Comment[ArrayExpressAccession] E-GEOD-64545 MAGE-TAB Version 1.1 Public Release Date 2015-01-15 Investigation Title Msi2 sustains the MLL leukemia stem cell regulatory program Comment[Submitted Name] Msi2 sustains the MLL leukemia stem cell regulatory program Experiment Description Leukemia stem cells (LSCs) are found in most aggressive myeloid diseases and contribute to therapeutic resistance. Genetic and epigenetic alterations cause a dysregulated developmental program in leukemia. The MSI2 RNA binding protein has been previously shown to predict poor survival in leukemia. We demonstrate that the conditional deletion of Msi2 results in delayed leukemogenesis, reduced disease burden and a loss of LSC function. Gene expression profiling of the Msi2 ablated LSCs demonstrates a loss of the HSC/LSC and an increase in the differentiation program. The gene signature from the Msi2 deleted LSCs correlates with survival in AML patients. MSI2’s maintains the MLL self-renewal program by interacting with and retaining efficient translation of Hoxa9, Myc and Ikzf2. We further demonstrate that shRNA depletion of the MLL target gene Ikzf2 also contributes to MLL leukemia cell survival. Our data provides evidence that MSI2 controls efficient translation of the oncogenic LSC self-renewal program and a rationale for clinically targeting MSI2 in myeloid leukemia. RNA-Seq was performed on sorted c-Kit high leukemic cells from 2 Msi2 -/- and 2 Msi2 f/f mice. Term Source Name ArrayExpress EFO Term Source File http://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress/ http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/efo.owl Person Last Name Lu Kharas Person First Name Yuheng Michael Person Mid Initials G Person Email geo@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Person Affiliation Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Person Address Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 417 East 68th Street, New York, NY, USA Person Roles submitter Protocol Name P-GSE64545-2 P-GSE64545-1 Protocol Description Paired-end RNA-Seq reads were first processed with Trimmomatic to remove TruSeq adaptor sequences and bases with quality scores below 20, and reads with less than 30 remaining bases were discarded. Trimmed reads were then aligned to mm9 genome with the STAR aligner. The number of uniquely mapped reads overlapping with each RefSeq gene was counted with HTSeq. We used DESeq to evaluate the differences in expression between Msi2 KO and control samples, which were represented with log2 fold change and Benjamini-Hocheberg corrected p-values. Genome_build: mm9 Supplementary_files_format_and_content: tab-delimited text files including gene-wise read counts for each sample RNA was extracted using Trizol and RNeasy RNA extraction kit. Samples were prepared with a standard Illumina kit using the TruSeq RNA SamplePrep Guide. mRNA fragments with a length of 200–300 bp were selected for library construction. Sequencing was performed on a Hiseq2000 platform using a standard paired-end protocol. Protocol Type normalization data transformation protocol nucleic acid library construction protocol Experimental Factor Name genotype Experimental Factor Type genotype Comment[SecondaryAccession] GSE64545 Comment[GEOReleaseDate] 2015-01-15 Comment[ArrayExpressSubmissionDate] 2014-12-29 Comment[GEOLastUpdateDate] 2015-03-27 Comment[AEExperimentType] RNA-seq of coding RNA Comment[SecondaryAccession] SRP051590 Comment[SequenceDataURI] http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/SRR1736005-SRR1736008 SDRF File E-GEOD-64545.sdrf.txt