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Nature ; 561(7724): 473-478, 2018 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30185910

RESUMO

Haematopoietic stem cells drive blood production, but their population size and lifetime dynamics have not been quantified directly in humans. Here we identified 129,582 spontaneous, genome-wide somatic mutations in 140 single-cell-derived haematopoietic stem and progenitor colonies from a healthy 59-year-old man and applied population-genetics approaches to reconstruct clonal dynamics. Cell divisions from early embryogenesis were evident in the phylogenetic tree; all blood cells were derived from a common ancestor that preceded gastrulation. The size of the stem cell population grew steadily in early life, reaching a stable plateau by adolescence. We estimate the numbers of haematopoietic stem cells that are actively making white blood cells at any one time to be in the range of 50,000-200,000. We observed adult haematopoietic stem cell clones that generate multilineage outputs, including granulocytes and B lymphocytes. Harnessing naturally occurring mutations to report the clonal architecture of an organ enables the high-resolution reconstruction of somatic cell dynamics in humans.


Assuntos
Células Sanguíneas/citologia , Células Sanguíneas/metabolismo , Linhagem da Célula/genética , Análise Mutacional de DNA , Mutação , Células-Tronco Adultas/citologia , Teorema de Bayes , Contagem de Células , Divisão Celular , Células Clonais/citologia , Células Clonais/metabolismo , Desenvolvimento Embrionário/genética , Genoma Humano/genética , Granulócitos/citologia , Granulócitos/metabolismo , Hematopoese/genética , Células-Tronco Hematopoéticas/citologia , Células-Tronco Hematopoéticas/metabolismo , Humanos , Linfócitos/citologia , Linfócitos/metabolismo , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Fatores de Tempo
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Blood ; 125(8): 1272-81, 2015 Feb 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25499759

RESUMO

The PR-domain (PRDM) family of genes encodes transcriptional regulators, several of which are deregulated in cancer. By using a functional screening approach, we sought to identify novel tumor suppressors among the PRDMs. Here we demonstrate oncogenic collaboration between depletion of the previously uncharacterized PR-domain family member Prdm11 and overexpression of MYC. Overexpression of PRDM11 inhibits proliferation and induces apoptosis. Prdm11 knockout mice are viable, and loss of Prdm11 accelerates MYC-driven lymphomagenesis in the Eµ-Myc mouse model. Moreover, we show that patients with PRDM11-deficient diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCLs) have poorer overall survival and belong to the nongerminal center B-cell-like subtype. Mechanistically, genome-wide mapping of PRDM11 binding sites coupled with transcriptome sequencing in human DLBCL cells evidenced that PRDM11 associates with transcriptional start sites of target genes and regulates important oncogenes such as FOS and JUN. Hence, we characterize PRDM11 as a putative novel tumor suppressor that controls the expression of key oncogenes, and we add new mechanistic insight into B-cell lymphomagenesis.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Transporte/genética , Transformação Celular Neoplásica/genética , Linfoma/genética , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas c-myc/fisiologia , Animais , Células Cultivadas , Embrião de Mamíferos , Deleção de Genes , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica/fisiologia , Técnicas de Inativação de Genes , Células HEK293 , Células HeLa , Humanos , Linfoma/patologia , Linfoma Difuso de Grandes Células B/genética , Camundongos , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Fatores de Transcrição , Proteínas Supressoras de Tumor/genética
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J Cyst Fibros ; 23(5): 885-895, 2024 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38702223

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: Excessive inflammation and recurrent airway infections characterize people with cystic fibrosis (pwCF), a disease with highly heterogeneous clinical outcomes. How the overall immune response is affected in pwCF, its relationships with the lung microbiome, and the source of clinical heterogeneity have not been fully elucidated. METHODS: Peripheral blood and sputum samples were collected from 28 pwCF and an age-matched control group. Systemic immune cell subsets and surface markers were quantified using multiparameter flow cytometry. Lung microbiome composition was reconstructed using metatranscriptomics on sputum samples, and microbial taxa were correlated to circulating immune cells and surface markers expression. RESULTS: In pwCF, we found a specific systemic immune profile characterized by widespread hyperactivation and altered frequencies of several subsets. These included substantial changes in B-cell subsets, enrichment of CD35+/CD49d+ neutrophils, and reduction in dendritic cells. Activation markers and checkpoint molecule expression levels differed from healthy subjects. CTLA-4 expression was increased in Tregs and, together with impaired B-cell subsets, correlated with patients' lung function. Concentrations and frequencies of key immune cells and marker expression correlated with the relative abundance of commensal and pathogenic bacteria in the lungs. CONCLUSION: The CF-specific immune signature, involving hyperactivation, immune dysregulation with alteration in Treg homeostasis, and impaired B-cell function, is a potential source of lung function heterogeneity. The activity of specific microbes contributes to disrupting the balance of the immune response. Our data provide a unique foundation for identifying novel markers and immunomodulatory targets to develop the future of cystic fibrosis treatment and management.


