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SUBMITTER: Shi L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5512162 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shi Lihong L Cui Shuaiying S Engel James D JD Tanabe Osamu O
Nature medicine 20130217 3
Enhanced fetal γ-globin synthesis alleviates symptoms of β-globinopathies such as sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia, but current γ-globin-inducing drugs offer limited beneficial effects. We show here that lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) inhibition by RNAi in human erythroid cells or by the monoamine oxidase inhibitor tranylcypromine in human erythroid cells or β-type globin-transgenic mice enhances γ-globin expression. LSD1 is thus a promising therapeutic target for γ-globin induction, ...[more]