医学创新论坛第55期

CIMR Wednesday Lecture Series

时间：2025年1月8日（周三）下午16:00

地点：首都医科大学基础科研楼北楼一层逸夫报告厅

主持人：

李川源

首都医学科学创新中心

报告人：

李磊

浙江大学生命科学研究院 教授

报告题目：

Transcription Reprogramming and Genome Instability

摘要：

Impaired DNA crosslink repair leads to Fanconi anemia (FA), characterized by a unique manifestation of bone marrow failure and pancytopenia among diseases caused by DNA damage response defects. As a germline disorder, why the hematopoietic hierarchy is specifically affected is not fully understood. We find that reprogramming transcription during hematopoietic differentiation results in an overload of genotoxic stress, which causes aborted differentiation and depletion of FA mutant progenitor cells. DNA damage onset most likely arises from formaldehyde, an obligate by-product of oxidative protein demethylation during transcription regulation. Our results demonstrate that rapid and extensive transcription reprogramming associated with hematopoietic differentiation poses a major threat to genome stability and cell viability in the absence of the FA pathway. The connection between differentiation and DNA damage accumulation reveals a novel mechanism of genome scarring. Currently we are testing the idea of metabolic protection of differentiating FA mutant cells to alleviate their accumulation of DNA damage.

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