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Most patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) express PML-RAR alpha,the fusion product of t(15;17)(q22;q11.2). Transgenic mice expressing PML-RAR alpha develop APL with long latency,low penetrance,and acquired cytogenetic abnormalities. Based on observations that 4% to 10% of APL patients harbor oncogenic ras mutations,we coexpressed oncogenic K-ras from its endogenous promoter with PML-RAR alpha to generate a short-latency,highly penetrant mouse model of APL. The APL disease was characterized by splenomegaly,leukocytosis,extramedullary hematopoiesis (EMH) in spleen and liver with an increased proportion of immature myeloperoxidase-expressing myeloid forms; transplantability to secondary recipients; and lack of cytogenetic abnormalities. Bone marrow cells showed enhanced self-renewal in vitro. This model establishes a role for oncogenic ras in leukemia pathogenesis and thus validates the oncogenic RAS signaling pathway as a potential target for therapeutic inhibition in leukemia patients. This mouse model should be useful for investigating signaling pathways that promote self-renewal in APL and for testing the in vivo efficacy of RAS signaling pathway inhibitors in conjunction with other targeted therapies such as ATRA (all trans retinoic acid) and arsenic trioxide. View Publication

Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) is a broad developmental disease characterized by anemia,bone marrow (BM) erythroblastopenia,and an increased incidence of malignancy. Mutations in ribosomal protein gene S19 (RPS19) are found in approximately 25% of DBA patients; however,the role of RPS19 in the pathogenesis of DBA remains unknown. Using global gene expression analysis,we compared highly purified multipotential,erythroid,and myeloid BM progenitors from RPS19 mutated and control individuals. We found several ribosomal protein genes downregulated in all DBA progenitors. Apoptosis genes,such as TNFRSF10B and FAS,transcriptional control genes,including the erythropoietic transcription factor MYB (encoding c-myb),and translational genes were greatly dysregulated,mostly in diseased erythroid cells. Cancer-related genes,including RAS family oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes,were significantly dysregulated in all diseased progenitors. In addition,our results provide evidence that RPS19 mutations lead to codownregulation of multiple ribosomal protein genes,as well as downregulation of genes involved in translation in DBA cells. In conclusion,the altered expression of cancer-related genes suggests a molecular basis for malignancy in DBA. Downregulation of c-myb expression,which causes complete failure of fetal liver erythropoiesis in knockout mice,suggests a link between RPS19 mutations and reduced erythropoiesis in DBA. View Publication

Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) syndrome is caused by germline mutations in the NF1 tumor suppressor,which encodes neurofibromin,a GTPase activating protein for Ras. Children with NF1 are predisposed to juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) and lethally irradiated mice given transplants with homozygous Nf1 mutant (Nf1-/-) hematopoietic stem cells develop a fatal myeloproliferative disorder (MPD) that models JMML. We investigated the requirement for signaling through the GM-CSF receptor to initiate and sustain this MPD by generating Nf1 mutant hematopoietic cells lacking the common beta chain (Beta c) of the GM-CSF receptor. Mice reconstituted with Nf1-/-,beta c-/- stem cells did not develop evidence of MPD despite the presence of increased number of immature hematopoietic progenitors in the bone marrow. Interestingly,when the Mx1-Cre transgene was used to inactivate a conditional Nf1 mutant allele in hematopoietic cells,concomitant loss of beta c-/- reduced the severity of the MPD,but did not abrogate it. Whereas inhibiting GM-CSF signaling may be of therapeutic benefit in JMML,our data also demonstrate aberrant proliferation of Nf1-/-myeloid progenitors that is independent of signaling through the GM-CSF receptor. View Publication

OBJECTIVE: To determine the response of bone marrow progenitor cells from patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) to culture in physiologic oxygen tension. METHODS: Methylcellulose progenitor assays using both unfractionated bone marrow mononuclear cells (MNCs) and purified CD34(+) progenitors were performed in atmospheric oxygen (18.6% O(2)) or one of two levels of hypoxia (1% and 3% O(2)). Assays were performed using normal donor marrow,MDS patient marrow,acute myelogenous leukemia marrow or peripheral blood blasts,chronic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) marrow MNCs,and blast crisis CML peripheral blood. RESULTS: The majority of MDS samples showed decreased colony-forming units (CFU) in 18.6% O(2) compared to normal controls,as expected. However,in either 1% or 3% O(2),9 of 13 MDS samples demonstrated augmentation of CFUs beyond that observed in normal controls,with 6 of 13 demonstrating a greater than ninefold augmentation. This effect is cell autonomous,as it persisted after purification of CD34(+) progenitor cells. Additionally,the augmented response to physiologic oxygen tension is specific to MDS,as it was not observed in either acute or chronic myelogenous leukemia samples. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that the reported decrease in MDS CFUs reflects greater sensitivity of MDS progenitors or their progeny to the nonphysiologic oxygen tensions routinely used in vitro,rather than a true decrease in progenitor frequency. Importantly,these experiments for the first time describe an experimental system that can be used to study the growth of primary cells from patients with MDS. View Publication

