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Munje C, Hills RK, Whetton A, Burnett AK, Darley RL, Tonks A. Cord Blood-Derived Quiescent CD34+ Cells Are More Transcriptionally Matched to AML Blasts Than Cytokine-Induced Normal Human Hematopoietic CD34+ Cells. Gene Expr 2015; 16:169-175. [PMID: 26637397 PMCID: PMC5405857 DOI: 10.3727/105221615x14399878166159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is characterized by developmental arrest, which is thought to arise from transcriptional dysregulation of myeloid development programs. Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) isolated from human blood are frequently used as a normal comparator in AML studies. Previous studies have reported changes in the transcriptional program of genes involved in proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, and homing when HSPCs were expanded ex vivo. The intrinsic functional differences between quiescent and dividing CD34+ HSPCs prompted us to determine whether fresh or cytokine-induced cord blood-derived CD34+ HSPCs are a more appropriate normal control compared to AML blasts. Based on principal component analysis and gene expression profiling we demonstrate that CD34+ HSPCs that do not undergo ex vivo expansion are transcriptionally similar to minimally differentiated AML blasts. This was confirmed by comparing the cell cycle status of the AML blasts and the HSPCs. We suggest that freshly isolated CD34+ HSPCs that do not undergo ex vivo expansion would serve as a better control to identify novel transcriptional targets in the AML blast population.
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- Chinmay Munje
- *Department of Haematology, Institute of Cancer and Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- †Cardiff Cancer Genomics Biomedical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- *Department of Haematology, Institute of Cancer and Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- ‡Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, Faculty Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- *Department of Haematology, Institute of Cancer and Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- *Department of Haematology, Institute of Cancer and Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- *Department of Haematology, Institute of Cancer and Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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Kruszewski M, Iwanenko T, Machaj EK, Oldak T, Wojewodzka M, Kapka-Skrzypczak L, Pojda Z. Direct use of the comet assay to study cell cycle distribution and its application to study cell cycle-dependent DNA damage formation. Mutagenesis 2012; 27:551-8. [DOI: 10.1093/mutage/ges018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Santoni de Sio FR, Cascio P, Zingale A, Gasparini M, Naldini L. Proteasome activity restricts lentiviral gene transfer into hematopoietic stem cells and is down-regulated by cytokines that enhance transduction. Blood 2006; 107:4257-65. [PMID: 16469870 PMCID: PMC1464833 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2005-10-4047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The therapeutic potential of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) gene therapy can be fully exploited only by reaching efficient gene transfer into HSCs without compromising their biologic properties. Although HSCs can be transduced by HIV-derived lentiviral vectors (LVs) in short ex vivo culture, they display low permissivity to the vector, requiring cytokine stimulation to reach high-frequency transduction. Using stringent assays of competitive xenograft repopulation, we show that early-acting cytokines synergistically enhanced human HSC gene transfer by LVs without impairing engraftment and repopulation capacity. Using S-phase suicide assays, we show that transduction enhancement by cytokines was not dependent on cell cycle progression and that LVs can transduce quiescent HSCs. Pharmacologic inhibition of the proteasome during transduction dramatically enhanced HSC gene transfer, allowing the reach of very high levels of vector integration in their progeny in vivo. Thus, LVs are effectively restricted at a postentry step by the activity of this proteolytic complex. Unexpectedly, cytokine stimulation rapidly and substantially down-regulated proteasome activity in hematopoietic progenitors, highlighting one mechanism by which cytokines may enhance permissiveness to LV gene transfer. These findings demonstrate that antiviral responses ultimately mediated by proteasomes strongly limit the efficiency of HSC transduction by LVs and establish improved conditions for HSC-based gene therapy.
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Jaatinen T, Hemmoranta H, Hautaniemi S, Niemi J, Nicorici D, Laine J, Yli-Harja O, Partanen J. Global gene expression profile of human cord blood-derived CD133+ cells. Stem Cells 2005; 24:631-41. [PMID: 16210406 DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2005-0185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Human cord blood (CB)-derived CD133+ cells carry characteristics of primitive hematopoietic cells and proffer an alternative for CD34+ cells in hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation. To characterize the CD133+ cell population on a genetic level, a global expression analysis of CD133+ cells was performed using oligonucleotide microarrays. CD133+ cells were purified from four fresh CB units by immunomagnetic selection. All four CD133+ samples showed significant similarity in their gene expression pattern, whereas they differed clearly from the CD133- control samples. In all, 690 transcripts were differentially expressed between CD133+ and CD133- cells. Of these, 393 were increased and 297 were decreased in CD133+ cells. The highest overexpression was noted in genes associated with metabolism, cellular physiological processes, cell communication, and development. A set of 257 transcripts expressed solely in the CD133+ cell population was identified. Colony-forming unit (CFU) assay was used to detect the clonal progeny of precursors present in the studied cell populations. The results demonstrate that CD133+ cells express primitive markers and possess clonogenic progenitor capacity. This study provides a gene expression profile for human CD133+ cells. It presents a set of genes that may be used to unravel the properties of the CD133+ cell population, assumed to be highly enriched in HSCs.
