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Smith BD, Segel GB. Abnormal erythrocyte endothelial adherence in hereditary stomatocytosis. Blood 1997; 89:3451-6. [PMID: 9129053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Hereditary stomatocytosis is a red cell membrane protein disorder, which results in hemolytic anemia. Some patients with hereditary stomatocytosis experience dyspnea, chest pain, and abdominal pain, particularly after splenectomy. These symptoms may represent vaso-occlusion secondary to adherence of an abnormal erythrocyte membrane to vascular endothelium. We studied three members of a family with varying clinical expression of hereditary stomatocytosis. Adherence of red cells to endothelium was quantified by measuring the shear force required to separate individual cells from endothelial monolayers using a micropipette technique. Two patients with symptoms of in situ thromboses had a higher percentage of adherent cells compared with their asymptomatic sibling and normal controls. Correlation between this in vitro phenomenon and the clinical course suggests that flow abnormalities in the microcirculation attributable to erythrocyte endothelial adherence may play an important pathogenetic role in the illness. When the proportion of adherent red cells was reduced by a chronic transfusion program in one patient and pentoxifyllin therapy in another, the vaso-occlusive complications were eliminated.
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- B D Smith
- Department of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, NY 14620, USA
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Miyazaki A, Nakanishi T, Kishikawa M, Shimizu A, Jozaki K, Yonezawa T. The first Japanese case of Hb Santa Ana, an unstable abnormal hemoglobin, identified rapidly by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. Intern Med 1997; 36:365-70. [PMID: 9213176 DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.36.365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Two members of a family had chronic hemolytic anemia due to unstable hemoglobin. The abnormal beta-chain with a molecular weight of 16 u smaller than the normal beta-chain was found within 5 minutes by analysis using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. The substitution of amino acid was also determined rapidly by this new strategy. The leucine at the 88th position of the normal beta-chain was substituted by proline in the hemoglobin as in Hb Santa Ana. This is the first report of a Japanese case of Hb Santa Ana; the clinical course was similar to that in the previously reported cases.
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- A Miyazaki
- Department of Clinical Pathology, Osaka Medical College
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Kawamura N, Furuta H, Tame A, Kobayashi I, Ariga T, Okano M, Sakiyama Y. Extremely high serum level of IgE during immunosuppressive therapy: paradoxical effect of cyclosporine A and tacrolimus. Int Arch Allergy Immunol 1997; 112:422-4. [PMID: 9104801 DOI: 10.1159/000237491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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A case of X-linked autoimmune enteropathy was successfully treated with cyclosporine A (CsA) or tacrolimus (FK506) and developed extremely high serum levels of IgE during the immunosuppressive therapy. Serum IgE levels increased from 190 to 1,000-2,500 IU/ml with CsA therapy and as high as 80,000 IU/ml with subsequent FK506 therapy. Serum IgG2 and IgG4 levels were slightly elevated compared to serum IgE levels. Thereafter, serum IgE levels progressively decreased in parallel with a reduced dosage of FK506. Total serum IgG levels and peripheral eosinophil counts, however, showed no significant changes during the course. These observations suggest that both CsA and FK506, potent immunosuppressants, could paradoxically enhance some immune responses, possibly through the action of CsA-/FK506-resistant immune systems.
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- N Kawamura
- Department of Pediatrics, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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Lenzner C, Nürnberg P, Jacobasch G, Gerth C, Thiele BJ. Molecular analysis of 29 pyruvate kinase-deficient patients from central Europe with hereditary hemolytic anemia. Blood 1997; 89:1793-9. [PMID: 9057665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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We investigated the DNA of 29 unrelated pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency (PKD) patients from Central Europe with hereditary nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia for mutations in the PK-L/R gene. Among 58 potentially affected alleles, 53 mutations were identified, of which 17 were different from each other. Of these 17 mutations, 13 were single-nucleotide (nt) substitutions resulting in amino acid exchanges, G787A (Gly263-Arg), G994A (Gly332-Ser), G1006T (Ala336-Ser), G1010A (Arg337-Gln), A1081G (Asn361-Asp), G1127T (Ser376-Ile), G1174A (Ala392-Thr), G1281T (Glu427-Asp), C1454T (Ser485-Phe), C1456T (Arg486-Trp), G1493A (Arg498-His), G1529A (Arg510-Gin), and C1594T (Arg532-Trp); 1 in-frame triplet deletion, 1060delAAG (delLys354); 1 in-frame triplet insertion, 1203insAGC (insSer after Cys401); 1 splicesite mutation, 101-1G-A; and 1 frameshift deletion, 628delGT. Six mutations, 628delGT, G787A, G1010A, G1127T, G1281T, and C1454T, are described for the first time. To test the hypothesis of a single origin of the most common PK mutation in the European population, G1529A, we investigated all patients at four polymorphic sites in the PK-L/R gene: C/A at nt 1705, C/T at nt 1992, the (ATT)n microsatellite in intron J, and a polymorphism (T)10/(T)19 in intron I. Nine patients homozygous for mutation G1529A were consistent in all four markers. In the group of patients homozygous for mutation G1529A, the hematologic parameters and clinical manifestations have been studied in detail. Although having an identical mutation in the PK-L/R gene, the patients are affected differently. Their appearance ranges from a very mild compensated hemolysis to a severe anemia. Possible molecular explanations are discussed.
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- C Lenzner
- Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Humboldt-University Berlin (Charité), Germany
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Rees DC, Duley J, Simmonds HA, Wonke B, Thein SL, Clegg JB, Weatherall DJ. Interaction of hemoglobin E and pyrimidine 5' nucleotidase deficiency. Blood 1996; 88:2761-7. [PMID: 8839873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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A Bangladeshi family is described in which the genes for both hemoglobin E (Hb E) and pyrimidine 5' nucleotidase deficiency are segregating. An individual homozygous for both these conditions has a severe hemolytic anemia, whereas family members who are homozygous for Hb E are asymptomatic and those homozygous for pyrimidine 5' nucleotidase deficiency have the mild hemolytic anemia that is characteristic of this disorder. Globin-chain synthesis experiments have shown that the mechanism underlying the interaction between these two genotypes is a marked decrease in the stability of Hb E in pyrimidine 5' nucleotidase-deficient red blood cells (RBCs). It has also been found that in the enzyme-deficient RBCs in which Hb E is highly unstable, free alpha-chains, though not beta E-chains, acoumulate on the membrane. In view of the increasing evidence that the hemolysis associated with pyrimidine 5' nucleotidase deficiency results not only from an increase in the level of erythrocyte pyrimidines, but also from inhibition of the hexose monophosphate shunt activity in young erythrocytes, it is likely that the marked instability of Hb E in the enzyme-deficient cells results from oxidant damage acting on a mildly unstable Hb variant. These observations may have important implications for the better understanding of the pathophysiology of Hb E/beta-thalassemia, globally the commonest important form of thalassemia.
