Masayuki Yamashita , Jingjing Li , Vu L. Tran , Myriam L.R. Haltalli , Shannon McKinney-Freeman , Toshio Suda
{"title":"Balancing hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and differentiation activities throughout ontogeny and aging","authors":"Masayuki Yamashita , Jingjing Li , Vu L. Tran , Myriam L.R. Haltalli , Shannon McKinney-Freeman , Toshio Suda","doi":"10.1016/j.exphem.2025.104820","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exphem.2025.104820","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>During fetal development, lifelong hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) emerge from hemogenic endothelium as a part of the intra-arterial hematopoietic clusters. These definitive HSCs are deemed to colonize and expand in the fetal liver, migrate to the bone marrow, and produce mature blood cells throughout life. However, emerging lines of evidence have challenged this paradigm, and alternative models have been proposed. Moreover, recent studies have revealed expansion of HSCs during aging, which seems counterintuitive to their age-dependent reduction in regenerative capacity. Here, we summarize emerging views on hematopoietic ontogeny and aging, which was the focus of the Summer 2024 International Society for Experimental Hematology (ISEH) webinar.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12202,"journal":{"name":"Experimental hematology","volume":"149 ","pages":"Article 104820"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144208072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peposertib suppresses generation of FLT3-internal tandem duplication formed by contralateral double nicks","authors":"Shota Yoshida , Masahiro Onozawa , Shota Yokoyama , Toshihiro Matsukawa , Hideki Goto , Shinsuke Hirabayashi , Takeshi Kondo , Daigo Hashimoto , Yasuhito Onodera , Takanori Teshima","doi":"10.1016/j.exphem.2025.104819","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exphem.2025.104819","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fms-like tyrosine kinase 3-internal tandem duplication (<em>FLT3</em>-ITD) is the most frequent gene mutation in acute myeloid leukemia. The consequences of <em>FLT3</em>-ITD have been analyzed in detail; however, the molecular mechanisms underlying the generation of <em>FLT3-ITD</em> remain to be elucidated. We analyzed <em>FLT3</em>-ITDs in clinical samples using deep sequencing and identified not only oligoclonal ITDs but also rare deletion clones clustered at the palindrome-like sequence at <em>FLT3</em> exon 14. We hypothesized that <em>FLT3</em> exon 14 is genetically unstable due to the palindrome-like sequence at the region and that genomic damage at the site initiates <em>FLT3</em>-ITD formation. We used clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 to induce DNA damage for creating artificial <em>FLT3</em>-ITDs in human and mouse cell lines. We found that double nicks on the adjacent contralateral strand most efficiently generate ITDs. The artificial ITDs resembled clinical ITDs in the length distribution and characteristics at the joint. We further compared the inhibitory effects of olaparib and peposertib, specific inhibitors of single-strand break (SSB) and double-strand break (DSB) repair, respectively. Peposertib remarkably reduced ITD formation, but olaparib did not affect the mutation pattern. The findings indicated that nonhomologous end joining has a crucial role in the generation of ITDs. Our data shed light to the new role of peposertib, which potentially suppresses the generation of de novo <em>FLT3</em>-ITDs caused by mis-repair events of the DNA damages in a clinical course.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12202,"journal":{"name":"Experimental hematology","volume":"149 ","pages":"Article 104819"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144208073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Françoise Levavasseur , Samia Oussous , Alessandro Framarini , Ismael Boussaid , Panhong Gou , Zubaidan Tuerdi , Iman Litchy Boueya , Helyette Hoffner , Marta De Almeida , Morgane Le Gall , Haley Tucker , Stéphane Giraudier , Didier Bouscary , Michaela Fontenay , Diana Passaro , Isabelle Dusanter-Fourt , Evelyne Lauret
{"title":"FOXP1 contributes to murine hematopoietic stem cell functionality","authors":"Françoise Levavasseur , Samia Oussous , Alessandro Framarini , Ismael Boussaid , Panhong Gou , Zubaidan Tuerdi , Iman Litchy Boueya , Helyette Hoffner , Marta De Almeida , Morgane Le Gall , Haley Tucker , Stéphane Giraudier , Didier Bouscary , Michaela Fontenay , Diana Passaro , Isabelle Dusanter-Fourt , Evelyne Lauret","doi":"10.1016/j.exphem.2025.104815","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exphem.2025.104815","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Transcription factor forkhead box P1 (FOXP1) is a key regulator of immune cell functions. We have shown that FOXP1 contributes to the expansion of human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell (HSPC) and acute myeloid leukemia cells. Here, we investigated the role of FOXP1 in early adult mouse hematopoiesis in vivo. We showed that loss of hematopoietic-specific FOXP1 expression leads to attrition of the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) and multipotent progenitor (MPP)-1 compartment in parallel with enhancement of myeloid-biased MPP3 in adult bone marrow and fetal liver. Transplantation experiments confirmed that FOXP1-deficient bone marrow had an intrinsic reduced HSC compartment. FOXP1-deficient MPP compartments also showed enhanced proliferation with G0 phase reduction. Transcriptome analyses revealed that FOXP1-deficient HSC exhibited reduced stemness and enhanced expression of cell proliferation pathways. Thus, our current results revealed that FOXP1 plays a critical role in early murine hematopoiesis by maintaining HSCs, limiting the expansion of all MPP compartments, and restricting early myeloid commitment in vivo.