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Cell Rep ; 43(4): 114031, 2024 Apr 23.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38583153

RESUMO

Outer radial glia (oRG) emerge as cortical progenitor cells that support the development of an enlarged outer subventricular zone (oSVZ) and the expansion of the neocortex. The in vitro generation of oRG is essential to investigate the underlying mechanisms of human neocortical development and expansion. By activating the STAT3 signaling pathway using leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), which is not expressed in guided cortical organoids, we define a cortical organoid differentiation method from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) that recapitulates the expansion of a progenitor pool into the oSVZ. The oSVZ comprises progenitor cells expressing specific oRG markers such as GFAP, LIFR, and HOPX, closely matching human fetal oRG. Finally, incorporating neural crest-derived LIF-producing cortical pericytes into cortical organoids recapitulates the effects of LIF treatment. These data indicate that increasing the cellular complexity of the organoid microenvironment promotes the emergence of oRG and supports a platform to study oRG in hPSC-derived brain organoids routinely.


Assuntos
Diferenciação Celular , Ventrículos Laterais , Fator Inibidor de Leucemia , Organoides , Células-Tronco Pluripotentes , Humanos , Organoides/metabolismo , Organoides/citologia , Fator Inibidor de Leucemia/metabolismo , Fator Inibidor de Leucemia/farmacologia , Células-Tronco Pluripotentes/metabolismo , Células-Tronco Pluripotentes/citologia , Ventrículos Laterais/citologia , Ventrículos Laterais/metabolismo , Fator de Transcrição STAT3/metabolismo , Neuroglia/metabolismo , Neuroglia/citologia , Transdução de Sinais
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Cell Death Differ ; 29(3): 614-626, 2022 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34845371

RESUMO

High Grade Serous Ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is a major unmet need in oncology, due to its precocious dissemination and the lack of meaningful human models for the investigation of disease pathogenesis in a patient-specific manner. To overcome this roadblock, we present a new method to isolate and grow single cells directly from patients' metastatic ascites, establishing the conditions for propagating them as 3D cultures that we refer to as single cell-derived metastatic ovarian cancer spheroids (sMOCS). By single cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) we define the cellular composition of metastatic ascites and trace its propagation in 2D and 3D culture paradigms, finding that sMOCS retain and amplify key subpopulations from the original patients' samples and recapitulate features of the original metastasis that do not emerge from classical 2D culture, including retention of individual patients' specificities. By enabling the enrichment of uniquely informative cell subpopulations from HGSOC metastasis and the clonal interrogation of their diversity at the functional and molecular level, this method provides a powerful instrument for precision oncology in ovarian cancer.


Assuntos
Ascite , Neoplasias Ovarianas , Ascite/genética , Ascite/patologia , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Feminino , Humanos , Neoplasias Ovarianas/patologia , Medicina de Precisão , Esferoides Celulares/patologia
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Genome Med ; 12(1): 94, 2020 10 30.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33121525

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is a major unmet need in oncology. The remaining uncertainty on its originating tissue has hampered the discovery of molecular oncogenic pathways and the development of effective therapies. METHODS: We used an approach based on the retention in tumors of a DNA methylation trace (OriPrint) that distinguishes the two putative tissues of origin of HGSOC, the fimbrial (FI) and ovarian surface epithelia (OSE), to stratify HGSOC by several clustering methods, both linear and non-linear. The identified tumor subtypes (FI-like and OSE-like HGSOC) were investigated at the RNAseq level to stratify an in-house cohort of macrodissected HGSOC FFPE samples to derive overall and disease-free survival and identify specific transcriptional alterations of the two tumor subtypes, both by classical differential expression and weighted correlation network analysis. We translated our strategy to published datasets and verified the co-occurrence of previously described molecular classification of HGSOC. We performed cytokine analysis coupled to immune phenotyping to verify alterations in the immune compartment associated with HGSOC. We identified genes that are both differentially expressed and methylated in the two tumor subtypes, concentrating on PAX8 as a bona fide marker of FI-like HGSOC. RESULTS: We show that: - OriPrint is a robust DNA methylation tracer that exposes the tissue of origin of HGSOC. - The tissue of origin of HGSOC is the main determinant of DNA methylation variance in HGSOC. - The tissue of origin is a prognostic factor for HGSOC patients. - FI-like and OSE-like HGSOC are endowed with specific transcriptional alterations that impact patients' prognosis. - OSE-like tumors present a more invasive and immunomodulatory phenotype, compatible with its worse prognostic impact. - Among genes that are differentially expressed and regulated in FI-like and OSE-like HGSOC, PAX8 is a bona fide marker of FI-like tumors. CONCLUSIONS: Through an integrated approach, our work demonstrates that both FI and OSE are possible origins for human HGSOC, whose derived subtypes are both molecularly and clinically distinct. These results will help define a new roadmap towards rational, subtype-specific therapeutic inroads and improved patients' care.