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- D C Rees
- MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK
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Southgate CD, Chishti AH, Mitchell B, Yi SJ, Palek J. Targeted disruption of the murine erythroid band 3 gene results in spherocytosis and severe haemolytic anaemia despite a normal membrane skeleton. Nat Genet 1996; 14:227-30. [PMID: 8841202 DOI: 10.1038/ng1096-227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Band 3 is the most abundant integral protein of the red blood cell membrane. It performs two critical biological functions: maintaining ionic homeostasis, by transporting Cl- and HCO3-ions, and providing mechanical stability to the erythroid membrane. Erythroid band 3 (AE1) is one of three anion exchangers that are encoded by separate genes. The AE1 gene is transcribed by two promoters: the upstream promoter produces erythroid band 3, whereas the downstream promoter initiates transcription of the band 3 isoform in kidney. To assess the biological consequences of band 3 deficiency, we have selectively inactivated erythroid but not kidney band 3 by gene targeting in mice. Although no death in utero occurred, the majority of homozygous mice die within two weeks after birth. The erythroid band 3 null mice show retarded growth, spherocytic red blood cell morphology and severe haemolytic anaemia. Remarkably, the band 3-/- red blood cells assembled normal membrane skeleton thus challenging the notion that the presence of band 3 is required for the stable biogenesis of membrane skeleton. The availability of band 3-/- mice offers a unique opportunity to investigate the role of erythroid band 3 in the regulation of membrane-skeletal interactions, anion transport and the invasion and growth of malaria parasite into red blood cells.
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- C D Southgate
- Department of Biomedical Research, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02135, USA
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Rose C, Bauters F, Galacteros F. Hydroxyurea therapy in highly unstable hemoglobin carriers. Blood 1996; 88:2807-8. [PMID: 8839880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Baronciani L, Zanella A, Bianchi P, Zappa M, Alfinito F, Iolascon A, Tannoia N, Beutler E, Sirchia G. Study of the molecular defects in glucose phosphate isomerase-deficient patients affected by chronic hemolytic anemia. Blood 1996; 88:2306-10. [PMID: 8822952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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We have studied four unrelated Italian patients with chronic hemolytic anemia associated with glucose phosphate isomerase (GPI) deficiency. Using intronic primers, we were able to detect the gene alterations on the genomic DNA of the patients. Five different mutations were identified among the eight mutated alleles found: three missense mutations (301A,584T,1028G), one nonsense mutation (286T), and a four nucleotides deletion [Del 1473-IVS16(+2)]. All of these were new except for mutation 1028G, which was previously identified in a Japanese variant (GPI Narita). Two patients were homozygotes (301A/301A and 1028G/1028G), whereas the other two were compound heterozygotes sharing a common mutation [286T/584T and Del 1473-IVS16(+2)/584T]. The missense mutations were found to involve highly conserved amino acids, suggesting that these residues are crucial for the maintenance of the enzyme function. The mutation 286T results in a truncated protein of 95 amino acids in comparison with the 558 of the normal one. The four nucleotides deletion located at the junction of exon/intron 16(5'-TTGGTCGgtgagt-3') is the first GPI mutation affecting a splice site. Moreover one difference from the published sequence (473T-->G) was found in exon five in all of the eight alleles studied and in 30 normal subjects. Correlation was made between mutations, biochemical characteristics of the enzyme, and clinical course of the disease.
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- L Baronciani
- Division di Ematologia, I.R.C.C.S. Ospedale Maggiore, Milano, Italy
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Kanno H, Fujii H, Hirono A, Ishida Y, Ohga S, Fukumoto Y, Matsuzawa K, Ogawa S, Miwa S. Molecular analysis of glucose phosphate isomerase deficiency associated with hereditary hemolytic anemia. Blood 1996; 88:2321-5. [PMID: 8822954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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We report here two new cases of glucose phosphate isomerase (GPI) deficiency associated with hemolytic anemia and present the results of molecular analysis of the five Japanese GPI variants. A Japanese girl (GPI Fukuoka) had an episode of prolonged neonatal jaundice and at 3 years of age was admitted due to acute hemolytic crisis occurring with upper respiratory tract infection. Red blood cell (RBC) GPI activity was decreased to 11.8% of normal and the reduced glutathione (GSH) level of RBCs was slightly decreased. A 54-year-old Japanese man (GPI Iwate) was hospitalized due to chronic active hepatitis, and compensated hemolysis was noted. RBC GPI activity of the proband was decreased to 18.8%, and the GSH content was about half of the normal mean value. Sequencing of the reticulocyte GPIcDNA showed homozygous missense mutations 1028CAG-->CGG (343Gln-->Arg), 14ACC-->A7C (5Thr-->lle), 671ACG-->A7G (224Thr-->Met), and 1615GAC-->AAC (539Asp-->Asn) in GPI Narita, GPI Matsumoto, GPI Iwate, and GPI Fukuoka, respectively. We also identified GPI Kinki as a compound heterozygote of 1124ACA-->AGA(375Thr-->Arg)/ 1615GAC-->AAC(539Asp-->Asn). Our findings, together with the previous results of other investigators, showed that the GPI gene mutations so far identified were heterogeneous, although most GPI variants had common biochemical characteristics such as heat instability and normal kinetics. Several amino acid substitutions were identified in the proximity of the catalytically important amino acid residues such as Ser/Asp 159/160, Asp341, and Lys518, which have been identified in the structural analysis of the pig GPI. The molecular characterization of human GPI variants, therefore, may provide new insights into the genotype-phenotype correlation of GPI deficiency as well as the structure-function relationship of this enzyme.
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- H Kanno
- Okinaka Memorial Institute For Medical Research, Tokyo, Japan
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A new mutation of the G-6PD gene at position 910 is described. Biochemical analysis suggests that a conformational change results in the enzymatic deficiency associated with G-6PD(West Virginia).
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- S J Corey
- Division of Hematology-Oncology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Rees DC, Rochette J, Schofield C, Green B, Morris M, Parker NE, Sasaki H, Tanaka A, Ohba Y, Clegg JB. A novel silent posttranslational mechanism converts methionine to aspartate in hemoglobin Bristol (beta 67[E11] Val-Met->Asp). Blood 1996; 88:341-8. [PMID: 8704193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The first reported case of congenital Heinz body hemolytic anemia was subsequently shown to be caused by an unstable hemoglobin, Hb Bristol [beta 67(E11) Val-Asp]. This has become one of the classic models of an unstable hemoglobin, the hydrophilic aspartate disrupting the hydrophobic heme pocket. We have restudied this original case, who remains clinically well after nearly 50 years of severe hemolysis with a hemoglobin level of about 7 g/dL and two unrelated Japanese cases. Surprisingly, all three cases show the same DNA changes, predicting a valine to methionine change at beta 67, rather than the expected aspartate. Further analysis with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and globin chain biosynthesis strongly suggests that this anomaly is because of a novel posttranslational mechanism, with slow conversion of the translated methionine into an aspartate residue. The proximity of the heme and oxygen may be important in facilitating the reaction. These findings show the importance of complete characterization of variant hemoglobins using protein, DNA, and biosynthetic analyses.