Ligation of erythropoietin (EPO) receptor (EPOR) JAK2 kinase complexes propagates signals within erythroid progenitor cells (EPCs) that are essential for red blood cell production. To reveal hypothesized novel EPOR/JAK2 targets,a phosphotyrosine (PY) phosphoproteomics approach was applied. Beyond known signal transduction factors,32 new targets of EPO-modulated tyrosine phosphorylation were defined. Molecular adaptors comprised one major set including growth factor receptor-bound protein 2 (GRB2)-associated binding proteins 1-3 (GAB1-3),insulin receptor substrate 2 (IRS2),docking protein 1 (DOK1),Src homology 2 domain containing transforming protein 1 (SHC1),and sprouty homologue 1 (SPRY1) as validating targets,and SPRY2,SH2 domain containing 2A (SH2D2A),and signal transducing adaptor molecule 2 (STAM2) as novel candidate adaptors together with an ORF factor designated as regulator of human erythroid cell expansion (RHEX). RHEX is well conserved in Homo sapiens and primates but absent from mouse,rat,and lower vertebrate genomes. Among tissues and lineages,RHEX was elevated in EPCs,occurred as a plasma membrane protein,was rapidly PY-phosphorylated textgreater20-fold upon EPO exposure,and coimmunoprecipitated with the EPOR. In UT7epo cells,knockdown of RHEX inhibited EPO-dependent growth. This was associated with extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1,2 (ERK1,2) modulation,and RHEX coupling to GRB2. In primary human EPCs,shRNA knockdown studies confirmed RHEX regulation of erythroid progenitor expansion and further revealed roles in promoting the formation of hemoglobinizing erythroblasts. RHEX therefore comprises a new EPO/EPOR target and regulator of human erythroid cell expansion that additionally acts to support late-stage erythroblast development. View Publication

Although microbial infections can alter steady-state hematopoiesis,the mechanisms that drive such changes are not well understood. We addressed a role for IFN-γ signaling in infection-induced bone marrow suppression and anemia in a murine model of human monocytic ehrlichiosis,an emerging tick-borne disease. Within the bone marrow of Ehrlichia muris-infected C57BL/6 mice,we observed a reduction in myeloid progenitor cells,as defined both phenotypically and functionally. Infected mice exhibited a concomitant increase in developing myeloid cells within the bone marrow,an increase in the frequency of circulating monocytes,and an increase in splenic myeloid cells. The infection-induced changes in progenitor cell phenotype were critically dependent on IFN-γ,but not IFN-α,signaling. In mice deficient in the IFN-γ signaling pathway,we observed an increase in myeloid progenitor cells and CDllb(lo)Gr1(lo) promyelocytic cells within the bone marrow,as well as reduced frequencies of mature granulocytes and monocytes. Furthermore,E. muris-infected IFN-γR-deficient mice did not exhibit anemia or an increase in circulating monocytes,and they succumbed to infection. Gene transcription studies revealed that IFN-γR-deficient CDllb(lo)Gr1(lo) promyelocytes from E. muris-infected mice exhibited significantly reduced expression of irf-1 and irf-8,both key transcription factors that regulate the differentiation of granulocytes and monocytes. Finally,using mixed bone marrow chimeric mice,we show that IFN-γ-dependent infection-induced myelopoiesis occurs via the direct effect of the cytokine on developing myeloid cells. We propose that,in addition to its many other known roles,IFN-γ acts to control infection by directly promoting the differentiation of myeloid cells that contribute to host defense. View Publication

Because lymphoid progenitors can give rise to natural killer (NK) cells,NK ontogeny has been considered to be exclusively lymphoid. Here,we show that rare human CD34(+) hematopoietic progenitors develop into NK cells in vitro in the presence of cytokines (interleukin-7,interleukin-15,stem cell factor,and fms-like tyrosine kinase-3 ligand). Adding hydrocortisone and stromal cells greatly increases the frequency of progenitor cells that give rise to NK cells through the recruitment of myeloid precursors,including common myeloid progenitors and granulocytic-monocytic precursors to the NK-cell lineage. WNT signaling was involved in this effect. Cells at more advanced stages of myeloid differentiation (with increasing expression of CD13 and macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor [M-CSFR]) could also differentiate into NK cells in the presence of cytokines,stroma,and hydrocortisone. NK cells derived from myeloid precursors (CD56(-)CD117(+)M-CSFR(+)) showed more expression of killer immunoglobulin-like receptors,a fraction of killer immunoglobulin-like receptor-positive-expressing cells that lacked NKG2A,a higher cytotoxicity compared with CD56(-)CD117(+)M-CSFR(-) precursor-derived NK cells and thus resemble the CD56(dim) subset of NK cells. Collectively,these studies show that NK cells can be derived from the myeloid lineage. View Publication

