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Selection of pre-leukemic hematopoietic stem cells driven by distinct extracellular matrix molecules

Jassinskaja, M.; Bode, D.; Gonka, M.; Roumeliotis, T. I.; Hogg, A. J.; Rubio Lara, J. A.; Bennett, E.; Milek, J.; Theeuwes, B.; Vijayabaskar, M. S.; Cabrera Cosme, L.; Che, J. L. C.; MacDonald, S.; Ahmed, S.; Hall, B. A.; Vasey, G.; Kooi, H.; Belmonte, M.; Shepherd, M. S.; Brackenbury, W. J.; Kucinski, I.; Yamazaki, S.; Holding, A. N.; Cull, A. H.; Wilson, N. K.; Gottgens, B.; Chaudhary, J. S.; Kent, D. G.

2025-01-22 cell biology
10.1101/2025.01.20.633881 bioRxiv
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Despite rapid advances in mapping genetic drivers and gene expression changes in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), there is a relative paucity of studies at the protein level. Here, we perform a deep, multi-omic characterization (epigenome, transcriptome and proteome) of HSCs carrying a loss-of-function mutation in Tet2, a key driver of increased self-renewal in blood cancers. Using state-of-the-art, multiplexed, low-input mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics, we profile wildtype (WT) and TET2-deficient (Tet2-/-) HSCs and show that the proteome captures previously unrecognized molecular processes which define the pre-leukemic HSC molecular landscape. Specifically, we obtain more accurate stratification of WT and Tet2-/- HSCs than transcriptomic approaches and identify extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules as novel points of dysregulation upon TET2 loss. HSC expansion assays using ECM-functionalized hydrogels confirm a selective effect on the expansion of Tet2-mutant HSCs. Taken together, our study represents a comprehensive molecular characterization of Tet2-mutant HSCs and identifies a previously unanticipated role of ECM molecules in regulating self-renewal of disease-driving HSCs.

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