转录因子GATA-1在造血系统中的作用(综述)

转录因子GATA-1为正常红细胞发育和分化成熟所必需。GATA-1的表达严格限制于造血细胞系,主要调控红系的增殖和分化,对巨核系、肥大细胞系及嗜酸性粒细胞系也起一定的作用。GATA-1参与自身启动子的正调节,而且GATA-1和PU.1可以通过交互作用抑制各自的功能;GATA-1与红系Kr櫣ppel样因子(EKLF)、FKLF-2、SCL、生长因子骨形态生成蛋白(BMP-4)及其他GATA转录因子之间存在相互调控作用。GATA-1可在急性非淋巴细胞性白血病等多种类型白血病中表达,它的表达还可影响急性髓性白血病的预后。GATA-1还与遗传性球形红细胞增多症、伴有严重贫血的多发性骨髓瘤的发病机制有关。     

Increased gamma-globin expression in a nondeletion HPFH mediated by an erythroid-specific DNA-binding factor

In man, a shift from gamma- to beta-globin gene expression in erythroblasts underlies a switch from fetal to adult haemoglobin during development. In hereditary persistence of fetal haemoglobin (HPFH), inappropriately high gamma-globin expression in adult life is associated with deletions in the beta-globin cluster or with single-base changes upstream of the gamma-globin genes. To account for enhanced gamma-gene expression in HPFH of the non-deletion type, we tested the nuclear proteins of human erythroleukaemia cells that bind gamma-promoter sequences in vitro by correlating specific mutations in their binding sites with promoter activity. An erythroid-specific factor (GF-1) binds as a single molecule to the -195 to -170 region and contacts two TATCT(AGATA) motifs, but not the conserved octamer (ATGCAAAT) that separates them. We observe that a single change (at -175, T----C) found in HPFH leads to increased promoter activity only in erythroid cells. This effect is mediated by GF-1, the human counterpart of the chicken erythroid factor Eryf 1. The form of HPFH we studied here is an inherited disorder which can be ascribed to the action of a cell-specific DNA-binding factor on a mutant promoter.     

Developmental regulation of a cloned adult beta-globin gene in transgenic mice

At different stages of mammalian development, distinct embryonic, fetal and adult haemoglobins are synthesized in erythroid cells, a process termed haemoglobin switching. The cellular and molecular mechanisms controlling haemoglobin switching have been intensively studied, but remain poorly understood. To study the developmental regulation of globin gene expression, we have produced transgenic mice in which cloned globin genes are present in erythroid cells throughout development. Recently, we reported that adult mice in several transgenic lines carrying a hybrid mouse/human adult beta-globin gene, expressed the gene in a correct tissue-specific manner. This finding raised the question of whether an exogenous globin gene could also be subject to appropriate stage-specific regulation. We report here that the hybrid beta-globin gene, like the endogenous adult beta-globin genes, is inactive in yolk sac-derived embryonic erythroid cells and is expressed for the first time in fetal liver erythroid cells. Our results indicate that a stage-specific pattern of expression can be conferred by cis-acting regulatory elements closely linked to an adult beta-globin gene. They also suggest that the embryonic and adult beta-globin genes in the mouse are activated (or repressed) by distinct trans-acting regulatory factors present in embryonic, fetal and adult erythroid cells.     

Chronic polyarthritis caused by mammalian DNA that escapes from degradation in macrophages

A large amount of chromosomal DNA is degraded during programmed cell death and definitive erythropoiesis. DNase II is an enzyme that digests the chromosomal DNA of apoptotic cells and nuclei expelled from erythroid precursor cells after macrophages have engulfed them. Here we show that DNase II-/-IFN-IR-/- mice and mice with an induced deletion of the DNase II gene develop a chronic polyarthritis resembling human rheumatoid arthritis. A set of cytokine genes was strongly activated in the affected joints of these mice, and their serum contained high levels of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody, rheumatoid factor and matrix metalloproteinase-3. Early in the pathogenesis, expression of the gene encoding tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha was upregulated in the bone marrow, and administration of anti-TNF-alpha antibody prevented the development of arthritis. These results indicate that if macrophages cannot degrade mammalian DNA from erythroid precursors and apoptotic cells, they produce TNF-alpha, which activates synovial cells to produce various cytokines, leading to the development of chronic polyarthritis.     