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- D C Rees
- MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK
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Efremov DG, Ivanovski M, Siljanovski N, Pozzato G, Cevreska L, Fais F, Chiorazzi N, Batista FD, Burrone OR. Restricted immunoglobulin VH region repertoire in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Blood 1996; 87:3869-76. [PMID: 8611714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Between 10% and 25% of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients have episodes of autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) during the course of their disease. The anti-erythrocyte autoantibodies in most cases are polyclonal and express a different heavy chain isotype than the malignant clone, indicating that they are secreted by normal autoreactive B lymphocytes. To further investigate the pathogenesis of the AIHA in CLL, we analyzed the lg heavy (H) chain variable region genes expressed by leukemic cells from CLL patients with and without AIHA. Two VH genes were preferentially expressed by the leukemic cells in the CLL cases with AIHA and were present in 9 of the 12 investigated cases. The 51p1/DP-10 gene was expressed in 5 of these cases and was absent in the control group of 12 consecutive CLL cases without AIHA, whereas the DP-50 gene was present in 4 CLL-AIHA cases and only once in the control CLL group. A strikingly similar H-chain CDR3 region that contained a single reading frame of the DXP4 DH gene segment, and N-encoded proline at the DH/JH boundary, and a tyrosine-rich region encoded by the JH6 gene segment was observed in four CLL-AIHA cases. The preferential expression of two VH gene segments and a particular CDR3 region by the leukemic cells of patients with AIHA suggests that the antibodies produced by the CLL cells are directly involved in the pathogenesis of the hemolytic anemia.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Anemia, Hemolytic/complications
- Anemia, Hemolytic/genetics
- Anemia, Hemolytic/immunology
- Autoantibodies/immunology
- Autoimmunity
- Base Sequence
- Gene Rearrangement/immunology
- Genes, Immunoglobulin
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region/genetics
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region/immunology
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/complications
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/genetics
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/immunology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Sequence Analysis
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- D G Efremov
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy
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Razi-Wolf Z, Höllander GA, Reiser H. Activation of CD4+ T lymphocytes form interleukin 2-deficient mice by costimulatory B7 molecules. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1996; 93:2903-8. [PMID: 8610140 PMCID: PMC39732 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.7.2903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Interleukin 2 (IL-2)-deficient (IL-2-/-) mice develop hemolytic anemia and chronic inflammatory bowel disease. Importantly, the induction of disease in IL-2-deficient mice is critically dependent on CD4+ T cells. We have studied the requirements of T cells from IL-2-deficient mice for costimulation with B7 antigens. Stable B7-1 or B7-2 chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell transfectants could synergize with anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (mAb) to induce the proliferation of CD4+ T cells from IL-2-/- mutant mice. Further mechanistic studies established that B7-induced activation resulted in surface expression of the alpha chain of the IL-2 receptor. B7-induced proliferation occurred independently of IL-4 and was largely independent of the common gamma chain of the IL-2, IL-4, IL-7, IL-9, and IL-15 receptors. Finally, anti-B7-2 but not anti-B7-1 mAb was able to inhibit the activation of IL-2-/- T cells induced by anti-CD3 mAb in the presence of syngeneic antigen-presenting cells. The results of our experiments indicate that IL-2-/- CD4+ T cells remain responsive to B7 stimulation and raise the possibility that B7 antagonists have a role in the prevention/treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.
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- Z Razi-Wolf
- Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- L Baronciani
- Divisione di Ematologia c/o Centro Trasfusionale e di Immunologia dei Trapianti, Ospedale Maggiore, Milano, Italy.
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Rouger H, Valentin C, Craescu CT, Galactéros F, Cohen-Solal M. Five unknown mutations in the LR pyruvate kinase gene associated with severe hereditary nonspherocytic haemolytic anaemia in France. Br J Haematol 1996; 92:825-30. [PMID: 8616073 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1996.405941.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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A survey of PK-deficient patients by molecular biology techniques has been performed in France in 26 unrelated families, in which at least one mutation has been characterized. The patients, of European or North African origin, exhibited approximatively 10% of PK activity. Among the PK-R mutants described, mutation G1529-->A (Arg-509-->Gln) was the most frequent. The strategy followed for the description of PK mutants in France firstly involves determination of this mutation by PCR amplification and restriction enzyme digestion and, secondly, the sequencing of the gene for negative samples. Study of the mutation at residue 509 in 26 unrelated families indicated that 10/52 defective alleles possessed this mutation. Our study described seven different mutations; five of these have not as yet been documented. Two frameshift mutations were found: the deletion of one G base in a repetition of four Gs in position 1231-1234 (PK Mondor), del C-1527 (PK Rouen), and three missense mutations: G382-->C (Ala-114-->Pro) (PK Val-de-Marne), C398-->T (Ser-119-->Phe) (PK Beaujon), A1217-->G (Asn-392-->Ser) (PK Paris). Two mutations which were detected have been reported previously: C760-->T (Glu-240-->End) and G1529-->A (Arg-509-->Gln.
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- H Rouger
- Unité INSERM U91, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France
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Coetzer TL, Beeton L, van Zyl D, Field SP, Agherdien A, Smart E, Daniels GL. Southeast Asian ovalocytosis in a South African kindred with hemolytic anemia. Blood 1996; 87:1656-7. [PMID: 8608262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Cherif-Zahar B, Raynal V, Gane P, Mattei MG, Bailly P, Gibbs B, Colin Y, Cartron JP. Candidate gene acting as a suppressor of the RH locus in most cases of Rh-deficiency. Nat Genet 1996; 12:168-73. [PMID: 8563755 DOI: 10.1038/ng0296-168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The Rh antigen is a multi-subunit complex composed of Rh polypeptides and associated glycoproteins (Rh50, CD47, LW and glycophorin B); these interact in the red cell membrane and are lacking or severely reduced in Rhnull cells. As a result, individuals with Rhnull suffer chronic haemolytic anaemia known as the Rh-deficiency syndrome. Most frequently, Rhnull phenotypes are caused by homozygosity of an autosomal suppressor gene unlinked to the RH locus (Rhnull regulator or Rhmod types). We have analysed the genes and transcripts encoding Rh, CD47 and Rh50 proteins in five such unrelated Rhnull cases. In all patients, we identified alteration of Rh50--frameshift, nucleotide mutations, or failure of amplification--which correlated with Rhnull phenotype. We propose that mutant alleles of Rh50, which map to chromosome 6p11-21.1, are likely candidates for suppressors of the RH locus accounting for most cases of Rh-deficiency.
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- B Cherif-Zahar
- INSERM U76, GIP-Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, Paris, France
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Hazani A, Eldor A, Shechter Y, Etzioni A. Familial relapsing thrombotic micro-angiopathy in two siblings. Eur J Pediatr 1996; 155:99-101. [PMID: 8775222 DOI: 10.1007/bf02075759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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UNLABELLED Two siblings, a 12-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy, had recurrent episodes of haemolytic-uraemic syndrome/thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, manifested mainly by thrombocytopenia and micro-angiopathic haemolytic anaemia. During 11 years of follow up the girl responded only to steroids, whereas many other therapeutic modalities were ineffective. Following treatment with low dose danazol relapses became fewer and of diminished severity and completely subsided after 6 months. The boy started his illness with signs of haemolytic uraemic syndrome and later developed neurological manifestations. During a 6 year follow up he responded only to plasma exchange. Although chronic thrombocytopenia persisted during the past 3 years, the boy's clinical condition improved. CONCLUSION A family with two children with recurrent episodes of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura is described. In one child danazol could have had a beneficial effect.
