MDSC under homeostatic conditions relative to controls both in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, mice bearing intracranial gliomas possess an expansion of MDSCs which are more suppressive on T cell proliferation and hinders T cell-mediated tumor cell killing relative to MDSCs derived from naïve control mice.

Blood ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 106 (11) ◽  
pp. 801-801 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuelle Passegue ◽  
Camilla Forsberg ◽  
Thomas Serwold ◽  
Scott Kogan ◽  
Irving L. Weissman

Abstract A thorough understanding of the lineage potential of each subset of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) and progenitor populations is critical to establish an accurate map of cell fate determination during hematopoietic development. A controversy exists whether multipotentiality is conserved until a mutually exclusive segregation of myeloid and lymphoid potentials or whether early progenitor populations sequentially lose lineage potential as they differentiate from the long-term self-renewing HSC (LT-HSC), starting with loss of megakaryocyte/erythrocyte (MegE) potential. Hematopoietic cells at different developmental stages can be prospectively isolated based on a combination of cell surface phenotypes and functional assays in vitro and in vivo. However, assessment of lineage potential of cells other than LT-HSC is complicated by the progressive loss of self-renewal activity in progenitor populations and the lack of congenic surface markers on mature cells of the MegE lineage. Using sensitive in vitro and in vivo approaches, we quantitatively and kinetically assessed the MegE potential of Lineage−/c-Kit+/Sca-1+ (KLS) subsets of mouse bone marrow, including LT-HSC (Thy1.1int/Flk-2−), sort-term HSC (ST-HSCF: Thy1.1int/Flk-2+) and multipotent progenitor population (MPPF: Thy1.1−/Flk-2+), and compared it with the MegE potential of downstream myeloid progenitors (CMP, GMP and MEP) and with their ability to give rise to mature myelomonocytic and lymphoid cells. In contrast to previous reports, we demonstrate that Flk2-positive ST-HSCF and MPPF populations have readily detectable but transient MegE potential in vivo that is more robust than committed myeloid progenitors CMP and MEP. We also show that these cells make clonal colonies in vitro and in vivo in the spleen that contained megakaryocytes and erythrocytes. Moreover, we established the kinetics of mature cell production from each stem and progenitor population, hence providing the timing of these early differentiation events in vivo that is of critical importance when investigating lineage potential. Our results demonstrate that multipotentiality is retained in the KLS “stem cell” fraction of the bone marrow and support a model of hematopoietic development with mutually exclusive segregation of myeloid and lymphoid lineage potential. Taken together with previous findings, they indicate that transition from LT-HSC to ST-HSCF and then to MPPF, is accompanied by progressive lose of self-renewal ability, increased proliferation and change in gene expression programs to prepare multipotent cells to leave the stem cell niche and undergo lineage differentiation. This model is by definition a simplification of a complex biological process but accounts for most, if not all, differentiation events, tolerates plasticity in lineage segregation at early steps of commitment and it accommodates intrinsic lineage preferences during ontogeny and aging.


BMC Genomics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (S11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shouguo Gao ◽  
Zhijie Wu ◽  
Xingmin Feng ◽  
Sachiko Kajigaya ◽  
Xujing Wang ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Presently, there is no comprehensive analysis of the transcription regulation network in hematopoiesis. Comparison of networks arising from gene co-expression across species can facilitate an understanding of the conservation of functional gene modules in hematopoiesis. Results We used single-cell RNA sequencing to profile bone marrow from human and mouse, and inferred transcription regulatory networks in each species in order to characterize transcriptional programs governing hematopoietic stem cell differentiation. We designed an algorithm for network reconstruction to conduct comparative transcriptomic analysis of hematopoietic gene co-expression and transcription regulation in human and mouse bone marrow cells. Co-expression network connectivity of hematopoiesis-related genes was found to be well conserved between mouse and human. The co-expression network showed “small-world” and “scale-free” architecture. The gene regulatory network formed a hierarchical structure, and hematopoiesis transcription factors localized to the hierarchy’s middle level. Conclusions Transcriptional regulatory networks are well conserved between human and mouse. The hierarchical organization of transcription factors may provide insights into hematopoietic cell lineage commitment, and to signal processing, cell survival and disease initiation.


Cell Reports ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 108424
Author(s):  
Adeleye Opejin ◽  
Alexey Surnov ◽  
Ziva Misulovin ◽  
Michelle Pherson ◽  
Cindy Gross ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 2122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Brown ◽  
Rhodri Ceredig ◽  
Panagiotis Tsapogas

Evidence from studies of the behaviour of stem and progenitor cells and of the influence of cytokines on their fate determination, has recently led to a revised view of the process by which hematopoietic stem cells and their progeny give rise to the many different types of blood and immune cells. The new scenario abandons the classical view of a rigidly demarcated lineage tree and replaces it with a much more continuum-like view of the spectrum of fate options open to hematopoietic stem cells and their progeny. This is in contrast to previous lineage diagrams, which envisaged stem cells progressing stepwise through a series of fairly-precisely described intermediate progenitors in order to close down alternative developmental options. Instead, stem and progenitor cells retain some capacity to step sideways and adopt alternative, closely related, fates, even after they have “made a lineage choice.” The stem and progenitor cells are more inherently versatile than previously thought and perhaps sensitive to lineage guidance by environmental cues. Here we examine the evidence that supports these views and reconsider the meaning of cell lineages in the context of a continuum model of stem cell fate determination and environmental modulation.


