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| Author(s): |
Regiane Aparecida Ferreira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Ciências Médicas |
| Defense date: | 2010-08-30 |
| Examining board members: |
Fernando Ferreira Costa;
Cláudia Vianna Maurer Morelli;
Aderson da Silva Araujo
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| Advisor: | Fernando Ferreira Costa; Dulcinéia Martins de Albuquerque |
| Abstract | |
The hemoglobin variants and thalassemias are the most frequent hemoglobinopathies in Brazil. Hemoglobin S results from a point mutation in the gene that encodes the beta globin chain, which is characterized in homozygous sickle cell disease. Other variants of this gene can cause partial or complete reduction of the synthesis of one or more globin chains that result in beta-thalassemias. Recently, some studies have identified the interaction of transcription factors and microRNAs that mediate, together, regulation of transcriptional and post transcriptional mechanisms to promote the differentiation, proliferation and maturation of erythroid cells. Thus, disorders in the transcriptional factors and small RNAs expression can cause clinical manifestations involved in the erythropoiesis of patients with beta thalassemia intermediate and in sickle cell disease. This study analyzed the expression profile of the transcription factors GATA-1, TAL1, NFE2, LDB1, SPI1, LMO2 and EKLF and microRNAs miR24, miR144, miR155, miR210, miR221, miR222, miR223 and miR451, in reticulocytes from 9 patients with beta thalassemia intermediate and 8 patients with sickle cell disease, by real-time quantitative PCR. The results showed significant changes in the expression profiles of the transcription factors, GATA-1, TAL1 and NFE-2, in the reticulocytes of patients with beta thalassemia intermediate. In patients with sickle cell disease, significant differences were observed in the expression of the transcription factors, LMO2 and EKLF, and microRNAs miR221, miR223 and miR451. Together, our results suggest the involvement of transcription factors in association with miRNAs as modulators of the clinical manifestation in patients with beta thalassemia and sickle cell disease. This is the first study that evaluates the gene expression of microRNAs and transcription factors related to erythropoiesis in reticulocytes from patients with sickle cell anemia and beta thalassemia in Brazil (AU) | |