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Dietary L-leucine improves the anemia in a mouse model for Diamond-Blackfan anemia.

Jaako, Pekka LU ; Debnath, Shubhranshu LU ; Olsson, Karin LU ; Bryder, David LU ; Flygare, Johan LU and Karlsson, Stefan LU orcid (2012) In Blood 120(11). p.2225-2228
Abstract
Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) is a congenital erythroid hypoplasia caused by a functional haploinsufficiency of genes encoding for ribosomal proteins. Recently, a case study reported a patient who became transfusion-independent in response to treatment with the amino acid L-leucine. Therefore, we have validated the therapeutic effect of L-leucine using our recently generated mouse model for RPS19-deficient DBA. Administration of L-leucine significantly improved the anemia in Rps19-deficient mice (19 % improvement in hemoglobin concentration; 18% increase in the number of erythrocytes), increased the bone marrow cellularity and alleviated stress hematopoiesis. Furthermore, the therapeutic response to L-leucine appeared specific for... (More)
Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) is a congenital erythroid hypoplasia caused by a functional haploinsufficiency of genes encoding for ribosomal proteins. Recently, a case study reported a patient who became transfusion-independent in response to treatment with the amino acid L-leucine. Therefore, we have validated the therapeutic effect of L-leucine using our recently generated mouse model for RPS19-deficient DBA. Administration of L-leucine significantly improved the anemia in Rps19-deficient mice (19 % improvement in hemoglobin concentration; 18% increase in the number of erythrocytes), increased the bone marrow cellularity and alleviated stress hematopoiesis. Furthermore, the therapeutic response to L-leucine appeared specific for Rps19-deficient hematopoiesis and was associated with downregulation of p53 activity. Our study supports the rationale for clinical trials of L-leucine as a therapeutic agent for DBA. (Less)
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10.1182/blood-2012-05-431437
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  abstract     = {{Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) is a congenital erythroid hypoplasia caused by a functional haploinsufficiency of genes encoding for ribosomal proteins. Recently, a case study reported a patient who became transfusion-independent in response to treatment with the amino acid L-leucine. Therefore, we have validated the therapeutic effect of L-leucine using our recently generated mouse model for RPS19-deficient DBA. Administration of L-leucine significantly improved the anemia in Rps19-deficient mice (19 % improvement in hemoglobin concentration; 18% increase in the number of erythrocytes), increased the bone marrow cellularity and alleviated stress hematopoiesis. Furthermore, the therapeutic response to L-leucine appeared specific for Rps19-deficient hematopoiesis and was associated with downregulation of p53 activity. Our study supports the rationale for clinical trials of L-leucine as a therapeutic agent for DBA.}},
  author       = {{Jaako, Pekka and Debnath, Shubhranshu and Olsson, Karin and Bryder, David and Flygare, Johan and Karlsson, Stefan}},
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  publisher    = {{American Society of Hematology}},
  series       = {{Blood}},
  title        = {{Dietary L-leucine improves the anemia in a mouse model for Diamond-Blackfan anemia.}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2012-05-431437}},
  doi          = {{10.1182/blood-2012-05-431437}},
  volume       = {{120}},
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