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HSP70 sequestration by free α-globin promotes ineffective erythropoiesis in β-thalassaemia.
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- New Insights Into Pathophysiology of β-Thalassemia.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Pooled it
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- Extracellular Vesicles in Beta-Thalassemia: Phenotype-Specific Profiles and Potential Clinical Associations.Molecular diagnosis & therapy · 2026Review
- Red blood cell membrane proteome as a reporter of disease severity, transfusion impact and genetic background in transfusion-dependent β-thalassaemia.British journal of haematology · 2026Article
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- ILF3 regulates erythroid differentiation: A single-cell transcriptomic analysis and cellular experiment.PloS one · 2026Article
- Erythropoiesis in health and disease: Distinguishing defective and ineffective erythropoiesis.HemaSphere · 2026Review
- Stage-specific TRIM10 expression regulates erythroid maturation.EMBO reports · 2025Article
- Reduced GATA1 levels are associated with ineffective erythropoiesis in sickle cell anemia.Haematologica · 2025Article
- In vivo deletion of a GWAS-identified Myb distal enhancer acts on Myb expression, globin switching, and clinical erythroid parameters in β-thalassemia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Iron-Loading Anemias.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025Review
- Trans-acting genetic modifiers of clinical severity in heterozygous β-Thalassemia trait.Annals of hematology · 2024Review
- Erythropoiesis and Gene Expression Analysis in Erythroid Progenitor Cells Derived from Patients with Hemoglobin H/Constant Spring Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Transcriptomic and Proteomic Insights into Host Immune Responses in Pediatric Severe Malarial Anemia: Dysregulation in HSP60-70-TLR2/4 Signaling and Altered Glutamine Metabolism.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A newly identified gene Ahed plays essential roles in murine haematopoiesis.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Interplay between α-thalassemia and β-hemoglobinopathies: Translating genotype-phenotype relationships into therapies.HemaSphere · 2024Article
- A Review of Key Regulators of Steady-State and Ineffective Erythropoiesis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- The interactions between ineffective erythropoiesis and ferroptosis in β-thalassemia.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Review
- Exploring the bone marrow micro environment in thalassemia patients: potential therapeutic alternatives.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Review
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Abstract
β-Thalassaemia major (β-TM) is an inherited haemoglobinopathy caused by a quantitative defect in the synthesis of β-globin chains of haemoglobin, leading to the accumulation of free α-globin chains that form toxic aggregates. Despite extensive knowledge of the molecular defects causing β-TM, little is known of the mechanisms responsible for the ineffective erythropoiesis observed in the condition, which is characterized by accelerated erythroid differentiation, maturation arrest and apoptosis at the polychromatophilic stage. We have previously demonstrated that normal human erythroid maturation requires a transient activation of caspase-3 at the later stages of maturation. Although erythroid transcription factor GATA-1, the master transcriptional factor of erythropoiesis, is a caspase-3 target, it is not cleaved during erythroid differentiation. We have shown that, in human erythroblasts, the chaperone heat shock protein70 (HSP70) is constitutively expressed and, at later stages of maturation, translocates into the nucleus and protects GATA-1 from caspase-3 cleavage. The primary role of this ubiquitous chaperone is to participate in the refolding of proteins denatured by cytoplasmic stress, thus preventing their aggregation. Here we show in vitro that during the maturation of human β-TM erythroblasts, HSP70 interacts directly with free α-globin chains. As a consequence, HSP70 is sequestrated in the cytoplasm and GATA-1 is no longer protected, resulting in end-stage maturation arrest and apoptosis. Transduction of a nuclear-targeted HSP70 mutant or a caspase-3-uncleavable GATA-1 mutant restores terminal maturation of β-TM erythroblasts, which may provide a rationale for new targeted therapies of β-TM.
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