Overexpression of high mobility group AT-hook 2 (HMGA2) is found in a number of benign and malignant tumors,including the clonal PIGA(-) cells in 2 cases of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) and some myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs),and recently in hematopoietic cell clones resulting from gene therapy procedures. In nearly all these cases overexpression is because of deletions or translocations that remove the 3' untranslated region (UTR) which contains binding sites for the regulatory micro RNA let-7. We were therefore interested in the effect of HMGA2 overexpression in hematopoietic tissues in transgenic mice (ΔHmga2 mice) carrying a 3'UTR-truncated Hmga2 cDNA. ΔHmga2 mice expressed increased levels of HMGA2 protein in various tissues including hematopoietic cells and showed proliferative hematopoiesis with increased numbers in all lineages of peripheral blood cells,hypercellular bone marrow (BM),splenomegaly with extramedullary erythropoiesis and erythropoietin-independent erythroid colony formation. ΔHmga2-derived BM cells had a growth advantage over wild-type cells in competitive repopulation and serial transplantation experiments. Thus overexpression of HMGA2 leads to proliferative hematopoiesis with clonal expansion at the stem cell and progenitor levels and may account for the clonal expansion in PNH and MPNs and in gene therapy patients after vector insertion disrupts the HMGA2 locus. View Publication

In human B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL),RAG1-induced genomic alterations are important for disease progression. However,given that biallelic loss of the RAG1 locus is observed in a subset of cases,RAG1's role in the development of B-ALL remains unclear. We chose a p19Arf(-/-)Rag1(-/-) mouse model to confirm the previously published results concerning the contribution of CDKN2A (p19ARF /INK4a) and RAG1 copy number alterations in precursor B cells to the initiation and/or progression to B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). In this murine model,we identified a new,Rag1-independent leukemia-initiating mechanism originating from a Sca1(+)CD19(+) precursor cell population and showed that Notch1 expression accelerates the cells' self-renewal capacity in vitro. In human RAG1-deficient BM,a similar CD34(+)CD19(+) population expressed p19ARF. These findings suggest that combined loss of p19Arf and Rag1 results in B-cell precursor leukemia in mice and may contribute to the progression of precursor B-ALL in humans. View Publication

To study the role of the murine heat-stable Ag (HSA) in lymphocyte maturation,we generated transgenic mice in which the HSA cDNA was under the transcriptional control of the TCR V beta promoter and Ig mu enhancer. The HSA transgene was expressed during all stages of B lymphocyte maturation. Expression was first detected in the earliest lymphoid-committed progenitors,which normally do not express HSA,and subsequently reached the highest levels in pro- and pre-B cells. In bone marrow,the number of IL-7-responsive clonogenic progenitors was textless 4% of normal,whereas the frequency of earlier B lymphocyte-restricted precursors,detectable as Whitlock-Witte culture-initiating cells,was normal. Pro- and pre-B cells detected by flow cytometry were reduced by approximately 50% relative to controls. Mature splenic B cells were also reduced but to a lesser extent than in marrow,and their response to LPS stimulation was impaired. Reconstitution of SCID and BALB/c-nu/nu mice with HSA transgenic marrow indicated that the perturbations in B lymphopoiesis were not caused by a defective marrow microenvironment or by abnormal T cells. Our previous studies showed elevated HSA expression throughout thymocyte development,which resulted in a profound depletion of CD4+CD8+ double-positive and single-positive thymocytes. Together,these results indicate that HSA levels can determine the capacity of early T and B lymphoid progenitors to proliferate and survive. Therefore,HSA could serve as an important regulator during the early stages of B and T lymphopoiesis. View Publication

Deregulation of the Janus kinase/signal transducers and activators of transcription (JAK/STAT) signaling pathway is found in cancer with STAT5A/B controlling leukemic cell survival and disease progression. As mutations in STAT5B,but not STAT5A,have been frequently described in hematopoietic tumors,we used BCR/ABL as model systems to investigate the contribution of STAT5A or STAT5B for leukemogenesis. The absence of STAT5A decreased cell survival and colony formation. Even more drastic effects were observed in the absence of STAT5B. STAT5B-deficient cells formed BCR/ABL+ colonies or stable cell lines at low frequency. The rarely evolving Stat5b-/- cell lines expressed enhanced levels of BCR/ABL oncoprotein compared to wild-type cells. In line,Stat5b-/- leukemic cells induced leukemia with a significantly prolonged disease onset,whereas Stat5a-/- cells rapidly caused a fatal disease superimposable to wild-type cells. RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) profiling revealed a marked enhancement of interferon (IFN)-alpha and IFN-gamma signatures in Stat5b-/- cells. Inhibition of IFN responses rescued BCR/ABL+ colony formation of Stat5b-/--deficient cells. A downregulated IFN response was also observed in patients suffering from leukemia carrying STAT5B mutations. Our data define STAT5B as major STAT5 isoform driving BCR/ABL+ leukemia. STAT5B enables transformation by suppressing IFN-alpha/gamma,thereby facilitating leukemogenesis. Our findings might help explain the high frequency of STAT5B mutations in hematopoietic tumors. View Publication