Mechanisms of granulocyte homeostasis

粒细胞稳态机制

• 批准号: 9263013
• 负责人: H. LEIGHTON GRIMES
• 金额: $ 39万
• 依托单位: CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-01 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9263013
• 关键词: Alleles; Bioinformatics; Biological; Biology; Bone Marrow; Cells; Cessation of life; Clinical; Complement; Complex; DNA Sequence Alteration; Data; Dysmyelopoietic Syndromes; Extravasation; Failure; Feedback; Foundations; Gene Expression Profile; Genes; Genetic; Genetic Transcription; Granulopoiesis; Growth Factor; Half-Life; Hematopoietic; Heterogeneity; Homeostasis; Human; IFN consensus sequence binding protein; Immune; Individual; Infection; Investigation; Knowledge; Marrow; Mediating; Minority; Modernization; Molecular; Mus; Mutation; Myelogenous; Myeloproliferative disease; Neonatal; Neutropenia; Neutrophilia; Patients; Pattern; Phenotype; Process; Production; Repression; Risk; Sampling; Stress; Sum; Time; Tissues; Transcriptional Regulation; Work; cytokine; experimental study; gain of function; genome sequencing; granulocyte; gut microbiome; in vivo; insight; loss of function; man; monocyte; mouse model; neutrophil; progenitor; programs; public health relevance; single cell analysis; transcription factor; transcriptome; transcriptome sequencing

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Understanding granulocyte homeostasis is crucial because producing too few granulocytes results in increased risk for infection (neutropenia), while producing too many granulocytes can result in severe tissue damage and death (neutrophilia, myeloproliferative disorders). Current knowledge illustrates many factors that can modify granulocyte versus monocyte production; however, we still do not understand a fundamental question: which specific factors control the granulocyte-monocyte lineage decision during homeostatic production in vivo? To discern the transcriptional network underlying the binary fate decision between neutrophil granulocyte and monocyte lineage decisions as they occur at steady state (homeostatic control), we have performed single-cell RNA-seq on bone-marrow granulocyte-monocyte progenitors (GMP). Our bioinformatic analyses reveal a varied, but coherent spectrum of gene expression patterns in individual murine GMPs. The majority of cells could be clustered into ones expressing either granulocytic or monocytic genes, suggesting that they were primed for lineage determination. A minority of GMPs expressed a mixed-lineage pattern of genes. Deeper analyses of the single-cell data implicate the repression of a key requisite factor for monopoiesis in mice and man (Irf8) by a key requisite factor for granulopoiesis in mice and man (Gfi1) as the central mechanism for homeostatic control of the granulocyte-monocyte lineage decision in vivo. We propose to determine the transcriptional program underlying granulocyte-monocyte lineage fate decisions during homeostasis, and then define the impact of severe congenital neutropenia (SCN)-associated mutations on transcriptional control of granulopoiesis in mice and man. We expect to delineate a cross-species transcriptional signature of granulopoiesis, and define the impact of neutropenic stress.

 描述(由申请人提供)：了解粒细胞动态平衡是至关重要的，因为产生太少的粒细胞会增加感染的风险(中性粒细胞减少症)，而产生太多的粒细胞会导致严重的组织损伤和死亡(中性粒细胞增多症、骨髓增生性疾病)。目前的知识阐明了许多可以改变粒细胞和单核细胞产生的因素；然而，我们仍然不了解一个基本问题：在体内体内平衡产生过程中，哪些特定因素控制着粒细胞-单核细胞谱系的决定？为了弄清中性粒细胞和单核细胞在稳态(稳态对照)时的二元命运决定背后的转录网络，我们对骨髓粒细胞-单核细胞前体细胞(GMP)进行了单细胞RNA-SEQ。我们的生物信息学分析揭示了单个小鼠GMP基因表达模式的不同但连贯的谱。大多数细胞可以聚集成表达粒细胞或单核细胞基因的细胞，这表明它们已经为谱系确定做好了准备。少数GMP表达基因的混合谱系模式。对单细胞数据的深入分析表明，小鼠和人单核细胞系决定的动态平衡控制的中心机制是抑制小鼠和人单核细胞生成的关键必需因子(IRF8)。我们建议确定在动态平衡期间决定粒细胞-单核细胞系命运的转录程序，然后确定严重的先天性中性粒细胞减少症(SCN)相关突变对小鼠和人类粒细胞生成的转录控制的影响。我们期望描绘出粒细胞生成的跨物种转录特征，并确定中性粒细胞减少应激的影响。