Mapping Active Gene-Regulatory Regions in Human Repopulating Long-Term HSCs

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Contributors

  • Peer Wünsche - , German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg University  (Author)
  • Elias S.P. Eckert - , German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg University  (Author)
  • Tim Holland-Letz - , German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) (Author)
  • Anna Paruzynski - , BioNTech Ag (Author)
  • Agnes Hotz-Wagenblatt - , German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) (Author)
  • Raffaele Fronza - , German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) (Author)
  • Tim Rath - , German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) (Author)
  • Irene Gil-Farina - , German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) (Author)
  • Manfred Schmidt - , German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), GeneWerk GmbH (Author)
  • Christof von Kalle - , German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) (Author)
  • Christoph Klein - , Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Author)
  • Claudia R. Ball - , National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) (Author)
  • Friederike Herbst - , German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) (Author)
  • Hanno Glimm - , National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) Core Center Heidelberg (Author)

Abstract

Genes that regulate hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) self-renewal, proliferation, and differentiation are tightly controlled by regulatory regions. However, mapping such regions relies on surface markers and immunophenotypic definition of HSCs. Here, we use γ-retroviral integration sites (γRV ISs) from a gene therapy trial for 10 patients with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome to mark active enhancers and promoters in functionally defined long-term repopulating HSCs. Integration site clusters showed the highest ATAC-seq signals at HSC-specific peaks and strongly correlated with hematopoietic risk variants. Tagged genes were significantly enriched for HSC gene sets. We were able to map over 3,000 HSC regulatory regions in late-contributing HSCs, and we used these data to identify miR-10a and miR-335 as two miRNAs regulating early hematopoiesis. In this study, we show that viral insertion sites can be used as molecular tags to assess chromatin conformation on functionally defined cell populations, thereby providing a genome-wide resource for regulatory regions in human repopulating long-term HSCs.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)132-146.e9
JournalCell Stem Cell
Volume23
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 5 Jul 2018
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

PubMed 29979988

Keywords

Sustainable Development Goals

Keywords

  • enhancer, hematopoietic stem cell, HSC, human, miRNA-10a, miRNA-335, non-coding regulatory regions, viral insertion sites