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- Taina Jaatinen
- Finnish Red Cross Blood Service, Kivihaantie 7, 00310 Helsinki, Finland
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Grskovic B, Ruzicka K, Karimi A, Qujeq D, Müller MM. Cell cycle analysis of the CD133+ and CD133- cells isolated from umbilical cord blood. Clin Chim Acta 2004; 343:173-8. [PMID: 15115691 DOI: 10.1016/j.cccn.2004.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2003] [Revised: 01/16/2004] [Accepted: 01/16/2004] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND Umbilical cord blood cells (stem/progenitor cells) exhibit high proliferative capacities leading to a large expansion of cells in appropriate cell culture conditions. The aim of this study was to evaluate by flow cytometry the cycling status of CD133+ and CD133- cells depending on various culture conditions, such as sera, stem cell factor (SCF), interleukin 3 (IL-3) and interleukin 6 (IL-6). METHODS An immunomagnetic system was used for cell separation. CD133+ and CD133- cells were seeded in Iscove's Modified Dulbecco's Medium (IMDM) with different serum concentrations and were stimulated with SCF (100 ng/ml), IL-3 (50 ng/ml) and IL-6 (50 ng/ml). RESULTS Our experiments demonstrated that immediately after separation, 96.75+/-0.58% of CD133+ cells and 97.04+/-1.76% of CD133- cells were in G0/G1-phase, while 2.02+/-0.38% and 0.88+/-0.52% were in the S-phase, respectively. Our data documented that CD133+ cells are more active than CD133- cells after the first week of cultivation (p<0.01). Statistically significant difference was found for CD133+ cells vs. CD133- cells after second week of cultivation in G0/G1- and S-phases under all tested conditions. A combination of 12.5% FCS+12.5% HS yielded the highest cell expansion for CD133+ cells; this was concomitant with highest percentage of S-phase and G2M-phase. Our data show that the medium with 25% HS was the best for cell expansion and cycling of the CD133- cells for the first week, followed by the 12.5% FCS+12.5% HS. After 2 weeks of cultivation, obviously 12.5% HS and 12.5% FCS+12.5% HS exhibited similar S-phase amounts in CD133- cells. A decrease of HS concentrations seemed to stimulate CD133- cells' S-phase after the second week. CONCLUSIONS Our data indicate that the source and the concentration of the serum used for cultivation have an impact on both cell populations: CD133+ cells are most comfortable with a combination of FCS and HS; CD133- cells prefer media-containing HS. Cell cycle status may be an important factor for defining cultivation strategies for stem cell expansion.
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- Branka Grskovic
- Institute of Laboratory Diagnostics, Ludwig Boltzman Institute for Cardio-Thoracic Research, Kaiser Franz Joseph Hospital, Vienna, Austria.
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Ng YY, van Kessel B, Lokhorst HM, Baert MRM, van den Burg CMM, Bloem AC, Staal FJT. Gene-expression profiling of CD34+cells from various hematopoietic stem-cell sources reveals functional differences in stem-cell activity. J Leukoc Biol 2003; 75:314-23. [PMID: 14634063 DOI: 10.1189/jlb.0603287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The replacement of bone marrow (BM) as a conventional source of stem cell (SC) by umbilical cord blood (UCB) and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor-mobilized peripheral blood SC (PBSC) has brought about clinical advantages. However, several studies have demonstrated that UCB CD34(+) cells and PBSC significantly differ from BM CD34(+) cells qualitatively and quantitatively. Here, we quantified the number of SC in purified BM, UCB CD34(+) cells, and CD34(+) PBSC using in vitro and in vivo assays for human hematopoietic SC (HSC) activity. A cobblestone area-forming cell (CAFC) assay showed that UCB CD34(+) cells contained the highest frequency of CAFC(wk6) (3.6- to tenfold higher than BM CD34(+) cells and PBSC, respectively), and the engraftment capacity in vivo by nonobese diabetic/severe combined immunodeficiency repopulation assay was also significantly greater than BM CD34(+), with a higher proportion of CD45(+) cells detected in the recipients at a lower cell dose. To understand the molecular characteristics underlying these functional differences, we performed several DNA microarray experiments using Affymetrix gene chips, containing 12,600 genes. Comparative analysis of gene-expression profiles showed differential expression of 51 genes between BM and UCB CD34(+) SC and 64 genes between BM CD34(+) cells and PBSC. These genes are involved in proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, and engraftment capacity of SC. Thus, the molecular expression profiles reported here confirmed functional differences observed among the SC sources. Moreover, this report provides new insights to describe the molecular phenotype of CD34(+) HSC and leads to a better understanding of the discrepancy among the SC sources.
