| First Author | Otsuki T | Year | 1999 |
| Journal | J Cell Physiol | Volume | 179 |
| Issue | 1 | Pages | 79-86 |
| PubMed ID | 10082135 | Mgi Jnum | J:53396 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:1332378 | Doi | 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4652(199904)179:1<79::AID-JCP10>3.0.CO;2-O |
| Citation | Otsuki T, et al. (1999) Tumor necrosis factor-alpha and CD95 ligation suppress erythropoiesis in Fanconi anemia C gene knockout mice. J Cell Physiol 179(1):79-86 |
| abstractText | Fanconi anemia (FA) is a genetic syndrome predisposing to hematopoietic failure. Little is known about the pathophysiology of FA, except that tumor necrosis factor- alpha (TNF-alpha) is overexpressed in patients. FA group C (Fac) gene knockout mice have been developed in order to model the human disease, but the mice do not spontaneously exhibit aplasia. To investigate secondary influences on hematopoiesis in the Fac-null mice, we studied the sensitivity of hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC) to death receptor triggering by TNF-alpha and Fas receptor (CD95) ligation. Previously we had found that overexpression of a human FAC transgene protects hematopoietic progenitors from Fas-mediated apoptosis (Wang et al., 1998, Cancer Res 58:3538-3541). In the present experiments with Fac-null mice, growth of erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E) was significantly inhibited by TNF-alpha and CD95 ligation. Flow cytometric analysis revealed that CD95 was induced more readily in the Fac-null CD34+ cell fraction. Apoptosis induced by TNF- alpha alone or with CD95 ligation also occurred more frequently in null mouse HPC. We then bred null mice against transgenic mice overexpressing TNF-alpha (at serum levels in the range of 100 pg/ml). Resultant Fac-null mice that overexpressed TNF-alpha not only yielded decreased numbers of BFU-E but also expressed higher levels of CD95 in the CD34+ fraction. We conclude that mutation in the Fac protein induces heightened sensitivity to TNF-alpha and Fas receptor ligation, results that may explain the mechanism of anemia in FA-C patients. J. Cell. Physiol. 179:79-86, 1999. Published 1999 Wiley-Liss, Inc.(dagger) |