Stimulation of multipotential, erythroid and other murine haematopoietic progenitor cells by adherent cell lines in the absence of detectable multi-CSF (IL-3)

It is well established that murine multipotential and committed erythroid progenitor cells require the presence of a glycoprotein, termed multi-CSF (multi-colony-stimulating factor, IL-3) for clonal proliferation and differentiation in vitro. The initial proliferation of these cells can also be stimulated by two other glycoproteins, granulocyte-macrophage CSF (GM-CSF) and granulocyte CSF (G-CSF), although continued proliferation and differentiation requires the subsequent presence of multi-CSF. Here we report the stimulation of multipotential, erythroid and other haematopoietic progenitor cells by a number of adherent cell lines including a cloned bone marrow cell line (B.Ad). The positive cell lines, as feeder layers, exhibit colony-stimulating, erythropoietin-like and burst-promoting (BPA) activities. Optimal erythropoietic stimulation by the B.Ad line requires close cell-cell contact. The cell lines also support the in vitro clonal growth of multipotential colony-forming cells and progenitors of six other haematopoietic lineages. The biological activities observed seem not to be mediated by known multipotential or erythroid colony-stimulating factors (multi-CSF, IL-3, MCGF, HCGF, PSF, BPA).     

转录因子GATA—1基因在白血病中的表达

转录因子ＧＡＴＡ家族在造血细胞的正常发育中起着重要的作用。利用聚合酶链反应方法分析了１１６例各种白血病中红系统特异转录因子ＧＡＴＡ－１的表达情况。ＡＮＬＬ、ＣＭＬ、Ｃ－ＡＬＬ和ＣＬＬ中的表达率分别为４３．７５％、８８．２４％、１４．２９％和３３．３３％；３例Ｔ－ＡＬＬ均不表达该基因。     

Expression of a transfected human c-myc oncogene inhibits differentiation of a mouse erythroleukaemia cell line

The Friend-virus-derived mouse erythroleukaemia (MEL) cell lines represent transformed early erythroid precursors that can be induced to differentiate into more mature erythroid cells by a variety of agents including dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO). There is a latent period of 12 hours after inducer is added, when 80-90% of the cells become irreversibly committed to the differentiation programme, undergoing several rounds of cell division before permanently ceasing to replicate. After DMSO induction, a biphasic decline in steady-state levels of c-myc and c-myb messenger RNAs occurs. Following the initial decrease in c-myc mRNA expression, the subsequent increase occurs in, and is restricted to, the G1 phase of the cell cycle. We sought to determine whether the down-regulation is a necessary step in chemically induced differentiation. Experiments reported here indicate that expression in MEL cells of a transfected human c-myc gene inhibits the terminal differentiation process.     

Accumulation of a heat shock-like protein during differentiation of human erythroid cell line K562

The human erythroid cell line K562 provides a model system for studying erythroid differentiation and eukaryotic gene regulation. These cells express glycophorin A, spectrin and i antigen. They accumulate embryonic and fetal haemoglobins on induction of erythroid differentiation with haemin, sodium butyrate or hydroxyurea. In the present study, the protein composition of K562 cells during haemin-mediated induction of erythroid maturation was analysed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Under conditions in which haemin did not effect cell viability and proliferation, a protein of approximately 70,000 molecular weight (MW) accumulated in the differentiated K562 cells. The accumulation appears to be due to an increase in the rate of RNA synthesis for this protein. The protein is related in sequence to a 70,000-MW heat shock protein. An antigenically related protein was also demonstrated in human bone marrow and accumulates at particular stages of human erythroid maturation.     

