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ArticleBlood advances2025

BCL11A-deficient human erythropoiesis is impaired in vitro and after xenotransplantation into mice.

Yoonjeong Jang, Ruopeng Feng, Lance E Palmer, Thiyagaraj Mayuranathan, Yu Yao, Kalin Mayberry, Sheng Zhou, Jian Xu, Jeffrey M Gossett, Guolian Kang and 3 more

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13 authors.

Yoonjeong JangDepartment of Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.
Ruopeng FengDepartment of Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.
Lance E PalmerDepartment of Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.ORCID 0000-0002-2519-8602
Thiyagaraj MayuranathanDepartment of Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.ORCID 0000-0002-9505-0363
Yu YaoDepartment of Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.
Kalin MayberryDepartment of Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.ORCID 0009-0002-6582-1806
Sheng ZhouExperimental Cellular Therapeutics Laboratory, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.
Jian XuDepartment of Pathology, Center of Excellence for Leukemia Studies, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.
Jeffrey M GossettDepartment of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.ORCID 0000-0002-0260-0048
Guolian KangDepartment of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.
Yong ChengDepartment of Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.ORCID 0000-0002-9314-0971
Jonathan S YenDepartment of Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.
Mitchell J WeissDepartment of Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.

Funding

Novel therapeutic gene editing to induce fetal hemoglobin for sickle cell diseaseU01HL163983 · NHLBI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Akshay Sharma, Shengdar Tsai · 2023 to 2026
$4.9M
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation 2020154NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL163983
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

abstractGenetic depletion of the transcriptional repressor BCL11A in red blood cell precursors alleviates β-hemoglobinopathies by inducing the fetal γ-globin genes. However, additional erythroid genes are regulated by BCL11A and the effects of its deficiency on erythropoiesis are insufficiently described. We discovered that Cas9 disruption of the BCL11A intron 2 erythroid enhancer in CD34+ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells using a clinically approved strategy caused impaired expansion and apoptosis of erythroid precursors in vitro and reduced repopulation of the erythroid compartment after xenotransplantation into immunodeficient mice. Mutant colony-forming unit erythroid cells, proerythroblasts, and basophilic erythroblasts exhibited dysregulation of 94 genes (more than twofold change, false discovery rate < 0.05), 25 of which are likely direct targets of BCL11A. Differentially expressed genes were associated with a range of biological pathways that affect cell expansion and survival. Our findings reveal that BCL11A regulates additional aspects of erythropoiesis beyond γ-globin gene repression, with unknown clinical consequences.

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ErythropoiesisRepressor ProteinsAnimalsApoptosisHematopoietic Stem CellsHeterograftsHumansMiceTransplantation, HeterologousBCL11A protein, humanRepressor Proteins

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PMID40020162
PMCPMC12159907

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