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12202,"journal":{"name":"Experimental hematology","volume":"149 ","pages":"Article 104815"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144191700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intra-bone marrow diversity of endothelial cells and its impact on hematopoietic stem cell development and maintenance","authors":"Shota Shimizu, Yoshiaki Kubota","doi":"10.1016/j.exphem.2025.104817","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exphem.2025.104817","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In addition to supplying oxygen and nutrients, blood vessels secrete paracrine molecules known as angiocrine factors to promote tissue homeostasis and repair. The bone marrow (BM) vasculature in long bones has differing properties between the diaphysis, metaphysis, and epiphysis in terms of its morphology, plasticity, perivascular cellular components, and angiocrine profiles. Blood vessel formation is linked with bone formation through paracrine interactions between endothelial cells (ECs) and osteolineage cells, so-called angiogenic-osteogenic coupling. ECs also play essential roles in the maintenance of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) by forming vascular niches together with perivascular stromal cells. Recent studies highlighted the heterogeneity of vascular niches at different bone regions, suggesting that HSCs are regulated by locally distinct mechanisms. Here, we provided an overview of the BM vasculature and discussed how the heterogeneous vasculature contributes to bone formation and HSC maintenance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12202,"journal":{"name":"Experimental hematology","volume":"149 ","pages":"Article 104817"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144173229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transcription factors that define the epigenome structures and transcriptomes in microglia","authors":"Keita Saeki, Keiko Ozato","doi":"10.1016/j.exphem.2025.104814","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exphem.2025.104814","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Microglia, the resident macrophages of the brain, play critical roles in maintaining brain health. Recent genome-wide analyses, including ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq/CUT&RUN, and single-cell RNA-seq, have identified key transcription factors that define the transcriptome programs of microglia. Four transcription factors—PU.1, Irf8, Sall1, and Smad4—form enhancer complexes and act as lineage-determining factors, shaping microglial identity. These factors co-bind with other lineage-determining transcription factors, directing one toward designated regions that program microglia while inhibiting the other from binding to DNA. Other transcription factors, such as Batf3 and Mafb, contribute to transcriptional cascades in microglia. TGF-β is a crucial cytokine driving these transcription factors to bind DNA and maintain homeostatic microglia. These findings provide insights into the physiological aspects of microglia and their roles in neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12202,"journal":{"name":"Experimental hematology","volume":"149 ","pages":"Article 104814"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144157583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bardia Samareh, Olga Klimenkova, Narges Aghaallaei, Lijuan Cheng, Andrew Zikic, Houra Loghmani, Ivan Tesakov, Patrick Müller, Meinolf Suttorp, Karl Welte, Julia Skokowa, Tatsuya Morishima
{"title":"NAMPT-mediated deacetylation of HCLS1 protein promotes clonogenic growth of pediatric CML cells.","authors":"Bardia Samareh, Olga Klimenkova, Narges Aghaallaei, Lijuan Cheng, Andrew Zikic, Houra Loghmani, Ivan Tesakov, Patrick Müller, Meinolf Suttorp, Karl Welte, Julia Skokowa, Tatsuya Morishima","doi":"10.1016/j.exphem.2025.104801","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exphem.2025.104801","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pediatric chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a rare hematologic malignancy with biological features that differ from that of adult patients. In pediatric patients with CML the burden of tumor cells is higher resulting in a delayed achievement of deep molecular response (DMR) upon treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs, e.g., imatinib) than what has been reported in adults. Therefore, the probability to develop resistance to TKIs in children with CML is higher than in adults due to much longer exposure to TKIs. Moreover, in children with CML, long-term treatment with imatinib causes hematologic and nonhematologic toxicities. Improvements of CML therapy in pediatric patients based on the targeting of hematopoiesis-specific BCR::ABL1 downstream effectors are needed. Here, we report elevated levels of the nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT) in mononuclear cells of pediatric patients with chronic phase CML (CP-CML) and in blastic phase CML cell lines. NAMPT inhibition abrogated in vitro clonogenic capacity and proliferation of CML cells. NAMPT deacetylates and activates the hematopoietic-specific lyn-substrate 1 (HCLS1) protein, which is essential for the proliferation of CML cells. Moreover, IL1RAP - a marker of myeloid leukemia-initiating cells - and LEF-1 - a transcription factor of Wnt signaling - are downstream targets of NAMPT/HCLS1 pathway. Together, our results reveal new treatment avenues of pediatric patients with CML by targeting NAMPT-mediated deacetylation of the hematopoietic-specific HCLS1 protein.</p>","PeriodicalId":12202,"journal":{"name":"Experimental hematology","volume":" ","pages":"104801"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143970608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mark Perfetto, Muhammad Ishfaq, Aiden Mohideen, Catherine M Rondelli, Samantha Gillis, Jesus Tejero, Amber N Stratman, Rebecca B Riggins, Yvette Y Yien
