The erythroferrone (ERFE) is the erythroid regulator of hepatic iron metabolism by suppressing the expression of hepcidin. Congenital dyserythropoietic anemia type II (CDAII) is an inherited hyporegenerative anemia due to biallelic mutations in the SEC23B gene. Patients with CDAII exhibit marked clinical variability, even among individuals sharing the same pathogenic variants. The ERFE expression in CDAII is increased and related to abnormal erythropoiesis. We identified a recurrent low-frequency variant, A260S, in the ERFE gene in 12.5% of CDAII patients with a severe phenotype. We demonstrated that the ERFE-A260S variant leads to increased levels of ERFE, with subsequently marked impairment of iron regulation pathways at the hepatic level. Functional characterization of ERFE-A260S in the hepatic cell system demonstrated its modifier role in iron overload by impairing the BMP/SMAD pathway. We herein described for the first time an ERFE polymorphism as a genetic modifier variant. This was with a mild effect on disease expression, under a multifactorial-like model, in a condition of iron-loading anemia due to ineffective erythropoiesis.

The BMP-SMAD pathway mediates the impaired hepatic iron metabolism associated with the ERFE-A260S variant / Andolfo, Immacolata; Rosato, BARBARA ELENI; Marra, Roberta; De Rosa, G.; Manna, F.; Gambale, A.; Iolascon, A.; Russo, Roberta. - In: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY. - ISSN 0361-8609. - 94:11(2019), pp. 1227-1235. [10.1002/ajh.25613]

The BMP-SMAD pathway mediates the impaired hepatic iron metabolism associated with the ERFE-A260S variant

ANDOLFO, IMMACOLATA;ROSATO, BARBARA ELENI;MARRA, ROBERTA;Iolascon A.;Russo Roberta
2019

Abstract

The erythroferrone (ERFE) is the erythroid regulator of hepatic iron metabolism by suppressing the expression of hepcidin. Congenital dyserythropoietic anemia type II (CDAII) is an inherited hyporegenerative anemia due to biallelic mutations in the SEC23B gene. Patients with CDAII exhibit marked clinical variability, even among individuals sharing the same pathogenic variants. The ERFE expression in CDAII is increased and related to abnormal erythropoiesis. We identified a recurrent low-frequency variant, A260S, in the ERFE gene in 12.5% of CDAII patients with a severe phenotype. We demonstrated that the ERFE-A260S variant leads to increased levels of ERFE, with subsequently marked impairment of iron regulation pathways at the hepatic level. Functional characterization of ERFE-A260S in the hepatic cell system demonstrated its modifier role in iron overload by impairing the BMP/SMAD pathway. We herein described for the first time an ERFE polymorphism as a genetic modifier variant. This was with a mild effect on disease expression, under a multifactorial-like model, in a condition of iron-loading anemia due to ineffective erythropoiesis.
2019
The BMP-SMAD pathway mediates the impaired hepatic iron metabolism associated with the ERFE-A260S variant / Andolfo, Immacolata; Rosato, BARBARA ELENI; Marra, Roberta; De Rosa, G.; Manna, F.; Gambale, A.; Iolascon, A.; Russo, Roberta. - In: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY. - ISSN 0361-8609. - 94:11(2019), pp. 1227-1235. [10.1002/ajh.25613]
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