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- A Hazani
- Department of Haematology, B. Rappaport School of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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Molecular abnormalities of erythroenzymopathies associated with hereditary hemolytic anemia have been determined by means of molecular biology. Pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency is the most common and well-characterized enzyme deficiency in the glycolytic pathway, and it causes hereditary hemolytic anemia. To date, 47 gene mutations have been identified. We identified one base deletion, one splicing mutation, and six distinct missense mutations in 12 unrelated families with a homozygous PK deficiency. Mutations located near the substrate or fructose-1,6- diphosphate binding site may change the conformation of the active site, resulting in a drastic loss of activity and severe clinical symptoms. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD)deficiency is the most common metabolic disorder, and it is associated with chronic hemolytic anemia and/or drug- or infection-induced acute hemolytic attack. An estimated 400 million people are affected worldwide. The mutations responsible for about 78 variants have been determined. Some have polymorphic frequencies in different populations. Most variants are produced by one or two nucleotide substitutions. Molecular studies have disclosed that most of the class 1 G6PD variants associated with chronic hemolysis have the mutations surrounding either the substrate or the NADP binding site. Among rare enzymopathies, missense mutations have been determined in deficiencies of glucosephosphate isomerase, (TPI), phosphoglycerate kinase, and adenylate kinase. Compound heterozygosity with missense mutation and base deletion has been determined in deficiencies of hexokinase and diphosphoglyceromutase. Compound heterozygosity with missense and nonsense mutations has been identified in TPI deficiency. One base junction mutations resulting in abnormally spliced PFK-M mRNA have been identified in homozygous PFK deficiency. An exception is hemolytic anemia due to increased adenosine deaminase activity. The basic abnormality appears to result from the overproduction of a structurally normal enzyme.
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- S Miwa
- Okinawa Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Japan
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Delaunay J, Alloisio N, Morle L, Baklouti F, Dalla Venezia N, Maillet P, Wilmotte R. Molecular genetics of hereditary elliptocytosis and hereditary spherocytosis. Ann Genet 1996; 39:209-21. [PMID: 9037349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Red cells ow their mechanical properties, that is, their resistance and their elastic deformability, to a protein network that laminates the lipid bilayer and to proteins spanning the latter. All proteins are interconnected. Their structure, as well as the structure of the corresponding genes, will be outlined. Numerous mutations have allowed to reclassify hereditary elliptocytosis (HE) and poikilocytosis (HP), and, more recently, hereditary spherocytosis (HS) into well defined subsets of hereditary hemolytic anemias. HE stems from changes in the SPTA1, SPTB, EL1 and (exceptionally) GPYC genes that encode spectrin alpha- and beta- chains, protein 4.1 and glycophorin C/D, respectively. HS derives from altercations in the ANK1, EPB3 and ELB42 genes, encoding ankyrin, band 3 and protein 4.2, respectively, and also in the SPTA1 and SPTB genes. We will present a repertory of the known mutations. Innumerable polymorphisms will not be considered here, except for a few remarkable ones. Some general points must be stressed on. (a) Clinically conspicuous disorders are often the result of two alleles interacting in trans to one another. Whereas one allele causes moderate symptoms by itself, the other one is usually silent in the simple heterozygous (and exceptionally in the homozygous) state. As a result, the number of potentially pathogenic alleles is much more important than had been initially suspected. (b) The reduction or the loss of a protein within multiprotein assemblies are frequently encountered in red cell membrane genetic diseases; it leads to the disruption of the complexes with the possible disappearance of the other proteins than the mutated protein. (c) The above genes being also expressed in nonerythroid tissues, one starts finding multisyndromic conditions adding non-hematological manifestations to hemolysis. It is puzzling, though, that such situations are not more frequent. (d) In practice, the molecular diagnosis of HE and HS has reached a semi-routine stage that helps very much the paediatricians and haematologists.
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- J Delaunay
- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire Humaine, CNRS URA 1171, Institut Pasteur de Lyon, France
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Joiner CH, Franco RS, Jiang M, Franco MS, Barker JE, Lux SE. Increased cation permeability in mutant mouse red blood cells with defective membrane skeletons. Blood 1995; 86:4307-14. [PMID: 7492791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Cellular cation homeostasis in mouse erythrocytes with defective membrane skeletons was examined in three mouse mutants, hemolytic anemia (sphha/sphha), spherocytosis (sph/sph), and normoblastosis (nb/nb), and compared with reticulocytes produced by repetitive bleeding of congenic normal mice. To assess reticulocyte maturity, nucleic acid and transferrin receptor contents were measured by fluorescence flow cytometry; mutant cells were somewhat more mature than normal reticulocytes by these criteria. Red blood cell (RBC) sodium contents (Nac+) in homozygous sphha/sphha, sph/sph, and nb/nb animals were 30.1 +/- 0.9, 28.9 +/- 0.3, and 26.9 +/- 1.5 mmol/L cell, respectively, whereas cellular potassium (Kc+) was 102 +/- 2.6, 101 +/- 7.8, and 97.4 +/- 3.0. Nac+ and Kc+ in normal reticulocyte preparations were 11.3 +/- 0.7 and 123 +/- 10, respectively. Net Na+ and K+ fluxes in the presence of ouabain were markedly increased in mutant RBCs. Sodium uptake was 14.8 +/- 1.6, 15.4 +/- 3.3, and 14.7 +/- 3.1 mmol/L cell/h in sphha/sphha, sph/sph, and nb/nb mutants, respectively, whereas K+ loss was 17.0 +/- 4.0, 15.0 +/- 3.8, and 14.1 +/- 2.6. Normal mouse reticulocytes gained Na+ at a rate of 3.9 +/- 1.0 mmol/L cell/h and lost K+ at 6.0 +/- 2.1, rates indistinguishable from those in mature mouse RBCs. Potassium loss from sphha/sphha and nb/nb cells was not dependent on the presence of a Na+ gradient, and net cation movements were insensitive to bumetanide (sphha/sphha and nb/nb RBCs) and to chloride replacement with sulfamate (nb/nb cells). We conclude that mutant mouse RBCs with dysfunctional membrane skeletons have increased passive permeability to monovalent cations. These findings support a role of the membrane skeleton in the maintenance of the membrane permeability barrier and suggest that the abnormal permeability associated with human hereditary spherocytosis and elliptocytosis may be a consequence of the membrane skeleton defects reported in these disorders.
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- C H Joiner
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, OH, USA
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Schneider A, Westwood B, Yim C, Prchal J, Berkow R, Labotka R, Warrier R, Beutler E. Triosephosphate isomerase deficiency: repetitive occurrence of point mutation in amino acid 104 in multiple apparently unrelated families. Am J Hematol 1995; 50:263-8. [PMID: 7485100 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.2830500407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The molecular basis of triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) deficiency was studied in 3 patients from three separate families. In all 3 patients, genomic DNA directly sequenced after amplification by the polymerase chain reaction exhibited the point mutation TPI315C amino acid 104 Glu-->Asp. Although other mutations known to cause TPI deficiency have been restricted to single families, the amino acid 104 defect has now been described in nine apparently unrelated families throughout the world and is clearly the most frequently occurring form of the disorder. The basis of the repetitive occurrence of this mutation remains unexplained.
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- A Schneider
- Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA
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Band 7.2b is an integral membrane phosphoprotein absent from the erythrocyte membranes of patients with hereditary hydrocytosis, a hemolytic anemia inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion and characterized by stomatocytic red blood cells with abnormal permeability to Na+ and K+. The precise role of band 7.2b is unknown, but it may interact with other proteins of the junctional complex of the membrane skeleton. To gain additional insight into the structure and function of this protein and to provide the necessary tools for further genetic studies of hydrocytosis patients, we determined the sequence of the full-length human band 7.2b cDNA, characterized the genomic structure of the band 7.2b gene, studied its pattern of expression in different tissues, and characterized the promoter of the gene. The composite band 7.2b gene cDNA was 3047 base pairs in length. Northern blot analysis revealed a wide tissue distribution of expression of the band 7.2b gene, with utilization of alternative polyadenylation signals generating transcripts of 2.2 and 3.1 kilobases. Cloning of the band 7.2b chromosomal gene revealed that it is composed of seven exons distributed over 40 kilobases of DNA. The band 7.2b gene promoter was identified as a TATA-less, (G+C)-rich promoter with a typical InR recognition sequence and a single transcription initiation site. It directed high level expression of a reporter gene in both erythroid and nonerythroid cells. An imperfect simple sequence repeat polymorphism was identified in the 5'-flanking DNA, and an assay was developed for its analysis by PCR.