2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shohei Murakami ◽  
Ritsuko Shimizu ◽  
Paul-Henri Romeo ◽  
Masayuki Yamamoto ◽  
Hozumi Motohashi

2016 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin’ichiro Yasunaga ◽  
Yoshinori Ohno ◽  
Naoto Shirasu ◽  
Bo Zhang ◽  
Kyoko Suzuki-Takedachi ◽  
...  

Blood ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 110 (11) ◽  
pp. 4869-4869
Author(s):  
Gabriel J. Tsao ◽  
Jessica A. Allen ◽  
Kathryn Logronio ◽  
Laura C. Lazzeroni ◽  
Judith A. Shizuru

Abstract Antigen specific immune responses are known to be impaired following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Some clinical studies suggest that graft T cell depletion for the prevention of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) leads to poorer immune recovery, while other correlate GVHD with delayed immune reconstitution. Our studies sought to examine the degree to which the co-transplantation of GVHD-inducing mature cells mediated protective immunity post-HCT. We compared the transplant of FACS purified hematopoietic stem cells (HSC: cKit+Thy1.1loSca+Lin-) with bone marrow (BM) between congenic (BA to B6Ly5.2), minor-antigen mismatched (BA to BALB.B), haploidentical (BAxSWR F1 to BALB/cxSWR F1) and MHC-mismatched (BA to BALB/c) donor and host pairs. We show that grafts composed solely of purified HSC give uniformly superior lymphoid reconstitution across all mismatched pairs, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Although absolute blood lymphocytes counts were increased in recipients of BM compared to HSC, lymphoid reconstitution as measured by lymph node size, counts and architecture was significantly improved in the HSC groups regardless of minor or major mismatches between donor and host. Proliferative responses to the allele specific peptides of the antigen hen egg lysozyme were also significantly increased in the HSC as compared BM recipients (p=0.028), with fully MHC mismatched BM recipient cells showing almost no proliferative response. The use of MHC allele specific antigens also revealed that T cell responses post-HCT are dominated by donor-restricted elements. These data suggest that subclinical GVHD mediated by mature cells in the donor BM result in impaired immune reconstitution. While there may be an increase in absolute lymphocyte numbers, this increase does not correlate with an increase in immune cell function. These findings provide important insight into the benefits of purified HSC for preventing post-HCT infectious complication in addition to its known GVHD prophylaxis benefits. Our data highlights the benefit of transplanting a pure HSC population, as the relatively small number of T cells that are found in mouse bone marrow or that remain in the graft after T cell depletion in humans can still result in immune impairment due to subclinical GVHD.


Blood ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 122 (21) ◽  
pp. 47-47
Author(s):  
Ting Zhou ◽  
Jennifer Cook ◽  
Xiuli Liu ◽  
Xiaoying Bai

The specification of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in vertebrate embryos is tightly regulated by RNA polymerase II (Pol II)-mediated transcription, which proceeds through multiple steps including initiation/activation, elongation and termination. Increasing evidences in recent years have demonstrated that transcriptionally engaged Pol II often pauses shortly after initiation by pausing factors DSIF and NELF, and its release requires positive elongation factors such as p-TEFb. Little is known about how pausing-to-elongation switch contribute to cell fate determination. In a zebrafish spt5 mutant, we detected a dramatic loss of runx1+ HSCs in the AGM region in 36-hour embryos. Spt5 is an essential subunit of DSIF, which pauses Pol II in early elongation stage but stimulates Pol II elongation upon phosphorylated by p-TEFb. The zebrafish mutant carries a single amino acid change in the Spt5 protein that disrupts the pausing function but leaves the stimulatory function intact, suggesting a requirement of Pol II pausing in HSC formation. Similarly, knocking down the other pausing factor NELF by morpholinos also greatly reduced the number of runx1+ HSCs in zebrafish embryos. This loss of HSCs is not caused by general developmental defects, as markers for vessels and aorta endothelium remain normal in mutants. We further demonstrated that reducing Pol II elongation by either p-TEFb inhibitors or morpholino knockdown of CDK9, the essential subunit of p-TEFb, could rescue the HSC defect in spt5 mutants. The rescue by cdk9 morpholino is dose-dependent. Low-dose morpholino that presumably caused partial knockdown of CDK9 was able to rescue spt5 mutants, whereas high-dose morpholino completely wiped out HSCs in both wild type and mutant embryos. In conclusion, our data suggested that HSC formation during embryonic development requires a balanced transcription that is regulated by both negative and positive elongation factors. Such mechanisms may also be employed in other tissues to regulate cell fate determination. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document