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Correction of sickle cell disease in adult mice by interference with fetal hemoglobin silencing.


ABSTRACT: Persistence of human fetal hemoglobin (HbF, ?(2)?(2)) in adults lessens the severity of sickle cell disease (SCD) and the ?-thalassemias. Here, we show that the repressor BCL11A is required in vivo for silencing of ?-globin expression in adult animals, yet dispensable for red cell production. BCL11A serves as a barrier to HbF reactivation by known HbF inducing agents. In a proof-of-principle test of BCL11A as a potential therapeutic target, we demonstrate that inactivation of BCL11A in SCD transgenic mice corrects the hematologic and pathologic defects associated with SCD through high-level pancellular HbF induction. Thus, interference with HbF silencing by manipulation of a single target protein is sufficient to reverse SCD.

SUBMITTER: Xu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3746545 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Correction of sickle cell disease in adult mice by interference with fetal hemoglobin silencing.

Xu Jian J   Peng Cong C   Sankaran Vijay G VG   Shao Zhen Z   Esrick Erica B EB   Chong Bryan G BG   Ippolito Gregory C GC   Fujiwara Yuko Y   Ebert Benjamin L BL   Tucker Philip W PW   Orkin Stuart H SH  

Science (New York, N.Y.) 20111013 6058


Persistence of human fetal hemoglobin (HbF, α(2)γ(2)) in adults lessens the severity of sickle cell disease (SCD) and the β-thalassemias. Here, we show that the repressor BCL11A is required in vivo for silencing of γ-globin expression in adult animals, yet dispensable for red cell production. BCL11A serves as a barrier to HbF reactivation by known HbF inducing agents. In a proof-of-principle test of BCL11A as a potential therapeutic target, we demonstrate that inactivation of BCL11A in SCD trans  ...[more]

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