GSE254285 T cell Immune Escape in Blast Crisis Transformation of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

Contributors : Bin Zhang ; Min-Hsuan ChenSeries Type : Expression profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Mus musculusChronic myeloid leukemia (CML) may transform from a chronic phase (CP) into blast crisis (BC), which is often incurable. Herein, we report that miR-142 deficit acquired by T lymphocytes contributes to BC transformation by promoting immune escape. We observe that T cells of BC patients lack miR-142 and are fewer and exhausted compared with CP patients. Similarly, BC miR-142 −/−/BCR/ABL+/+ mouse presents with T lymphopenia compared with the CP miR-142+/+/BCR/ABL+/+ mouse. In the BC mouse, miR-142 deficit impairs thymic differentiation of lymphoid-primed multipotent progenitors (LMPP) into mature T cells and redirects them toward myeloid lineage. The fewer mature T c ells in the BC mouse are enriched with exhausted T effectors. MiR-142 deficit, driven by leukemic blasts-secreted inflammatory cytokines (i.e., IL-6), induces T cell hypofunction by preventing the metabolic reprogramming that allows activated T cells to thrive and expand. This ultimately results in an increase in T cell spontaneous apoptosis and BC immune escape. In fact, NSG mice transplanted with BC CML LSKs and miR-142 KO T cells had shorter survival than mice transplanted with BC CML LSKs and miR-142 wild-typewt T cells. Conversely, BC patient-derived xenograft (PDX) mice receiving autolog ous T cells and synthetic miR-142 lived longer than those receiving autologous T cells and s...
Source: GEO: Gene Expression Omnibus - Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing Mus musculus Source Type: research