Assuntos
Fibrose Cística , Microbiota , Escarro , Humanos , Fibrose Cística/microbiologia , Fibrose Cística/imunologia , Masculino , Feminino , Escarro/microbiologia , Escarro/imunologia , Microbiota/imunologia , Pulmão/imunologia , Pulmão/microbiologia , Adulto , Testes de Função Respiratória/métodos , Citometria de Fluxo
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Diagnostics (Basel) ; 13(21)2023 Oct 25.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37958202

RESUMO

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods have been introduced for immunoglobulin (IG)/T-cell receptor (TR) gene rearrangement analysis in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and lymphoma (LBL). These methods likely constitute faster and more sensitive approaches to analyze heterogenous cases of ALL/LBL, yet it is not known whether gene rearrangements constituting low percentages of the total sequence reads represent minor subpopulations of malignant cells or background IG/TR gene rearrangements in normal B-and T-cells. In a comparison of eight cases of B-cell precursor ALL (BCP-ALL) using both the EuroClonality NGS method and the IdentiClone multiplex-PCR/gene-scanning method, the NGS method identified between 29% and 139% more markers than the gene-scanning method, depending on whether the NGS data analysis used a threshold of 5% or 1%, respectively. As an alternative to using low thresholds, we show that IG/TR gene rearrangements in subpopulations of cancer cells can be discriminated from background IG/TR gene rearrangements in normal B-and T-cells through a combination of flow cytometry cell sorting and multiple displacement amplification (MDA)-based whole genome amplification (WGA) prior to the NGS. Using this approach to investigate the clonal evolution in a BCP-ALL patient with double relapse, clonal TR rearrangements were found in sorted leukemic cells at the time of second relapse that could be identified at the time of diagnosis, below 1% of the total sequence reads. These data emphasize that caution should be exerted when interpreting rare sequences in NGS experiments and show the advantage of employing the flow sorting of malignant cell populations in NGS clonality assessments.

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Mol Oncol ; 16(10): 2015-2030, 2022 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35271751

RESUMO

Minimal residual disease (MRD) constitutes the most important prognostic factor in B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (BCP-ALL). Flow cytometry is widely used in MRD assessment, yet little is known regarding the effect of different immunophenotypic subsets on outcome. In this study of 200 BCP-ALL patients, we found that a CD34-positive, CD38 dim-positive, nTdT dim-positive immunophenotype on the leukemic blasts was associated with poor induction therapy response and predicted an MRD level at the end of induction therapy (EOI) of ≥ 0.001. CD34 expression was strongly and positively associated with EOI MRD, whereas CD34-negative patients had a low relapse risk. Further, CD34 expression increased from diagnosis to relapse. CD34 is a stemness-associated cell-surface molecule, possibly involved in cell adhesion/migration or survival. Accordingly, genes associated with stemness were overrepresented among the most upregulated genes in CD34-positive leukemias, and protein-protein interaction networks showed an overrepresentation of genes associated with cell migration, cell adhesion, and negative regulation of apoptosis. The present work is the first to demonstrate a CD34-negative immunophenotype as a good prognostic factor in ALL, whereas high CD34 expression is associated with poor therapy response and an altered gene expression profile reminiscent of migrating cancer stem-like cells.


Assuntos
Linfoma de Burkitt , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras , Antígenos CD34 , Moléculas de Adesão Celular/genética , Movimento Celular/genética , Citometria de Fluxo , Humanos , Imunofenotipagem , Quimioterapia de Indução , Neoplasia Residual/diagnóstico , Neoplasia Residual/genética , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras/diagnóstico , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras/tratamento farmacológico , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras/genética , Recidiva
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J Immunol Methods ; 369(1-2): 69-73, 2011 Jun 30.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21570982

RESUMO

Discordances between minimal residual disease estimates obtained by different methods are a problem in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. We aimed to optimize methods allowing the biological exploration of such discrepancies, i.e. the combination of flow-sorting of small immunophenotypically defined cell populations with subsequent analyses of leukemia-associated cytogenetic and molecular marker. The approaches described here optimize the use of the same tube of unfixed, antibody-stained BM cells for flow-sorting of small cell populations and subsequent exploratory FISH and PCR-based analyses.


Assuntos
Medula Óssea/química , Separação Celular/métodos , Citogenética/métodos , Citometria de Fluxo/métodos , Hibridização in Situ Fluorescente/métodos , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase/métodos , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras/imunologia , Medula Óssea/imunologia , Criança , Humanos , Imunoglobulina G/imunologia , Neoplasia Residual/química , Neoplasia Residual/imunologia , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras/genética , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras/patologia , Receptores de Antígenos de Linfócitos T/imunologia
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Cancer Lett ; 262(1): 64-70, 2008 Apr 08.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18180096

RESUMO

A splice variant of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-1 (TIMP-1) mRNA lacking exon 2 (TIMP-1-v2) has been identified in human cancer cells and in colorectal and breast cancer tumors. The purpose of this study was (1) to study the level of full length TIMP-1 and TIMP-1-v2 transcripts in colorectal tumors; (2) to investigate if TIMP-1-v2 is translated to protein. Full length TIMP-1 and TIMP-1-v2 mRNA levels were compared between colorectal tumors and normal mucosa by Q-PCR. Both full length TIMP-1 and TIMP-1-v2 transcripts were upregulated in tumor tissue. However, the level of TIMP-1-v2 relative to full length TIMP-1 was higher in normal compared to tumor tissue. Translation of TIMP-1-v2 to protein was analyzed in CHO cells. In this system, no TIMP-1-v2 protein was produced. Thus, the variant transcript seems to be an untranslated mRNA. These findings suggest that alternative splicing of TIMP-1 pre-mRNA to TIMP-1-v2 mRNA might be involved in regulating TIMP-1 expression.


Assuntos
Adenocarcinoma/genética , Neoplasias Colorretais/genética , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Isoformas de Proteínas , Inibidor Tecidual de Metaloproteinase-1/genética , Adenocarcinoma/metabolismo , Animais , Colo/metabolismo , Neoplasias Colorretais/metabolismo , Cricetinae , Cricetulus , Humanos , Mucosa Intestinal , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Inibidor Tecidual de Metaloproteinase-1/metabolismo
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