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MESH Headings
- 3T3 Cells
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Anemia, Hemolytic/blood
- Anemia, Hemolytic/genetics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Blood Proteins/biosynthesis
- Blood Proteins/genetics
- Blotting, Northern
- Cell Line
- Consensus Sequence
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Complementary
- Exons
- Gene Expression
- Genetic Variation
- Hominidae/genetics
- Humans
- Introns
- Leukemia, Erythroblastic, Acute
- Membrane Proteins/genetics
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/biosynthesis
- Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Restriction Mapping
- Transfection
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- P G Gallagher
- Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8021, USA
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Morlé F, Francina A, Ducrocq R, Wajcman H, Gonnet C, Philippe N, Souillet G, Godet J. A new alpha chain variant Hb Sallanches [alpha 2 104(G11) Cys-->Tyr] associated with HbH disease in one homozygous patient. Br J Haematol 1995; 91:608-11. [PMID: 8555062 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.1995.tb05355.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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We identified a new alpha-chain variant (alpha Sal) associated with haemolytic anaemia and low level of HbH in one homozygous patient. This new mutation is located in codon 104 (TGC-->TAC) of the alpha 2 globin gene and results in a Cys-->Tyr replacement. In vitro and in vivo biosynthetic studies suggest that the mechanism leading to HbH disease in this homozygous patient is mostly related to a significant instability of alpha Sal:beta dimers rather than to the hyperinstability of the alpha Sal chain itself only.
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- F Morlé
- Centre de Génétique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS UMR 106, Villeurbanne, France
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The structure of the gene for human glucose phosphate isomerase (GPI) has been determined. Three GPI clones were isolated from a human genomic library by using a full-length GPI cDNA probe and were characterized. Oligonucleotides based on the known cDNA sequence were used as primers in amplification and sequence analyses. This led to the identification of the exon-intron junctions. By this approach, 18 exons and 17 introns have been identified. The exons range in size from 44 to 431 nucleotides. The intronic sequences surrounding the exons provide useful information for the identification of mutations that give rise to human GPI deficiency associated with chronic hemolytic anemia.
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- W Xu
- Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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We present two male siblings with intrahepatic cholestasis and prolonged indirect hyperbilirubinaemia. Their familial intrahepatic cholestasis syndrome was characterized by Coombs' negative haemolytic anaemia, without giant cell transformation of hepatocytes and high concentrations of serum gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase and cholesterol. By gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, we detected large amounts of 1 beta-hydroxylated bile acids, especially 1 beta,3 alpha,7 alpha,12 alpha-tetrahydroxy-5 beta-cholan-24-oic acid (25.5-67.9% of total urine bile acids) in the urine during phenobarbital therapy. However, the amount of urinary 1 beta-hydroxylated bile acids gradually decreased as the disease progressed. At the end-stage, we detected large amounts of 7 alpha,12 alpha-dihydroxy-3-oxochol-4-en-24-oic acid (19.6% of total urine bile acids). The ratio of 7 alpha,12 alpha-dihydroxy-3-oxochol-4-en-24-oic acid to cholic acid in the urine was 0.8. We conclude that in infants with end-stage liver failure, the microsomal hydroxylation of bile acids is impaired and the excretion of delta 4-3-oxo bile acids is increased.
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- A Kimura
- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan
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Whitney KM, Lothrop CD. Genetic test for pyruvate kinase deficiency of Basenjis. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1995; 207:918-21. [PMID: 7559024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency is an autosomal, recessive, inherited disease of Basenjis that causes chronic, regenerative, hemolytic anemia. Diagnostic methods currently used to identify carrier animals rely on measurement of erythrocyte PK activity and frequently give equivocal results. A genetic test incorporating polymerase chain reaction amplification of genomic DNA and restriction fragment length polymorphism has been developed to determine the PK genotype of Basenjis. To determine whether results of this genetic test compared with results of standard tests for PK deficiency, erythrocyte PK activity, hematocrit, and reticulocyte counts were determined in, and the genetic test was performed on, 24 dogs. The genetic test accurately identified the 11 dogs whose PK genotype was known prior to this study, and results were consistent with results of measuring erythrocyte PK activity in the remaining 13 dogs. The genetic test may be of value in determining PK genotype of Basenjis.
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- K M Whitney
- Scott-Ritchey Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University, AL 36849, USA
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Srivastava P, Kaeda JS, Roper D, Vulliamy TJ, Buckley M, Luzzatto L. Severe hemolytic anemia associated with the homozygous state for an unstable hemoglobin variant (Hb Bushwick). Blood 1995; 86:1977-82. [PMID: 7655024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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We have investigated a 13-year-old girl from first cousin parents who presented with severe hemolytic anemia. Hematologic studies showed unstable hemoglobin (Hb) disease (chronic Heinz body anemia), and DNA analysis showed that the patient was homozygous for the previously reported abnormal Hb called Hb Bushwick (beta 74E18 gly-->val). Hb Bushwick is unstable in vitro and in vivo. In addition, using globin chain biosynthetic studies, we show that the beta (Bushwick) chains are unstable. Six members of the patient's family were heterozygous for Hb Bushwick and had a compensated hemolytic disorder. By contrast, the homozygous patient had chronic anemia caused by a combination of hemolysis and ineffective erythropoiesis that was subject to severe exacerbation concomitant with infection. Thus, although unstable Hb disease is correctly regarded as dominant, we clearly see a dosage effect in its expression, whereby the homozygous state is still compatible with life although the red blood cells contain nearly 100% unstable Hb.
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- P Srivastava
- Department of Hematology, Burton Hospitals NHS Trust, Burton on Trent, UK
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Vives Corrons JL, Besson I, Aymerich M, Ayala S, Alloisio N, Delaunay J, Gonzalez I, Manrubia E. Hereditary xerocytosis: a report of six unrelated Spanish families with leaky red cell syndrome and increased heat stability of the erythrocyte membrane. Br J Haematol 1995; 90:817-22. [PMID: 7669659 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.1995.tb05201.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Hereditary xerocytosis (HX) is a rare haemolytic disease due to dehydrated red blood cells (RBCs). A unique feature of this syndrome is that affected members often show normal or near normal haemoglobin levels despite clinical and laboratory evidence of mild to moderate haemolysis. The diagnostic clue is the association of markedly increased RBC Na+ + K+ fluxes with low total cation (Na+ + K+) content. 11 patients of six unrelated families of Spanish origin with HX have been studied from clinical, genetical and biological points of view. In addition, we have investigated the sensitivity of RBC membrane to heat at three different incubation times (15, 30 and 60 min) and two different temperature values (46 degrees C and 49 degrees C). Under these conditions control RBCs (50 normal subjects) exhibited at 49 degrees C and 30 min a maximum of 30% fragmented RBCs. This value increased to 80% after 60 min of incubation. In contrast, patients with HX showed significantly lower percentages of fragmented RBCs at both 30 and 60 min of incubation (maximum 10% and 30%, respectively). In an attempt to determine if increased heat stability was unique to HX RBCs, several other congenital membranopathies with haemolytic anaemia were also studied. The degree of fragmentation, except in one case of HPP (which was strongly increased), did not differ from the control group. Electrophoretic studies of membrane proteins performed in RBCs of all the patients with HX did not explain any qualitative nor quantitative abnormality. In addition to its physiopathological interest, study of RBC heat stability, together with other haematological parameters (increased MCHC and decreased RBC osmotic fragility), may be useful for HX diagnosis, especially in laboratories which are not equipped to evaluate RBC membrane permeability.
