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BLOOD
Volume 101, Issue 8, Pages 3288-3293Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2002-07-2192
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SFT, a stimulator of iron (Fe) transport, has been described is a transmembrane protein that facilitates the uptake of ferrous and ferric iron in mammalian cells. This study was initiated to investigate the 5' regulatory region of SFT and its role in the etiology of hereditary hemochromatosis. Sequence analyses of the putative 51 regulatory region revealed that the SIFT cDNA sequence corresponds to intron 6/exon 7 of UbcH5A, a member of E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes, Which is involved in the iron-dependent ubiquitination of the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) by the von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor (pVHL) E3 ligase complex. Further mRNA expression studies using a sequence-specific reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay showed that UbcH5A is significantly up-regulated in the liver of iron-overloaded patients with hereditary hemochromatosis, as previously published for SIFT However, in vitro studies on HepG2 cells failed to demonstrate any significant UbcH5A regulation in response to iron loading or iron chelation. In conclusion, in vivo mRNA expression data previously obtained for SFr might be attributed to UbcH5A. The role of UbcH5A and the ubiquitination pathway in the etiology of hereditary hemochromatosis remains to be elucidated further. (C) 2003 by The American Society of Hematology.
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