Assuntos
Cistadenocarcinoma Seroso/genética , Cistadenocarcinoma Seroso/patologia , Epigênese Genética , Neoplasias Ovarianas/genética , Neoplasias Ovarianas/patologia , Metilação de DNA , Feminino , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Humanos , Imunomodulação , Gradação de Tumores , Fenótipo , Prognóstico , Estudos Retrospectivos , Transcriptoma
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Int J Mol Sci ; 20(15)2019 Jul 25.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31349607

RESUMO

Molecular mechanisms governing cell fate decision events in bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) are still poorly understood. Herein, we investigated the homeobox gene Prep1 as a candidate regulatory molecule, by adopting Prep1 hypomorphic mice as a model to investigate the effects of Prep1 downregulation, using in vitro and in vivo assays, including the innovative single cell RNA sequencing technology. Taken together, our findings indicate that low levels of Prep1 are associated to enhanced adipogenesis and a concomitant reduced osteogenesis in the bone marrow, suggesting Prep1 as a potential regulator of the adipo-osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stromal cells. Furthermore, our data suggest that in vivo decreased Prep1 gene dosage favors a pro-adipogenic phenotype and induces a "browning" effect in all fat tissues.


Assuntos
Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Proteínas de Homeodomínio/genética , Células-Tronco Mesenquimais/citologia , Células-Tronco Mesenquimais/metabolismo , Adipogenia/genética , Tecido Adiposo/diagnóstico por imagem , Tecido Adiposo/metabolismo , Animais , Medula Óssea/diagnóstico por imagem , Medula Óssea/metabolismo , Diferenciação Celular/genética , Biologia Computacional/métodos , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Sequenciamento de Nucleotídeos em Larga Escala , Proteínas de Homeodomínio/metabolismo , Camundongos , Osteogênese/genética , Análise de Célula Única , Microtomografia por Raio-X
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Sci Rep ; 7(1): 15573, 2017 Nov 14.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29138456

RESUMO

Transcriptional regulators are crucial in adipocyte differentiation. We now show that the homeodomain-containing transcription factor Prep1 is a repressor of adipogenic differentiation since its down-regulation (DR) in both ex vivo bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) and in vitro 3T3-L1 preadipocytes significantly increases their adipogenic differentiation ability. Prep1 acts at a stage preceding the activation of the differentiation machinery because its DR makes cells more prone to adipogenic differentiation even in the absence of the adipogenic inducers. Prep1 DR expands the DNA binding landscape of C/EBPß (CCAAT enhancer binding protein ß) without affecting its expression or activation. The data indicate that Prep1 normally acts by restricting DNA binding of transcription factors to adipogenic enhancers, in particular C/EBPß.


Assuntos
Adipogenia/genética , Proteína beta Intensificadora de Ligação a CCAAT/genética , Diferenciação Celular/genética , Proteínas de Homeodomínio/genética , Células 3T3-L1 , Adipócitos/citologia , Adipócitos/metabolismo , Animais , Células da Medula Óssea/citologia , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Elementos Facilitadores Genéticos/genética , Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento/genética , Humanos , Células-Tronco Mesenquimais/citologia , Células-Tronco Mesenquimais/patologia , Camundongos
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