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- J L Vives Corrons
- Haematology Laboratory Department, Hospital Clínic i Provincial, University of Barcelona, Spain
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Gallagher PG, Romana M, Lieman JH, Ward DC. cDNA structure, tissue-specific expression, and chromosomal localization of the murine band 7.2b gene. Blood 1995; 86:359-65. [PMID: 7540886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Band 7.2b is an integral phosphoprotein absent from the erythrocyte membranes of patients with hydrocytosis, an autosomal, dominantly inherited, hemolytic anemia characterized by stomatocytic red blood cells with abnormal permeability to Na+ and K+. The role of this protein in the erythrocyte membrane is not well understood. To gain additional insight into the structure and function of this protein, we have cloned the murine band 7.2b cDNA and studied its tissue-specific expression. 2,873 bp of cDNA with an open reading frame of 852 bp were isolated. This fragment encodes a protein of 284 amino acids with a predicted molecular weight of 31 kD. The band 7.2b gene had a wide pattern of expression, with high levels of mRNA in heart, liver, skeletal muscle, and testis and low levels in lung, brain, and spleen. Using fluorescent in situ hybridization, the murine band 7.2b gene was mapped to chromosome 2, at the border of the distal region of 2B and proximal region of C1, syntenic to 9q33-q34, the location of the human homologue. Models of the predicted protein structure showed a short NH2-terminal head, a strongly hydrophobic 28-amino acid stretch presumably encoding a single membrane-spanning domain, and a large domain composed of beta sheet and alpha helix. Database searching showed no significant homology of other known proteins to murine or human band 7.2b.
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- P G Gallagher
- Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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Lowenthal EA, Prchal JT. Parvovirus B19 induced red blood cell aplasia in a patient with hereditary pyropoikilocytosis. Blood 1995; 86:411-2. [PMID: 7795252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Anemia, Aplastic/complications
- Anemia, Aplastic/therapy
- Anemia, Aplastic/virology
- Anemia, Hemolytic/complications
- Anemia, Hemolytic/genetics
- DNA, Viral/blood
- Erythema Infectiosum/complications
- Erythrocyte Transfusion
- Erythrocytes, Abnormal
- Humans
- Immunoglobulins, Intravenous/therapeutic use
- Male
- Parvovirus B19, Human/isolation & purification
- Parvovirus B19, Human/pathogenicity
- Viremia/complications
- Viremia/virology
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Hayette S, Morle L, Bozon M, Ghanem A, Risinger M, Korsgren C, Tanner MJ, Fattoum S, Cohen CM, Delaunay J. A point mutation in the protein 4.2 gene (allele 4.2 Tozeur) associated with hereditary haemolytic anaemia. Br J Haematol 1995; 89:762-70. [PMID: 7772513 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.1995.tb08413.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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A recessively transmitted haemolytic anaemia associated with the lack of protein 4.2 was found in a Tunisian kindred. Trace amounts of this protein (72 kD component) became visible using high-sensitivity Western blots. Band 3 and ankyrin genes were excluded as candidate genes by linkage studies, and nucleotide sequencing of band 3 cytoplasmic domain cDNA revealed no alteration. In contrast, protein 4.2 gene contained in the homozygous state a mutation at position 310: CGA-->CAA (Arg-->Gln). This mutation defining allele 4.2 Tozeur was co-inherited with the disease. The mRNA encoding the variant protein was normal in size and approximately normal in amount. Recombinant protein 4.2 Tozeur bound normally to red cell IOVs but disclosed an increased susceptibility to proteolysis in vitro. We infer that the nearly total absence of protein 4.2 in the patients results from imbalance between destruction and synthesis of mutated protein 4.2 prior to its binding to the membrane.
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- S Hayette
- CNRS URA 1171, Institut Pasteur de Lyon, France
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Mason PJ, Sonati MF, MacDonald D, Lanza C, Busutil D, Town M, Corcoran CM, Kaeda JS, Stevens DJ, al-Ismail S. New glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase mutations associated with chronic anemia. Blood 1995; 85:1377-80. [PMID: 7858267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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We have identified the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase mutations responsible for enzyme deficiency in nine individuals with chronic nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia. We found the variants Tokyo, Iowa, Shinshu, and Guadalajara in British subjects and Kobe in an Italian. In addition we have determined the variant Corum has the mutation 820 G-->A and have found in British subjects the mis-sense mutations 224 T-->C, 488 G-->A and 833 C-->T which have not been described before. Some, but not all, of the mutations involve amino acids located near putative substrate binding sites.
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- P J Mason
- Department of Haematology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
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Hirono A, Fujii H, Miwa S. Identification of two novel deletion mutations in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase gene causing hemolytic anemia. Blood 1995; 85:1118-21. [PMID: 7849299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Among over 50 distinct mutations causing glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, only two deletion mutations have so far been reported. Using nonradioisotopic single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis, we found two additional deletion mutations in two Japanese G6PD-deficient patients with nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia. Case no. 1 had a 3-nucleotide deletion in exon 6 predicting a deletion of a serine at amino acid 188 or 189, which caused a class 1 variant G6PD Tsukui. Case no. 2 had a 3-nucleotide deletion in exon 5 predicting a deletion of a lysine at residue 95, which caused a class 2 variant G6PD Urayasu. The 188th serine, which might be deleted in G6PD Tsukui, is located close to the putative G6P binding site. The 188th serine is also involved in the amino acid substitution in G6PD Mediterranean, but the kinetics of these two variants are totally different. The residue with an amino acid deletion in G6PD Urayasu was distant from the substrate binding sites and was located in a region with low sequence homology among species. The different properties of variants having mutations in exons 5 and 6 suggest that these two exons code distinct functional domains of the enzyme.
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- A Hirono
- Okinaka Memorial Institute for Medical Research; the Department of Blood Transfusion Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Japan
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Xu W, Westwood B, Bartsocas CS, Malcorra-Azpiazu JJ, Indrák K, Beutler E. Glucose-6 phosphate dehydrogenase mutations and haplotypes in various ethnic groups. Blood 1995; 85:257-63. [PMID: 7803800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Mutations that produce glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency have been identified in samples from patients with hemolytic disease in the United States, and in G6PD-deficient samples from Greece, the Canary Islands, the Czech and Slovak Republics, South China, and in samples from the Coriell Cell Repository. Eight new mutations are described. Particularly unusual were a nonsense mutation ("G6PD Georgia"1284A), a deletion of six bases ("G6PD Stony Brook" 724-729 del) coding for two amino acids, and a deletion of the invariant dinucleotide ApG at the 3' acceptor splice site in the highly conserved sequence between intron 10 and exon 11 ("G6PD Varnsdorf"). In addition, five new missense point mutations were identified: "G6PD Cleveland"820A creates a deduced AA 274 Glu-->Lys; "G6PD West Virginia"910T AA 303 Val-->Phe; "G6PD Fushan"1004A, AA 335 Ala-->Asp; "G6PD Olomouc"1141C AA 381 Leu-->Phe; and "G6PD Praha"1166G AA 389 Glu-->Gly. All of the new mutations except for "G6PD Fushan"1004A were found in patients with hereditary nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia. A coincidental finding in the case of G6PD "West Virginia" was a C-->T transition at nucleotide 1,191. This silent mutation, Asn-->Asn, appears to be rare. Haplotype analysis of mutations in samples from the Canary Islands and South China agreed with previous findings.
