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  • Title: Observations on the relationship between gamma-globin chain content and globin chain precipitation in thalassaemic erythroblasts and on the composition of erythroblastic inclusions in HbE/beta-thalassaemia.
    Author: Wickramasinghe SN, Lee MJ.
    Journal: Eur J Haematol; 1997 Nov; 59(5):305-9. PubMed ID: 9414642.
    Abstract:
    Electron microscope immunocytochemical studies were performed on the bone marrow from 2 patients each with beta-thalassaemia major and beta-thalassaemia intermedia and 4 patients with HbE/beta-thalassaemia, using the immunogold technique. Studies of sections that were reacted with mouse monoclonal antibodies against human gamma-globin chains showed the presence of large quantities of gamma-chains in several erythroblasts and marrow reticulocytes containing large amounts of precipitated globin chains. At least in these cells, substantial gamma-chains synthesis did not protect against the formation of erythroblastic inclusions, indicating that factors other than the rate of gamma-chain synthesis influence the extent of globin-chain precipitation. Studies of sections of marrow that were reacted with a rabbit polyclonal antibody against human alpha-globin chains and a mouse monoclonal antibody against human beta-globin chains showed that the erythroblastic inclusions in HbE/beta-thalassaemia did not contain detectable quantities of HbE and consisted only of precipitated alpha-globin chains. Thus, the generally milder phenotype of HbE/beta-thalassaemia cannot be attributed to co-precipitation of HbE and excess free alpha-globin chains.
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