A Southern Italian patient homozygous for hemoglobin Lepore disease synthesizes approximately 3% Lepore delta beta-globin chains (relative to alpha chains) in the reticulocytes. Measurement of beta-like RNA sequences by hybridization to complementary DNA specific for beta-globin demonstrates a low level (1--2% relative to alpha sequences) of these sequences in cytoplasmic RNA from reticulocytes or spleen cells, suggesting that the Lepore gene is expressed into mRNA at a lower extent than normal alpha or beta genes; the comparison with the level of beta-like sequences found in nuclear RNA (6--8%) further supports this conclusion and indicates, in addition, that Lepore RNA might be degraded at a faster rate than normal. 2--3% beta-like sequences are found in nuclear RNA in three cases of homozygous beta0-thalassemia, setting the highest possible estimate for the delta-RNA level; this figure suggests that the 'delta-promoter'-dependent Lepore delta beta gene is somehow more actively expressed than the delta gene
beta-Like globin RNA sequences in hemoglobin Lepore disease / B. Giglioni, P. Comi, R. Taramelli, M. Pozzoli, A. Zanollo, S. Ottolenghi, A.M. Gianni. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY. - ISSN 0014-2956. - 95:3(1979 Apr), pp. 527-531. [10.1111/j.1432-1033.1979.tb12993.x]
beta-Like globin RNA sequences in hemoglobin Lepore disease
A.M. GianniUltimo
1979
Abstract
A Southern Italian patient homozygous for hemoglobin Lepore disease synthesizes approximately 3% Lepore delta beta-globin chains (relative to alpha chains) in the reticulocytes. Measurement of beta-like RNA sequences by hybridization to complementary DNA specific for beta-globin demonstrates a low level (1--2% relative to alpha sequences) of these sequences in cytoplasmic RNA from reticulocytes or spleen cells, suggesting that the Lepore gene is expressed into mRNA at a lower extent than normal alpha or beta genes; the comparison with the level of beta-like sequences found in nuclear RNA (6--8%) further supports this conclusion and indicates, in addition, that Lepore RNA might be degraded at a faster rate than normal. 2--3% beta-like sequences are found in nuclear RNA in three cases of homozygous beta0-thalassemia, setting the highest possible estimate for the delta-RNA level; this figure suggests that the 'delta-promoter'-dependent Lepore delta beta gene is somehow more actively expressed than the delta genePubblicazioni consigliate
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