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- W Xu
- Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037
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Ganczakowski M, Town M, Bowden DK, Vulliamy TJ, Kaneko A, Clegg JB, Weatherall DJ, Luzzatto L. Multiple glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient variants correlate with malaria endemicity in the Vanuatu archipelago (southwestern Pacific). Am J Hum Genet 1995; 56:294-301. [PMID: 7825590 PMCID: PMC1801293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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In studying the relationship between genetic abnormalities of red blood cells and malaria endemicity in the Vanuatu archipelago in the southwestern Pacific, we have found that of 1,442 males tested, 98 (6.8%) were G6PD deficient. The prevalence of GdPD deficiency varied widely (0%-39%), both from one island to another and in different parts of the same island, and generally correlated positively with the degree of malaria transmission. The properties of G6PD from GdPD-deficient subjects were analyzed in a subset of 53 samples. In all cases the residual red-blood-cell activity was < 10%. There were three phenotypic patterns. PCR amplification and sequencing of the entire coding region of the G6PD gene showed that the first of these patterns corresponded to G6PD Union (nucleotide 1360C-->T; amino acid 454Arg-->Cys), previously encountered elsewhere. Analysis of samples exhibiting the second pattern revealed two new mutants: G6PD Vanua Lava (nucleotide 383T-->C; amino acid 128Leu-->Pro) and G6PD Namoru (nucleotide 208T-->C; amino acid 70Tyr-->His); in three samples, the underlying mutation has not yet been identified. Analysis of the sample exhibiting the third pattern revealed another new mutant: G6PD Naone (nucleotide 497G-->A; amino acid 166Arg-->His). Of the four mutations, G6PD Union and G6PD Vanua Lava have a polymorphic frequency in more than one island; and G6PD Vanua Lava has also been detected in a sample from Papua New Guinea. G6PD deficiency is of clinical importance in Vanuatu because it is a cause of neonatal jaundice and is responsible for numerous episodes of drug-induced acute hemolytic anemia.
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- M Ganczakowski
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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The head-end associations of spectrin give rise to tetramers and make it possible for the molecule to form networks. We analyzed the head-end associations of Drosophila spectrin in vitro and in vivo. Immunoprecipitation assays using protein fragments synthesized in vitro from recombinant DNA showed that interchain binding at the head end was mediated by segment 0-1 of alpha-spectrin and segment 18 of beta-spectrin. Point mutations equivalent to erythroid spectrin mutations that are responsible for human hemolytic anemias diminished Drosophila spectrin head-end interchain binding in vitro. To test the in vivo consequence of deficient head-end interchain binding, we introduced constructs expressing head-end interchain binding mutant alpha-spectrin into the Drosophila genome and tested for rescue of an alpha-spectrin null mutation. An alpha-spectrin minigene lacking the codons for head-end interchain binding failed to rescue the lethality of the null mutant, whereas a minigene with a point mutation in these codons overcame the lethality of the null mutant in a temperature-dependent manner. The rescued flies were viable and fertile at 25 degrees C, but they became sterile because of defects in oogenesis when shifted to 29 degrees C. At 29 degrees C, egg chamber tissue disruption and cell shape changes were evident, even though the mutant spectrin remained stably associated with cell membranes. Our results show that spectrin's capacity to form a network is a crucial aspect of its function in nonerythroid cells.
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- H Deng
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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Hayette S, Dhermy D, dos Santos ME, Bozon M, Drenckhahn D, Alloisio N, Texier P, Delaunay J, Morlé L. A deletional frameshift mutation in protein 4.2 gene (allele 4.2 Lisboa) associated with hereditary hemolytic anemia. Blood 1995; 85:250-6. [PMID: 7803799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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We studied a 26-year-old Portuguese patient with recessively transmitted hereditary hemolytic anemia. Protein 4.2 was absent from red cell ghosts by Western blotting. Although the 4.2 mRNA was not detected in Northern blots, it was shown to be present by a procedure based on nested reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Partial nucleotide sequencing disclosed a one-nucleotide deletion at nt 264 (or 265): AAG GTG-->AAG TG, in codon 88 (or 89) belonging to exon 2. This change, defining allele 4.2 Lisboa, placed in frame the nonsense triplet that normally overlaps codons 136 and 137 (GTG ACC). This mutation, which abolishes an EcoNI site, was also found in the gene of the proband (homozygous state), her parents, and her brother (heterozygous state). Apart from anemia, the patient was free of clinical manifestations. Platelet membranes were also investigated using Western blots. Antibodies to red cell protein 4.2 showed a doublet (72 and 70 kD) both in the controls and the patient. This finding raises an interesting question concerning the relationship between this doublet and erythroid protein 4.2.
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- S Hayette
- CNRS URA 1171, Institut Pasteur de Lyon, France
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Xu W, Beutler E. The characterization of gene mutations for human glucose phosphate isomerase deficiency associated with chronic hemolytic anemia. J Clin Invest 1994; 94:2326-9. [PMID: 7989588 PMCID: PMC330061 DOI: 10.1172/jci117597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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DNA was isolated from four unrelated glucose phosphate isomerase-deficient patients. Seven new mutations in the coding region were found: 247 C-->T, 671 C-->T, 818 G-->A, 833 C-->T, 1039 C-->T, 1459 C-->T, and 1483 G-->A. Three patients were compound heterozygotes, and one patient was a homozygote of 247 C-->T/247 C-->T. Six mutations were found to involve highly conserved amino acids of glucose phosphate isomerase, suggesting that these residues are crucial for the maintenance of biological activity. Two polymorphic sites were also identified, 489 A-->G and 1356 G-->C, which do not produce a change in the amino acid sequence.
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- W Xu
- Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
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Beutler E. G6PD deficiency. Blood 1994; 84:3613-36. [PMID: 7949118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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- E Beutler
- Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037
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Kanno H, Wei DC, Chan LC, Mizoguchi H, Ando M, Nakahata T, Narisawa K, Fujii H, Miwa S. Hereditary hemolytic anemia caused by diverse point mutations of pyruvate kinase gene found in Japan and Hong Kong. Blood 1994; 84:3505-9. [PMID: 7949104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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We identified four distinct point mutations in homozygous pyruvate kinase (PK) variants in Japanese and Chinese patients with chronic nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia. All gene abnormalities were missense mutations that caused single amino acid substitutions. 1261A (Q421K) and 1436A (R436H), which were identified in PK Sendai and PK Shinshu, had been found in unrelated Japanese and Amish PK variants, respectively. The clinical severity and extremely low residual erythrocyte PK activity of PK Shinshu as well as of the Amish PK might be caused partly by aberrant splicing, because the 1436A mutation changes a nucleotide at the last nucleotide in the exon 10. Recently, we diagnosed a 42-year-old Japanese woman with chronic nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia as having a homozygous PK deficiency. DNA sequencing of the variant PK gene showed a homozygous missense mutation at 1403GCT-->GTT, resulting in a single amino acid substitution from 468la-->Val. The gene mutation is likely to impair the allostericity of this enzyme, speculated from the tertiary structure. A homozygous missense mutation in PK Hong Kong, a boy of a non-Han southern Chinese minority group, was identified in exon 7 of the human L-PK gene, 941ATT-->ACT, resulting in a single amino acid substitution from 314lle-->Thr. The R-PK activity is expected to be severely affected, because the mutated amino acid residue is located between the 313 Lys and the 315 Glu, which are very important for acid-base catalysis and magnesium binding, respectively. Both the R- and M2-type PK were shown by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the PK Hong Kong erythrocyte lysate, and this is the first report of a homozygous individual whose erythrocytes contain the immature (M2)-type isozyme.
