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[Disorders of the membrane skeleton of erythrocytes in hereditary spherocytosis and elliptocytosis: significance of the molecular defect for pathogenesis and clinical severity].
Klinische Pädiatrie 1991 July
During recent years an increasing number of inherited variants of erythrocyte membrane proteins and defects of the membrane skeleton could be described. Mostly these defects explain the pathogenesis of hemolytic anemias due to erythrocyte membrane defects. For hereditary spherocytosis and elliptocytosis a close correlation between the clinical severity and the biochemical defect was found; thus biochemical characterization can give valuable information about the expected course of the disease and the need for splenectomy. The erythrocyte membrane skeleton stretches along the inner surface of the membrane; it provides the stability of the erythrocyte under circulatory shear stress. The membrane skeleton consists of spectrin, actin, band 4.1 and band 4.9. Spectrin is the major component. In the membrane mostly all spectrin self-associates to the tetrameric form: one tetramer is formed by two alpha and two beta-chains. By denaturing SDS polyacrylamide gelelectrophoresis the composition of the membrane proteins can be analysed. The portion of tetrameric and dimeric spectrin is determined on native agarose gel electrophoresis. The concentration of spectrin in the membrane can be measured by an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay using monoclonal antibodies against human spectrin. By polymerase chain reaction and DNA sequencing the moleculargenetic cause of singular membrane defects was clarified. Hereditary spherocytosis was mostly due to a more or less diminished concentration of spectrin. Based on hematological, clinical' and biochemical observations, a new classification of spherocytosis (mild, moderate and severe form) is proposed. In addition to routine hematologic determinations and osmotic fragility, erythrocyte spectrin content is taken into account. The disease severity correlates with the diminution of spectrin. In hereditary elliptocytosis the concentration of tetrameric spectrin is reduced in about 30% of the patients. Defects of the N-terminal alpha I 80,000 dalton peptide are predominantly found. The defective alpha chain can be further studied by analysis of "tryptic" peptides after limited tryptic digestion of the spectrin. According to the reduced molecular weight of the anomalous tryptic alpha I peptide the variant spectrin alpha chains are designed as Spectrin alpha I/46, Sp alpha I/50, Sp alpha I/65, Sp alpha I/74 and Sp alpha I/78. In most cases a single amino acid substitution of the alpha chain could be proven. Until now only singular patients with hereditary elliptocytosis due to a shortened spectrin beta chain have been described. The shortening of the beta chain is due to a loss of the C-terminal phosphorylated peptide. The molecular cause is a defect at the 3' end of the beta spectrin gen, resulting in a premature termination of the peptide chain-synthesis.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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