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BLOOD
Volume 123, Issue 21, Pages 3336-3343Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2013-12-544544
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- MEXT, Japan [24249054, 25130702, 22118004]
- Japan Science and Technology Corporation
- Uehara Memorial Foundation
- Takeda Science Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26461396, 22118004, 26115002] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Numerous studies have recently reported mutations involving multiple components of the messenger RNA (mRNA) splicing machinery in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). SF3B1 is mutated in 70% to 85% of refractory anemia with ringed sideroblasts (RARS) patients and is highly associated with the presence of RARS, although the pathological role of SF3B1 mutations in MDS-RARS has not been elucidated yet. Here, we analyzed the function of pre-mRNA splicing factor Sf3b1 in hematopoiesis. Sf3b1(+/-) mice maintained almost normal hematopoiesis and did not develop hematological malignancies during a long observation period. However, Sf3b1(+/-) cells had a significantly impaired capacity to reconstitute hematopoiesis in a competitive setting and exhibited some enhancement of apoptosis, but they did not show any obvious defects in differentiation. Additional depletion of Sf3b1 with shRNA in Sf3b1(+/-) hematopoieticstem cells (HSCs) severely compromised their proliferative capacity both in vitro and in vivo. Finally, we unexpectedly found no changes in the frequencies of sideroblasts in either Sf3b1(+/-) erythroblasts or cultured Sf3b1(+/-) erythroblasts expressing shRNA against Sf3b1. Our findings indicate that the level of Sf3b1 expression is critical for the proliferative capacity of HSCs, but the haploinsufficiency for Sf3b1 is not sufficient to induce a RARS-like phenotype.
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