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Song S, Lin Z, Zhao C, Wen J, Chen J, Xie S, Qi H, Wang J, Su X. Vagal-mAChR4 signaling promotes Friend virus complex (FV)-induced acute erythroleukemia. Virol Sin 2023:S1995-820X(23)00053-6. [PMID: 37172825 DOI: 10.1016/j.virs.2023.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2022] [Accepted: 05/08/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023] Open
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Erythroleukemia belongs to acute myeloid leukemia (AML) type 6 (M6), and treatment remains difficult due to the poor prognosis of the disease. Friend virus (FV) is a complex of two viruses: Friend murine leukemia virus (F-MuLV) strain along with a defective spleen focus forming virus (SFFV), which can induce acute erythroleukemia in mice. We have previously reported that activation of vagal α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) signaling promotes HIV-1 transcription. Whether vagal muscarinic signaling mediates FV-induced erythroleukemia and the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. In this study, sham and vagotomized mice were intraperitoneally injected with FV. FV infection caused anemia in sham mice, and vagotomy reversed this change. FV infection increased erythroblasts ProE, EryA, and EryB cells in the spleen, and these changes were blocked by vagotomy. In bone marrow, FV infection reduced EryC cells in sham mice, an effect that was counteracted by vagotomy. FV infection increased choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) expression in splenic CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, and this change was reversed by vagotomy. Furthermore, the increase of EryA and EryB cells in spleen of FV-infected wild-type mice was reversed after deletion of ChAT in CD4+ T cells. In bone marrow, FV infection reduced EryB and EryC cells in sham mice, whereas lack of ChAT in CD4+ T cells did not affect this change. Activation of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor 4 (mAChR4) by clozapine N-oxide (CNO) significantly increased EryB in the spleen but decreased the EryC cell population in the bone marrow of FV-infected mice. Thus, vagal-mAChR4 signaling in the spleen and bone marrow synergistically promotes the pathogenesis of acute erythroleukemia. We uncover an unrecognized mechanism of neuromodulation in erythroleukemia.
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- Shuting Song
- Unit of Respiratory Infection and Immunity, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101408, China
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- Unit of Respiratory Infection and Immunity, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101408, China
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- Unit of Respiratory Infection and Immunity, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101408, China
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- Unit of Respiratory Infection and Immunity, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101408, China
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- Unit of Respiratory Infection and Immunity, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101408, China
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- Unit of Respiratory Infection and Immunity, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101408, China
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- Unit of Respiratory Infection and Immunity, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101408, China
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- Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510530, China
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- Unit of Respiratory Infection and Immunity, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101408, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Lung Inflammation and Injury, Shanghai, 200031, China.
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Moreau-Gachelin F. Multi-stage Friend murine erythroleukemia: molecular insights into oncogenic cooperation. Retrovirology 2008; 5:99. [PMID: 18983647 PMCID: PMC2585586 DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-99] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2008] [Accepted: 11/04/2008] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The Friend virus SFFV (Spleen Focus Forming Virus) provokes an acute erythroblastosis in susceptible strains of mice that progresses to overt erythroleukemia by a multi-step process. For virologists, the Friend virus-induced disease has provided deep insights into the host mechanisms influencing susceptibility to retroviral infection and viremia. These insights have contributed to the understanding of HIV and other human retroviral infections. For cell biologists and oncologists, this leukemia has been a powerful experimental model to identify critical oncogenes involved in a multi-stage process, to understand the contribution of host genes to cancer development, and to investigate the mechanisms leading to cell growth autonomy. This model also provided an example of oncogenic reversion since Friend tumor cells can reinitiate their erythroid differentiation program when exposed in vitro to some chemical inducers. This review highlights recent findings demonstrating that the leukemic progression depends on the cooperation of at least two oncogenic events, one interfering with differentiation and one conferring a proliferative advantage. The Friend model of leukemia progression recapitulates the two phases of human acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Coupling of insights from studies on the Friend erythroleukemia with knowledge on AML might allow a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in the evolution of leukemia in mice and men.
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Back J, Dierich A, Bronn C, Kastner P, Chan S. PU.1 determines the self-renewal capacity of erythroid progenitor cells. Blood 2004; 103:3615-23. [PMID: 14739214 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2003-11-4089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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AbstractPU.1 is a hematopoietic-specific transcriptional activator that is absolutely required for the differentiation of B lymphocytes and myeloid-lineage cells. Although PU.1 is also expressed by early erythroid progenitor cells, its role in erythropoiesis, if any, is unknown. To investigate the relevance of PU.1 in erythropoiesis, we produced a line of PU.1-deficient mice carrying a green fluorescent protein reporter at this locus. We report here that PU.1 is tightly regulated during differentiation—it is expressed at low levels in erythroid progenitor cells and down-regulated upon terminal differentiation. Strikingly, PU.1-deficient fetal erythroid progenitors lose their self-renewal capacity and undergo proliferation arrest, premature differentiation, and apoptosis. In adult mice lacking one PU.1 allele, similar defects are detected following stress-induced erythropoiesis. These studies identify PU.1 as a novel and critical regulator of erythropoiesis and highlight the versatility of this transcription factor in promoting or preventing differentiation depending on the hematopoietic lineage.
