Some infectious agents are associated with non-Hodgkin lymphoma development. Here we have used p53-deficient mice chronically injected with Streptococcus pneumoniae (Spn) with the aim to develop an animal model of infection-associated lymphomagenesis. We show that repeated stimulations with heat-killed Spn significantly enhanced the incidence of peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) in these mice. Phenotypic studies and gene expression profile analyses indicate that these PTCL arose from chronically stimulated natural killer T (NKT) cells, a T cell lineage that exhibits unique properties. Furthermore, lymphoma development was blocked when these PTCL were transferred to recipients lacking CD1d expression or treated with blocking CD1d mAbs, thus demonstrating that in vivo TCR/CD1d interactions are required for these PTCL survival. In conclusion, we have identified a new entity of peripheral T-cell lymphoma that originates from CD1d-restricted natural killer T (NKT) cells. Our results could refine the classification of PTCL and pave the way for the development of new immunotherapeutic approaches.
CD1d-restricted peripheral T cell lymphoma in mice and humans.
Age, Specimen part
View SamplesIdentification of genetic polymorphisms associated with inter-individual variation in immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
Deciphering the genetic architecture of variation in the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
Sex
View SamplesDNA methylation is an epigenetic mark thought to be robust to environmental perturbations on a short time scale. Here, we challenge that view by demonstrating that the infection of human dendritic cells with a live pathogenic bacteria is associated with rapid changes in methylation levels at thousands of loci. We performed an integrated analysis of data on genome-wide DNA methylation, histone mark patterns, chromatin accessibility, and gene expression, before and after infection. We found that infection-induced changes in methylation rarely occur at promoter regions and instead localize to distal enhancer elements. Active demethylation is associated with extensive epigenetic remodeling, including the gain of histone activation marks and the induction of enhancer RNAs, and is strongly predictive of changes in the expression levels of nearby genes. Collectively, our observations show that active, rapid changes in DNA methylation in enhancers play a previously unappreciated role in regulating the transcriptional response of immune cells to infection. Overall design: Transcriptional profiles (polyA+) of 6 non-infected and 6 MTB-infected dendritic cell samples.
Bacterial infection remodels the DNA methylation landscape of human dendritic cells.
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View SamplesWe used microarrays to compared gene expression profilings in various tumors of the kidney.
Balanced Translocations Disrupting SMARCB1 Are Hallmark Recurrent Genetic Alterations in Renal Medullary Carcinomas.
Specimen part
View SamplesWe used microarrays to detail the global gene expression signature of PDAC and to identify distinct up- and down-regulated transcripts in these tumors compared to control pancreas. We also established from this dataset the metabolic signature of PDAC in order to define new metabolic therapeutic target for pancreatic cancer.
Cholesterol uptake disruption, in association with chemotherapy, is a promising combined metabolic therapy for pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
Sex, Age, Specimen part
View SamplesAlthough anemia is common in Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS), the underlying mechanism remains unclear. We asked whether SBDS, which is mutated in most SDS patients, is critical for erythroid development. We found that SBDS expression is high early during erythroid differentiation. Inhibition of SBDS in CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells and early progenitors (HSC/Ps) and K562 cells led to slow cell expansion during erythroid differentiation. Induction of erythroid differentiation resulted in markedly accelerated apoptosis in the knockdown cells; however, proliferation was only mildly reduced. The percentage of cells entering differentiation was not reduced.
The ribosome-related protein, SBDS, is critical for normal erythropoiesis.
Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage
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Genome-wide screen of cell-cycle regulators in normal and tumor cells identifies a differential response to nucleosome depletion.
Specimen part, Cell line
View SamplesGene-expression in siRNA treated U2OS and hTERT-RPE1 cells showed that CASP8AP2, NPAT and HINFP do not regulate expression of each other, and do not have any common target genes, except histones. Most histone genes are downregulated in U2OS cells following loss of CASP8AP2, NPAT or HINFP. In normal cells, highly-expressed histone genes were downregulated, albeit less than in tumor cells following loss of CASP8AP2. The p53 target genes were upregulated relatively late, clearly after the changes in expression of histone genes were observed.
Genome-wide screen of cell-cycle regulators in normal and tumor cells identifies a differential response to nucleosome depletion.
Cell line
View SamplesOverexpression of human progastrin (hGAS) in mice has been observed to increase colonic mucosa proliferation significantly,
Progastrin stimulates colonic cell proliferation via CCK2R- and β-arrestin-dependent suppression of BMP2.
Sex, Age, Specimen part
View SamplesTF binding clusters in promoter correlate well with gene expression. We used ChIP-seq to map binding sites of the majority of highly expressed TFs in the cell. The size of clusters of TFs in the promoters of genes were found to correlate well with gene expression.
Transcription factor binding in human cells occurs in dense clusters formed around cohesin anchor sites.
Cell line
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