Heme deficiency in erythroid lineage causes differentiation arrest and cytoplasmic iron overload |
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Authors: | Nakajima O Takahashi S Harigae H Furuyama K Hayashi N Sassa S Yamamoto M |
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Institution: | Center for Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance and Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8577, USA. |
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Abstract: | Erythroid 5-aminolevulinate synthase (ALAS-E) catalyzes the first step of heme biosynthesis in erythroid cells. Mutation of human ALAS-E causes the disorder X-linked sideroblastic anemia. To examine the roles of heme during hematopoiesis, we disrupted the mouse ALAS-E gene. ALAS-E-null embryos showed no hemoglobinized cells and died by embryonic day 11.5, indicating that ALAS-E is the principal isozyme contributing to erythroid heme biosynthesis. In the ALAS-E-null mutant embryos, erythroid differentiation was arrested, and an abnormal hematopoietic cell fraction emerged that accumulated a large amount of iron diffusely in the cytoplasm. In contrast, we found typical ring sideroblasts that accumulated iron mostly in mitochondria in adult mice chimeric for ALAS-E-null mutant cells, indicating that the mode of iron accumulation caused by the lack of ALAS-E is different in primitive and definitive erythroid cells. These results demonstrate that ALAS-E, and hence heme supply, is necessary for differentiation and iron metabolism of erythroid cells. |
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