Johan Jendholm
University of Copenhagen
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Blood | 2012
Marianne Bach Treppendahl; Xiangning Qiu; Alexandra Søgaard; Xiaojing Yang; Cecilie Nandrup-Bus; Christoffer Hother; Mette K. Andersen; Lars Kjeldsen; Lars Möllgaard; Eva Hellström-Lindberg; Johan Jendholm; Bo T. Porse; Peter A. Jones; Gangning Liang; Kirsten Grønbæk
Deletions of chromosome 5q are associated with poor outcomes in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) suggesting the presence of tumor suppressor(s) at the locus. However, definitive identification of putative tumor suppressor genes remains controversial. Here we show that a 106-nucleotide noncoding RNA vault RNA2-1 (vtRNA2-1), previously misannotated as miR886, could potentially play a role in the biology and prognosis of AML. vtRNA2-1 is transcribed by polymerase III and is monoallelically methylated in 75% of healthy individuals whereas the remaining 25% of the population have biallelic hypomethylation. AML patients without methylation of VTRNA2-1 have a considerably better outcome than those with monoallelic or biallelic methylation (n = 101, P = .001). We show that methylation is inversely correlated with vtRNA2-1 expression, and that 5-azanucleosides induce vtRNA2-1 and down-regulate the phosphorylated RNA-dependent protein kinase (pPKR), whose activity has been shown to be modulated by vtRNA2-1. Because pPKR promotes cell survival in AML, the data are consistent with vtRNA2-1 being a tumor suppressor in AML. This is the first study to show that vtRNA2-1 might play a significant role in AML, that it is either mono- or biallelically expressed in the blood cells of healthy individuals, and that its methylation state predicts outcome in AML.
Nucleic Acids Research | 2013
Frederik Otzen Bagger; Nicolas Rapin; Kim Theilgaard-Mönch; Bogumil Kaczkowski; Lina A. Thoren; Johan Jendholm; Ole Winther; Bo T. Porse
The HemaExplorer (http://servers.binf.ku.dk/hemaexplorer) is a curated database of processed mRNA Gene expression profiles (GEPs) that provides an easy display of gene expression in haematopoietic cells. HemaExplorer contains GEPs derived from mouse/human haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells as well as from more differentiated cell types. Moreover, data from distinct subtypes of human acute myeloid leukemia is included in the database allowing researchers to directly compare gene expression of leukemic cells with those of their closest normal counterpart. Normalization and batch correction lead to full integrity of the data in the database. The HemaExplorer has comprehensive visualization interface that can make it useful as a daily tool for biologists and cancer researchers to assess the expression patterns of genes encountered in research or literature. HemaExplorer is relevant for all research within the fields of leukemia, immunology, cell differentiation and the biology of the haematopoietic system.
Blood | 2014
Nicolas Rapin; Frederik Otzen Bagger; Johan Jendholm; Helena Mora-Jensen; Anders Krogh; Alexander Kohlmann; Christian Thiede; Niels Borregaard; Lars Bullinger; Ole Winther; Kim Theilgaard-Mönch; Bo T. Porse
Gene expression profiling has been used extensively to characterize cancer, identify novel subtypes, and improve patient stratification. However, it has largely failed to identify transcriptional programs that differ between cancer and corresponding normal cells and has not been efficient in identifying expression changes fundamental to disease etiology. Here we present a method that facilitates the comparison of any cancer sample to its nearest normal cellular counterpart, using acute myeloid leukemia (AML) as a model. We first generated a gene expression-based landscape of the normal hematopoietic hierarchy, using expression profiles from normal stem/progenitor cells, and next mapped the AML patient samples to this landscape. This allowed us to identify the closest normal counterpart of individual AML samples and determine gene expression changes between cancer and normal. We find the cancer vs normal method (CvN method) to be superior to conventional methods in stratifying AML patients with aberrant karyotype and in identifying common aberrant transcriptional programs with potential importance for AML etiology. Moreover, the CvN method uncovered a novel poor-outcome subtype of normal-karyotype AML, which allowed for the generation of a highly prognostic survival signature. Collectively, our CvN method holds great potential as a tool for the analysis of gene expression profiles of cancer patients.