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- Jonathan Back
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CEDEX, France
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Starck J, Cohet N, Gonnet C, Sarrazin S, Doubeikovskaia Z, Doubeikovski A, Verger A, Duterque-Coquillaud M, Morle F. Functional cross-antagonism between transcription factors FLI-1 and EKLF. Mol Cell Biol 2003; 23:1390-402. [PMID: 12556498 PMCID: PMC141137 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.23.4.1390-1402.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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FLI-1 is an ETS family transcription factor which is overexpressed in Friend erythroleukemia and contributes to the blockage of differentiation of erythroleukemic cells. We show here that FLI-1 represses the transcriptional activity of the beta-globin gene promoter in MEL cells and interacts with two of its critical transactivators, GATA-1 and EKLF. Unexpectedly, FLI-1 enhances the stimulating activity of GATA-1 on a GATA-1-responsive promoter but represses that of EKLF on beta-globin and an EKLF-responsive artificial promoters. This repressive effect of FLI-1 requires the ETS DNA binding domain and its association with either the N- or C-terminal domain, which themselves interact with EKLF but not with GATA-1. Furthermore, the FLI-1 ETS domain alone behaves as an autonomous repression domain when linked to the Gal4 DNA binding domain. Taken together, these data indicate that FLI-1 represses EKLF-dependent transcription due to the repression activity of its ETS domain and its indirect recruitment to erythroid promoters by protein-protein interaction with EKLF. Reciprocally, we also show that EKLF itself represses the FLI-1-dependent megakaryocytic GPIX gene promoter, thus further suggesting that functional cross-antagonism between FLI-1 and EKLF might be involved in the control of the erythrocytic versus megakaryocytic differentiation of bipotential progenitors.
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- Joëlle Starck
- Centre de Génétique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS UMR 5534, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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Afrikanova I, Yeh E, Bartos D, Watowich SS, Longmore GD. Oncogene cooperativity in Friend erythroleukemia: erythropoietin receptor activation by the env gene of SFFV leads to transcriptional upregulation of PU.1, independent of SFFV proviral insertion. Oncogene 2002; 21:1272-84. [PMID: 11850847 PMCID: PMC2388250 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1205183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2001] [Revised: 10/30/2001] [Accepted: 11/13/2001] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Cancer is a multi-step, multi-genetic event. Whether oncogenic mutations cooperate with one another to transform cells and how is not well understood. The Friend murine retroviral erythroleukemia model involves mitogenic activation of the erythropoietin receptor (EpoR) by the virus env gene (F-gp55), aberrant over-expression of the transcription factor PU.1, and inactivating mutations in p53. In this report we demonstrate that concurrent expression of F-gp55 and PU.1 in erythroid target cells, in vivo, cooperate to accelerate erythroleukemia induction. Early in the disease, prior to the detection of clonal leukemic cells, activation of the EpoR by F-gp55, but not erythropoietin, resulted in transcriptional upregulation of PU.1 through a trans regulatory mechanism. This could occur in the absence of an integrated provirus within the PU.1 gene locus. The regulation of PU.1 transcription in established erythroleukemia cell lines differed depending upon the level of PU.1 protein present. Our results suggest that the action of F-gp55 contributes to both early and late stages of Friend erythroleukemia and that persistence of F-gp55 expression may be required not only to initiate erythroleukemia but to also maintain erythroleukemia following Friend virus infection.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Erythroid Precursor Cells/drug effects
- Erythroid Precursor Cells/metabolism
- Erythroid Precursor Cells/pathology
- Erythroid Precursor Cells/virology
- Erythropoietin/metabolism
- Erythropoietin/pharmacology
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/drug effects
- Humans
- Interleukin-3/pharmacology
- Leukemia, Erythroblastic, Acute/genetics
- Leukemia, Erythroblastic, Acute/metabolism
- Leukemia, Erythroblastic, Acute/virology
- Mice
- Oncogenes/genetics
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Receptors, Erythropoietin/metabolism
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Spleen Focus-Forming Viruses/genetics
- Spleen Focus-Forming Viruses/physiology
- Time Factors
- Trans-Activators/genetics
- Trans-Activators/metabolism
- Transcription, Genetic
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
- Up-Regulation
- Viral Envelope Proteins/genetics
- Viral Envelope Proteins/metabolism
- Virus Integration
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Affiliation(s)
- Iva Afrikanova
- Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Immunology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Immunology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, MO 63110, USA
- Department of Cell Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, MO 63110, USA
- *Correspondence: GD Longmore, Division of Hematology, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8125, 660 South Euclid Ave., St. Louis MO 63110, USA; E-mail:
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