Although mutations in Kras are present in 21% of lung tumors, there is a high level of heterogeneity in phenotype and outcomes amongst lung cancer patients suggesting the importance of other pathways. Wnt/-catenin signaling is a known oncogenic pathway that plays a well defined role in colon and skin cancer but its role in lung cancer remains unclear. We show that activation of Wnt/-catenin in the bronchiolar epithelium of the adult lung does not promote tumor development by itself. However, activation of Wnt/- catenin signaling leads to a dramatic increase in tumor formation both in overall tumor number and size compared to KrasG12D alone. We show that activation of Wnt/- catenin signaling significantly alters the KrasG12D tumor phenotype resulting in a phenotypic switch from bronchiolar epithelium to the highly proliferative distal progenitors found in the embryonic lung. This is associated with a decrease in E- cadherin expression at the cell surface which may increase metastasis in Wnt/-catenin signaling positive tumors. Together, these data suggest that activation of Wnt/-catenin signaling in combination with other oncogenic pathways in lung epithelium may lead to a more aggressive phenotype due to the imposition of an embryonic distal progenitor phenotype accompanied by decreased E-cadherin expression.
Wnt/β-catenin signaling accelerates mouse lung tumorigenesis by imposing an embryonic distal progenitor phenotype on lung epithelium.
Sex, Age, Specimen part
View SamplesExpression profiling of thymic lymphomas derived from HIF1a+/+, p53R270H/R270H; HIF1a+/-, p53R270H/R270H; and HIF1aKI/+, p53R270H/R270H mice.
Heterozygosity for hypoxia inducible factor 1alpha decreases the incidence of thymic lymphomas in a p53 mutant mouse model.
Age
View SamplesNon-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. The oxygen-sensitive Hypoxia Inducible Factor (HIF) transcriptional regulators HIF-1 and HIF-2 are overexpressed in many human NSCLCs, and constitutive HIF-2 activity can promote murine lung tumor progression, suggesting that HIF proteins may be effective NSCLC therapeutic targets. To investigate the consequences of inhibiting HIF activity in lung cancers, we deleted Hif-1 or Hif-2 in an established KrasG12D-driven murine NSCLC model. Deletion of Hif-1 had no obvious effect on tumor growth, whereas Hif-2 deletion resulted in an unexpected increase in tumor burden that correlated with reduced expression of the candidate tumor suppressor gene Scgb3a1 (HIN-1).
HIF-2alpha deletion promotes Kras-driven lung tumor development.
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Mapping and analysis of chromatin state dynamics in nine human cell types.
Disease, Cell line
View SamplesChromatin profiling has emerged as a powerful means for annotating genomic elements and detecting regulatory activity. Here we generate and analyze a compendium of epigenomic maps for nine chromatin marks across nine cell types, in order to systematically characterize cis-regulatory elements, their cell type-specificities, and their functional interactions. We first identify recurrent combinations of histone modifications and use them to annotate diverse regulatory elements including promoters, enhancers, transcripts and insulators in each cell type. We next characterize the dynamics of these elements, revealing meaningful patterns of activity for promoter states and exquisite cell type-selectivity for enhancer states. We define multi-cell activity profiles that reflect the patterns of enhancer state activity across cell types, as well as analogous profiles for gene expression, regulatory motif enrichments, and expression of the corresponding regulators. We use correlations between these profiles to link enhancers to putative target genes, to infer cell type-specific activators and repressors, and to predict and validate functional regulator binding motifs in specific chromatin states. These functional annotations and regulatory predictions enable us to revisit intergenic single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with human disease in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). We find that for several diseases, top-scoring SNPs are precisely positioned within enhancer elements specifically active in relevant cell types. In several cases a disease variant affects a motif instance for one of the predicted causal regulators, thus providing a potential mechanistic explanation for the disease association. Our study presents a general framework for applying multi-cell chromatin state analysis to decipher cis-regulatory connections and their role in health and disease.
Mapping and analysis of chromatin state dynamics in nine human cell types.
Cell line
View SamplesThe goals of this study are to compare transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq) of patients BM with or without ASXL2 mutations. Overall design: Patient bone marrow mRNA profiles with or without ASXL1/2 mutations were generated by deep sequencing
ASXL2 is essential for haematopoiesis and acts as a haploinsufficient tumour suppressor in leukemia.
Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesThe goals of this study are to compare transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq) of Asxl2 KO LSK cells to that of Asxl2 wild-type cells. We found substantial number of genes are differentially expressed in Asxl2 KO cells. Overall design: LSK mRNA profiles of Asxl2-/- mice and Asxl2wt/wt (WT) were generated by deep sequencing, in triplicate, using Illumina GAIIx.
ASXL2 is essential for haematopoiesis and acts as a haploinsufficient tumour suppressor in leukemia.
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject, Compound
View SamplesAnalysis of musashi2 contribution towards maintaing myelodysplastic phenotype in stem cells. We find that musashi2 plays an integral role in maintaining the myelodysplastic phenotype Overall design: Control, NUP98-HOXD13; NHD13, NHD13/MSI2 bone marrow was transplated allowed to engraft into lethally irradiated congenic CD45.1 animals. Mice were then fed doxycycline to induce MSI2 overexpression. Mice were induced for 3 months and then CD45.2 Lineage lo Sca1+ and Kit+ cells were sorted and then assessed for gene expression.
MSI2 is required for maintaining activated myelodysplastic syndrome stem cells.
Age, Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesDNMT3A mutations are observed in myeloid malignancies, including myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Here we investigated the impact of conditional hematopoietic Dnmt3a loss on disease phenotype in primary mice. Dnmt3a ablation led to a lethal, fully penetrant myeloproliferative neoplasm with myelodysplasia (MDS/MPN) characterized by marked, progressive hepatomegaly that was transplantable. We detected expanded stem/progenitor populations in the liver of Dnmt3a-ablated mice. Homing studies showed that Dnmt3a-deleted bone marrow cells preferentially migrated to the liver. Hence, in addition to the established role of Dnmt3a in regulating self-renewal, Dnmt3a regulates tissue tropism and limits myeloid progenitor expansion in vivo. Overall design: Dnmt3af/f mice (Nguyen et al) were crossed into hematopoietic-specific inducible Mx1-Cre deletor line; we examined transcriptomes from FACS-sorted LSK and GMP populations from Dnmt3af/f Mx1-Cre+ (KO) and Dnmt3af/f Mx1-Cre- (CTRL) animals at 12 months of age
Dnmt3a regulates myeloproliferation and liver-specific expansion of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells.
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesHematopoietic progenitor and stem cells from bone marrow have been sorted by FACS (LSK, Lineage -, Sca1 + and cKit +) and co-culture during 18h without cytokines with or without extracellular vesicles (EV) secreted by AFT stromal cells.
Extracellular vesicles of stromal origin target and support hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells.
Specimen part
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