Journal of Experimental Medicine | 2014
Ewa Ohlsson; Marie Sigurd Hasemann; Anton Willer; Felicia Kathrine Bratt Lauridsen; Nicolas Rapin; Johan Jendholm; Bo T. Porse
C/EBPα collaborates with MLL-ENL to activate a group of genes that, together with Hoxa9 and Meis1, are responsible for the early events that transforms normal hematopoietic cells into leukemic cells
Blood | 2012
Frederik Otzen Bagger; Nicolas Rapin; Kim Theilgaard-Mönch; Bogumil Kaczkowski; Johan Jendholm; Ole Winther; Bo T. Porse
To the editor: The HemaExplorer Web server allows for an easy display of mRNA expression profiles for query genes in murine and human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells that represent consecutive developmental stages along the myeloid differentiation pathway. In addition, it provides the
Journal of Leukocyte Biology | 2011
Helena Mora-Jensen; Johan Jendholm; Anna Fossum; Bo T. Porse; Niels Borregaard; Kim Theilgaard-Mönch
The current study reports a flow cytometry‐based protocol for the prospective purification of human BM populations representing six successive stages of terminal neutrophil differentiation, including early promyelocytes and late promyelocytes, myelocytes, metamyelocytes, band cells, and PMN neutrophilic granulocytes. Validation experiments revealed a high purity of each bone marrow population and biological meaningful expression profiles for marker genes of neutrophil differentiation at a hitherto unprecedented resolution. Hence, the present protocol should be useful for studying neutrophil differentiation in vivo in the human setting and constitutes an important alternative to models that are based on in vitro differentiation of myeloid cell lines and HPCs.
Genes & Development | 2015
Kasper Jermiin Knudsen; Matilda Rehn; Marie Sigurd Hasemann; Nicolas Rapin; Frederik Otzen Bagger; Ewa Ohlsson; Anton Willer; Anne-Katrine Frank; Elisabeth Søndergaard; Johan Jendholm; Lina A. Thoren; Julie Lee; Justyna Rak; Kim Theilgaard-Mönch; Bo T. Porse
The balance between self-renewal and differentiation is crucial for the maintenance of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Whereas numerous gene regulatory factors have been shown to control HSC self-renewal or drive their differentiation, we have relatively few insights into transcription factors that serve to restrict HSC differentiation. In the present work, we identify ETS (E-twenty-six)-related gene (ERG) as a critical factor protecting HSCs from differentiation. Specifically, loss of Erg accelerates HSC differentiation by >20-fold, thus leading to rapid depletion of immunophenotypic and functional HSCs. Molecularly, we could demonstrate that ERG, in addition to promoting the expression of HSC self-renewal genes, also represses a group of MYC targets, thereby explaining why Erg loss closely mimics Myc overexpression. Consistently, the BET domain inhibitor CPI-203, known to repress Myc expression, confers a partial phenotypic rescue. In summary, ERG plays a critical role in coordinating the balance between self-renewal and differentiation of HSCs.
Journal of Immunology | 2018
Kerstin Wendland; Kristoffer Niss; Knut Kotarsky; Nikita Y. H. Wu; Andrea J. White; Johan Jendholm; Aymeric Marie Christian Rivollier; Jose M. G. Izarzugaza; Søren Brunak; Georg A. Holländer; Graham Anderson; Katarzyna Maria Sitnik; William W. Agace
Despite the essential role of thymic epithelial cells (TEC) in T cell development, the signals regulating TEC differentiation and homeostasis remain incompletely understood. In this study, we show a key in vivo role for the vitamin A metabolite, retinoic acid (RA), in TEC homeostasis. In the absence of RA signaling in TEC, cortical TEC (cTEC) and CD80loMHC class IIlo medullary TEC displayed subset-specific alterations in gene expression, which in cTEC included genes involved in epithelial proliferation, development, and differentiation. Mice whose TEC were unable to respond to RA showed increased cTEC proliferation, an accumulation of stem cell Ag-1hi cTEC, and, in early life, a decrease in medullary TEC numbers. These alterations resulted in reduced thymic cellularity in early life, a reduction in CD4 single-positive and CD8 single-positive numbers in both young and adult mice, and enhanced peripheral CD8+ T cell survival upon TCR stimulation. Collectively, our results identify RA as a regulator of TEC homeostasis that is essential for TEC function and normal thymopoiesis.
Experimental Hematology | 2016
Matilda Rehn; Anne-Katrine Frank; Sachin Pundhir; Nicolas Rapin; Ying Ge; Johan Jendholm; Tanja B. Jensen; Michele Solimena; Bo T. Porse
Blood | 2013
Nicolas Rapin; Johan Jendholm; Helena Mora-Jensen; Niels Borregaard; Ole Winther; Kim Theilgaard-Mönch; Bo T. Porse