{"title":"FAM210B regulates iron homeostasis and sex-specific responses in stress erythropoiesis.","authors":"Mark Perfetto, Muhammad Ishfaq, Aiden Mohideen, Catherine M Rondelli, Samantha Gillis, Jesus Tejero, Amber N Stratman, Rebecca B Riggins, Yvette Y Yien","doi":"10.1016/j.exphem.2025.104797","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exphem.2025.104797","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Iron is required for redox homeostasis but poses toxicity risks due to its redox activity. Erythropoiesis hence requires tight regulation of iron utilization for hemoglobin synthesis. The requirement for iron in erythropoiesis has necessitated the evolution of mechanisms to handle the iron required for hemoglobinization. FAM210B was identified as a regulator of mitochondrial iron import and heme synthesis in erythroid cell culture and zebrafish models. Here, we demonstrate that although FAM210B is required for erythroid differentiation and heme synthesis under standard cell culture conditions, holotransferrin supplementation was sufficient to chemically complement the iron-deficient phenotype. To investigate the role of FAM210B in erythropoiesis, we used knockout mice. Although Fam210b<sup>-/-</sup> mice were viable and did not exhibit overt erythropoietic defects in the bone marrow, the male mice exhibited an increase in serum transferrin, suggesting sex-specific alterations in systemic iron sensing. On phlebotomy-induced stress erythropoiesis, Fam210b<sup>-/-</sup> mice exhibited differences in serum transferrin levels, and more starkly, had markedly smaller spleens, indicating defects in stress response. Fam210b<sup>-/-</sup> males had defects in neutrophil and monocyte numbers, as well as decreased erythroid progenitor numbers during erythropoietic stress. Together, our findings show that Fam210b plays a key role in the splenic response to erythropoietic stress. Our findings reveal a critical role for FAM210B in mediating splenic stress erythropoiesis and suggest it may act as a sex-specific regulator, potentially linked to androgen signaling.</p>","PeriodicalId":12202,"journal":{"name":"Experimental hematology","volume":" ","pages":"104797"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143991599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kittika Poonsombudlert, Sarah Mott, Ratdanai Yodsuwan, Andrew Vegel, Aditya Ravindra, Prajwal Dhakal, Grerk Sutamtewagul, Margarida Magalhaes-Silverman
{"title":"Effect of peritransplant measurable residual disease clearance in patients with myelodysplastic neoplasm: a referral center experience.","authors":"Kittika Poonsombudlert, Sarah Mott, Ratdanai Yodsuwan, Andrew Vegel, Aditya Ravindra, Prajwal Dhakal, Grerk Sutamtewagul, Margarida Magalhaes-Silverman","doi":"10.1016/j.exphem.2025.104799","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exphem.2025.104799","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Periallogeneic stem cell transplant (peri-HSCT) measurable residual disease (MRD) is increasingly recognized as a prognostic marker. However, the MRD status in myelodysplastic neoplasm (MDS) or myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm (MDS/MPN), are less well-established compared with B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia. We reviewed the charts of adults who underwent HSCT for MDS or MDS/MPN between 2012 and 2023 and evaluated the effect of pre-HSCT MRD status on relapse-free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS). A conditional analysis of outcomes based on day+90 post-HSCT MRD status was also performed. There were 38 and 55 patients in MRD- and MRD+ cohorts respectively. Baseline patient characteristics, including age, Revised and Molecular International Prognostic Scores (IPSS-R and IPSS-M), and HSCT-related factors were similar between MRD+ and MRD- cohort. The MRD+ cohort had inferior RFS (HR: 1.84, 95% CI: 1.09-3.12, p = 0.02) but a statistically significant difference in OS was not evidenced (HR: 1.52, 95% CI: 0.88-2.61, p = 0.14). After adjusting for % blasts at diagnosis, and conditioning intensity, patients with MRD+ were found to be at 1.92 times increased risk of relapse or death (95% CI: 1.12-3.28, p = 0.02). Additionally, increasing IPSS-M score was associated with poorer RFS (HR: 1.27, 95% CI: 1.01-1.59, p = 0.04) and OS (HR: 1.52, 95% CI: 1.20-1.91, p < 0.01). Among patients who were alive and in remission until day +90 post-HSCT, the pre-HSCT MRD status did not confer a statistically significant difference in RFS and OS if they became MRD- by day +90 post-HSCT. Pre- and peri-HSCT MRD testing could offer valuable prognostic information in patients with MDS and MDS/MPN.</p>","PeriodicalId":12202,"journal":{"name":"Experimental hematology","volume":" ","pages":"104799"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143999232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}