Molecular Convergence in Ex Vivo Models of Diamond-Blackfan Anemia
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Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) is a congenital bone marrow failure syndrome characterized by erythroid hypoplasia, usually without perturbation of other hematopoietic lineages. Approximately 65% of DBA patients with autosomal dominant inheritance have heterozygous mutations or deletions in ribosomal protein (RP) genes while <1% of patients with X-linked inheritance have been identified with mutations in the transcription factor Erythroid cells from patients with DBA have not been well characterized, and the mechanisms underlying the erythroid specific effects of either RP or associated DBA remain unclear. We have developed an ex vivo culture system to expand peripheral blood CD34 progenitor cells from patients with DBA and differentiate them into erythroid cells. Cells from patients with RP or mutations showed decreased proliferation and delayed erythroid differentiation in comparison with controls. RNA transcript analyses of erythroid cells from controls and patients with RP or mutations showed distinctive differences, with upregulation of heme biosynthesis genes prominently in RP-mediated DBA and failure to upregulate components of the translational apparatus in -mediated DBA. Our data show that dysregulation of translation is a common feature of DBA caused by both RP and mutations. This trial was registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov as #NCT00106015.
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