Molecular characterization and expression of the gene encoding human erythroid-potentiating activity

Erythropoietin is the primary physiological regulator of erythropoiesis; however, in vitro studies have identified another class of mediators which appear to be important in stimulating erythroid progenitors. These factors have generally been referred to as burst-promoting activities (BPA), because they stimulate the growth of early erythroid progenitors referred to as burst-forming units-erythroid (BFU-E) which give rise to colonies of up to thousands of haemoglobinized cells. We recently reported purification of a burst-promoting activity from medium conditioned by the Mo T-lymphoblast cell line infected with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type II (HTLV-II). This purified glycoprotein of relative molecular mass (Mr) 28,000 also stimulates colony formation by more mature erythroid precursors (CFU-E) and is therefore referred to as erythroid-potentiating activity (EPA). Purified EPA specifically stimulates human and murine cells of the erythroid lineage, unlike murine interleukin-3 (IL-3) which stimulates precursor cells from all haematopoietic lineages. We report here the isolation of a complementary DNA molecular clone encoding EPA and its use in producing EPA in COS (monkey) cells and CHO (Chinese hamster ovary) cells. We also define the organization of the EPA gene in human DNA.     

RHD基因转录子的选择性剪切

通过RT-PCR技术分析红系细胞和非红系细胞RHD的转录情况,同时进一步比较不同D表达个体的RHD的转录关系.采用逆转录PCR（RT-PCR）技术检测HL-60,K562,Jurkat,THP-1,胚肺成纤维细胞系（HECF）,10名不同Rh表型个体的网织红细胞（CcDEe 3名,CCDEe 2名,CCDee 2名,CcDee 2名和CCDuee 1名）以及10名不同Rh表型（2 CCDEe,2 CCDee,2 ccDee,2 CcDee,ccDEe和CcDEe）个体的白细胞的RhD mRNA,然后进行cDNA测序分析.结果表明,HL-60,Jurkat,THP-1,胚肺成纤维细胞系（HECF）以及不同Rh表型个体的外周血有核细胞中除网状红细胞外皆不存在RhD mRNA,K562具有一个正常的RHD基因转录本,而不同表型个体的网织红细胞具有复杂的RhD cDNA形式,有的缺少RHD基因的外显子7,有的缺少外显子7～9或外显子4～9,但这些个体都有一个正常形式的RhD mRNA.由此得出结论,选择性剪切使RHD基因的产生多种形式的转录子,但这些不同形式的转录子仅来自红系的血细胞如网织红细胞和K562细胞系,白细胞、单核细胞、T淋巴细胞以及胚肺成纤维细胞都不具有RHD的mRNA.     

Recombinant human TNF induces production of granulocyte-monocyte colony-stimulating factor

Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is synthesized by macrophages exposed to endotoxin. It produces haemorrhagic necrosis of a variety of tumours in mice and is cytostatic or cytocidal against various transformed cell lines in vitro, but viability of normal human or rodent cells is unaffected. The role of TNF is unlikely to be restricted to the rejection of tumours. Colony-stimulating factors (CSFs) are required for survival, proliferation and differentiation of haematopoietic progenitor cells. The haematopoietic growth factor known as granulocyte-monocyte colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) has the ability to stimulate proliferation and differentiation of normal granulocyte-monocyte and eosinophil stem cells and enhance the proliferation of pluripotent, megakaryocyte and erythroid stem cells. In addition, GM-CSF stimulates a variety of functional activities in mature granulocytes and macrophages, for example inhibition of migration, phagocytosis of microbes, oxidative metabolism, and antibody-dependent cytotoxic killing of tumour cells. We show here that TNF markedly stimulates production of GM-CSF messenger RNA and protein in normal human lung fibroblasts and vascular endothelial cells, and in cells of several malignant tissues.     

Lineage-specific expression of a human beta-globin gene in murine bone marrow transplant recipients reconstituted with retrovirus-transduced stem cells

Recombinant retroviral genomes encoding a chromosomal human beta-globin gene have been used to transduce murine haematopoietic stem cells in vitro. After permanent engraftment of lethally irradiated recipients with the transduced cells, the human beta-globin gene is expressed at significant levels only within the erythroid lineage. These results indicate that it is possible to obtain stable expression of exogenous chromosomal DNA sequences introduced into mature haematopoietic cells in vivo via stem cell infection, and that human disorders of haemoglobin production may be more feasible candidates for somatic cell gene therapy than previously suspected.