PubMed · 42745000
Type 1 interferon perturbates clonal competition by reshaping human blood development.
Abstract
Inflammation accelerates evolutionary dynamics of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in clonal hematopoiesis and myeloid neoplasms. We studied HSCs, progenitors and immune cells from patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms at baseline and following interferon-α (IFNα) treatment, the only therapy to deplete mutated stem cells. We deployed single-cell multiomics methods that distinguish the IFNα effects on mutated stem cells from the admixed wild-type HSCs, with respect to their differentiation, transcriptomes, immunophenotypes and chromatin accessibility. IFNα simultaneously activated HSCs into two polarized states: a lymphoid progenitor expansion associated with an anti-inflammatory state and an inflammatory myeloid progenitor state derived from HSCs. The augmented lymphoid differentiation balanced the typical myeloproliferative-neoplasm-induced myeloid bias, associated with normalized blood counts. Somatic mutations modified the effects of IFNα on HSC differentiation and cell cycle entry rates. Clonal fitness upon IFNα exposure was due to resistance of CALR- or JAK2-mutated stem cells to differentiate into inflammatory myeloid progenitors.
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Chhiring Lama, Danielle Isakov, Shira Rosenberg, Miguel Quijada-Álamo, Mirca S Saurty-Seerunghen, Sara Moein, Mathis Nozais, Tsega-Ab Abera, Olivia Sakaguchi, Mansi Totwani, Grace Freed, Leila Zaydon, Chi-Lam Poon, Neelang Parghi, Andrea Kubas-Meyer, Amy X Xie, Mohamed Omar, Daniel Choi, Franco Castillo-Tokumori, Ghaith Abu-Zeinah, Alicia Dillard, Saravanan Ganesan, Nathaniel D Omans, Neville Dusaj, Paulina Chamely, Eleni Mimitou, Peter Smibert, Heidi E Kosiorek, Amylou C Dueck, Rona Weinberg, Ronan Chaligne, Bridget Marcellino, Luigi Marchionni, Sanjay Patel, Paul Simonson, Dan A Landau, Elvin Wagenblast, Ronald Hoffman, Anna S Nam. 2026-09-15. Type 1 interferon perturbates clonal competition by reshaping human blood development.. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-026-02751-3
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