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- H Kanno
- Okinaka Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Tokyo, Japan
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Pobedimskaya DD, Molchanova TP, Streichman S, Huisman TH. Compound heterozygosity for two alpha-globin gene defects, Hb Taybe (alpha 1; 38 or 39 minus Thr) and a poly A mutation (alpha 2; AATAAA-->AATAAG), results in a severe hemolytic anemia. Am J Hematol 1994; 47:198-202. [PMID: 7942784 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.2830470310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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We have identified two alpha-globin gene variations in an Arabian male with severe hemolytic disease through sequencing of amplified DNA of his alpha 2- and alpha 1-globin genes. One of the abnormalities involves a CAC (ACC or CCA) deletion between codons 36 and 41 of the alpha 1-globin gene. This leads to the synthesis of an abnormal alpha chain with one instead of two threonine residues at positions 38-39 and to the formation of the unstable Hb Taybe. The second variation is a mutation located in the poly A site of the alpha 2-globin gene (AATAAA-->AATAAG) which is common among Arabian people. Family studies have shown that the two variations are located on opposite chromosomes. The hemolytic disease in this man, resembling Hb H disease, is likely the result of a severe downregulation of both alpha-globin genes on the chromosome with the alpha 2 poly A mutation, and the instability of the alpha-Taybe chain being the product of an alpha 1-globin gene; this leaves only one alpha 2-globin gene normally active.
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- D D Pobedimskaya
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912-2100
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Bloom ML, Kaysser TM, Birkenmeier CS, Barker JE. The murine mutation jaundiced is caused by replacement of an arginine with a stop codon in the mRNA encoding the ninth repeat of beta-spectrin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:10099-103. [PMID: 7937844 PMCID: PMC44965 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.21.10099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
Abstract
The jaundiced, ja/ja, mouse mutant has a severe hemolytic anemia associated with a deficiency of beta-spectrin in erythrocyte ghosts. Genes for the disease phenotype and beta-spectrin colocalize on Chromosome 12. beta-Spectrin mRNA is not detected in reticulocytes or in brain from newborn mutant mice. To locate the nucleotide sequence alteration, the erythroid beta-spectrin transcript from mutant spleen was amplified by reverse transcription PCR and sequenced. A C-to-T alteration is present in the mutant transcript and produces a premature stop codon from an arginine codon in mRNA encoding repeat 9 of beta-spectrin at amino acid position 1160. The point mutation introduces a Dde I site that is present in PCR-amplified DNA of ja/ja and ja/+ mice but not of +/+ control mice from the strain of origin, 129/Sv, or from the two strains, WB/Re and C57BL/6J, in which the mutation has been fixed by over 53 generations of backcrossing. The genetic data confirm that the point mutation is responsible for the severe reductions in beta-spectrin mRNA of jaundiced mice.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Anemia, Hemolytic/blood
- Anemia, Hemolytic/genetics
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Arginine
- Base Sequence
- Brain/metabolism
- Chromosome Mapping
- Cloning, Molecular
- Codon
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA Primers
- Heterozygote
- Homozygote
- Jaundice/genetics
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Point Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Reticulocytes/metabolism
- Spectrin/genetics
- Transcription, Genetic
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- M L Bloom
- Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609
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- S R Miranda
- Department of Clinical Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, State University of Campinas, SP, Brazil
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Cohen-Solal M, Valentin C, Plassa F, Guillemin G, Danze F, Jaisson F, Rosa R. Identification of new mutations in two phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) variants expressing different clinical syndromes: PGK Créteil and PGK Amiens. Blood 1994; 84:898-903. [PMID: 8043870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) deficiency is generally associated with chronic hemolytic anemia, although it can be accompanied by either mental retardation or muscular disease. Genomic DNAs of two PGK-deficient patients previously described in France were sequenced directly after polymerase chain reaction amplification. The PGK Créteil variant arises from a G-->A nucleotide interchange at position 1022 in cDNA (exon 9), resulting in amino acid substitution 314 Asp-->Asn in the C-terminal domain, which contains the nucleotide binding site. It is associated with rhabdomyolysis crises but not with hemolysis or mental retardation. In the other case, which is associated with chronic hemolytic anemia and mental retardation (PGK Amiens), an A-->T nucleotide interchange was found at position 571 in cDNA (exon 5); this leads to amino acid substitution 163 Asp-->Val in the N-terminal domain, which contains the catalytic site for phosphoglycerate binding. These results corroborate the kinetic data observed. In the two cases, the mutations are distinct from others previously reported and no significant relationship could be observed between the location of the amino acid substitution and its clinical consequences.
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- M Cohen-Solal
- Unité INSERM U91, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France
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Mohandas N, Evans E. Mechanical properties of the red cell membrane in relation to molecular structure and genetic defects. Annu Rev Biophys Biomol Struct 1994; 23:787-818. [PMID: 7919799 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.bb.23.060194.004035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 338] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- N Mohandas
- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley 94720
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MESH Headings
- Anemia, Hemolytic/diagnosis
- Anemia, Hemolytic/genetics
- Anemia, Hemolytic/therapy
- Anemia, Hypochromic/diagnosis
- Anemia, Hypochromic/genetics
- Anemia, Hypochromic/therapy
- Anemia, Sickle Cell/diagnosis
- Anemia, Sickle Cell/genetics
- Anemia, Sickle Cell/therapy
- Child, Preschool
- Female
- Hemoglobins/analysis
- Humans
- Infant
- Infections/complications
- Male
- Predictive Value of Tests
- Thalassemia/diagnosis
- Thalassemia/genetics
- Thalassemia/therapy
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- E A Graham
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle
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Hansen JB, Ibsen JS, Pedersen G, Jensen S. [Occult hereditary spherocytosis in aplastic crisis of unknown cause]. Ugeskr Laeger 1993; 155:3928-30. [PMID: 8273201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
Abstract
We describe two cases of aplastic crisis of unknown origin, occurring within one week in a 49-year old man and his 20 year old son. They both had undiagnosed hereditary spherocytosis, and both of them had earlier had a B19-parvo infection without having symptoms of aplastic crisis at the same time. Chronic haemolytic anaemia should be considered in adult patients with acute severe anaemia caused by aplastic crisis.
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- Adult
- Anemia, Aplastic/etiology
- Anemia, Aplastic/genetics
- Anemia, Aplastic/therapy
- Anemia, Hemolytic/diagnosis
- Anemia, Hemolytic/genetics
- Anemia, Hemolytic/therapy
- Bilirubin/blood
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Reticulocyte Count
- Spherocytosis, Hereditary/diagnosis
- Spherocytosis, Hereditary/genetics
- Spherocytosis, Hereditary/therapy
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- J B Hansen
- Aalborg Sygehus, medicinsk haematologisk afdeling B
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- G W Stewart
- Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510
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Nakakuma H. [Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria--molecular mechanism of abnormal hemolysis]. Tanpakushitsu Kakusan Koso 1993; 38:2333-2346. [PMID: 8234822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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- H Nakakuma
- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Japan
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