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  • Title: Membrane components in the red cells of patients with sickle cell anemia. Relationship to cell aging and to irreversibility of sickling.
    Author: Westerman MP, Diloy-Puray M, Streczyn M.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1979 Oct 19; 557(1):149-55. PubMed ID: 549632.
    Abstract:
    Cholesterol, phospholipid and sialic acid were measured in red cells from patients with sickle cell anemia to determine whether the cells had abnormal concentrations of these components and whether the amounts of these compounds differed in irreversibly sickled cells as compared to non-irreversibly sickled cells. Sickle cells had significantly higher levels of both lipids than similar populations of normal cells, however, comparisons to populations of young control cells showed that the differences were generally not significant. Sialic acid levels in sickle cells were not significantly different from normal cells. Irreversibly sickled cells had lower lipid and sialic acid concentrations than those not irreversibly sickled, but the differences were either not significant or did not occur when compared to young control cells. The studies show that the increased lipid concentrations in the membrane of sickle cells are not abnormal but are related to cell age and that the decrease in membrane components in irreversibly sickled cells is no greater than would be predicted for similarly aged populations of cells.
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