Delas, M. J., Sabin, L. R., Dolzhenko, E., Knott, S. R., Munera Maravilla, E., Jackson, B. T., Wild, S. A., Kovacevic, T., Stork, E. M., Zhou, M., Erard, N., Lee, E., Kelley, D. R., Roth, M., Barbosa, I. S. A., Zuber, J., Rinn, J. L., Smith, A. D., Hannon, G. J. (September 2017) lncRNA requirements for mouse acute myeloid leukemia and normal differentiation. Elife, 6. e25607. ISSN 2050-084x
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Abstract
A substantial fraction of the genome is transcribed in a cell type-specific manner, producing long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), rather than protein-coding transcripts. Here we systematically characterize transcriptional dynamics during hematopoiesis and in hematological malignancies. Our analysis of annotated and de novo assembled lncRNAs showed many are regulated during differentiation and mis-regulated in disease. We assessed lncRNA function via an in vivo RNAi screen in a model of acute myeloid leukemia. This identified several lncRNAs essential for leukemia maintenance, and found that a number act by promoting leukemia stem cell signatures. Leukemia blasts show a myeloid differentiation phenotype when these lncRNAs were depleted, and our data indicates that this effect is mediated via effects on the c-MYC oncogene. Bone marrow reconstitutions showed that a lncRNA expressed across all progenitors was required for the myeloid lineage, whereas the other leukemia-induced lncRNAs were dispensable in the normal setting.
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