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- Yuk Yin Ng
- Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Dr. Molewaterplein 50, 3015 GE Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Leone F, Perissinotto E, Cavalloni G, Fonsato V, Bruno S, Surrenti N, Hong D, Capaldi A, Geuna M, Piacibello W, Aglietta M. Expression of the c-ErbB-2/HER2 proto-oncogene in normal hematopoietic cells. J Leukoc Biol 2003; 74:593-601. [PMID: 12960261 DOI: 10.1189/jlb.0203068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The HER2/c-ErbB-2 proto-oncogene is overexpressed in 25-30% of human breast cancers. We previously reported the c-ErbB-2 transcript in mononuclear cells (MNC) from bone marrow (BM), peripheral blood (PB), and mobilized PB (MPB). Here, we describe extensively the expression pattern of c-ErbB-2 mRNA and protein in normal adult hematopoietic tissue and cord blood (CB)-derived cells. Quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction shows that the c-ErbB-2 transcript is expressed in hematopoietic cells at low levels if compared with normal epithelial and breast cancer cells. The c-ErbB-2 protein was detected predominantly in MNC from PB and CB by Western blot analysis. Flow cytometry revealed that CD15+, CD14+, and glycophorin A+ subpopulations express c-ErbB-2 protein, whereas lymphocytes are c-ErbB-2-negative. The c-ErbB-2 expression is higher in CB MNC. More than 90% of BM- and MPB-derived CD34+ progenitors are c-ErbB-2-negative; by contrast, 5-40% of CB-derived CD34+ progenitors express c-ErbB-2. We found that c-ErbB-2 protein is up-regulated during cell-cycle recruitment of progenitor cells. Similarly, it increases in mature, hematopoietic proliferating cells. This study reports the first evidence that the c-ErbB-2 receptor is correlated to the proliferating state of hematopoietic cells. Studies in progress aim to clarify the role of c-ErbB-2 in regulation of this process in hematopoietic tissues.
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- Francesco Leone
- Department of Oncological Sciences, University of Torino Medical School, Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment, IRCC Candiolo, Italy.
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Lapidot T, Kollet O. The essential roles of the chemokine SDF-1 and its receptor CXCR4 in human stem cell homing and repopulation of transplanted immune-deficient NOD/SCID and NOD/SCID/B2m(null) mice. Leukemia 2002; 16:1992-2003. [PMID: 12357350 DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2402684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 326] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2002] [Accepted: 05/23/2002] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Hematopoietic stem cells are identified based on their functional ability to migrate via the blood circulation of transplanted recipients, to home to the host bone marrow and to durably repopulate this organ with high levels of maturing myeloid and lymphoid cells. While a small pool of undifferentiated stem cells with the potential to repeat the entire process in serially transplanted recipients is maintained within the bone marrow, maturing cells are continuously released into the circulation. In recent years pre-clinical, functional in vivo models for human stem cells have been developed, using immune-deficient mice or pre-immune, fetal sheep as recipients. The mechanism of human stem cell migration, homing and repopulation in transplanted immune-deficient NOD/SCID and NOD/SCID/B2m(null) mice as well as the accessory mediators that facilitate these processes, will be reviewed. In particular, the essential roles of the chemokine SDF-1 and its receptor CXCR4 which mediate and regulate stem cell homing and repopulation will be discussed.
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- T Lapidot
- Dept of Immunology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
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We used flow cytometric analysis to determine the cell cycle characteristics of human CD34+ cells from fetal bone marrow (BM), adult BM, and umbilical cord blood (UCB) samples. Fetal BM had three-fold more cells in the S-phase than did adult BM or UCB.
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- J M Koenig
- Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine, P.O. Box 10096, Gainesville, FL 32610-0296, USA.
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