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JOURNAL OF BLOOD MEDICINE
卷 4, 期 -, 页码 149-158出版社
DOVE MEDICAL PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.2147/JBM.S54671
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cAMP; signaling; fetal hemoglobin; beta-globin disorders; cord blood; beta-thalassemia
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- National Institutes of Health [DK61806, HL73452, P20 MD003383]
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities [P20MD003383] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Background: Although erythroid cells prepared from fetal liver, cord blood, or blood from beta-thalassemia patients are known to express fetal hemoglobin at high levels, the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. We previously showed that cyclic nucleotides such as cAMP and cGMP induce fetal hemoglobin expression in primary erythroid cells. Here we report that cAMP signaling contributes to high-level fetal hemoglobin expression in erythroid cells prepared from cord blood and beta-thalassemia. Methods: The status of the cAMP signaling pathway was investigated using primary erythroid cells prepared from cord blood and the mononuclear cells of patients with beta-thalassemia; erythroid cells from adult bone marrow mononuclear cells served as the control. Results: We found that intracellular cAMP levels were higher in erythroid cells from cord blood and beta-thalassemia than from adult bone marrow. Protein kinase A activity levels and cAMP-response element binding protein phosphorylation were higher in erythroid cells from cord blood or beta-thalassemia than in adult bone marrow progenitors. Mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways, which play a role in fetal hemoglobin expression, were not consistently activated in cord blood or a-thalassemia erythroid cells. When cAMP signaling was activated in adult erythroid cells, fetal hemoglobin was induced at high levels and associated with reduced expression of BCL11A, a silencer of the beta-globin gene. Conclusion: These results suggest that activated cAMP signaling may be a common mechanism among erythroid cells with high fetal hemoglobin levels, in part because of downregulation of BCL11A. Activation of the cAMP signaling pathway with cAMP-elevating agents may prove to be an important signaling mechanism to reactivate fetal hemoglobin expression in erythroid cells.
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